The site's most honest page: what could not yet be known, the state of each search — and where anyone can help.
The sister who was outside the camp. "If they married and went to Russia, it may be." He searched to the end; we continue. Live leads: the 1967 T/D 200,483 case (copy requested from Arolsen) and Soviet refugee records.
How you can help: Anyone from a Stobiecki/Grodans family in the postwar USSR?
A death record for "Aser Hersz Stobiecki" in wartime Lublin registers is the strongest documentary candidate for the father's fate — decidable by a free remote request to USHMM, already prepared for the family to send.
How you can help: In progress: the request is the family's to send.
He names the first Soviet labor camp four times, with a commission arriving from Leningrad. The utterance is confirmed; the place, unidentified — consistent with Russia's north (Arkhangelsk? Vologda? Komi?).
How you can help: Historians of the 1940 deportations: which camp bore that nickname?
The prewar Hebrew betrothal contract kept with the wedding photo. Never translated — it may hold names (whose betrothal? Marisha and her fiancé?).
How you can help: Read handwritten Hebrew? The image is in the Archive (D05).
A Polish Stobiecki running a grocery in SP/Santo André from 1949 to c. 1960, absent from Chevra Kadisha records. A relative memory didn't keep?
How you can help: Santo André families of the 1950s — does the name ring a bell?
The Polish army's bravery decoration, 1945. The paper was lost too. The Polish military archive (WBH/CAW) accepts family queries — the request is prepared.
How you can help: In progress: the family's WBH request.
Dead in August 1930, at 13, she should rest in Kalisz's Jewish cemetery (Podmiejska). The online register doesn't list her; the request to the community is prepared. Finding it would give the forgotten sister a place.
How you can help: Know the Kalisz cemetery records?
ITS file T/D 200,483 bears his name and the year 1967. If it was HIM searching for Marisha, it proves he never stopped. If someone was searching for him… the question changes size.
How you can help: Copy requested from Arolsen Archives.
Know something about any of these questions? Write: flavio@fpripas.com