I was curious. Who was Hermann Scheftelowitz, teacher and cantor in Cosel? I couldn't find out much, but I did learn from this site that he was born in 1882 and died a WWI soldier in 1917. His name appears in the 1932 book Die jüdischen Gefallenen des deutschen Heeres.
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Do you know what Lehrer ? Kanter, Gosel O.-S. means?
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I included it in the post.
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Kantor - chazan
Gosel O.-S. = Cosel, a place in Germany, also known as Kronprinz. I'm not sure what OS stands for, but it's probably a geographical identifier, like Frankurt AM (am Main) or Frankfurt AO (am Oder), which are the names of rivers which these two cities with the same names are located next to.
There is a certain melancholy pathos in this post.
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ah... all the jews who gave their lives for the faterland...all in vain. the heart cries.
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ReplyDeleteHi. I live in Cosel (Koźle, in Polish). It was a small town in Germany until 1945. Now this is a part of city Kędzierzyn-Koźle in Poland, Opole voivodship. O.S. means Oberschlesien (Polish: Górny Śląsk), this is the name of historical region.
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