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Still other stories are told about the Zierings “over there.” Wolf’s father was a “teacher”; his grandfather Wolf was a farmer. A As for evidence, no less a skeptic than my father, swore he saw my grandmother walk down the hall in her blue bathrobe just Ziering in New Rochelle – a Holocaust survivor, now deceased - related the following story which my cousin Gerald Ziering weeks after she had died. I believe I have communicated with my grandfather Charles through the Ouija Board, have had what I confirms and which he also had heard as a child. It goes like this:

believe was “contact” with passed on family members, and with best friend Marvin (just the other night, I dreamt my father and

There was a Ziering who owned mills and he was very rich (standard). He asked his Christian driver to take him in his

grandmother Dorothy were lying in adjoining hospital beds, with nurses tending to them. Our eyes caught each others as I was

carriage out to one of his mills. As the passed a Christian cemetery, the driver did not cross himself (the usual practice). This

walking by what I thought was an empty room in an abandoned house. Warm recognition was shared; I stepped into the room

meant to Ziering that the driver was up to no good; he might have even been part of an ambush plot; so Ziering ordered the

and said, “I will stay with you.” Both apparations immediately disappeared – not the setting, just the vision of each of them.). I

driver to return home, which he did (why would he if he had planned to kill him?) Anyway, the score was Zierings 1, Christians

also believe I have had premonitory dreams of the death of my grandmother (empty black coffins), and of my cousin Jerry Lavitt

0 (for the moment).

(Jerry sitting in an Avon High School classroom, radiating the message: “This is Jerry. Goodbye”). When someone in the family Zierings have a distinctive look. They are proud of their blue eyes; they often have sandy blond and curly hair, and are gendies, light bulbs tend to flare out; sometimes objects that were important to them turn up when we haven’t seen them for years, erally tall with large heads. In my line, the women are dominant: very independent, smart, flamboyant and artistic. The men are and family members swear they hear their voices.

recessive and mild and seem to be in the minority, because there are lots of female Zierings and very few males.

Our recent lucky number is “44” – my grandparent’s address in New Britain (44 Dover Rd.). For my grandmother Dorothy

Unfortunately, when you Google Ziering now, you get lots of stuff about Nikki Ziering, ex-wife of movie star Ian. She’s it was “5 and 2.” When we see these numbers, we feel all will be well. I have experienced smells, too, that I associate with my obviously a beautiful girl, and nudity isn’t disgusting, but the fact that to become a Playmate she must have willingly slept with father or grandfather (my grandfather, skin well soaped – my father, it is hard to describe); when I smell these odors, I feel I’m Hugh Hefner is, so I sat shiva for her, and now she is dead to me.

being let in on the Secret Knowledge, but that I should not tell anyone.

Of course, if she would like to talk about the Ziering family, she knows where to find me.

I believe that when I die, I will pass on to a different dimension with some contact allowed with this side – if anyone will lis-Finally,when I sent Cousin Jakub the information about the Christian Zierings, he responded with a surprising possibility.

ten. It will be a lot like substitute teaching, I’ve decided. I also believe that you can go so far “over to the other side” while you’re Jakub says:

in this life that you will actually leave it – so you should be careful how you fool with these powers, perceptions, and possibilities.

Only nobility had coats of arms. Jews in the feudal Poland were a separate estate - class, with its own self rule.

I am uncomfortable writing about this, but, as I intend this book to be my only statement on these matters, and so I also However, people changed religion for many reasons. There was a strong incentive for the Jews to get baptized,

believe I must record these tendencies.

especially if sponsored by the member of nobility, because in such a case, a baptized Jew became nobility. There

are whole Polish noble families of such origin: Kochanowski (great poet, who replaced Latin as a literary language

Family Snapshots:

of Poland with Polish), Kochanski (notice the root of the name), Zoltkowski, Krzyzanowski, (Chopin’s mother),

Slonimski…Ciring - the last one by accident, of which I think I’ve already written about. However, there were no

