Sir Nicholas Winton's train arrives - Prague...
65 photos
I suggest you look at this as a slide-show.
Sorry I cannot add the noise of the steam train and the excited passengers.
Stop Press; 5 September - I have received an email from a Theresienstadt...
British Boys' School, Alexandria, Egypt
106 photos
STOP PRESS
27th November 2009: The tragic death of BBS pupil Paul Karam has recently been received -he died whilst giving a lecture - his many friends will be able to remember him through his...
Levice {Leva/Lewentz}, Slovakia - the derelict...
22 photos
Levice is a town in Western Slovakia which was under Ottoman rule till 1685.
see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levice
It became part of the Habsburg Empire till 1920 after which it was part of...
Trnava {Tyrnau}, Slovakia - "in memoriam" to...
1 photo
Sept 14 2009: set is NOT READY YET
My first visit to Slovakia in June 2009 was a sobering one - the sad remnants of cemeteries and synagogues - the great emptiness where there were once...
Casta
3 photos
September 14th 2009 - Set not ready yet
Pressburg/Bratislava - WW1 Jewish War Memorial
1 photo
Trnava {Tyrnau}, Slovakia - Jewish War Memorial -...
1 photo
This war memorial is well-hidden and has probably not been seen by many people over the last 70 years.
It is in the Jewish cemetery on the wall in the area where the bodies were briefly kept before...
TRSTIN {was Nadas} - Slovakia, a lost Jewish...
27 photos
July 20th 2009 - A set of pictures taken in June 2009 whilst surveying some of the Jewish cemeteries of Slovakia.
Please read the extensive notes under all the pictures including the next...
Zabokreky nad Nitrou {Nyitra-Zsambokret},...
46 photos
With my most grateful thanks to Jack & Maureen Jellins and Frank Feiner who were on this expedition to Zabokreky,
Our grateful thanks to Tomer Brunner who brought the few remaining tombstones...
BRATISLAVA cemetery
1 photo
Schnitzel-makers
8 photos
No pictures of frying or eating though -the eating took less time than the making especially as we made our own crumbs too!
PRIMROSES galore - Spring in Croydon, 2009
7 photos
Pictures taken in our front and back garden in April 2009.
I believe all these have evolved from two or three plants a passing gypsy sold to a lady who was looking after the children over 35 years...
Galicia and Bukowina - Obituary notices from the...
287 photos
Stop Press: 1 July 2009: Great news - one holocaust survivor in Warsaw ***found*** her family details - see SZANCER Artur.
Oct 23 - Nov 26 2009 - New obituaries - NADEL Linka/Lemberg - MEHRER...
Paris - English Girls' College, Alexandria -...
13 photos
This is the only *official* EGC site.
Imagine you are there....
You may wish to watch this a slide show! The commentary can be switched on by clicking "show info" - top right!
To be...
Homecraft House, Alexandria, Egypt.
4 photos
London, Nov 8th 2008 - EGC Xmas Lunch
32 photos
We had a wonderful lunch at the Rembrandt Hotel in London on Saturday November 8th 2008.
It was attended by many Old Girls from the UK, France, Italy, Switzerland and Egypt.
We had speeches...
Mile End {London} Sephardic cemeteries - not yet...
2 photos
Olivetti - Lettera 22 - in 2008
3 photos
Timisoara grave
1 photo
James at Whitgift-2008
7 photos
Beating the global food shortage plus local...
39 photos
A small patch in the back garden with no water supply but seems to be ok with Croypost and mattress-filling mulch. Water comes from the rain and old household water, filled daily into old milk...
Bomb damage at Tor 1 - Zentralfriedhof, Vienna
10 photos
A few pictures to show the effects of US bombs in WW2 dropped in error on the the Jewish section of the Zentralfriedhof - Tor 1.The original historic Tor I to the Jewish section is now permanently...
Vavrona and Piraeus, Greece - EGC {English Girls'...
39 photos
When Jocelyn Francis [Riches], her daughter Minouche and Celia Cohen [Male] decided, at the last minute, to have a few days holiday together, they did not anticipate that it would turn into a mini...
"Bohemia/Moravia"- associated tombstones in...
146 photos
All names are searchable using the search field at the top right.
Enter the name plus the word Jewish to narrow the field.
Instructions - 2 pages in "thumbnail" mode and 6 pages in...
DOBLING M
13 photos
SORRY - This set is not prepared for puvblic view but some pictures I have worked on and moved to other sets may be visible.
Salzburg Jewish cemetery
273 photos
With sincere thanks to Stan Nadel {University of Portland, Salzburg Austria Center} who took all the photographs of the cemetery.
STOP PRESS - April 2009: The English-language edition of the book: ...
