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“The Path to Modernity: The Jews of Galicia” — Register Today
#announcements
#ukraine
#galicia
Gesher Galicia SIG
Please join me for a four-part online program hosted by Gratz College and open to participants from around the world. For beginners and seasoned family-history researchers, this adult continuing education course will explore the social and cultural transformation of Galician Jewry, drawing on unique material. DATES: July 5, 7, 12, 14, 20221:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. US ET* * All classes are recorded. A link will be sent out to the registered participants to view the class if you missed it live. REGISTRATION: To register click on the link below: https://tinyurl.com/9hp5jav2 Class size is limited, so register early! The Gratz College general tuition: $135. Gesher Galicia members can use the tuition discount. SYNOPSIS: Dr. Andrew Zalewski, author of two books on Galicia, brings history to life while answering questions like: What drove Jews to have a voice in modern society? How did they respond to new ideas from inside and outside their community? Which laws misfired on the Jews’ path to civil integration? We explore these and other questions with a focus on Galicia, but also move beyond its borders—to Austria, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Russia—to consider Jewish identity and experience more broadly. The course is illustrated by unique records, maps, and newly discovered documents.To learn more about the topics, please click below for details: QUESTIONS: Please send questions about registration to Lori Cohen, Gratz College (lcohen@...). Register early for this educational journey through Jewish Galicia and beyond. Dr. Andrew Zalewski Gesher Galicia --- PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS. Send all inquiries to info@... ---
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Viewmate translation request - Russian
#translation
Avi Lichtenstein
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Re: Help interpreting info from all Galicia gatabase
#galicia
Gesher Galicia SIG
A correction to a sentence I wrote in my earlier message on this thread. I had written:
"Of course, even without this update, the scans of the index book are available on the All Galicia Database, for Gesher Galicia members who are logged into the site to view."The scans of the book (the Żurawno marriage index book 1901-1936) are not on the All Galicia Database, but instead are available - for Gesher Galicia members only - as link from our online inventory, which is at: www.geshergalicia.org/inventory/ . Tony Kahane Research Coordinator, Gesher Galicia
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Re: Searching WEISSBURG
#usa
A distance, but knew Zofia and (Yehudah?) Weisburg in TelAviv. Yehudah died about 30+ years ago and Zofia about 20+-. From Eastern Europe, and Zofia was a 'patient' of Dr Josef Mengele at Auschwitz. 2 sons, Jacky & Micky about 50ish who still live in Tel Aviv.
GOOD LUCK! JAY HAMBURGER/ HOUSTON
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BAJROCH, Dobra, Szydłowiec and Łódź, Poland
#poland
Yale Reisner
ב"ה Dear JewishGenners:
The May 24, 2022 edition of the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza carried a legal notice announcing that the Regional Court for Central Łódź [Sąd Rejonowy dla Łodzi-Śródmieścia], Eighteenth Civil Division, on behalf of the State Treasury as represented by the Mayor of Łódź, is seeking the heirs to the following individuals: Jukiel or Jankiel BAJROCH, son of Abe & Dobrysza, born in Dobra, died in Łódź on May 9, 1946; and Rajza Ita (née AJZENSZTADT) BAJROCH, daughter of Izrael & Chana, born in Szyzłowiec, died in Łódź on November 8, 1942. The above-named people held partial title to a property on ul. Podrzeczna in Łódź, designated as "nr. hip. 68, rep. hip. nr 298 in Łódź. Any heirs to these individuals are asked to contact the Court within three months of the publication of the notice; otherwise, the Court will grant the property to the State Treasury and City of Łodź. Anyone contacting the Court should make reference to the Court's Docket No. XVIII Ns 247/22. Best wishes, Yale J. Reisner Warsaw, Poland JGFF #913980
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A food history of Manhattan’s Lower East Side
#usa
Bruce Drake
I thought this article would be of interest here, because so many ancestors of Jews who came to the city lived on the Lower East Side and food — what they ate and the names of places they ate at — would ring a bell with many and provide context for the lives they lived. I gleaned a few leads for my own family.
https://sophiecoeprize.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/beck-sophiecoe2014-tastinganeighborhood1.pdf
Bruce Drake Silver Spring MD
-- Bruce Drake Silver Spring, MD Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK Towns: Wojnilow, Kovel
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Re: Tordobis
#ukraine
m_tobiasiewicz@...
I found nothing when I googled Tordobis Ukraine or Tordobis Russia.
But I did find something that might be a good resource for other places there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Ukraine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_renamed_cities_in_Ukraine -- Maryellen Tobiasiewicz |
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Matzeva for a plot in Lodz cemetery
#lodz
I was wondering how to go about ordering and installing a matzeva in the Lodz Jewish Cemetery. I'm asking on behalf of a relative whose grandmother is buried there and for which no marker exists (died January 1939). I already know the plot location.