Dorothy Ada Ziering

ecumenical civil marriagea in the past, so I can imagine a young, rebellious nobleman Ziering in love with a beautiful stubborn Jewess, who would not convert and insisting her suitor proves his love by going through a bit of pain…

My grandmother Dorothy was a beautiful girl in the American way: blonde, blue eyed, and shapely. She was a great tennis player Anyhow, we all seem to suffer from a bit of TOAS (Teutonic Orderliness Anxiety Syndrome - my discovery), so that

with a fine literary mind, and later in life became a Life Master in Bridge. She was brought up in Denver, Colorado, although she theory doesn’t seem so audacious. Oh, by the way, during 1500’s Prussia was a vassal state of Poland. And Poland was was born on Rivington St., NYC; Denver also gave her All American training and an All American look.

a multiculturall state with the Lithuanian Jagiellon dynasty mixed with the Italian Sforzas at the helm. So, the melting My grandfather, Dr. Charles Greenstein, first remembers seeing her riding down Main St., Meriden in a Model T car with the pot was not invented in the USA… My first girlfriend’s family name (nobility) was Almakiewicz… Translates as “from Al top down, her long blond hair waving behind her in the breeze. He was standing in the law office of his friend I. Henry Mag, and Maki” (in wars with Turkey we took prisoners). She was a fierce Catholic and wanted me to be serious about it, while I said to him, “Do you know that girl? I want to marry her.” I. Henry told Charlie “that girl” was his sister-in-law, and the rest is just could not and would not fake it.

family history.

My grandmother may not have had a happy childhood, but she did have a close-knit family. First, her mother Helen died

Zierings And Extraterrestrials

of TB, then her father Wolf remarried, and then he contracted TB, and the doctors sent him and his family to the Colorado Rockies, which were thought to provide a cure for the this disease, or at least the “better air” that would help him breathe. It It would be impossible to give a full picture of the Zierings (at least my branch) without including some further information about must have worked for a while, because the family was able to live on Columbine St. near the University of Denver for 7 or so Zierings and superstition (See: Story about the Sarah Ziering’s Gypsy fortune teller).

productive years. Then Wolf died. My great Aunt Lil (b. 1903), who lived till 101, told Inez and I that she remembered Wolf When my daughter Anya was born, my grandmother, Dorothy Ziering Greenstein, tied a red ribbon around our baby’s wrist, coughing his life away in the bedroom at Columbine, with only the doctor and his new wife Sarah in close attendance. Wolf’s although she was hesitant to tell us why she was doing it. She finally said it was Romanian for “good luck.” It took an Italian from 8 kids were huddled together in the room outside, waiting and listening for their father to die, and everyone was crying.

Eastchester to tell me it was also an ancient Romanian and Italian custom designed to ward off the “evil eye,” and specifically to Wolf’s death, they knew, would be the end of the family being together because there were no welfare programs in those protect a child from illness. My grandmother was three years passed when our daughter Dorothy (named after my grandmother) days and the Zierings weren’t wealthy. The brothers and sisters would have to fend for themselves; each of them go where they was born: but we tied a red ribbon around her wrist too - just to be compliant.

may – which they did, but the brothers and sisters remained committed to each other throughout their lives.

Our branch has also claimed that we are descended from “Romanian Gypsies.”

For my grandmother, Wolf’s death involved even more sorrow than for her brothers and sisters. Dorothy was being openly We believe in premonitions through dreams, we believe in mental telepathy between loved ones, we believe in “lucky num-courted by, and was very much in love, with a fellow Coloradan named Virgil Shepherd, and she was determined to marry him, bers,” and the dead communicating with us through flickering lights and through other signs which indicate that life after death is come hell or high water. But Wolf from his death bed made Dorothy promise to break off her engagement, and, before he disapa result of dimensional transformation. Auras, significant dates, and believing our ancestors still watch over and guide us, remain peared to the other side, apparently made her swear it on his life – which he would soon leave behind.

strong concepts in the Ziering family.

Virgil was Christian, if you haven’t guessed.

My grandmother did what her father asked, and my Dorothy never got over Virgil, and this was kept as the usual Ziering

“secret” until my mother recently told me.

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