Thanks - wasn't expecting a response until after Shabbos due to your being 7 hours ahead.
In general I have tried to find descendants of rabbanim who knew my GGF where they might have exchanged written communication and as a very outside shot, the yorshin might have preserved those documents.
I tried exploring the route to R. Gartenhaus maybe in 2009 and things came to a dead end. I seem to recall that by that time, R. Kulefsky's wife was still alive but not doing well. Always a race against time. 20 years ago I was still able to contact people whose lives intersected in a meaningful way with my GGF and was able to ask exploratory questions.
To be continued......
On Friday, July 22, 2022, 11:20:30 AM EDT, Rabbi RC Klein <rabbircklein@gmail.com> wrote:
I don't have time to write at length now because it's Erev Shabbos. But basically, Rav Gartenhaus' zivvug sheini wife was my great-grandfather's niece. He was also misader kiddushin at my grandparents' wedding and he gifted my grandfather a silver kiddush cup with an inscription on it that I use every Shabbos.
Rabbi Elazar Lipa Gartenhaus is Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein's first cousin twice removed's husband!
Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein
You
→
Michael (Mordechai Meyer) Klein
your father
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Randolph Klein
his father
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Mordechai Klein
his father
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Zissel Kallus
his sister
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Hinda Spielman
her daughter
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Rabbi Elazar Lipa Gartenhaus
her husband
Shalom & Kol Tuv,
Reuven Chaim Klein
On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 6:02 PM Michael Escott <msescott@yahoo.com> wrote:
Weird connection.Though I recently started exchanging emails with you over the last couple of years, I just noticed some old notes in my genealogy realm re: an email thread that I noticed online over 10 years ago that involved you (but not me) and it was a discussion re: Rav Elazar Lipa Gartenhaus - father in law of Rav Kulefsky of Ner Yisroel.What is your connection to this?R. Gartenhaus was one of the maspidim at my GGF's levaya in 1931 (R. Yaakov Eskolsky) - he was a prominent member in my GGF's rabbinical organization - Degel HaRabbonim.Thanks and a guten Shabbos,Moshe Escott
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