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Do you know of descendants of this family
#lithuania
#translation
#yiddish
Michael Herzlich
Previously I posted a photo card with a family picture on the front and a Yiddish inscription on the back. Thanks to the jewishgen community I received a translation identifying the family and further identifying the stamp on the card as coming from a DP in Germany. The card came from the collection of the late Miriam Magilner born Meri-Leje Sapockaite in Merkine Lithuania and was from a cousin Luba Shapira husband Lazar and child born Boris, but now called Bern'le. Then I recalled there was a letter in Miriam's artifacts from Luba Shapiro (born Merikanski) with a Haifa return address. Bern'le would be 74 today. So on the outside chance that descendants or relatives of Luba and Lazar Shapiro can be found I have posted the envelope with the Shapiro's return address in Haifa and the letter which I assume is in Yiddish.
the envelope with address in English can be seen at http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM79361 the letter in Yiddish (rather long) can be seen at http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM79362 Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page and if relatives can be found let them know.
Thank you very much.
-- Michael Herzlich Delray Beach, Florida USA Belarus - EPSTEIN, HELFAND, POLLACK Galicia (Poland, Ukraine) - HERZLICH, TREIBER
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ViewMate Translation Request - Hungarian
#subcarpathia
#hungary
Rhoda Miller
I've posted a an 1867 birth record from Brod, Bereg, Hungary, now in Ukraine. I am interested in the last two paragraphs at the bottom of the document.
The document is in Hungarian and posted at:
Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate page.
Thank you very much!
Rhoda Miller
Babylon, NY
Searching: Eisdorfer (Brod), Grosz (KIsAlmas and Munkacs), SubCarpathia Hungary, now Ukraine.
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Viewmate translation request
#translation
#yiddish
Michael Herzlich
I've posted a picture card with Yiddish on the back for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ...
The inscription looks to be Yiddish. I can make out in Latin leters what looks like the date of Feb 18, 1948 and Ulm which was the site of a DP camp in Germany. The picture of a child is on the front and can be viewed at http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM79393 Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you very much.
Delray Beach, Florida USA Belarus - EPSTEIN, HELFAND, POLLACK Galicia (Poland, Ukraine) - HERZLICH, TREIBER
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ViewMate - Russian to English (marriage records)
#translation
charles goldenzon
Dear JGenners,
I would much appreciate help with the translation of the following 5 marriage records
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM79349 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM79350 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM79351 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM79352 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM79353 Regards,Charles Goldenzon
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Trying to locate graves for BERNSTEIN couple in London
#names
Can anyone please help me find the resting place for:
Nathan BERNSTEIN b 1840 Russia - d 15.12.1890 in Whitechapel
Sarah BERNSTEIN nee Kaufman b 1831 Russia - d 1881 in London (approx. years)
I’ve had no luck with the Federation, United or Trees on Ancestry.
Also the website address I have for the Western just hangs for me. I have http://westerncf.wordpressdeveloper.uk/database/search/
Can anyone advise what the correct site is to search, or what I am doing wrong?
Thank you,
Daniel GLEEK in London
-- Daniel GLEEK in London daniel@... Searching for: GLEEK/GLICK (Beisagola, Lithuania), ISOWITSKY/KUPCHIK (Dotchener, Poltava & Vorontzowka), GLIKMAN/GLUCKMAN, WEITZENSANG & LIDRAL/LEDDA (Warsaw,Poland), MARCUS (Varniai, Lithuania) etc.
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Re: News from GenAmi, France
#france
Sam <yo_sam2077@...>
I heartily endorse DeepL as a translation app. I use it for both my EN-FR and EN-GER email correspondence.
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ViewMate translation request -- Yiddish
#yiddish
alana.lipkin@...
I've posted a vital record in Yiddish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ...
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewm Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you very much. I'd also like information on who the sender and recipient were. Alana Lipkin
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Re: MAIMON family from Rădăuţi Romania - but which Radauti ? (there are two)
#romania
Valentin Lupu
I believe you are right. Probably your Maimon family was originally from Radauti-Prut, a small town in the Dorohoi district. The large Radauti (Bukovina) town became Romanian only after WWI. The Dorohoi Yizkor book mentions an "old" Maimon family from Radauti-Prut. There are also a couple of testimonies at Yad VaShem regarding people of Maimon family from Radauti-Prut.
