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RUSSIAN TRANSLATION - PLEASE
#lithuania
ms nodrog
I would appreciate the Russian Translation for the following Viewmate listings.
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM53752 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM53751 Thanks in advance. Hope Gordon
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania RUSSIAN TRANSLATION - PLEASE
#lithuania
ms nodrog
I would appreciate the Russian Translation for the following Viewmate listings.
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM53752 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM53751 Thanks in advance. Hope Gordon
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Proving Jewish first name variation - Yocha / Yocheved
#lithuania
Shimrit Elisar <kashka23@...>
Hello,
My grandmother was born Yocha Choner in Panevezys but used the name Yocheved when she came to Israel. We have Lithuanian documents for her under the name Yocha and Israeli documents under the name Yocheved. We are struggling to prove to the Lithuanian authorities that she is the same person. Has anyone here come across anything we could use to prove Yocha and Yocheved are interchangeable as far as Jewish names are concerned? Thanks in advance for any help, Shimrit Elisar, (kashka23@...), Israel
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania Fwd: Proving Jewish first name variation - Yocha / Yocheved
#lithuania
Shimrit Elisar <kashka23@...>
Hello,
My grandmother was born Yocha Choner in Panevezys but used the name Yocheved when she came to Israel. We have Lithuanian documents for her under the name Yocha and Israeli documents under the name Yocheved. We are struggling to prove to the Lithuanian authorities that she is the same person. Has anyone here come across anything we could use to prove Yocha and Yocheved are interchangeable as far as Jewish names are concerned? Thanks in advance for any help, Shimrit Elisar, (kashka23@...), Israel
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Researching the Partisan Song
#poland
Hi All
I am looking for resources and material on the Partisan Song - Zog Nit Keynmol, words by Hirsh Glik and music by Dmitri and Daniel Pokrass. The poem was written in the Vilna ghetto in 1943. If you have any articles on it or videos of it being sung, especially by choirs, schools or young students, please forward to me at eli@... Please email me the links or Dropbox or Google Drive the files. I am also looking for the words of the poem in languages besides Yiddish, English and Hebrew, which I have. Should you wish to view what I have already sourced, please visit http://elirab.me Here is it in Yiddish, Hebrew and English which we recorded at Herzlia High School in Cape Town last month in a live online class with 5 schools in the Former Soviet Union. https://youtu.be/lt_2Xi6m-Jw Thanks and regards Eli Rabinowitz Perth, Australia http://elirab.me
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JRI Poland #Poland Researching the Partisan Song
#poland
Hi All
I am looking for resources and material on the Partisan Song - Zog Nit Keynmol, words by Hirsh Glik and music by Dmitri and Daniel Pokrass. The poem was written in the Vilna ghetto in 1943. If you have any articles on it or videos of it being sung, especially by choirs, schools or young students, please forward to me at eli@... Please email me the links or Dropbox or Google Drive the files. I am also looking for the words of the poem in languages besides Yiddish, English and Hebrew, which I have. Should you wish to view what I have already sourced, please visit http://elirab.me Here is it in Yiddish, Hebrew and English which we recorded at Herzlia High School in Cape Town last month in a live online class with 5 schools in the Former Soviet Union. https://youtu.be/lt_2Xi6m-Jw Thanks and regards Eli Rabinowitz Perth, Australia http://elirab.me
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1860/1877 Cadastral Map of Borki Male in the Gesher Galicia Map Room
#poland
Jay Osborn <jay.osborn@...>
A rare work-in-progress map now on the Gesher Galicia Map Room reveals
the meticulous effort required of the Austrian Empire's land surveyors; it's a complete cadastral map map of Borki Male (Mali Birky), about 25km north of Husiatyn near the eastern border of Galicia: http://maps.geshergalicia.org/cadastral/borki-male-mali-birky-1860/ The map carries a date of 1828, when the first survey of the village was made, but the lithographed sheets are actually based on an 1860 field update. Then in 1877 those sheets were cut into quarters and carried out into the village again, for a third survey and update; the surveyor carried the paper sheets, a small notebook, and a red pen, which he used to make hand-written notations directly on the earlier map as he worked. Building and parcel numbers are hand-written all over the map, and some landowner names are recorded as well. To simplify the use of this map, we've assembled the 43 separate quarter-sheets into a single zoomable map, preserving the map's full detail while making it manageable in a browser. If we had tried to assemble a paper version of the map >from the original sheets, it would have stretched over 4m (13 feet) end to end! The original paper map set is preserved by the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv (TsDIAL): http://www.archives.gov.ua/Eng/Archives/ca04.php The GG Map Room home page: http://maps.geshergalicia.org/ Jay Osborn Gesher Galicia Digital Map Manager Lviv, Ukraine maps@...
