This man is my mother-in-law, Amalia Greif's brother, Wilhelm Goldenstein. He was a jeweler. My mother-in-law's family was quite rich, they had a house in the very center of Cernauti, with 27 rooms, and a space for a shop downstairs. My mother-in-law and her brother inherited it, and I inherited it from them. A law was passed last year [in 2003], saying that the Romanian state will make up for the losses, and I filed for it, I had all documents from those times; my parents-in-law were very careful with papers.
I know very little about Wilhelm, just that he inherited, along with his sister Amalia, that house in the center of Cernauti. He died in the 1970s, in Romania, but I don?t know where.
Wilhelm Goldenstein
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