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ViewMate translation request: Yiddish letters from World War I
#romania
Patricia Klindienst <epk13@...>
Dear Genners,
I have a trove of letters >from two soldiers, both Russian Jews who recently emigrated to the US, written to their friends in a cap making factory on the Lower East Side of New York in 1917-1919. These five pages just posted on ViewMate are part of an eight-page letter sent by Sam Yurik, who writes as he is training with the Jewish Legion in Canada before being sent to the UK to join the Royal Fusiliers for action in the war. On his 1917 draft card Sam, born in 1895, gives no town or city for his place of birth, only "Russia." He is in the US alone, which may explain, in part, how close he feels to his fellow cap makers. He trained at Camp Upton on Long Island at the same time as Irving Berlin, who wrote "Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" for a review to raise money for the camp. Sam addressed many of his letters to Lina (whose daughter gave me the letters). He is a colorful and inventive writer, so I hope you will enjoy working on these. http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=3DVM31742 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=3DVM31743 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=3DVM31744 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=3DVM31745 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=3DVM31746 Thank you, Patricia Klindienst Guilford, CT USA SPIWAK /SPIVAK of Orgeyev & Kishinev, Bessarabia; Mendoza, Argentina; and Queens. SCHAPOSCHNIK / ZAPOSNEK of Orgeyev, Kishinev, Elisavetgrad, or Mendoza, and their related names, SHAPIN, SHAPIRO of Mendoza, Argentina, Chile, Canada, and the US. SCHOCHETMAN of Odessa (who became SCHACHT in the US). MILSTEIN of Orgeyev & Kishinev. WOLMAN / VOLLMAN of Orgeyev, Kishinev, Capresti. TSAREVKAN/CIRIFCAN/SARAFCONN of Orgeyev, Teleneshti, Uruguay, becoming COHEN in the US. BELINKSY of Odessa and Philadelphia. KALIK of Orgeyev, Kishinev, Argentina. LICHT of Briceva.
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Romania SIG #Romania ViewMate translation request: Yiddish letters from World War I
#romania
Patricia Klindienst <epk13@...>
Dear Genners,
I have a trove of letters >from two soldiers, both Russian Jews who recently emigrated to the US, written to their friends in a cap making factory on the Lower East Side of New York in 1917-1919. These five pages just posted on ViewMate are part of an eight-page letter sent by Sam Yurik, who writes as he is training with the Jewish Legion in Canada before being sent to the UK to join the Royal Fusiliers for action in the war. On his 1917 draft card Sam, born in 1895, gives no town or city for his place of birth, only "Russia." He is in the US alone, which may explain, in part, how close he feels to his fellow cap makers. He trained at Camp Upton on Long Island at the same time as Irving Berlin, who wrote "Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" for a review to raise money for the camp. Sam addressed many of his letters to Lina (whose daughter gave me the letters). He is a colorful and inventive writer, so I hope you will enjoy working on these. http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=3DVM31742 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=3DVM31743 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=3DVM31744 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=3DVM31745 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=3DVM31746 Thank you, Patricia Klindienst Guilford, CT USA SPIWAK /SPIVAK of Orgeyev & Kishinev, Bessarabia; Mendoza, Argentina; and Queens. SCHAPOSCHNIK / ZAPOSNEK of Orgeyev, Kishinev, Elisavetgrad, or Mendoza, and their related names, SHAPIN, SHAPIRO of Mendoza, Argentina, Chile, Canada, and the US. SCHOCHETMAN of Odessa (who became SCHACHT in the US). MILSTEIN of Orgeyev & Kishinev. WOLMAN / VOLLMAN of Orgeyev, Kishinev, Capresti. TSAREVKAN/CIRIFCAN/SARAFCONN of Orgeyev, Teleneshti, Uruguay, becoming COHEN in the US. BELINKSY of Odessa and Philadelphia. KALIK of Orgeyev, Kishinev, Argentina. LICHT of Briceva.
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Romanian Military Documents
#romania
Marcel Glaskie <marcelg@...>
Romanian Military Documents.
I thank the many readers who have kindly sent me copies of Romanian Army Logbooks of their family members. I would like to know if anyone ever received any military material or correspondence >from the Romanian Military Archives? If so please contact me. The material is only for use in a lecture to be given to the Jewish Genealogy Society in Manchester UK & not for publication. Marcel Glaskie Ra'anana Israel marcelg@netvision.net.il
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Romania SIG #Romania Romanian Military Documents
#romania
Marcel Glaskie <marcelg@...>
Romanian Military Documents.
