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Re: Internment camps in Switzerland 1939-1945
#holocaust
itencorinne@...
Hi Andrea
I have a similar case in my family and I found many documents on the Arolsen Archives online and there are also some records in the Swiss Federal Archives. Maybe you will also find some documents about Alfred Brawer on the Arolsen Archives online and/or the Swiss Federal Archives. The Arolsen Archives have not all documents online, so you should also write to them and ask if they have some records which are not online. Arolsen Archives online https://arolsen-archives.org/suchen-erkunden/suche-online-archiv/ Swiss Federal Archives https://www.bar.admin.ch/bar/en/home.html Border crossings Geneva Border https://www.kopuit.nl/wieiswie/Vluchtelingen.pdf Historical newspapers Switzerland https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?l=fr Do you know the name or place of the internment camp in Switzerland he was in? Regards Corinne Iten from Switzerland
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Re: Internment camps in Switzerland 1939-1945
#holocaust
Lewis, Megan
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has some records of refugees in Switzerland. Please send his full name, date of birth, parents' names. etc. to resource-center@....
Megan Lewis, reference librarian United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Dear Relly, It's not the most intuitive website to navigate though so you might find it easiest to email them regarding your enquiry. https://jri-poland.org/psa/addresses.htm. Hope this helps. --
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Re: Cemetery in Geneva and death records
#records
Francis AMAR
Hi Allan,
I live near Geneva and I will try and help you with this. If someone else is doing it as well, please let me know. Let's not duplicate efforts, especially in those times of Covid lockup... Best, Francis
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Re: Salzburg DP camps
#austria-czech
#holocaust
#records
tzipporah batami
Johann, if one cannot travel there, how does one contact these archives to get information? I am talking about living survivors who were there?
Feigie Teichman
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Re: Cemetery in Geneva and death records
#records
engers_h@...
On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 08:28 AM, A. E. Jordan wrote:
Adela Kaplun Take a look here Howard Engers engers_h@...
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Rodney Eisfelder
Allan,
The easiest records to check from Berlin are the Berlin Adressbuch, which can be viewed starting from https://digital.zlb.de/viewer/cms/141/ I think I found Boris KAPLON in the 1930 edition https://digital.zlb.de/viewer/image/34115495_1930/1503/ with occupation given as Buchdruckereibes[itzer]. (book printer owner) and living at 24 Motz strasse. Ancestry also have this edition of the address book, as well as a phone book (where the surname is KAPLUN). But you want to see the entire family... In that case, you want the residents cards (Einwohnermeldekartei) for the family. These give a lot of information. You get the names, date and place of birth, for every member of the household together with when they arrived and when they left each address they lived in. These can be requested from the Landesarchiv Berlin. See: https://landesarchiv-berlin.de/familienforschung-im-landesarchiv-berlin and https://landesarchiv-berlin.de/die-einwohnermeldekartei-von-berlin-neu It is all in German, but there is a link to an English language order form. I hope this helps, Rodney Eisfelder Melbourne, Australia
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finding an address in Magdeburg
#germany
Chaya Lerner
Hi
I need to find the address where my grandparents lived in Magdeburg in 1934. How can I do that? thank you Chaya Lerner
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Stephen Weinstein
On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 08:23 AM, <schaffer6896@...> wrote:
I don't know how it worked in 1930, but this year we were told that after repeated attempts to reach someone in a residence failed, we were instructed by our superiors to approach neighbors or a building manager for information. In several cases, I was able to eventually contact the actual resident and found that the information they gave me was usually different than the information I had received from the neighbor or building manager.In 1930, children spontaneously played with their neighbor's kids in the streets or the apartment building's hallways, instead of watching television, playing games on their iPhones, going on pre-arranged playdates that required a car trip, etc. So parents would have been much more aware of whether their neighbors had children and their names and approximate ages than they are now. -- Stephen Weinstein Camarillo, California, USA stephenweinstein@...
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Jewish Genealogy Society of Cleveland virtual meeting on November 15, 2020
#jgs-iajgs
#events
Join the Jewish Genealogy Society of Cleveland
for our next virtual meeting and program
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Internment camps in Switzerland 1939-1945
#holocaust
Andrea Tzadik
My father's first cousin, Alfred Brawer, escaped to Switzerland when Jews were expelled from his Medical School in Vienna. In Switzerland he was put in an internment camp. From his letters it is clear the conditions in this camp, were terrible .It appears that fearing that he would be sent to a concentration camp in 1940 he married a Swiss worker in the camp and was never heard from after that. Are there any records from these camps? In researching them it seems the Swiss don't want to admit they existed. Andrea Tzadik
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Ancestry Canada Free Access November 1-11 Military Records; Newspaper.com November 6-11
#announcements
#canada
#records
Jan Meisels Allen
To commemorate Remembrance Day, Ancestry Canada is offering free access to its global military collections November 1-11 at 11:59 PM ET. Registration is required-no credit card information but your name and email address. If you try to access the collections after the free access period ends you will only be able to view the records in the featured collections using a paid Ancestry.ca membership. Go to: https://www.ancestry.ca/cs/remembranceday To see the list of records available for this collection see: https://www.ancestry.ca/search/categories/39/
Newspapers.com will be free from November 6 to November 11 11:59 PM EST. If you try to access the collections before or after the free access period ends you will only be able to view the records in the featured collections using a paid Ancestry.ca membership. There is no information available yet about what the free access on Newspapers.com will entail. More details about the access will likely be made on November 6.