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JRI Poland #Poland 1860/1877 Cadastral Map of Borki Male in the Gesher Galicia Map Room
#poland
Jay Osborn <jay.osborn@...>
A rare work-in-progress map now on the Gesher Galicia Map Room reveals
the meticulous effort required of the Austrian Empire's land surveyors; it's a complete cadastral map map of Borki Male (Mali Birky), about 25km north of Husiatyn near the eastern border of Galicia: http://maps.geshergalicia.org/cadastral/borki-male-mali-birky-1860/ The map carries a date of 1828, when the first survey of the village was made, but the lithographed sheets are actually based on an 1860 field update. Then in 1877 those sheets were cut into quarters and carried out into the village again, for a third survey and update; the surveyor carried the paper sheets, a small notebook, and a red pen, which he used to make hand-written notations directly on the earlier map as he worked. Building and parcel numbers are hand-written all over the map, and some landowner names are recorded as well. To simplify the use of this map, we've assembled the 43 separate quarter-sheets into a single zoomable map, preserving the map's full detail while making it manageable in a browser. If we had tried to assemble a paper version of the map >from the original sheets, it would have stretched over 4m (13 feet) end to end! The original paper map set is preserved by the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv (TsDIAL): http://www.archives.gov.ua/Eng/Archives/ca04.php The GG Map Room home page: http://maps.geshergalicia.org/ Jay Osborn Gesher Galicia Digital Map Manager Lviv, Ukraine maps@...
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Rabbi Mordechai Yehuda FROMM
#poland
Shaul Ceder
I would appreciate any information about the children and descendants of
Rabbi Mordechai Yehuda FROMM (1930-1972), the Rosh Mesivta of Yeshivat Merkaz Harav in Jerusalem and a descendant of the CEDERBAUM family of printers and publishers of Jewish holy books in Piotrkow Trybunalski. Many thanks. Shaul Ceder
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Researching the Partisan Song
#southafrica
Hi All
I am looking for resources and material on the Partisan Song - Zog Nit Keynmol, words by Hirsh Glik and music by Dmitri and Daniel Pokrass. The poem was written in the Vilna ghetto in 1943. If you have any articles on it or videos of it being sung, especially by choirs, schools or young students, please forward to me at eli@... Please email me the links or Dropbox or Google Drive the files. I am also looking for the words of the poem in languages besides Yiddish, English and Hebrew, which I have. Should you wish to view what I have already sourced, please visit http://elirab.me Here is it in Yiddish, Hebrew and English which we recorded at Herzlia High School in Cape Town last month in a live online class with 5 schools in the Former Soviet Union. https://youtu.be/lt_2Xi6m-Jw Thanks and regards Eli Rabinowitz Perth, Australia http://elirab.me
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JRI Poland #Poland Rabbi Mordechai Yehuda FROMM
#poland
Shaul Ceder
I would appreciate any information about the children and descendants of
Rabbi Mordechai Yehuda FROMM (1930-1972), the Rosh Mesivta of Yeshivat Merkaz Harav in Jerusalem and a descendant of the CEDERBAUM family of printers and publishers of Jewish holy books in Piotrkow Trybunalski. Many thanks. Shaul Ceder
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South Africa SIG #SouthAfrica Researching the Partisan Song
#southafrica
Hi All
I am looking for resources and material on the Partisan Song - Zog Nit Keynmol, words by Hirsh Glik and music by Dmitri and Daniel Pokrass. The poem was written in the Vilna ghetto in 1943. If you have any articles on it or videos of it being sung, especially by choirs, schools or young students, please forward to me at eli@... Please email me the links or Dropbox or Google Drive the files. I am also looking for the words of the poem in languages besides Yiddish, English and Hebrew, which I have. Should you wish to view what I have already sourced, please visit http://elirab.me Here is it in Yiddish, Hebrew and English which we recorded at Herzlia High School in Cape Town last month in a live online class with 5 schools in the Former Soviet Union. https://youtu.be/lt_2Xi6m-Jw Thanks and regards Eli Rabinowitz Perth, Australia http://elirab.me
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Gestapo files
#germany
I have reason to believe that there are Gestapo records on my grandparents,
both maternal and paternal. Does anyone know whether a) there is access to Gestapo files and b) if so, to where and to whom does one apply? My grandparents came >from Nurnberg and Furth respectively in Bavaria. Any help will be gratefully received! Diana (Mohr) Gomes da Costa, Kent UK - formerly >from London Researcher number: 166938 dianadacosta@... As listed in the JGFF, my researches include (mainly >from Furth, Bamberg, & Nurnberg, Bavaria): ARNSTEIN, BACH, BASS, BERLIN,COHN, DITTMANN, FLACHFELD, GUETERMANN, HAHN, HELLMANN, HIRSCHMANN, KOHN, KRAILSHEIMER, KUGLER, LOEWI, MANES, MARX, MENDEL, MORGENTHAU, MOHR, ROSENFELD, ROSENWALD, UHLMANN, WEIKERSHEIMER and ZIRNDORFER.