I thank the many readers who have kindly sent me copies of Romanian Army Logbooks of their family members. I would like to know if anyone ever received any military material or correspondence >from the Romanian Military Archives? If so please contact me. The material is only for use in a lecture to be given to the Jewish Genealogy Society in Manchester UK & not for publication. Marcel Glaskie Ra'anana Israel marcelg@netvision.net.il
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Re: Obtaining Romanian records?
#romania
Bob Wascou
ROM-SIG purchased the records for Suceava >from a researcher who
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photographed the records. We have photographers in Iasi and in Bucharest who are photographing the Jewish civil records (births, marriages and deaths) for us. At the present time we are not getting any of the records because we have rum out of money. We depend on your donations to get these records. Please donate at http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/v_projectslist.asp?project_cat=20 Because we do not get financial reports for up to two months after the close of a month please let us know what you donated after you make the donation at http://tinyurl.com/R-S-Donations_That way we can resume getting the pictures of the images. We are also looking for people in Romania who can photograph other records for us. If you know of anyone who might be able to do this for us please contact me. We also need translators to transcribe the records that we have. We especially need people who can translate Romanian and Old German. Volunteer at http://tinyurl.com/vol-transcriber In the Romanian databases at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Romania/ there are results for both BARAD and FELLER. Do not always use exact spelling because the names might be slightly different >from the way that you spell the name. For example there is a result for FELER in the Moldavia databases which includes Iasi records. Check all of the results and not just for your town because our ancestors moved around quite a lot. The results in the database are by REGION. Iasi is in Moldavia Region and Suceava is in the Bucovina Region. For the Geographical Regions for the JewishGen Romania Database see http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Romania/RomaniaRegions.htm Good luck with your research, Bob Wascou ROM-SIG Research Coordinator
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Naomi Feller <naomifeller@aim.com> wrote:
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Romania SIG #Romania Re: Obtaining Romanian records?
#romania
Bob Wascou
ROM-SIG purchased the records for Suceava >from a researcher who
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photographed the records. We have photographers in Iasi and in Bucharest who are photographing the Jewish civil records (births, marriages and deaths) for us. At the present time we are not getting any of the records because we have rum out of money. We depend on your donations to get these records. Please donate at http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/v_projectslist.asp?project_cat=20 Because we do not get financial reports for up to two months after the close of a month please let us know what you donated after you make the donation at http://tinyurl.com/R-S-Donations_That way we can resume getting the pictures of the images. We are also looking for people in Romania who can photograph other records for us. If you know of anyone who might be able to do this for us please contact me. We also need translators to transcribe the records that we have. We especially need people who can translate Romanian and Old German. Volunteer at http://tinyurl.com/vol-transcriber In the Romanian databases at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Romania/ there are results for both BARAD and FELLER. Do not always use exact spelling because the names might be slightly different >from the way that you spell the name. For example there is a result for FELER in the Moldavia databases which includes Iasi records. Check all of the results and not just for your town because our ancestors moved around quite a lot. The results in the database are by REGION. Iasi is in Moldavia Region and Suceava is in the Bucovina Region. For the Geographical Regions for the JewishGen Romania Database see http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Romania/RomaniaRegions.htm Good luck with your research, Bob Wascou ROM-SIG Research Coordinator
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Naomi Feller <naomifeller@aim.com> wrote:
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CAHEN family Alsace-Lorraine
#germany
Ben Forman
Hi RavSig and GerSig Researchers
Is anyone familiar with the genealogy of a Rabbinical family named CAHEN who lived in Ribeauville, which included an Isaac CAHEN who's descendants became established in Sultzburg (Baden). I am investigating if there is a link to my Cahen family who came >from the Alsace-Lorraine Region and may be related to the brothers Isaac and Bernard CAHEN who came to Lechenich in 1608 and may have been related to my ancestor Baruch ben Jacob Cahen who was buried in Lechenich in 1692. Thanks as always, Ben <ben.r.forman@gmail.com> Ben Forman, Manchester UK,(currently exiled in London) searching: BENSON: Hasenpoth/Courland; SAWADY: Zavadi,Posen; GEVER: Daugavpils/Dvinsk; BERNSTEIN/WEINER: Ylakai; FURMAN: Kaluszyn; CAHN/CAHEN/WOLF: Zuendorf/Bruhl/Lechenich/Ahrweiler;