Fold3.com is also offering free access on their Canadian collection which can be accessed at: https://www.fold3.com/browse If you sign in and register – no credit card information just name and email address you can access the records as well as browse.
Ancestry.ca is also offering a free webinar Beyond the Headlines: Finding Your Family's WWII Story with Newspapers.com on Friday November 6 at 6:00PM EST with Anne Gillespie Mitchell.
There is also a video series on Finding Heroes which may be watched at: https://www.ancestry.com/cs/military/finding-heroes-episodes
For an untold moment of WWll Battle of St Lawrence go to: https://blogs.ancestry.ca/ancestry/2020/10/29/untold-moments-of-wwii-battle-of-st-lawrence
I have no affiliation with Ancestry and am posting this solely for the readers’ information.
Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Re: Lithuania and Poland records
#lithuania
#poland
#records
For information on the Jewish records of Nasielsk, write to Nasielsk@... For information on the Jewish records of any town in Poland and Galicia, write to [townname]@jri-poland.org For an overview of JRI-Poland activity, see:
https://jri-poland.org/downloads/Avotaynu_2018_Fall_JRI-Poland_Cover_Stanley_Diamond_article.pdf
Stanley Diamond, M.S.M. (Montreal, 514-484-0100)
Executive Director, Jewish Records Indexing - Poland, Inc.
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Re: Hidden children in Belgium - Polyclinique Chant d'Oiseau Woluwé
#general
Francoise Kraft
1) Mail to archives@... and ask your questions heading "hidden children".They have a collection about it.
2) Service social juif is still existing. Mail info@.... Wish you good luck -- Françoise KRAFT searching KRAFT from HRUBIESCHOW (Poland) and ODESSA (Ukraine). INDIS from ODESSA (Ukraine),BELTSY (Moldova) and NIKOLAIEV KHMELNITSKY Podolia(Ukraine)
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Gesher Galicia: Reminder Zoom Membership Meeting Sunday, November 8th
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#galicia
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Re: Name change records NYC
#austria-czech
#galicia
#names
#records
jbonline1111@...
My father and his brothers changed their last name to make it easier for business purposes and perhaps to sound more American. They did not use the courts to do so. They were all born in the USA, so there were no naturalization papers. It's perfectly legal to do this as long as it is not for fraudulent purposes. It can cause problems though. Dad had to have his brother's wife swear that she knew him under both names when he applied for Social Security.
-- Barbara Sloan Conway, SC
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jbonline1111@...
I think several explanations here are plausible. My father, who was named Louis at birth in 1917, is listed as Lawrence in the 1920 census. His last name was spelled incorrectly on his birth certificate as well. He was actually called Larry the remainder of his life, but he had no idea why his name was changed. In 1930, he was already an orphan and lived with a relative, so he would have been counted in that household. He had two older brothers who didn't necessarily live with the same relative. No one had custody of them, so they moved around as they wished, more or less, or perhaps when one relative couldn't afford to keep them at the time. It's also possible that a child was called by a Yiddish name at home and an Anglo name elsewhere. That was true for my mother, who "adopted" her Yiddish name as a middle name after childhood. It does not appear on her birth certificate. The suggestion to check the 1925 census is a good one. I found that the number of children my great-grandparents had changed on various censuses. This might refer to births, not living children, or to children who died in infancy.
-- Barbara Sloan Conway, SC
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Deanna Levinsky <DEANNASMAC@...>
Hello all,
The depression might have been a catalyst-not that people made up names of "extra children or relatives" for the census but rather that the depression caused parents to leave their children with relatives or friends for a period of time. Times were hard and people were desperate. A Dad might sleep on a couch in his parents' home while Mom slept in cousin Gertie's basement and the kids bunked with a neighbor for ten cents a day. People did what they could, most anything was better than an orphanage. Yes, the census information can be deeply puzzling at times but put these reports into the bigger picture; economics, fear of authority and language barriers to name a few. -- Deanna M. Levinsky, Long Island, NY
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relly800@...
I just learned that there may be family document in the Wloclawek archive. They relate to survivors who, after the war, tried to establish the death of relatives during the war. They may also have documents from before the war from Wloclawek and Dobrzyn nad Wisla.
I can't find a link to: (a) search the Wloclawek archive online (b) a contact email to order document from the archive. Would appreciate any help. Relly Coleman FELD Dobrzyn nad Wisla, Zakroczym Wasserstein, Wloclawek, Kutno, Mszczonów Fudalowicz, Kutno, Zychlin
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Aaron Slotnik
Hello,
Does anyone know if there is an office or other contact information for burials at South Hills Hebrew Cemetery in York, Pennsylvania? Neither Google nor Find-a-Grave seem to have a contact phone number. I'm trying to find a Fannie Gottlieb (died Dec 17, 1950 in Philadelphia) whose death certificate says she was buried there; however, she is not in Find-a-Grave whereas her husband (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136171664/aaron-gottlieb) and other family members are there. Per the death certificate, the funeral home seems to have been "Strack and Strine" but I can't find any information about them. In particular, I'm trying to confirm her father's name and whether he was a Kohen. If I don't have success here, my last option will be to post a request to Find-a-Grave. Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide! Regards, Aaron Slotnik Chicago, IL
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