I need birhtdays and places of birth (in Germany before the WWII) for
Max(Possibly   Leipzig or Berlin) and Ludwig Garfunkel (Garfinkel) 
Please help soon--Thank you!

What else do you know about them (parents, profession etc.)? 
When and where did they die? Their death certificates would possibly
include the details you are trying to find.

Thank you for your quick response!  I don't actually know what became
of them--they were Jewish and in Germany durning the Holocauste--so
I'm guessing the worse--they were cousins-not direct descendents of
ours.  All I know is that Max owned a clothing store--may have been
born around the turn of the century?  All I really need on them are
their Birthdays and Places of birth or what cities they lived in. 
Thank you and please let me know if you find the answers soon--I can
pay more if necessary.

Thank you again,
Sharon

A quick search at the www.geneaseek.org turned up a Max Garfunkel born
about 1901.  Scroll down to find him.  I hope this helps

http://www.geocities.com/turkel.geo/GED2WWW/idx470.htm

Garfunkel, Hersh Ber 
Gender: Male 
Birth : 1860 in Stryj
@S01895@
his age 34 when married in 1894
Parents:
Father: Garfunkel, Jakob 
Mother: Gutharz, Hencie 

Family:
Marriage: 1894 in Drohobycz, Galicia @S01895@


Spouse:
Backenroth, Cirl 
Gender: Female 
Birth : 1868 in Krynica/Popiele
@S01895@
her age 26 when married in 1894
Parents:
Father: Backenroth, Berl 
Mother: Bernstein, Itta 

Children:
Garfunkel, Feige 
Gender: Female 
Birth : 1894 
her birth
AKT 144; Signature 156 
Garfunkel, Jetti 
Gender: Female 
Birth : 1897 
Death : 1898 
her birth
398 1750
Garfunkel, Max 
Gender: Male 
Birth : 1901 
his birth
AKT 118; Signature 2099

The following links refer to the Garfunkel family in Leipzig involved
in the fur trade. However, as no first names are mentioned I do not
know if this is the family in question.

"Leipziger Pelzhändlerfamilien Harmelin und Garfunkel" as mentioned in
a newspaper article (June 2004):
http://www.moelkau.de/lvz/127543.html
http://www.lvz.de/lvz-heute/127543.html

Wilhelm Harmelin wrote: 
Juden in der Leipziger Rauchwarenwirtschaft. In: Tradition. Für
Firmengeschichte und Unternehmerbiographie, 11. Jg. (1966), S.
249-282.
http://www.phil.uni-erlangen.de/~p1ges/zfhm/zug1.html

as referred to in this lecture (Leipzig, Institut für Ethnologie, 27.11.2002):
http://www.maren-bellwinkel.de/artikel/leipzig.htm
www.maren-bellwinkel.de/artikel/leipzig.pdf

You could try to contact the author of this lecture:
http://www.maren-bellwinkel.de/kontakt.htm


Two members of the Garfunkel family in Leipzig among those being
deported to Cracow:
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Krakow/Krakow.html

Sorry, these links should work:

http://www.maren-bellwinkel.de/artikel/leipzig.htm

http://www.maren-bellwinkel.de/artikel/leipzig.pdf

Thank you so much--but I really, really need more info--does anyone
have any ideas?  I've spent hours and hours searching (I don't have a
lot of internet experience)--and come up with some of the same
info--but I need exact places of birth and/or residence and can't
figure out Ludwig Garfunkel (Garfinkel's) b-day at all.  I'll pay some
more on site--or even send you a check or paypal--I'm clueless here...
thank you again :)

Just to let you know that the following members of the Garfunkel
family are mentioned in the article by Wilhelm Harmelin (1966):

Joachim Garfunkel (1828-1910), his son Joseph (1862-1936) and Joseph's
son-in-law Siegfried Weinstock (b. 1896),
i.e. not Max or Ludwig.