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German SIG #Germany CAHEN family Alsace-Lorraine
#germany
Ben Forman
Hi RavSig and GerSig Researchers
Is anyone familiar with the genealogy of a Rabbinical family named CAHEN who lived in Ribeauville, which included an Isaac CAHEN who's descendants became established in Sultzburg (Baden). I am investigating if there is a link to my Cahen family who came >from the Alsace-Lorraine Region and may be related to the brothers Isaac and Bernard CAHEN who came to Lechenich in 1608 and may have been related to my ancestor Baruch ben Jacob Cahen who was buried in Lechenich in 1692. Thanks as always, Ben <ben.r.forman@gmail.com> Ben Forman, Manchester UK,(currently exiled in London) searching: BENSON: Hasenpoth/Courland; SAWADY: Zavadi,Posen; GEVER: Daugavpils/Dvinsk; BERNSTEIN/WEINER: Ylakai; FURMAN: Kaluszyn; CAHN/CAHEN/WOLF: Zuendorf/Bruhl/Lechenich/Ahrweiler;
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Site Cite for OPPENHEIMER
#germany
Alan Ehrlich
Linda Shefler wrote: "I just learned about some previously unknown members
of my family and am wondering if anyone is familiar with them: Herz OPPENHEIMER [...]" A "go to" site for OPPENHEIMER is Daniel Loeb's www.loebtree.com You also can pre-search this site via Google using search string: [your last name] +site:www.loebtree.com ...where, for example, you'd replace [your last name] with the term HERZ or the term STERN. Kind regards, Alan Ehrlich, Geneva, Switzerland alan.ehrlich@ehrlich-online.com
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German SIG #Germany Site Cite for OPPENHEIMER
#germany
Alan Ehrlich
Linda Shefler wrote: "I just learned about some previously unknown members
of my family and am wondering if anyone is familiar with them: Herz OPPENHEIMER [...]" A "go to" site for OPPENHEIMER is Daniel Loeb's www.loebtree.com You also can pre-search this site via Google using search string: [your last name] +site:www.loebtree.com ...where, for example, you'd replace [your last name] with the term HERZ or the term STERN. Kind regards, Alan Ehrlich, Geneva, Switzerland alan.ehrlich@ehrlich-online.com
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Meaning of "Cutter" as a job in 1888 NYC / I. Friedman Leather
#general
Todd Edelman <edelman@...>
Hello,
My cousin Ignatz Friedman's job listed on his naturalization papers in 1888 was "cutter". I know only that at least later the family owned a leather business, "I. Friedman" in NYC. Would "cutter" only have meant "meat cutter"? Thanks, Todd Edelman Los Angeles edelman@greenidea.eu
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Meaning of "Cutter" as a job in 1888 NYC / I. Friedman Leather
#general
Todd Edelman <edelman@...>
Hello,
My cousin Ignatz Friedman's job listed on his naturalization papers in 1888 was "cutter". I know only that at least later the family owned a leather business, "I. Friedman" in NYC. Would "cutter" only have meant "meat cutter"? Thanks, Todd Edelman Los Angeles edelman@greenidea.eu
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[UK] World War I Diaries- Assistance Requested- Operation War Diaries
#general
Jan Meisels Allen
On January 12 I posted to this forum a list of countries that are
commemorating the centenary of the beginning of World War I. Included in that list was the UK's National Archive where they have a new portal for their WWI records. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/first-world-war/ One of the many archives for the centenary is the Unit War Diaries of which the WWI is the first to be digitized [http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/first-world-war/centenary-programme.htm ] Thus far they have digitized 1.5 million records and hope to have the entire collection completed by the centenary of the end of WWI in 1919. To help the UK's National Archives with their digitization process they have launched a crowd-sourcing program, "Operation War Diaries" along with the Imperial War Museum and Zooniverse with citizen historians. To make "sense" of the documents the "citizen historians" can click on data items such as date, place and name which will be indexed to facilitate researching a particular soldier. To become a "citizen historian" click on http://www.operationwardiary.org , a window opens and then click on "get started" where a new window opens with a 10 minute tutorial and then begin. There is a brief video on the crowd-sourcing for this collection. You will have to put up with a short advertisement before the 1.25 minute video Go to: http://tinyurl.com/kofryto Original url: http://news.msn.com/world/video?videoid=c7ed12f6-2857-e555-8de4-7be84800a478&ap=False Thank you to Shelley Stillman, past president, JGS Toronto for alerting us to the video and the request for worldwide assistance on Operation War Diaries. Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen [UK] World War I Diaries- Assistance Requested- Operation War Diaries
#general
Jan Meisels Allen
On January 12 I posted to this forum a list of countries that are
