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JCRS
#general
Marcia E. DeVries
Robert Fraser asked for the meaning of JCRS. It is Jewish Consumptive's Relief
Society which was located in Spivak, Colorado. See website below. http://www.isaacsolomonsynagogue.org/index.htm Marcia Katzel DeVries Walnut Creek, CA Searching: KATZEL, BOOKATZ, BRAUER, all >from Lithuania
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen JCRS
#general
Marcia E. DeVries
Robert Fraser asked for the meaning of JCRS. It is Jewish Consumptive's Relief
Society which was located in Spivak, Colorado. See website below. http://www.isaacsolomonsynagogue.org/index.htm Marcia Katzel DeVries Walnut Creek, CA Searching: KATZEL, BOOKATZ, BRAUER, all >from Lithuania
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Genealogy from Russia
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Bob & Lynn Sitsky <sitsky@...>
Is there a section of Jewish Gen that handles Russian genealogy questions.
My ancestors come >from Irkutsk, Tcheliabinsk and Kuybyshev (Samara)and there seems to be no reference to these places. Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Is there a genealogy service you would recommend that I could approach? Many thnaks, Bob Sitsky (Sydney Australia)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Genealogy from Russia
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Bob & Lynn Sitsky <sitsky@...>
Is there a section of Jewish Gen that handles Russian genealogy questions.
My ancestors come >from Irkutsk, Tcheliabinsk and Kuybyshev (Samara)and there seems to be no reference to these places. Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Is there a genealogy service you would recommend that I could approach? Many thnaks, Bob Sitsky (Sydney Australia)
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Re: Matzo in coffee anyone?
#germany
Werner Hirsch
We often had matzo in coffee (mazzekaffee) for breakfast during Passover. We
came >from Aschaffenburg in Bavaria. I know others >from that town, non-relatives, that still eat it. I've traced parts of my family back to the 16th Century and haven't found any with roots outside of Germany, or even far >from Bavaria. The way we made it was simple; fill a cup with broken matzo, pour coffee over it, add milk or cream and sugar, eat with a spoon. (I just enjoyed a cup.) Chag Sameach, Werner HIRSCH From: Ben Forman <ben.r.forman@gmail.com> As a kid my dad used to make me matzo in coffee at Pesach as his mum had done for him, does anyone else share this tradition or know where it comes from, my grandmother was a kindertransport refugee >from Germany born in Berlin, her parents were >from Koeln and Posen respectively; I did look on Google and it says it was a tradition of Jews in Hungary...
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Matzo in coffee anyone?
#general
Werner Hirsch
We often had matzo in coffee (mazzekaffee) for breakfast during Passover. We
came >from Aschaffenburg in Bavaria. I know others >from that town, non-relatives, that still eat it. I've traced parts of my family back to the 16th Century and haven't found any with roots outside of Germany, or even far >from Bavaria. The way we made it was simple; fill a cup with broken matzo, pour coffee over it, add milk or cream and sugar, eat with a spoon. (I just enjoyed a cup.) Chag Sameach, Werner HIRSCH From: Ben Forman <ben.r.forman@gmail.com> As a kid my dad used to make me matzo in coffee at Pesach as his mum had done for him, does anyone else share this tradition or know where it comes from, my grandmother was a kindertransport refugee >from Germany born in Berlin, her parents were >from Koeln and Posen respectively; I did look on Google and it says it was a tradition of Jews in Hungary...
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Seek gravestone photo at Talmud Torah Cemetery, Newark, New Jersey
#general
Corinne Mitchell
If anyone is going to visit Talmud Torah Cemetery, Newark, Essex County, New
Jersey, I would be very grateful if you could take a photo of the grave of Feige Gillick, Plot: Row 5 #03L First Ostropoler Society and e-mail it to me. Many thanks in advance Please e-mail me to avoid duplicate efforts Corinne Mitchell corinnemitchell@sympatico.ca Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Researching: Gillick, Endler, Goldberg, Segal, Hearst
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Seek gravestone photo at Talmud Torah Cemetery, Newark, New Jersey
#general
Corinne Mitchell
If anyone is going to visit Talmud Torah Cemetery, Newark, Essex County, New
Jersey, I would be very grateful if you could take a photo of the grave of Feige Gillick, Plot: Row 5 #03L First Ostropoler Society and e-mail it to me. Many thanks in advance Please e-mail me to avoid duplicate efforts Corinne Mitchell corinnemitchell@sympatico.ca Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Researching: Gillick, Endler, Goldberg, Segal, Hearst
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JCRS, xxxx Colfax-Spivac-Colo
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Lisa Grayson <lisa@...>
Robert Fraser asked what "JCRS, xxxx Colfax-Spivac-Colo" on a US Social Security
form could mean. That's probably the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society on Colfax Avenue, once run by Dr. Charles Spivak. According to an article in the Rocky Mountain News (see link below), "Some maps of the area have a little dot near Colfax and Kendall that says 'Spivak, Colo.'" http://lib-anubis.cair.du.edu/about/collections/SpecialCollections/JCRS/index.cfm http://m.rockymountainnews.com/news/2007/oct/23/tb-sanitarium-spurred-growth-west-colfax/ (MODERATOR http://tinyurl.com/735egrz ) Hope this helps! Best wishes, Lisa Grayson Chicago, Illinois USA
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen JCRS, xxxx Colfax-Spivac-Colo
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Lisa Grayson <lisa@...>
Robert Fraser asked what "JCRS, xxxx Colfax-Spivac-Colo" on a US Social Security
form could mean. That's probably the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society on Colfax Avenue, once run by Dr. Charles Spivak. According to an article in the Rocky Mountain News (see link below), "Some maps of the area have a little dot near Colfax and Kendall that says 'Spivak, Colo.'" http://lib-anubis.cair.du.edu/about/collections/SpecialCollections/JCRS/index.cfm http://m.rockymountainnews.com/news/2007/oct/23/tb-sanitarium-spurred-growth-west-colfax/ (MODERATOR http://tinyurl.com/735egrz ) Hope this helps! Best wishes, Lisa Grayson Chicago, Illinois USA
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Re: Matzo in coffee anyone?
