Tuesday, May 13, 2025

כמה חוקרי יוחסין

מתתיהו דייטש-אשכנזי מביתר <mati78@enativ.com>
יוסף הכהן קוודרט מלונדון <Ykwadrat@mac.com>
זלמן ליב ווייס מקרית יואל <weisszalmen@gmail.com>
אילן גריינוולד מקרית ספר <shorashimlife@gmail.com>
דובעריש וועבר מברוקלין <dweber@thejnet.com>
נפתלי אהרן וקשטיין מאשדוד <n0548525682@gmail.com>
יוסי מונד מטורנטו <pymund@gmail.com>  
רבקה יונגער מווינה <rifkajunger@gmail.com>
 רבקה גולדבלט ממנצ'טסר <jewishfamilyresearch@gmail.com> 
לין פוללאק-גולמבק <lynnpollak@gmail.com>

Shalom & Kol Tuv,

Reuven Chaim Klein

Beitar Illit, Israel

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Friday, April 25, 2025

Re: Letter from your mother-in-law

My grandfather was named Reuven Chaim (Rudolph/Randolph) Klein. He was from He was a grandson of the Shenos Chaim (his father was Mordechai Klein, whose father Binyamin Eliezer Klein, who was the oldest son of the Shenos Chaim). He grew up in Klyachanovo, near Munkatch and was oprhaned from both his parents and basically was raised by his mother's second husband Shlomo Mermelstein and Mermelstein's third wife. Then my grandfather came to USA before WWII and he served in the US Army. In the mid 1950s he visited Israel as a bachelor, and in late 1959 he got married. Not long after he had two sons, he died in 1968.
I could somewhat read Yiddish, but it's not one of my top languages. The best idea woud be to digitize the papers and put them online and we can use it for research and keep it for the future. That's what I plan to do with my grandfather's recently-dsicovered archives.

Shalom & Kol Tuv,

Reuven Chaim Klein

Beitar Illit, Israel

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On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM Tanya Klein <tanya@precisionorganizing.net> wrote:
sorry, can you remind me who your grandfather was? and do you know yiddish? there is a box of letters in yiddish floating around somewhere that I can give you that I don't know whats written in there.

On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM Reuven Chaim Klein <yeshivish@gmail.com> wrote:
The scary thing is that 20 years when I was in Yeshiva, I emailed Chaim Spielman a question about his father's seforim and he wrote me back 2 weeks later saying that his father had been nifter and he was sitting shiva so he couldn't write back to me.
Interestingly, the letters with your shvigger seems to have been written before she got married, but was already engaged. I don't know much about my grandfather, he died when my father was a little kid. Did your shvigger have any documents or letters that she kept that related to the family?

Shalom & Kol Tuv,

Reuven Chaim Klein

Beitar Illit, Israel

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On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM Tanya Klein <tanya@precisionorganizing.net> wrote:
Right? It was so weird to get your letter then sorry it was just so busy before and if that I didn't have time to reply to emails, but I really really appreciate this letter!
Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 24, 2025, at 7:59 AM, Reuven Chaim Klein <yeshivish@gmail.com> wrote:


Woah. That is so scary.

Shalom & Kol Tuv,

Reuven Chaim Klein

Beitar Illit, Israel

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On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 3:08 AM Tanya Klein <tanya@precisionorganizing.net> wrote:
Hi there Reuven Chaim. Thank you so much for the letter. i will share it with the family on our whatsapp group. unfortunately my mother in law was nifteres three weeks ago!  she was 97 years old. 

On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 3:05 AM Reuven Chaim Klein <yeshivish@gmail.com> wrote:
I found the attached letter from your mother-in-law written to my grandfather. And another draft of a letter from him to her. Is she still alive?

Gut Moyed,

Reuven Chaim Klein

Beitar Illit, Israel

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Tanya Klein
President, Precision Organizing LLC
1974 Country Trace
Toms River, NJ 08753

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Thursday, April 24, 2025

Re: This book

The screenshot wasn't so clear, but it seems the name of the book was איים בים. These Holocaust Memorboch don't have such a good reputation in terms of their accuracy, so it doesn't surprise much that they would make a mistake like this.

Shalom & Kol Tuv,

Reuven Chaim Klein

Beitar Illit, Israel

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On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM Tanya Klein <tanya@precisionorganizing.net> wrote:

Hi there. My niece just told me that she saw this paper at yad vashem  it says that all the information about Klein's is contained in this book.
This paper states erroneously that Moshe ezriel Klein was killed in the war.
He was my father-in-law's father and lived at least 20 years after the war. Do you know anything about this book? Thank you.

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Fwd: Letter from your mother-in-law

I was browsing through Geni.com on Chol HaMoed and came across a name Pnina Piri Klein nee Halperin that I had recognized from my grandfather RCK's letters.According to Geni she was married to RCK's second cousin, Shaya Klein. So I reached out to her daughter-in-law and sent her a copy of the correspondence. I also asked whether this Pnina Klein lady is still alive. But unfortunately, she had just been nifter the week before I emailed her.

Shalom & Kol Tuv,

Reuven Chaim Klein

Beitar Illit, Israel

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---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Tanya Klein <tanya@precisionorganizing.net>
Date: Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Subject: Re: Letter from your mother-in-law
To: Reuven Chaim Klein <yeshivish@gmail.com>


Hi there Reuven Chaim. Thank you so much for the letter. i will share it with the family on our whatsapp group. unfortunately my mother in law was nifteres three weeks ago!  she was 97 years old. 

On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 3:05 AM Reuven Chaim Klein <yeshivish@gmail.com> wrote:
I found the attached letter from your mother-in-law written to my grandfather. And another draft of a letter from him to her. Is she still alive?

Gut Moyed,

Reuven Chaim Klein

Beitar Illit, Israel

Books | Articles | Lectures (YouTube) | Book Reviews



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Tanya Klein
President, Precision Organizing LLC
1974 Country Trace
Toms River, NJ 08753

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