commemorating the centenary of the beginning of World War I. Included in that list was the UK's National Archive where they have a new portal for their WWI records. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/first-world-war/ One of the many archives for the centenary is the Unit War Diaries of which the WWI is the first to be digitized [http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/first-world-war/centenary-programme.htm ] Thus far they have digitized 1.5 million records and hope to have the entire collection completed by the centenary of the end of WWI in 1919. To help the UK's National Archives with their digitization process they have launched a crowd-sourcing program, "Operation War Diaries" along with the Imperial War Museum and Zooniverse with citizen historians. To make "sense" of the documents the "citizen historians" can click on data items such as date, place and name which will be indexed to facilitate researching a particular soldier. To become a "citizen historian" click on http://www.operationwardiary.org , a window opens and then click on "get started" where a new window opens with a 10 minute tutorial and then begin. There is a brief video on the crowd-sourcing for this collection. You will have to put up with a short advertisement before the 1.25 minute video Go to: http://tinyurl.com/kofryto Original url: http://news.msn.com/world/video?videoid=c7ed12f6-2857-e555-8de4-7be84800a478&ap=False Thank you to Shelley Stillman, past president, JGS Toronto for alerting us to the video and the request for worldwide assistance on Operation War Diaries. Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Re: More ADLER name changes: SRULOVICI to STROLOWITZ to ADLER
#general
Don Solomon
Amy,
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This does not apply to the original post, but your reply refers to the surnames ADLER and SRULOVICI, on which I might have some insight. My paternal relatives are >from Iasi as well, and in the late 19th century there appeared to be the same sort of interchange of names that you describe. In my case, >from about 1890 to 1910 my great-grandfather seemingly went >from Josel sin SLOIM to Josel CAHANE and back again; and my other great-grandfather went >from Bercu sin IOSIP to Bercu SEGAL and perhaps back again. In both my cases, as in yours, one surname was a patronymic; SRULOVICI means "son of Srul (Israel)" and "sin" in Romanian means the same thing. (You'd have to know more Romanian than I do to know why one form is chosen rather than the other.) I surmise that the Jews of Iasi used patronymics >from ancient times until the wave of modernization initiated by Napoleon finally hit Moldavia and people were encouraged to take permanent surnames. In my case, they picked surnames that indicated priestly status; in others, an occupation or locality might have been chosen. In your case, perhaps someone had heard the name ADLER and thought it sounded distinguished. Romania inherited something else >from Napoleon -- an obsession with record keeping. The result of this was that once someone "got into the system" under one name, it was difficult to use a different name. This might explain why some of your family members used ADLER and others STRULOVICI. Don Solomon <dsolomon@post.harvard.edu>
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 00:04:10 -0700, Amy B Cohen wrote:
I am interested in the question raised by Jack Freeman about a change
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: More ADLER name changes: SRULOVICI to STROLOWITZ to ADLER
#general
Don Solomon
Amy,
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This does not apply to the original post, but your reply refers to the surnames ADLER and SRULOVICI, on which I might have some insight. My paternal relatives are >from Iasi as well, and in the late 19th century there appeared to be the same sort of interchange of names that you describe. In my case, >from about 1890 to 1910 my great-grandfather seemingly went >from Josel sin SLOIM to Josel CAHANE and back again; and my other great-grandfather went >from Bercu sin IOSIP to Bercu SEGAL and perhaps back again. In both my cases, as in yours, one surname was a patronymic; SRULOVICI means "son of Srul (Israel)" and "sin" in Romanian means the same thing. (You'd have to know more Romanian than I do to know why one form is chosen rather than the other.) I surmise that the Jews of Iasi used patronymics >from ancient times until the wave of modernization initiated by Napoleon finally hit Moldavia and people were encouraged to take permanent surnames. In my case, they picked surnames that indicated priestly status; in others, an occupation or locality might have been chosen. In your case, perhaps someone had heard the name ADLER and thought it sounded distinguished. Romania inherited something else >from Napoleon -- an obsession with record keeping. The result of this was that once someone "got into the system" under one name, it was difficult to use a different name. This might explain why some of your family members used ADLER and others STRULOVICI. Don Solomon <dsolomon@post.harvard.edu>
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 00:04:10 -0700, Amy B Cohen wrote:
I am interested in the question raised by Jack Freeman about a change
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Bukovina & Transylvania Jewish Archives
#ukraine
Robert J.Friedman <rjfriedman@...>
The Leo Baeck Institute (LBI) at the Center for Jewish History in NYC
