I discovered the vivid article about the arson at the Paechter store on the Geni web site attached to an elaborate family tree. According to the Geni records, Isaak Paechter, the storeowner in the article, was married to a Friederike Paechter, of all names. Their two children were Rosa and Kurt Julius, and the family later relocated to Berlin. 

Several posts back, I mentioned that Rodney wrote to introduce me to an Australian contact. Now I can tell you that he is Peter Nash, the author of Escape From Berlin, which describes the ordeal his family endured in their flight from Nazi persecution. 

Isaak Paechter's department store in Tiegenhof was set aflame in an 1898 anti-Semitic attack.

There was email this morning from Rodney Down Under, as he calls himself. He was introducing me to another contact whose Kleeman family records in the Danzig civil records seemed to be connected to our family, both having members of the Paechter family in Tiegenhof, a town outside of Danzig.

Rodney had found a Danzig identity card for the other guy's ancestor, Rosa Kleeman, geb. Paechter, that showed she originated in Tiegenhof. Rodney remembered recently reviewing the death record of our ancestor, Frederike Wohlgmuth, geb. Paechter, that identified her birthplace as Tiegenhof. 

Four of the five Ringel siblings from Rzeszow relocated to Berlin and the German capital became the center of Ringel family life for sixty years. The fifth sibling, Jakob Schia Ringel, went instead to Hamburg. I figured out his story a year ago, and it led to making a connection with a branch of American Ringel relatives that we had not known of. Someimes in this work there are happy endings. 

I have known for a while that Schija's brother Leib Ringel also moved to Berlin because he served as a witness on some of the vital records I have. Recently, with the availability of record searches of the Berlin Landesarchiv, a slew of new records show the extent of the Ringel family in and around Berlin's Jewish Scheunenviertel district. 

Recently we've been learning more about the two daughters of Schija Ringel and Fanny Kaufler. Along with our grandfather Hermann, they comprise one branch of the Ringel family descending from the original family from the Austrian town of Rzeszow. Let's pull some new threads by looking at the other Rzeszow family members.

Some of the information I will cover is brand new. Another part is playing catchup from a revelation of a year ago. We'll begin with an accounting of the five children of Moses Ringel and his wife Rose Lea, nee Reichman. 

The data above is given for Pinkas Twiasschor in an Italian web site Escape stories: from Vicenza to the United States about the Fort Ontario experience. There are several important details to note. First, under "Family ties" he is described as "Solo." There is no mention of having had a wife and two daughters. Second, the three locations given for "Place of residence or internment before Fort Ontario" give us an idea of the route of Pinkas' flight from the Nazis.