#germany
David Birnbaum
Hi All,
Regarding Ben's report on Matzo in coffee - we also have that tradition in the family - coming >from my father who also was a kindertransport refugee >from Germany. He, however, was first generation German (born in Frankfurt) - his parents both came originally >from Galicia (with no Hungarian connection anywhere). Wherever the tradition comes >from - it's something to look forward to every Pesach for those of us brought up on it [and for those of us, like my wife, who wasn't (notwithstanding her Hungarian genes...) - to fail to understand why anyone would go near the stuff! :)] Chag Sameach David David Birnbaum, Rehovot, Israel Researching: BIRNBAUM (Husiatyn), RAWER (Dobrotwor), DRESNER (Ivanovka), SCHARFSPITZ (Husiatyn), FEUST (Munich), MAINZ (Frankfurt a/m), SULZBACHER (Mergentheim), NECKARSULMER Fuerth, MERZBACHER (Baiersdorf) From: Ben Forman <ben.r.forman@gmail.com> As a kid my dad used to make me matzo in coffee at Pesach as his mum had done for him, does anyone else share this tradition or know where it comes from, my grandmother was a kindertransport refugee >from Germany born in Berlin, her parents were >from Koeln and Posen respectively; I did look on Google and it says it was a tradition of Jews in Hungary, so I wonder if it was a tradition which came to her from the family who took her in in England (I do not know of they came >from Hungaryoriginally).
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Matzo in coffee anyone?
#general
David Birnbaum
Hi All,
Regarding Ben's report on Matzo in coffee - we also have that tradition in the family - coming >from my father who also was a kindertransport refugee >from Germany. He, however, was first generation German (born in Frankfurt) - his parents both came originally >from Galicia (with no Hungarian connection anywhere). Wherever the tradition comes >from - it's something to look forward to every Pesach for those of us brought up on it [and for those of us, like my wife, who wasn't (notwithstanding her Hungarian genes...) - to fail to understand why anyone would go near the stuff! :)] Chag Sameach David David Birnbaum, Rehovot, Israel Researching: BIRNBAUM (Husiatyn), RAWER (Dobrotwor), DRESNER (Ivanovka), SCHARFSPITZ (Husiatyn), FEUST (Munich), MAINZ (Frankfurt a/m), SULZBACHER (Mergentheim), NECKARSULMER Fuerth, MERZBACHER (Baiersdorf) From: Ben Forman <ben.r.forman@gmail.com> As a kid my dad used to make me matzo in coffee at Pesach as his mum had done for him, does anyone else share this tradition or know where it comes from, my grandmother was a kindertransport refugee >from Germany born in Berlin, her parents were >from Koeln and Posen respectively; I did look on Google and it says it was a tradition of Jews in Hungary, so I wonder if it was a tradition which came to her from the family who took her in in England (I do not know of they came >from Hungaryoriginally).