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German SIG #Germany Gestapo files
#germany
I have reason to believe that there are Gestapo records on my grandparents,
both maternal and paternal. Does anyone know whether a) there is access to Gestapo files and b) if so, to where and to whom does one apply? My grandparents came >from Nurnberg and Furth respectively in Bavaria. Any help will be gratefully received! Diana (Mohr) Gomes da Costa, Kent UK - formerly >from London Researcher number: 166938 dianadacosta@... As listed in the JGFF, my researches include (mainly >from Furth, Bamberg, & Nurnberg, Bavaria): ARNSTEIN, BACH, BASS, BERLIN,COHN, DITTMANN, FLACHFELD, GUETERMANN, HAHN, HELLMANN, HIRSCHMANN, KOHN, KRAILSHEIMER, KUGLER, LOEWI, MANES, MARX, MENDEL, MORGENTHAU, MOHR, ROSENFELD, ROSENWALD, UHLMANN, WEIKERSHEIMER and ZIRNDORFER.
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Avivah Hahn of Far Rockaway NY
#general
Neil@...
A decade ago I was in touch with Avivah Hahn about her Katzenellenbogen
ancestry. I would like to be in touch again with her or family members. Neil Rosenstein - www.neilrosenstein.com MODERATOR NOTE: Private replies, please.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Avivah Hahn of Far Rockaway NY
#general
Neil@...
A decade ago I was in touch with Avivah Hahn about her Katzenellenbogen
ancestry. I would like to be in touch again with her or family members. Neil Rosenstein - www.neilrosenstein.com MODERATOR NOTE: Private replies, please.
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Post-war murders of two Jewish men (SZAJNIK and ROZENWALD), Warta, Poland, December, 1945
#general
John Crust
I am doing research on the Polish Catholic man who saved the old
Jewish cemetery in Warta (Yiddish: Dvort), Poland. Part of the story includes the murder of two Jewish men, Mr. MOSZE SZAJNIK (or SZAJNIAK) and Mr. ROZENWALD (the headstone says MEIR LAUB, but it could actually be MORDECHAI), in December 1945. It was this double murder that ended the Jewish community of this town. I would like to learn more about these two men. Thank you. John Crust Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Post-war murders of two Jewish men (SZAJNIK and ROZENWALD), Warta, Poland, December, 1945
#general
John Crust
I am doing research on the Polish Catholic man who saved the old
Jewish cemetery in Warta (Yiddish: Dvort), Poland. Part of the story includes the murder of two Jewish men, Mr. MOSZE SZAJNIK (or SZAJNIAK) and Mr. ROZENWALD (the headstone says MEIR LAUB, but it could actually be MORDECHAI), in December 1945. It was this double murder that ended the Jewish community of this town. I would like to learn more about these two men. Thank you. John Crust Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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ViewMate translation requests - German
#general
Ben Kempner
Hi,
I've posted the following death records on ViewMate: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM53732 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM53733 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM53734 I would be very grateful for a translation of both the Gothic text and the handwritten portions of the death records for my g-grandfather (right side only of VM53734) and g-g-grandparents (VM53732 and VM53733). Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application. Thanks in anticipation. Ben Kempner Las Vegas, Nevada
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen ViewMate translation requests - German
#general
Ben Kempner
Hi,
I've posted the following death records on ViewMate: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM53732 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM53733 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM53734 I would be very grateful for a translation of both the Gothic text and the handwritten portions of the death records for my g-grandfather (right side only of VM53734) and g-g-grandparents (VM53732 and VM53733). Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application. Thanks in anticipation. Ben Kempner Las Vegas, Nevada
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