Valentin Lupu Israel
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Re: MAIMON family from Rădăuţi Romania - but which Radauti ? (there are two)
#romania
Yossi Yagur
Regarding Radautz / Radauti in Bucovina: The surname MAIMON / MEIMON does not appear on cemetery headstones, but there are few such entries in the BMD records, to be found in in index prepared by Martina and Edgar Houster, see http://czernowitz.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-radautz-vital-records-index.html. Of course, Radautz-am-Prut / Radauti-Prut is a different place, for which I have no information. Yossi Yagur Israel
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Re: BAUMAN from Kutno district
#poland
I have an index to all volumes of the Kutno BOOK OF RESIDENTS (BOR). I could not find any direct reference to BAUMAN or anything similar, but did see a notation which I can't interpret: On a detailed listing for my GOLDMAN ancestors in Kutno that our researcher sent to me, in Volume III-77-81 there is a listing for Goldman, Chaja nee' Hodys b. 1870 with this cryptic notation where they usually indicate a son of or daughter of someone else in the BOR. It says "1. Bauman 2. Kiersztajn, 2nd w/o". Tracing that particular family unit, it seems she was married to Uszer GOLDMAN b. 1868 and the son of Matys Ajzyk GODMAN. This doesn't tell you that much about a BAUMAN family other than someone with that name or who married a person with that name, was in Kutno. It does not seem that any BAUMAN was a head of a household and listed in the BOR which covered a long period. Volume III, for example dates from 1872 and was last updated in July, 1931.
Dick Goldman Boynton Beach, FL
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sykdad@...
Searching for information, relatives, re: Rabbi Jacob Spitz, born 1822 or 1815 or 1809 in Bekescsaba,Bekes,Hungary or Mezokeresztes, Borsod, Hungary and died 05 Mar 1893 in Chicago, Illinois. May have immigrated 05 Jul 1872. Lived in Louisville for a while. Married to Rachel (Rosalia, Rozi) Ungerleider born 1821 or 1825 in Csaba, Borsod, Hungary and died 13 Apr 1861 in Hungary. They had children Celia Leni, Moritz, Louis, Marton, Josef, Zanok, Wolf, Samuel, Benjamin, Hani and Louise all born in Hungary between 1845 and 1860 and most likely immigrated to US.
Thank you. [Unsigned from sykdad@.... ]
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Lvov Ghetto Database
#lodz
#announcements
#holocaust
Lande
The USHMM has linked digitized documents to the 10,513 name records in this existing Holocaust Survivors and Victims (HSV) collection: Lvov Ghetto Database, (https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/source_view.php?Sourceid=20775. The documents are available for requests.
Peter Lande
Washington, D.C.
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Visas issued overseas (Riga, Latvia) in 1926
#latvia
Ellen
The post about Lodz passport correspondence reminded me of a question I have about visas issued overseas.
My grandparents, with their infant son, went back to Russia from the U.S. sometime in 1925. They probably stayed with my grandfather's parents in Shklov, Mogilev province in what is today Belarus. But the political environment was not what they had hoped it would be, and they decided to return to the U.S. A passenger manifest shows that they traveled from Rotterdam to New York aboard the SS Volendam, arriving on Dec. 4, 1926. The manifest also indicates that visas were issued for them in Riga, Latvia on Oct. 1, 1926. What agency would have issued those visas? Neither of my grandparents was a U.S. citizen at that point, although my uncle (the infant son) certainly was, having been born in NYC. Would copies of the visas be available somewhere? A recent Genealogy Index Search Request that I submitted to the USCIS yielded no information on my grandfather that I didn't already have. Thanks. Ellen Morosoff Pemrick -- Researching WEISSMAN/VAYSMAN (Ostropol, Ukraine); MOROZ and ESTRIN/ESTERKIN (Shklov & Bykhov, Belarus); LESSER/LESZEROVITZ, MAIMAN, and BARNETT/BEINHART/BERNHART (Lithuania/Latvia); and ROSENSWEIG/ROSENZWEIG, KIRSCHEN, and SCHWARTZ (Botosani, Romania)
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Re: MAIMON family from Rădăuţi Romania - but which Radauti ? (there are two)
#romania
Peninah Zilberman
Dear Carola Murray-Seegert,
The info. you read in J.G. documents are as per that period they were registered. However, all are the same location. If you check in today info. you get the info. below. This situation has occurred due to the fact that the Regions have been renamed, either during the Communist Regime or after the 1989 Revolution.