just launched a new online guide to the Jewish archives of southern Bukovina and southern Transylvania, jbat.lbi.org. The current website and database are products of an archival survey conducted during the past year with financial support >from the Rothschild Foundation. Currently the database includes 10 cities in southern Bukovina (Burdujeni, Chernivtsi, Campulung Moldovenesc, Gura Homorului, Itcani, Radauti, Siret, Solca, Suceava, and Vatara Dornei) plus Medias and Sibiu in southern Transylvania. Some of the original documents (such as the Medias Jewish Birth Register, 1857-1885) were digitally photographed and may now be viewed online. At the web site launch on Monday, LBI announced that the grant was extended for an additional three years so that the survey can be expanded to more locations. Work in Brasov is scheduled to begin in March. The repositories that are the subject of this project not part of the State (national) Archives. They may be local county or municipal archives, or private, non-governmental archives scattered among former Jewish communities in Romania. The materials may be located in synagogues, community centers, private homes, or who knows where else. Some lack inventories, catalogs, or finding aids; when such guides do exist, they are typically in hard copy and not digitally searchable. In the worst cases, they are in complete disarray and subject to environmental hazards, theft, or other threats. In the meantime, it is wonderful to see the resources that have just become accessible through this project. Bob Friedman Brooklyn, NY
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine Bukovina & Transylvania Jewish Archives
#ukraine
Robert J.Friedman <rjfriedman@...>
The Leo Baeck Institute (LBI) at the Center for Jewish History in NYC
just launched a new online guide to the Jewish archives of southern Bukovina and southern Transylvania, jbat.lbi.org. The current website and database are products of an archival survey conducted during the past year with financial support >from the Rothschild Foundation. Currently the database includes 10 cities in southern Bukovina (Burdujeni, Chernivtsi, Campulung Moldovenesc, Gura Homorului, Itcani, Radauti, Siret, Solca, Suceava, and Vatara Dornei) plus Medias and Sibiu in southern Transylvania. Some of the original documents (such as the Medias Jewish Birth Register, 1857-1885) were digitally photographed and may now be viewed online. At the web site launch on Monday, LBI announced that the grant was extended for an additional three years so that the survey can be expanded to more locations. Work in Brasov is scheduled to begin in March. The repositories that are the subject of this project not part of the State (national) Archives. They may be local county or municipal archives, or private, non-governmental archives scattered among former Jewish communities in Romania. The materials may be located in synagogues, community centers, private homes, or who knows where else. Some lack inventories, catalogs, or finding aids; when such guides do exist, they are typically in hard copy and not digitally searchable. In the worst cases, they are in complete disarray and subject to environmental hazards, theft, or other threats. In the meantime, it is wonderful to see the resources that have just become accessible through this project. Bob Friedman Brooklyn, NY
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Re: Leipzig, Germany - New Israelite Cemetery
#general
Roger Lustig
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http://www.bestattungshaushaensel.de/Friedhof/Leipzig/Neuer_Israelischer_Friedhof/neuer_israelischer_friedhof.html [MODERATOR NOTE: shortened URL - http://goo.gl/sdVkGi ] The page says that during a bombing raid 1100 gravestones were destroyed or damaged. http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/sachsen_friedhoefe.htm#Leipzig (L) <http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/sachsen_friedhoefe.htm#Leipzig%20%28L%29> has a description (plus pictures >from the Old Cemetery) and a link to http://www.juden-in-mittelsachsen.de/shalom/friedhof_leipzig.html which says the cemetery is still in use. Roger Lustig Princeton, NJ USA
On 1/15/2014 5:31 AM, Michael Scott wrote:
There seems to be very little information on the web concerning the New
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Leipzig, Germany - New Israelite Cemetery
#general
Roger Lustig
Contact information here:
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http://www.bestattungshaushaensel.de/Friedhof/Leipzig/Neuer_Israelischer_Friedhof/neuer_israelischer_friedhof.html [MODERATOR NOTE: shortened URL - http://goo.gl/sdVkGi ] The page says that during a bombing raid 1100 gravestones were destroyed or damaged. http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/sachsen_friedhoefe.htm#Leipzig (L) <http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/sachsen_friedhoefe.htm#Leipzig%20%28L%29> has a description (plus pictures >from the Old Cemetery) and a link to http://www.juden-in-mittelsachsen.de/shalom/friedhof_leipzig.html which says the cemetery is still in use. Roger Lustig Princeton, NJ USA
On 1/15/2014 5:31 AM, Michael Scott wrote:
There seems to be very little information on the web concerning the New
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