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Re: U.S. Appeals Court Rules Spanish Museum May Keep Nazi Looted Art
#announcements
#holocaust
Adam Cherson
First, I thank Professor Lazerow for summarizing the case for those of us with not time to digest another legal document. According to the professor, the case hinges upon whether the buyer showed the "due diligence [in verifying whether the seller had good title] that a reasonable purchaser would have exercised at the time under the circumstances of this purchase." I cannot tell from the summary whether Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza showed reasonable due diligence. All I know from this discussion is that the baron bought the work from a New York Gallery owner in 1976. So what would be reasonable due diligence under these circumstances? Certainly one would want to learn the provenance of the painting (where, when and how did the New York gallery owner get the work?), The next obvious question would be whether the prior owner(s) had good title. Now, I don;t know how much the dealer knew or told the baron about the painting's history, but supposing the baron knew that the Nazi government had been a prior owner, then due diligence, in view of well known and widespread Nazi looting activities, would have involved a determination, perhaps by a lawyer, as to whether the transaction between Lilly Cassirer and the Nazi government was a valid legal contract under German law at the time of that transaction. If it was considered legal under German law for a government official or agency to receive a painting in exchange for securing three exit visas, then there would be no legal issue as to whether succeeding owners could claim a valid title to the work (this would be a question of German law). On the other hand, if the baron had no knowledge of Nazi involvement in the chain of title and could not have reasonably obtained such knowledge, then we have a different case, which would seem to me to be governed by New York law, since the transaction seems to have taken place in New York. In New York State the innocent buyer of stolen property does not become its owner. The buyer would be required to return the property to its rightful owner, and the thieves would owe the innocent buyer the purchase price in restitution. The thieves in this case, if the original transaction was void, would be the successors-in-interest of the Nazi government and possibly other subsequent owners depending on their knowledge of the original theft.
Adam Cherson
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Ellen
A great idea for a webinar: how to use the jroots forum to search for your ancestors. I've browsed the website a few times, but it's not obvious (at least not to me!) how to use it.
Just my 2 cents! Ellen -- 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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Judy Petersen
One more:
marriage of Lidia SCHWARCZ (parents Salamon SCHWARCZ and Irma FELNER to Jeno Heim RUSSO in Budapest VI in 1919. This is her first marriage. She was divorced when she married Zsiga. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-DTH9-RWF?i=136 Judy PS Beno KAMMER's wife died in 1926 and their daughter Irma married Lajos DURLACHER in Budapest VI in 1916
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Judy Petersen
P.S. Other KAMMER records available on MACSE include: marriage of Adolf and Fani's daughter Ella to Gyula LOVY in Budapest VI in 1909
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Judy Petersen
Hi Rosemary,
Here is the link to the record (on familysearch) of Dr. Zsigmond KAMMER to Lidia SCHWARZ in Budapest VI on 9 Apr 1923. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DRPS-R1W?i=135 You couldn't find it in the familysearch records because it hadn't been indexed by them. However, some digitized (but not indexed) post 1895 civil records images available on familysearch have been transcribed by MACSE, the Hungarian Society for Family History Research, and are available only on the MACSE website's database. MACSE is fee for service, but it's very reasonable at $30/yr. If you are doing Hungarian (present day borders) research and can afford it, I strongly suggest you join MACSE. It has been an absolute boon to my Hungarian research and their database is updated monthly. www.macse.hu Best, Judy Petersen
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Re: Leopold Israel Haar deregisteredfrom Vienna, Austria on 16/05/1938
#austria-czech
peterhare46@...
Hi Sherri and thank you for your response, yes I have the Move Here information but it doesn’t state how / where my Father came from to England, hence my request through Jewishgen.
kind regards Peter
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yelena.v.volk@...
Hello, June! Okun and Kanfel are popular surname in Moscow synagogue vital records. These records are in the Central Moscow archive. I'm copying these records and want to place them to forum.j-roots.info.
