JewishGen is pleased to announce the release of 120,000
new records, in various databases. These include:


* JewishGen Holocaust Database -- Five new datasets:

- Hidden Children in France -
Information on 4,000 children hidden in France by
the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE).
- Rhodes to Ferramonti -
Persons >from Rhodes who were transferred to the
Ferramonti Di Tarsia Internment Camp, 12-Jan-1942.
- "Jews For Sale": The Rudolph Kasztner Transports -
Names of 1,900 rescued Hungarian Jews, 1944.
- Arad Census - 1942 -
9,698 names in a census of Arad, Hungary/Romania, 1942.
- Lost Train >from Bergen-Belsen -
Bergen-Belsen to Trobitz, April 1945.

The JewishGen Holocaust Database is a collection of
150 datasets, containing nearly two million records
about Holocaust victims and survivors.

< http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Holocaust >


* Hungarian Census Records:

1,519 records for Bereg county, 1832, 1842.

< http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Hungary >


* Bialystok area 1895 and 1903 "Vsia Rossiia":

1,264 entries >from Russian business directories for
Bialystok, Bielsk, and Sokolka uyezds (districts),
Grodno gubernia (now in NE Poland).

< http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/vsia >


* Bessarabia Vital Records:

More than 20,000 additional birth, marriage and death
records for Beltsy, Bendery, and Kishinev (now in Moldova).

< http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Romania >.


* Lithuania:

- Tax and Voters Lists -
1,598 records for Telz & Shavl districts, 1880s-1915.
- Revision Lists -
8,148 records:
+ Panevezys district 1887.
+ Troki district 1834-42.
- Lithuania Vital Records -
24,114 new records:
Births:
+ Alytus 1922-1939 (incl. Butrymonis, Daugai, Jieznas, Simnas)
+ Babtai 1875-1891, 1913-14
+ Cekiske 1865-1906
+ Grinkiskis 1844, 1873-75, 1881-1914
+ Jonava 1922-31
+ Josvainiai 1836-37, 1844, 1873-1914
+ Kaunas 1880-85
+ Panevezys 1876, 1883, 1885, 1892-1903, 1905=20
+ Seredzius 1897-1906
+ Simnas 1922-26
+ Vilkija 1838-1897
+ Vilijampole 1880-1882, 84-85, 90-91

Deaths:
+ Babtai 1875-1884
+ Birzai 1881-1898
+ Butrymonis 1922-26
+ Joniskis 1919-39 (includes Linkuva, Zagare)
+ Kedainiai 1854-1910
+ Panemune Frentzela 1826-1837
+ Panevezys 1875, 1880, 1922-24
+ Pasvitinys 1922-26
+ Raseniai 1922-39
+ Varniai 1852-66; 1868-75, 1881-1913
+ Vilkija 1854-57, 1861-1914
+ Vilijampole 1881

- Lithuania Internal Passports -
886 records for Siauliai (Shavl),
338 for Panevezys (Ponevez).

< http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Lithuania >


* Yizkor Book Necrology Database:
6,808 records >from four Yizkor Books:
+ Lublin, Poland (232 records),
+ Pinsk, Belarus (5,561 records),
+ Suwalki, Poland (685 records),
+ Konotop, Ukraine (330 records).

< http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Yizkor >


* Houston 'Jewish Herald-Voice' Database:

Entries for 1,000 new events, completing 100 years
of this Texas newspaper, 1908-2008.


* Philadelphia 'Jewish Exponent' Obituary Database:

Entries or 3,000 new events, 1887-2007, >from this
Philadelphia Jewish newspaper.

< http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/USA >.


* Duma Voter Lists - Minsk Gubernia:

Names of more than 35,000 men eligible to vote in the
Russian parliamentary elections in 1906 and 1907.
9 districts of Minsk Gubernia, now Belarus.

< http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Belarus >.


Thanks to all of the volunteers and donors who made
these databases possible.

All of JewishGen's databases can be found at
< http://www.jewishgen.org/databases >.

Warren

Warren Blatt
Managing Director, JewishGen
< wblatt@jewishgen.org >

MODERATOR'S NOTE: Just a reminder that JRI-Poland is an independent
organization whose database, website and discussion group are hosted
by JewishGen. Each organization has its own administrative and financial
structure.