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Seeking Vienna residence information for Bronia HORN 1926-29
#galicia
Marla Raucher Osborn <osborn@...>
Dear researchers and enthusiasts,
I have a Rohatyn family member who went to Vienna >from 1926-29 to "deepen her study of German language". Her name was Bronia HORN (Bronislawa HORNOWNA), born 1904 in Rohatyn. I have numerous records and correspondence about her >from archives at Jagiellonia University in Krakow and the Universities of Lwow and Vienna. I already know >from my research and these records that Bronia was sent in 1914 >from Rohatyn at age 10 to a "Vienna Department School" because of the outbreak of WWI (Rohatyn was occupied). from 1924-26, Bronia attended University of Lwow, studying German andFrench language and literature. from 1929-31, she did graduate work at Jagiellonia University, and was thenan apprentice teacher of German at the Polish all-boys school called A. Witkowskiego, in Krakow. In between, I also know that in May and June of 1926 she was living at two addresses in Vienna: Lerchenfelder Strasse 46/29, Vienna Hoefergasse 5/9, Vienna What I don't know is where she was living in Vienna between June 1926 and fall 1929 when she started her graduate work at Jagiellonia. Her older sister Jute HORN was living in Vienna >from 1919-24 while a medical student at the University, and I have several addresses for her during her time there. Can anyone please help for younger sister Bronia? I am preparing a lecture to be given at the JCC Krakow on May 29, 2012 on the lives of Rohatyn sisters Bronia and Jute HORN! Kind regards and advance thanks, Marla Raucher Osborn Krakow, Poland osborn@nuthatch.org Researching surnames HORN, FRUCHTER, LIEBLING, KURZROCK >from Rohatyn, TEICHMAN >from Chodorow (Galicia, Western Ukraine); SILBER >from Ulanow and Sokolow Malapolski (Poland); BLECHER >from Soroka, Bessarabia (Moldova); BRUNSHTEIN/BROWNSTEIN/BRONSTEIN, SARFAS/CHARFAS, FABER from Mohyliv Podilskyy and Kamyanets Podilskyy (Ukraine); FRANKENBERG/KASTENBAUM >from Przemysl (Poland)
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia Seeking Vienna residence information for Bronia HORN 1926-29
#galicia
Marla Raucher Osborn <osborn@...>
Dear researchers and enthusiasts,
I have a Rohatyn family member who went to Vienna >from 1926-29 to "deepen her study of German language". Her name was Bronia HORN (Bronislawa HORNOWNA), born 1904 in Rohatyn. I have numerous records and correspondence about her >from archives at Jagiellonia University in Krakow and the Universities of Lwow and Vienna. I already know >from my research and these records that Bronia was sent in 1914 >from Rohatyn at age 10 to a "Vienna Department School" because of the outbreak of WWI (Rohatyn was occupied). from 1924-26, Bronia attended University of Lwow, studying German andFrench language and literature. from 1929-31, she did graduate work at Jagiellonia University, and was thenan apprentice teacher of German at the Polish all-boys school called A. Witkowskiego, in Krakow. In between, I also know that in May and June of 1926 she was living at two addresses in Vienna: Lerchenfelder Strasse 46/29, Vienna Hoefergasse 5/9, Vienna What I don't know is where she was living in Vienna between June 1926 and fall 1929 when she started her graduate work at Jagiellonia. Her older sister Jute HORN was living in Vienna >from 1919-24 while a medical student at the University, and I have several addresses for her during her time there. Can anyone please help for younger sister Bronia? I am preparing a lecture to be given at the JCC Krakow on May 29, 2012 on the lives of Rohatyn sisters Bronia and Jute HORN! Kind regards and advance thanks, Marla Raucher Osborn Krakow, Poland osborn@nuthatch.org Researching surnames HORN, FRUCHTER, LIEBLING, KURZROCK >from Rohatyn, TEICHMAN >from Chodorow (Galicia, Western Ukraine); SILBER >from Ulanow and Sokolow Malapolski (Poland); BLECHER >from Soroka, Bessarabia (Moldova); BRUNSHTEIN/BROWNSTEIN/BRONSTEIN, SARFAS/CHARFAS, FABER from Mohyliv Podilskyy and Kamyanets Podilskyy (Ukraine); FRANKENBERG/KASTENBAUM >from Przemysl (Poland)
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Vilna During Second World War
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David Laskin
I am researching family members who lived in Vilna during the Second World War. I
have family letters that cover the period >from the outbreak of the war in 1939 until the Nazis stormed the city in June, 1941. I know one of my relatives was sent to the Klooga slave labor camp in Estonia and perished there. I believe the others were killed at Ponar. If anyone has family stories to share about Vilna/Vilnius during the war years, I'd like to hear >from you. David Laskin, Seattle, WA
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Vilna During Second World War
#general
David Laskin
I am researching family members who lived in Vilna during the Second World War. I
have family letters that cover the period >from the outbreak of the war in 1939 until the Nazis stormed the city in June, 1941. I know one of my relatives was sent to the Klooga slave labor camp in Estonia and perished there. I believe the others were killed at Ponar. If anyone has family stories to share about Vilna/Vilnius during the war years, I'd like to hear >from you. David Laskin, Seattle, WA
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Paris 2012 newsletter special "trips"
#romania
bounce-2400484-772976@...