Any suggestions will be welcome. Maybe some of you had done this. Thank you in advance, Shosh Eizenshtein Toronto, Canada
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Re: Hebrew Reformatory, Plainview NY Early 1900's
#usa
Barbara Ellman
There was the Hawthorne School of the Jewish Protectory and Aid Society was formally opened yesterday in the assembly hall of the school at Hawthorne, Westchester County. The school will be used as a reformatory for the Jewish boys who have been sentenced in the Children's Court. It was located in Pleasantville. It opened in 1907.
I found a relative there in the 1940 census. This might be what you are looking for. -- Barbara Ellman Secaucus NJ USA HASSMAN, SONENTHAL, DAUERMAN, LUCHS - Drohobycz, Ukraine HIRSCHHORN, GOLDSTEIN, BUCHWALD - Dolyna, Ukraine ELLMAN, COIRA, MAIDMAN - Minkovtsy, Ukraine KAGLE, FASS - Ulanow, Poland
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ZELMAN, Skierniewice & Łódź, Poland
#poland
Yale Reisner
ב"ה Dear JewishGenners:
The May 24, 2022 edition of the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza carried a legal notice announcing that the Regional Court of Central Łódź [Sąd Rejonowy dla Łodzi-Śródmieścia], Third Civil Division, at the request of the State Treasury as represented by the Mayor of Łódź, is seeking the heirs to the following individuals:
Luzer or Lejzor ZELMAN, born 1879 in Skierniewice, put to death October 31, 1940 in the Treblinka death camp; and
Fajga Łaja ZELMAN, daughter of Bencjon & Dora, born 1875, put to death October 31, 1940 in the Treblinka death camp
who were part-owners of a property on ul. Drewnowska in Łódź, designated ”Rep. hip. 1371, nr hip. 83.”
The Court calls upon any heirs to the above-named owners to contact the Court within three months of the notice’s publication; otherwise, the Court will release the property to the State Treasury and City of Łódź.
Anyone contacting the Court should make reference to the Court’s Docket No. III NS 253/22.
Best wishes,
Yale J. Reisner Warsaw, Poland JGFF #913980 <yalereisner@...>
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ViewMate Translation Request -- German
#translation
jedbrickner@...
A have a challenging question. Pasted below is a Viewmate link to two birth deeds written, I am told, in Alsatian German. I am hopeful that one of them is the record of the birth of my 3x great grandfather who was known in 1805 as Simon (and in 1808 as Simon Meyer). The date of his birth was 15 Frimaire XIV (6 December 1805). If you can easily tell me that *neither* of these is correct, that would be helpful. If one of them is correct than a translation of as much as possible would be very much appreciated. Thank you! https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM98577
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Re: British citizenship
#unitedkingdom
#poland
Hi Caroline,
Thank you very much for providing these links.
I have used the reading aid you shared and found the following file https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C11047859
I see that the file is closed until 2097. Is there a way to change this and make it available earlier?
Given there is a naturalization application (the document above) why can I not locate a certificate for this person?
I have found records proving that this person died in England on 12-Feb-1978 (included in the UK death index for Q1/1978 & probate calendar of 1980)
Thank you,
Daniella Alyagon 11 Rav Ashi St, Tel Aviv 6939545, Israel
Researching: ALYAGON (Israel), SHOCHETMAN (Kishinev / Letychev / Derazhnya), AGINSKY (Kishinev / Minsk), FAJNZYLBER (Siennica, Poland / Warsaw, Poland), JELEN (Minsk Mazowiecki, Poland), KIEJZMAN (Garwolin, Poland), SLIWKA (Garwolin, Poland), MANDELBAUM (Janowiec, Poland / Zwolen, Poland / Kozienice, Poland), CUKIER (Janowiec, Poland), RECHTANT (Kozienice, Poland), FALENBOGEN (Lublin, Poland), ROTENSTREICH (Galicia), SELINGER (Galicia), BITTER (Galicia / Bukowina), HISLER (Galicia / Bukowina ), EIFERMAN (Galicia / Bukowina), FROSTIG (Zolkiew, Galicia / Lviv, Galicia), GRANZBAUER (Zolkiew, Galicia), HERMAN (Zolkiew, Galicia), MESSER (Lviv, Galicia / Vienna, Austria), PROJEKT (Lviv, Galicia), STIERER (Lviv, Galicia), ALTMAN (Lviv, Galicia), FRIEDELS (Lviv, Galicia)
-- Daniella Alyagon 11 Rav Ashi St, Tel Aviv 6939545, Israel
Researching: ALYAGON (Israel), SHOCHETMAN (Kishinev / Letychev / Derazhnya), AGINSKY (Kishinev / Minsk), FAJNZYLBER (Siennica, Poland / Warsaw, Poland), JELEN (Minsk Mazowiecki, Poland), KIEJZMAN (Garwolin, Poland), SLIWKA (Garwolin, Poland), MANDELBAUM (Janowiec, Poland / Zwolen, Poland / Kozienice, Poland), CUKIER (Janowiec, Poland), RECHTANT (Kozienice, Poland), FALENBOGEN (Lublin, Poland), ROTENSTREICH (Galicia), SELINGER (Galicia), BITTER (Galicia / Bukowina), HISLER (Galicia / Bukowina ), EIFERMAN (Galicia / Bukowina), FROSTIG (Zolkiew, Galicia / Lviv, Galicia), GRANZBAUER (Zolkiew, Galicia), HERMAN (Zolkiew, Galicia), MESSER (Lviv, Galicia / Vienna, Austria), PROJEKT (Lviv, Galicia), STIERER (Lviv, Galicia), ALTMAN (Lviv, Galicia), FRIEDELS (Lviv, Galicia)
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ViewMate translation request - Romanian
#romania
#translation
MARLISE GROSS
I've posted 3 vital records in Romanian for which I need translations. They are on ViewMate at the following address ...
