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For the two reasons specified below, I have given myself the surname “Wasserzug”; the first reason is that when I was five or six years of age, I was playing with some young children, I believe, in a…
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Moses Wasserzug
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Płock, Kingdom of Prussia (Płock, Poland)
Date:
ca. 1820
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After Moshkele found his way to the Goyim’s Street, he began to be a regular and made the acquaintance of the shkotsim [“goyish” boys]. At first they mocked the little Yid who had wandered…
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Yitsḥak Dov Berkowitz
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Lodz, Russian Empire (Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1903
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Those who seized the youths to put them into the army in the city where I was born, desired to have, as a residence for themselves, a house adjacent to the one in which my father…
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Abraham Ber Gottlober
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1880