English Girls' College, Alexandria, Egypt -...
1 photo
English Girls' College Sports Teams
3 photos
We excelled in Sports at the English Girls' College. Alexandria as well as academia.
Hockey, netball, swimming, diving, lacrosse, tennis - we participated in all of these sports.
The PE/PT...
Beirut Reunion - English Girls' College,...
1 photo
English Girls' College (EGC), Alexandria, Egypt -...
13 photos
We had a beautifully equipped gym at the EGC.
We have an early action shot {on the ropes} from 1941, thanks to Jackie Klat.
English Girls' College Staff 1935-1956
11 photos
In process of development.
Many more pictures to come - watch this space.
Holocaust memorials - public and private
438 photos
STOP PRESS: Aug 2009 - many more Slovakian pictures have been added starting with Bratislava, Galanta, Levice and Trnva.
Nov 2009:more Stolpersteine in Salzburg and Vienna added
also 25 Jan...
EGC friends - Ellen de Wolff's personal snaps,...
18 photos
This delightful, evocative, set of tiny photographs taken 1934-1940, was give to me by EGC Old Girl, Ellen de Wolff, who left the EGC in 1939 and lost touch with all her class friends. Her father was...
Post 1956 - el Nasr EGC School staff
1 photo
When the English Girls' College was sequestered in Autumn 1956, many of the staff members were put under house arrest and subsequently expelled. Miss Nora Wooldridge who was the Headmistress...
Paris 2007, EGC Xmas Carol Concert
6 photos
Surrey Cross-Country Championships - 2008
6 photos
This is an annual event and takes place in Lloyd Park, S.Croydon, a few yards from our home.
These pictures show the under 13s who started their race at 11am - 5th Jan 2008.
This course was about...
Boarders - EGC, 1935 - 1952
11 photos
This set will eventually contain the many photographs I have of boarders at the EGC with a commentary.
31 Dec 2007
House Photos, 1950-1952 English Girls' College
8 photos
DEC 28th 2007: Nearly all these ex-pupils of the EGC have been found and are in touch. Quite a few attend reunions. I spent about 15 years tracing these ex-pupils and compiling a database as we had...
The Male family Xmas 2007 at Warlingham with Joan...
7 photos
We spent Xmas Day 2007 at Warlingham with Joan and Henri Pageot, Jonathan, Claire, Alice and James.
The photographer {Celia} is missing as is Henri the cook and cake-maker! However we did...
BRIX - BRIGGS family of Galicia, Vienna and USA
2 photos
These two graves are in the Währinger friedhof, Vienna - they were taken by Traude Triebel of Vienna in Autumn 2007 and complement a genealogy research project on the BRIX BRYK BRIGGS BAUMFELD...
How to give pills to a cat
18 photos, 1 video
All our cats have Wagnerian names. This is our 14yr old female ginger cat and she is called Fluffhilde - after the Rhinemaiden Flosshilde.
Our first family cat in 1955 was a tortoiseshell named...
Five Alexandrian Friends in Lausanne - Sun Dec....
5 photos
Johnny Shafferman and I visited Lausanne on Sunday 9 Dec 2007 to visit four other Alexandrians.
Geneva 2007, English Girls' College {EGC}...
39 photos
There is a large contingent of EGC Old Girls in Switzerland. Most are in Geneva and Lausanne with a small number in the German-speaking areas of Zurich and Basel. One or two live across the borders...
Vienna - Tombstones of Jewish Musicians and their...
51 photos
This site in its infancy
NB - there will be more to come - 13 July 2008 - 12 April 2009
Vienna - Tombstones of Jewish Musicians and their families
Photographed and researched by Celia Male.
Tel Aviv 2006, English Girls' College {EGC}...
3 photos
This was a very special reunion in March 2006. Iit was the first time we had one in Israel. We had a fabulous time at a lovely restaurant in Tel Aviv Marina!
We started out in Anne-Marie Bondi's...
London 2007, English Girls' College {EGC}...
15 photos
I doubt if any school in the world which was founded in 1935 and was situated in a far-flung country - in this case in Alexandria, Egypt - could have a more enthusiastic and friendly Old Girls'...
English Girls' College {EGC} - 1940s
6 photos
English Girls' College Swimming Pool
30 photos
I have many swimming pictures relating to the EGC- here are a few of them to start with.
This pool was built with money collected in memory of Rosemary Heathcote-Smith, the daughter of the British...
English Girls' College {EGC}, Alexandria, Egypt...
15 photos
This is in fact the prehistory of the English Girls' College, before the school moved to its magnificent buildings in Chatby in1937 These buildings still stand today as a tribute to the communities...
Drama at the English Girls' College {EGC},...