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM98601 https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM98600 https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM98599 Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you very much. Marlise Gross Cherry Hill, NJ
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Re: Tordobis
#ukraine
curtstamps@...
I am not sure if this helps, but there is reference to Tordobis, Russia online at https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/bolbermorris1.htm
As it appears Russia and Ukraine keep changing ownership of realestate, this might be a reference to the town you are looking for. Best of luck to you. Rollie Stamps
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ViewMate Translation Request -- German
#translation
jedbrickner@...
Attached below is the ViewMate link to the death record of my 3X Great grandfather David Straus. I would appreciate a translation of as much as possible.
Thank you.
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Re: Question: mail address of Albert Braunstein Melbourne,
#germany
David Lewin
At 17:24 25/05/2022, Omer Vanvoorden wrote:
Good evening, braunstein42@..., spinoza613@..., David Lewin London Search & Unite attempt to help locate people who, despite the passage of so many years since World War II, may still exist "out there". We also assist in the process of re-possession of property in the Czech Republic and Israel. See our Web pages at https://remember.org/unite/
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Re: Hebrew Reformatory, Plainview NY Early 1900's
#usa
Sherri Bobish
Hi Robin,
You might try looking at old city directories for Plainview, Long Island. The local library may have old copies on microfilm. https://poblib.org/index.php?option=com_dropfiles&task=onedrive.onedrivesync I haven't found one on-line (including Ancestry.) Maybe one is online and I just couldn't locate it. If someone knows of one on-line can they please post a link? Old city directories usually have listings by type of business. Reformatories were sometimes called "training schools." I am assuming that they lived in Manhattan. NYC Municipal Records has: https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/New_York_City_Department_of_Records "The criminal justice records 1684-1966 are the largest and most comprehensive collection of their type in the English-speaking world." There may be a card regarding his arrest / trial. Many years ago I found there my uncle's Sing Sing admission card from the 1910's. The 1908 American Jewish Yearbook may list the reformatory or training school name, if it was a Jewish run institution. http://www.ajcarchives.org/main.php?GroupingId=10040 If he was still residing at the reformatory in 1910 than you should find him listed in the 1910 Federal Census as an inmate. Try searching his name. https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1727033 You can search his name in old digitized newspapers at this free site: https://fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html This site has a large collection of newspapers, and many from NYC and also small towns all across the state. You might find a notice of his arrest or trial.
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Re: I need an address in Magdeburg Germany before 1938
#germany
Andreas Schwab
The 1932 Magdeburg directory is online here: https://wiki.genealogy.net/Magdeburg/Adressbuch_1932
Navigation liks: Gehe zu Seite (go to page), vorherige Seite (previous page), nächste Seite (next page). For a list of online historical directories in Germany see https://wiki.genealogy.net/Kategorie:Online-Adressbuch -- Andreas Schwab, Montreal, Canada
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JGS of Santa Cruz invites you to : Central Database of Shoah Victim's at Yad Vashem on June 11
#announcements
#holocaust
#records
Leah Kushner
Santa Cruz Jewish Genealogy Society invites you to Speaker: Guest Speaker: Serafima Velkovich The Central Database of Shoah Victimsʼ Names and Other Sources at Yad Vashem Sunday June 12, 11am Pacific Time/ 4pm Eastern PLEASE NOTE the earlier start time. Free to Members, $5.00 to Guests Description: Yad Vashem, a living memorial to the Holocaust, houses a huge collection of materials. This lecture highlights new features and materials of the Database, as well as offer “tips” on utilizing it to the fullest. Serafima will also guide us to other Yad Vashem online sources that are relevant for genealogists. Bio: Serafima Velkovich is the Head of the Family Roots Research Section in the Reference and Information Department of the Yad Vashem Archives division. She has been working at Yad Vashem for 16 years. She is also a PhD Candidate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Serafima was closely involved in the work on names material in Yad Vashem`s databases. At the same time, the main research field is family roots. She lectures on the use of Yad Vashem resources for genealogical and other research to various groups, as well as to visiting genealogists and organizations who make use of genealogical tools for their research. She participates in international conferences and films on Holocaust topics. Zoom link will be sent to your email the week of the event, please check your Spam folder. For more information or membership information membership@... co-sponsor- Chadeish Yameinu Leah Kushner, President SCJGS Visit our website: https://scjgs.org Subscribers: If you already registered for this event via PayPal, you are on our RSVP list and will receive the Zoom link the week of the event.
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