i didn't know if they were the same people, but poom with the same names. i noticed an address pattern. if there's any new yorkers in the room, you know what my next sentence will be. they were all addresses on the upper, upper, upper west side between 70th street and 110th street. for those new yorkers above my age and older, you know that that's washington heights, which was for many, many years into the 1960s, the center of german jewelry. it was the largest german-jewish community after world war ii, so much so it was call ed frankfur on the hudson. i grew up close to that neighborhood, and it never occurred to me in the research to look there for clues. i was very excited at the new york public library. i got on the a train, went up to 181st street, got out, and similar feeling as in the refugee neighborhoods in brussels. very, very different. still a refugee neighborhood, but the demographics changed. primarily a dominical neighborhood. didn't hear much german, but we heard a lot of spanish. however, there were still a number of synagogues in existenc