Pnina Berkman’s matseva at Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth


The story about Pnina, her son Mark and his re-connection to his family, appeared in The West Australian on 24 January 2013
Read here
Thanks to the researcher, Rose Raymen, for sharing this story with me, and Estelle Blackburn for writing it.


Estelle Blackburn: The-making-of-a-serial-killer
“NO RECORD” RESULT letter from the Victorian BDM Registry in response to Mark Berkman’s request


Private Patricia Vinico Grigg in the Australian Women’s Army

Her WW2 service certificate.

The Frances Barkman House in Balwyn Victoria where Mark Berkman stayed after his mother’s death
One can see the faces of the children looking out from the fence.

Patricia Grigg with adoptive father Charles Leslie Grigg

Pnina’s mother Dorothea Vinnicombe

Mark Berkman

Mark Berkman taken shortly before the death of his mother

Pnina and Gerszon (Gary) Berkman with son Mark Melbourne 1950

Mark’s new-found cousins from left to right: Lois Langdon and Jean Williams

Pnina Berkman

Mark and Rivka Berkman’s wedding day

Mark and Rivka Berkman’s children from left to right: Son-in-law Shlomi Weizmann, son Hadar Berkman, granddaughter Bar Weizmann, daughter-in-law Tahel Berkman, son Tamir Berkman, daughter Rona Weizmann and granddaughter Mia Weizmann

Mark and Rivka Berkman, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 2016

Maccabean article 16 July 2010:

More about:
Rose Raymen
http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/gdansk/Zylberstein.html
Estelle Blackburn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estelle_Blackburn
Eric Cooke
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Edgar_Cooke
Perth KehilaLink
http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/perth
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