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Re: "Holy Silence" Documents Vatican's Role in the Holocaust
#announcements
#holocaust
viferra@outlook.com
We watched this excellent documentary yesterday. I used the link at the bottom of the article in the Jewish Journal to register
https://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/320367/holy-silence-documents-the-vaticans-role-in-the-holocaust/ Shortly thereafter I received an e-mail with a link to watch. We were very frustrated at first because the sound through both my laptop and the TV connection was very muted. It was impossible to hear anything. Only when we connected external speakers to my computer did the sound become audible. Hope this helps for anyone still trying to view the film. Vicky Furstenberg Ferraresi
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bobmalakoff@...
The 1930 Census appears to show my mother (age 17 at the time) and her parents as naturalized citizens. What confuses me is a Petition for Naturalization [of a Married Person, under Sec. 310(a) or (b). 322 or 312 of the Nationality Act of 1940 (S4 Stat. 1144-1145] for my grandmother from 1941. (US District Court, Newark NJ) Upon further reading it states that she was naturalized on May 28, 1924. I don't understand why she had to petition again.
Bob Malakoff
Pittsburgh,PA
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Sherri Bobish
I've been following the discussion regarding the occupation of cutter. My grandfather, born in Ariogala (near Kovna) circa 1884, arrived as an 8 year old, and lived and worked in Manhattan. He kept a diary, and I thought I would share some of the notes he wrote regarding his early years as a cutter. "Put by cutting table as apprentice February 19,1900 at A. Hurwitz B'way, N.Y. at $4.00" "Found employment at Empire Skirt Co. May 24 1900, at $9.00 per week as cutter." "Permanent work at Empire. Left, and resumed work at Hester Wesler (B'way.) July 2, 1900, @ $10. per week." "Got position at Star Skirt Co. July 9, 1901 @ $12.00 raised $2.00." Regards, Sherri Bobish
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Re: Leopold Israel Haar deregisteredfrom Vienna, Austria on 16/05/1938
#austria-czech
Sherri Bobish
Peter, I guess you've seen this index card: https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.movinghere.org.uk/deliveryfiles/PRO/HO396_32_011/0/1.pdf Also, https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search?filters%5BmakerString%5D%5BHaar%2C%20Zygmunt%20and%20Leopold%5D=on 2nd Polish Corps Fight in Italy Haar, Zygmunt and Leopold (Undefined) Polish Public Relations Unit (publisher/sponsor) Regards, Sherri Bobish
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Re: Schewach family in Bialystok
#poland
Mark Halpern
This table is from the JewishGen Gazetteer under Databases on the JewishGen website. Lopenice is only 8.9 miles from Volkovysk.
I cannot answer your other questions about the Klatnicki family. If there is no record, there is no data. We have indexed all the 1891 Bialystok births and all the years around 1891 and there is no Boruch born then. That means his birth was not recorded or he was born in a nearby town and not in Bialystok. Maybe you need to look closer in Grodno or Volkovysk. Use the JewishGen Belarus database for those areas. Best regards, Mark
On 2020-08-17 10:09 am, Loryn Hudson via groups.jewishgen.org wrote:
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Pablo Libedinsky
Could it be related to LIBEDINSKY/LEBEDINSKY?