Rădăuți is a city in Suceava County, north-eastern Romania. It is situated in the historical region of Bukovina. Rădăuți is the third largest urban settlement in the county, with a population of 23,822 inhabitants, according to the 2011 census.
I trust that now the location is better identified for you in order to continue your research. Good Luck and Happy Holidays. Peninah Peninah Zilberman Happy Passover & Happy Easter Blessings of Good Health Canada 1-416-781-0330 Romania + 40-74-414-5351 Israel 972-54-228-8141
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(US) USHMM Days of Remembrance - Yom Hashoah
#announcements
#events
#holocaust
#usa
Jan Meisels Allen
On April 21, 2020 at 11 AM ET The USHMM is having a virtual commemoration to reaffirm their commitment to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive. It will take place on the Museum’s Facebook Live channel. You do not need a Facebook account to participate. You will receive an email shortly before our programming begins on April 21, at 11 a.m. ET, reminding you to watch.
Join from your home: see: https://engage.ushmm.org/dor-livestream-thank-you.html
There are several videos and audios that can be accessed:
“memory is What Shapes us”Memory is what Teaches Us” https://www.ushmm.org/remember/days-of-remembrance/resources/why-we-remember
Live Digital Program: Resilience after Liberaton April 14, 9:30 AM ET https://engage.ushmm.org/2020-livestream-thank-you.html
Survival Amid the Chaos: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising A Survivor’s experience 77 years ago Listen
Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Re: BAUMAN from Kutno district
#poland
Lesley
Hi Michael I had already found a few UK documents and censuses for my grandfather in the UK (I'm subscribed to Ancestry). Israel (Gerald) was my father but he knew almost nothing about his father's life and family in Poland. It's the Polish records that I can't find for him or any other members of his family. I had hoped to find his grave on Findagrave or Billiongraves because that would tell me his and his father's Hebrew names which might give a clue to the names they used in Poland. But it is not listed (yet). Do you know of any other documents where I might be able to get this sort of information? Gers, France (born London)
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Re: JewishGen Independent Study Course
#JewishGenUpdates
harrisonbeiser@...
Hi Joan,
Great info! I noticed you are searching for family with the names Rubin and Katz. I have family with those names from Pruzhany and was hoping to connect with you. My email is harrisonbeiser@.... Thanks. Harrison Beiser
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Lodz Passport Correspondence
#holocaust
#announcements
Lande
USHMM has added a new collection, Reservations regarding the issue of foreign passports, 1936-37, to the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database (HSV). The collection contains a list of cases and correspondence regarding individuals who applied for foreign passports from the Office of the District Starosta in Lodz. Some cases include photographs. Go to https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/source_view.php?SourceId=49465.
Petre Lande
Washington, D.C.
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Re: Nazis in Belarus WAS: Einsatzgruppen in Belarus
#belarus
Jx. Gx.
The lead Nazi responsible for the murder of Jews in Slutsk was an Estorian named Mikhail Gorshkow. You can look him up online.
Jeffrey Gee Searching Slutsk pre-WWII: EPSTEIN, Abraham, Shulieh Devorah (Celia), and Phillip (Rafoel, "Alter").
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Re: Viewmate translation request - result
#germany
Michael Herzlich
Thanks in particular to David Lewin I am just beginning to understand what I have. The photo I submitted was taken at a DP camp in Ulm Germany just before emigration to Palestine (Haifa) in November 1947. The family was Elazar (Lazer), Luba and Bern'le (Boris) Shapira (Shapiro). Now I see that I have more than a dozen such photos with Yiddish inscriptions on the back and some without any inscription I will need to follow up on. Also many group photos that appear to be taken in the camp.
Michael Herzlich. Delray Beach, Florida USA
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