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About Basil Sandler

Basil Sandler was born in South Africa where he studied law. He and his wife, Riva, settled in Israel and live in Netanya. Sandler retired in 1966 and became a genealogist. He researches the Sandler (Shuster), Chait, and Kretzmer families from Birze, Lithuania, as well as Hurwitz from Linkuva, the Proos from Ludnik, the Kimmels from Yoniskis, and the Levinsohns and Levenbergs from Goldingen, Latvia. Sandler has 10,000 relatives on his family trees. He is a member of the Netanya branch of the Israel Genealogy Society.

Another Brother in My Family

Filed Under Latvija, South Africa By Basil Sandler on December 1, 2008

On a visit to Cape Town, South Africa, in 1999, I telephoned my cousin, Ronnie Levinsohn, whom I last had seen as a child. I was telling him of our visit to Latvia the year before and that we had […]

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