Great Grandfather - Berlin Help/direction
Hi all,
I am trying to find out a little more about my grandfathers immediate family.
As I know things my grandfather Bruno Bombera was born on 9th September 1923, in Berlin.
He was one of 5 children, we think he was the youngest. His memory was not great regarding his siblings and thus I would love to just try and find/confirm their birth records.
He mentioned he had a brother who was killed aged 14 by a tram, however I have found a death register which says Johann Bombera was aged 4 killed by a tram.
I know of his brother Franz and sister Cecilia, although very unsure of their Dates of birth.
the final piece of the jigsaw is another sister, my grandfather mentioned that he remembers his mother going to the hospital/institution to see her and that she had a funny face (we could speculate perhaps down syndrome?) he could never remember her name, however he does remember that he was taken by the Nazis and it was later told that she had died of pneumonia (which I think was common reason for those tested on during WW2).
His father Vicentius Bombera, we found listed as a mechanic I believe and in Lichtenberg.. his mother listed as Sophia Pischke in the few documents I think is actually Zophia Piszczek.
my grandfather mentioned that his grandmother ran a pub.
my priority is to try and find the birth records for the Bombera children including my grandfather.. I would imagine he would have been born in the lichtenberg area, especially as that is where Johann was also killed.
would anyone be able to potentially push me in the direction of where I might find such records if they exist, Germany during the war.. from all the records of Vicente and Zophias records and their family I can presume that the Bombera family were of Catholic faith.
so my initial thoughts would be to search Catholic records of the lichtenberg area but I seem to just hit a stumbling block as to do these even exist?
Any advice on how to go about this research would be incredible.
Commenti
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It is important to know that according to German law, birth records are not publicly available until 110 years after the birth. So you will not yet find your grandfather's birth record online. You will need to contact the responsible registry office (Standesamt) where the birth was registered and to prove that you are a descendant of the person and are legally entitled to receive a copy (for a fee).
The home page of the Lichtenberg Standesamt is here: https://www.berlin.de/ba-lichtenberg/service/standesamt/artikel.321075.php. Unfortunately it is only in German. You can send an email with your request to urkundenstelle.standesamt@lichtenberg.berlin.de , see also https://www.berlin.de/ba-lichtenberg/service/standesamt/artikel.642049.php
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Hi,
Do you know what year the couple came to Berlin? They got married in 1912 at Wysoka (powiat Pilski) and I was wondering if maybe the older children might have been born there? At familysearch they have Catholic records from Wysoka (I hope, it is the correct place, as there are several Wysokas in Poland) but I am not sure whether they are accessible.
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/378024?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Kind regards,
Christine
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If you enter Bombera into the Nachname cell on this search page you will get a list of records with the surname Bombera.
https://meta.genealogy.net/search
The records include two for a Vinzent (Vincent) Bombera from Nakel where he is recorded in 1917 as having been wounded in WWI. There are also records for an Anton and a Franz in Nakel. They likely are related to Vincent.
I'm not sure where to obtain further military records but they might help describe where Vincent was during the WWI period.
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I see thank you for that information, I will get in touch with them.
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Thank you so much for this, I have previously found Anton, Leo and Vincent from a Nakel in the casualty book but was unaware of Franz. Also I did not see them in this much detail, it should help me to find out more.
really appreciate it thank you
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