JULY 15-18 2012
32nd IAJGS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on JEWISH GENEALOGY hosted by The French Cercle de Genealogie Juive (www.genealoj.org) (www.paris2012.eu – contact@paris2012.eu ) Newsletter N°8 – April 5, 2012 STILL SOME DAYS LEFT FOR EARLYBIRD REGISTRATION! http://www.paris2012.eu/products ***SPECIAL "TRIPS" EDITION**** You can find all the descriptions of these trips on the Websitesite of Joubert-Voyages (http://www.joubert-voyages.com/cercle-genealogie-juive.php): SIGN UP ASAP, THEIR SUCCESS DEPENDS ON YOU! from July 5 to 12- BELARUS: Minsk, Grodno, Mogilev ... - POLAND: Warsaw, Krakow, Lodz, Lublin ... from July 19 to 26- HUNGARY: Buda and Pest, Debrecen ... - The BALTIC STATES: Vilnius, Kaunas, Riga ... - UKRAINE: Kiev, Lvov, Tarnopol ... with an extension to Odessa. With free time to customize your trip And also - PORTUGAL (July 19 to 26): Lisbon, Guarda, Belmonte, Evora ... Two days tours (19 and 20 July) - BELGIUM: Brussels and Antwerp with, as guides, our colleagues Curators of Jewish Museums - NORMANDY: Elbeuf, Rouen and its Sublime House, Caen and the Landing Beaches. ***IMPORTANT UPDATE**** NO! THE STOCK OF ROOMS AT THE SPECIAL CONFERENCE RATE at the Marriott Hotel IS NOT EXHAUSTED. Some difficulties for reservation were occasionally encountered only due to the great success of the Conference, that forced the hotel to renew more frequently than they had planned the stock of rooms available for us. The SECURITY of the conference will be provided in compliance with the standards of the police headquarters by both entry control on the site and a guard 24 hours. *****And do not forget to sign up for the GALA evening, LUNCHES and BREAKFASTS, TOURS... Feel free to DONATE: http://www.paris2012.eu/products
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Romania SIG #Romania Paris 2012 newsletter special "trips"
#romania
bounce-2400484-772976@...
JULY 15-18 2012
32nd IAJGS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on JEWISH GENEALOGY hosted by The French Cercle de Genealogie Juive (www.genealoj.org) (www.paris2012.eu – contact@paris2012.eu ) Newsletter N°8 – April 5, 2012 STILL SOME DAYS LEFT FOR EARLYBIRD REGISTRATION! http://www.paris2012.eu/products ***SPECIAL "TRIPS" EDITION**** You can find all the descriptions of these trips on the Websitesite of Joubert-Voyages (http://www.joubert-voyages.com/cercle-genealogie-juive.php): SIGN UP ASAP, THEIR SUCCESS DEPENDS ON YOU! from July 5 to 12- BELARUS: Minsk, Grodno, Mogilev ... - POLAND: Warsaw, Krakow, Lodz, Lublin ... from July 19 to 26- HUNGARY: Buda and Pest, Debrecen ... - The BALTIC STATES: Vilnius, Kaunas, Riga ... - UKRAINE: Kiev, Lvov, Tarnopol ... with an extension to Odessa. With free time to customize your trip And also - PORTUGAL (July 19 to 26): Lisbon, Guarda, Belmonte, Evora ... Two days tours (19 and 20 July) - BELGIUM: Brussels and Antwerp with, as guides, our colleagues Curators of Jewish Museums - NORMANDY: Elbeuf, Rouen and its Sublime House, Caen and the Landing Beaches. ***IMPORTANT UPDATE**** NO! THE STOCK OF ROOMS AT THE SPECIAL CONFERENCE RATE at the Marriott Hotel IS NOT EXHAUSTED. Some difficulties for reservation were occasionally encountered only due to the great success of the Conference, that forced the hotel to renew more frequently than they had planned the stock of rooms available for us. The SECURITY of the conference will be provided in compliance with the standards of the police headquarters by both entry control on the site and a guard 24 hours. *****And do not forget to sign up for the GALA evening, LUNCHES and BREAKFASTS, TOURS... Feel free to DONATE: http://www.paris2012.eu/products
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Beider Dictionery
#general
In the past
I checked several surnames in the Beider Dictionary of Jewish Surnames >from the Russian Empire which was available on internet. Recently I was unable to find it. Does anyone know where it is available on the Net? Please respond privately. Ilya Zeldes Fort Myers, FL ilyaz33@hotmail.com
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Beider Dictionery
#general
In the past
I checked several surnames in the Beider Dictionary of Jewish Surnames >from the Russian Empire which was available on internet. Recently I was unable to find it. Does anyone know where it is available on the Net? Please respond privately. Ilya Zeldes Fort Myers, FL ilyaz33@hotmail.com
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