There is the town of Lebedyn/Lebedin in the Ukraine. Its coat of arms has a swan in it, which ties in with the meaning of lebed = swan in Russian Pablo Libedinsky
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Re: U.S. Appeals Court Rules Spanish Museum May Keep Nazi Looted Art
#announcements
#holocaust
Herbert Lazerow
The initial question in this case was whether California or Spanish law would apply to determine the ownership of a painting that was bought in the U.S. 60 years ago by a Spaniard, kept in Spain during that time, and was transferred to a Spanish foundation. Judge Walter in a thorough opinion in 2015 ruled that Spanish law applied. On appeal to the 9th circuit, the court affirmed that opinion, but remanded to Judge Walter to determine the factual question of whether the last requirement of Spanish law had been met, being whether the acquirer was a good faith purchaser. Under Spanish law, one needs to not only not know that the work had been stolen. One must also have engaged in the due diligence that a reasonable purchaser would have exercised at the time under the circumstances of this purchase. After taking testimony, Judge Walter found that the purchaser was a good faith purchaser. A three-judge panel of the 9th circuit affirmed. The Cassirer's options now are two. They can petition the 9th CIrcuit to hear the case en banc, which means that it would be heard by a panel of around 11 judges; or they can petition the U.S.. Supreme Court to grant certiorari and hear the case. Success in neither case is likely. En banc hearings are usually granted only to decide important questions of law, and this appears to be primarily a question of fact. The Supreme Court usually grants certiorari when there is a conflict between two circuit courts on the appropriate legal rule.
Bert -- Herbert Lazerow Professor of Law, University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego CA 92110 lazer@... Author: Mastering Art Law (Carolina Academic Press, 2d ed. 2020)
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Re: Conference Handout for Bialystok Area Jewish Genealogy Group Session
#JewishGenUpdates
Mark Halpern
Hi Daniel:
On 2020-08-16 10:26 am, dtolman via groups.jewishgen.org wrote:
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You claim to have the same records as the late Ms. Usdin, however, in the All-Russian 1897, census two persons were omitted from the Jewish Gen records, which Usdin's translation included. According to the former, the household of my maternal great grandfather Ruvin Antonos included the family of his second marriage to Mera Patz, their daughter Malka (seamstress, aged 21 y), her son Khaim (aged 21 y) and his wife Jesne (aged 22 y). The Jewish Gen records omitted Khaim and Jesne's younger daughter Malka (aged 2) and Ruvin and Mera's second daughter, Braina (apprentice, aged 14).
I also found Usdin's translation of the records of rabbi Ratner, et al to be more inclusive for the progeny of my great aunt Ita Beila (nee Sandler) and Ezer Wulf kagan and their children. We have never been able to determine the fate of this family, which my family felt had been exterminated in the Shoah. I await anxiously improvement in the Latvian records. Bernard Aronson
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Re: Katzenellenbogen / Ariogala
#rabbinic
#lithuania
Jeremy Lichtman
Hi Adam,
I've emailed my cousins to ask if they'd be willing to do DNA testing. Which is the most appropriate test in this case? I also checked Da'at Kedoshim (Eisenstadt, 1897), and it goes through the Katzenellenbogen lineage down to Yekhezhel. It gives his children's names, but doesn't go further, unfortunately. Not sure what other sources exist. Thanks for the encouragement! Jeremy Lichtman
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Re: Coat of Arms
#poland
Krzysztof Witaszek
Hello
In Poland since the Middle Ages many Jews who converted to Christianity have received nobility (and coat of arms). There is an interesting article about it (in Polish). http://www.rogozinscy.pl/herby-szlachty-pochodzenia-zydowskiego/ As I've noticed, often there was a David star in their coat of arms. Krzysztof Witaszek
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OCJGS Future Virtual Meetings Line Up
#events
Michelle Sandler
This is the lineup for future meetings of The Orange County California Jewish Genealogy Society. All meetings are virtual and Pacific Time. Sunday September 13th 11:00 am Stanley Diamond - JRI-Poland Sunday October 25th 10:00 am Risa Daitzman Heywood - Finding Unindexed Records Sunday November 22nd 10:00 am Judy Baston - Lithuanian Jewish Research Sunday December 20th 10:00 am Lara Diamond - TBD Sunday January 24th 10:00 am Alexander Beider - Jewish Surnames All about his research Everyone must register for each event you are interested in. Go to www.ocjgs.org to register. Meetings are $5 each or $15 for membership for the next 4 months. Michelle Sandler MLS President and Vice President of Programming OCJGS
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