40 photos
The English Girls' College was famous for its annual school plays and their lavish productions and beautiful costumes.
We had a fantastic hall which was used daily for assemblies and every year...
English Girls' College {EGC} - 1950-1956 -...
9 photos
With this set of photographs, still to be augmented, we can track the final year of the EGC and its pupils. I have one or two pictures of the preparatory school in 1950 and 1952 - the little girls...
EGC - the early years, 1937-1940 [in process of...
16 photos
English Girls' College - the buildings
40 photos
English Girls' College, Alexandria; The Building
Designed by architect Grey Wornum:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Grey_Wornum
Sporting Club, EGC and other friends -...
28 photos
Part 1: This set of photographs belongs to Paulette Bentley, an EGC girl, who left very young in about 1942 - when things were getting dangerous in Egypt.
She returned from S. Africa on holiday...
Währinger Friedhof, Vienna
1 photo
Vienna - Jewish tombstones from Galicia,...
91 photos
Mdec 20109: I am working on these pictures and they are not yet ready!
Be patient please.
Holesov {Holleschau}, Moravia - Jewish cemetery -...
433 photos
25 Nov 2009 - *8* pages of pictures - scroll to the bottom to see the pagination. All magnify by clicking. Go to DETAIL above to see them and read the detailed comments.
Holesov {Holleschau},...
Ivanovice na Hané/Eiwanowitz, Moravia - Jewish...
19 photos
I stumbled across this derelict Moravian Jewish cemetery {Location: 49º19 17º06, 40 km NE of Brno}.when we stopped at an AGIP petrol station on the road [route 47]
past Vyskov/Wischau on the way...
von PORTHEIM Max
5 photos
certificates
2 photos
English Girls' College - Parties - Alexandria,...
6 photos
With so many excellent dressmakers in Alexandria [Greeks and Armenians excelled in this] Alexandria was a great place for children's parties especially fancy dress parties.
British Schools, Alexandria, Egypt 1900s -1956
16 photos
There were dozens of schools in Alexandria Egypt - Greek, Italian, German, French, Armenian and British.
And of course there were the Egyptian schools too.
Then there were the religious schools...
The Cohen family - WW2 in Alexandria, Egypt with...
149 photos
This set of pictures is devoted to my family life in World War II in Alexandria, Egypt and how we were depicted by our friend, the artist Sydney Arrobus, who was serving in North Africa in the...
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna - Tor IV - tombstones...
17 photos
Oct 20 2009 - I have not yet completed the annotations to this set.
Wotan's Life
4 photos
Kohn-Kerner-Popper graves, Vienna - restoration...
40 photos
This grave is in the Zentralfriedhof Tor 1, Vienna and is that of my great-grandfather, Albert KOHN.
I am there with Harold Chipman The first restoration you see is the grave of his son Leo KERNER....
Loeff family - Holleschau - Chile
1 photo
Grossbock, 15 Sept 2003
1 photo
KOHN homes/graves since early 1700s. Gtgrf Albert, mum Caroline went to or Vienna after Raphael died.
Cohen, Celia and Michael - childhood
1 photo
Arrobus Sydney/Bettina Cohen
4 photos
Austria-Czech SIG Dinner, 21 Oct 2006, Vienna
36 photos
Remembering Charlie Roberts - we will miss him. Charlie died on June 3rd 2008.
Baiersdorf von Erdos graves
1 photo
Bernard Daniel and Pauline grave
1 photo
ZF Vienna Tor 1
Bunzl extended family - UK
4 photos
Bunzl-Tedesko-Wottitz family - early
11 photos
Castlemaine Avenue
2 photos
Cats Ginger Cat No 2
1 photo
Cats Fluffhilde
15 photos
Lara & Max, Kaiserstr, Vienna
6 photos
Max [Black] and Lara [Tabby] lived in the Kaiserstr, Vienna. They belonged to my Vienese friends, Irene and Jutta.
Sadly Lara died in Autumn 2007 aged 16.
Mr Magoo & friend Charlie the dog, Geneva
1 photo
Cohen Isidore
5 photos
Cohen, Celia and Michael - childhood
8 photos
Döblinger Friedhof Vienna
17 photos
Not yet ready for public view
Dec 2008.
EGC - VC Bulgaria
1 photo
EGC Athens reunion, 2004 & 2005
15 photos
London 2004 EGC London Xmas Lunch 2004
3 photos
EGC London Xmas lunch 2005
3 photos
Geneva 2004, English Girls' College {EGC}...
22 photos
Geneva and Lausanne have one of the largest clusters of EGC Old Girls. There are very few in Zurich and Basle.
Every year our Swiss EGC girls hold a reunion. It tends to be much more sedate than...
Athens & Mycenae 2004 and Athens 2005 English...
33 photos
When archaeologist Lisa Wace-French offered to take the Greek EGC girls around the new museum at Mycenae, they jumped at the opportunity. Unfortunately, the coach had restricted space so few Old...
Eisenstadt, Burgenland - Jewish Community...
16 photos
I visited Eisenstadt on Sunday 25 March 2007, but I had visited many years previously and had a tour of the castle itself.
The Jewish Museum was closed till May. The local museum was open - it...
Ellison grave
1 photo
Family tree - miscellaneous photos
2 photos
Schnepp
sorter
Feuerhalle Simmering, Vienna
9 photos
Filippi {Evelyn} family - as yet not for public...
3 photos
As yet, I have not made these photographs public.
Friedmann David, portraits
1 photo
Genealogy documents
15 photos
A visit to Grossbock, Bohemia 15 Sept 2003
1 photo
KOHN homes/graves since early 1700s. Gtgrf Albert, mum Caroline went to or Vienna after Raphael died.
Holocaust Museum - Amsterdam
1 photo
This very moving museum with plaques listing many thousands of names of victims of the holocaust is situated in a building which was once the Hollandsche Schouwburg or Dutch Theatre.
It was...
Holocaust, France
9 photos
Israel trip March - 2006
1 photo
James and Alice
9 photos
Grossbock slideshow rejects
5 photos
Jerusalem Family, Israel 2006
2 photos
Kerner family
3 photos
Kleinot Hector
1 photo
Kolin visit, September 2003
11 photos
After Grossbock - with Julius Mueller and Achab Haidler, we visited Kolin to see the Popper family homes - synagogue and cemetery .
Langraf graves
2 photos
Male family groups
1 photo
Memphis Preparatory School - Alexandria, Egypt...
42 photos
25 March 2008: Memphis pupils found
STOP PRESS: Derek and John LATTEY just found after 70 years..
Sadly Derek died in Summer 2009.
This research confirms my suspicion that childhood...
Michael's family life 1933-1966
1 photo
Trebitsch/Trebic, Moravia, Czech Republic WWI...
3 photos
Names on the memorial: {click on photo or go to *detail* and then enlarge to read!]
Alois BACH/BACK? ; Julius BACK; Vlast FELDSTEIN; Max FRANKL; Ernst FÜRNBERG, Karl GOLDSTEIN; Ernst GRÜNBERG;...
Neu Bistritz, Bohemia, Jewish Cemetery;...
13 photos
This cemetery was created in the late 1800s and largely destroyed by the Nazis.
Neu Bistritz is now called Nova Bystrice and is in the Czech Republic
Orpington
11 photos
Partezettel Obituary Collection, Vienna
3 photos
Just a few of the relevant Partezettel
Rosebriars 27 Aug 2006 - Simon's visit
2 photos
Schwarz David
2 photos
Grave in Vienna
SCHWEINBURG family
1 photo
Sephardic Graves - Vienna, Zentralfriedhof,...
176 photos
These are just a very few of the very many Sephardic graves in this huge Jewish cemetery - Gate I is the older part; Gate IV is the newer part. See the maps at the end. The graves are numbered ...
SIG friends
5 photos
Simon's visit, Aug-Sept 2006
1 photo
Simon visited us for 17 days to get his US Visa - we celebrated Alice's 6th birthday [early] on the 9th September.
Tombstones Vienna - not ready for public view
388 photos
There are about 1,500 pictures here but I have not yet sorted them out and made them public.
Tombstones Vienna Tor IV- not yet ready for...
41 photos
VC-EGC reunions 1991 onwards
3 photos
Victoria College and the English Girls' College {EGC} , Alexandria have held official reunions together since the early 1990s.
We have been to USA {Albany}, Spain, Egypt, France {Mandelieu};...
Victoria College
1 photo
Class photos
Vienna, town
2 photos
Vienna WWI Jewish War Memorial - Zentralfriedhof...
247 photos
Please read the full details under the twin photograph No 3. If you are in thumbnail mode, you need to click on *detail* on the top line.
Vienna WWI Jewish War Memorial - Zentralfriedhof Tor 1 -...
Wassertrilling graves
1 photo
Wotan Male born Spring 2006
8 photos
WOTTITZ family photos
8 photos
WOTTITZ family photographs, documents and graves...
44 photos
I have many photos to add to this set but they are not ready yet - Feb 2009 - commentary will follow.
Family names: directly connected to WOTTITZ genealogy
ASCHNER BEKEY BURGER FELSNER FISCHER...
GROSSBOCK Visit 2003
1 photo
A visit to Grossbock, Königgratzer Kreis NE Bohemia, to see the ancestral KOHN home and graves - all miraculously still there