p.s. I don't believe the photo for which I sent you a link includes number 84. I see a "42" on one of the buildings

Bruce Drake
Silver Spring MD

• Thousands of new vital records available and searchable online: Bacau, Braila, Bucharest, Harlau, Iasi, Piatra Neamt, Ploiesti.
• Thousands of new records acquired: Bacau, Braila, Bucharest, Craiova, Dorohoi, Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Galati, Iasi, Odobesti, Pungesti, Ramnicu Sarat, Roznov, Suceava, Vatra Dornei.
• More than 20,000 Rădăuți/Radautz District indexed records acquired.

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Michael Moritz
Director, Romania Research Division
mmoritz@...

Hi All,
I have been researching my mysterious Greenberg line for many years now. In the beginning I only knew of my great grandfather Abraham and that he was from Hertza dorohoi Romania. Then I stumbled upon a POT, that linked to a sibling named Joseph. Then the trail went cold. I then had a research group look for records for me and that revealed a few more siblings. I was so excited to have more information. Then I was stuck again. Now I am excited to say I was just contacted by living descendants. I had a hour long conference call that was amazing. We are going to talk more to help fill in the gaps of our family tree. What's amazing is that I am just finding out that my line may have come from Poland before settling in Romania. I will post another update when I know more.

Sarah Greenberg (USA-CT)
sacredsisters1977@...

King Willem-Alexander unveiled the National Holocaust Names Monument in Amsterdam today, the first monument in the Netherlands to bear the names of all more than 102,000 Dutch victims of the Holocaust. A special online production can now be seen at https://app.nos.nl/namenmonument/ and in the NOS app , in which the visitor can move through the monument in 360 degrees. A number of poignant stories behind the names of victims are highlighted in text and images.
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Peter Cherna, Exton PA (peter@...)
Researching CSERNA (Budapest, Székesfehérvár), GRUNFELD (Székesfehérvár), BRAUN, REINER (Budapest, Nyíregyháza, Máriapócs), EHRENFELD (Pozsony, Balassagyarmat) BRACK (Ipolykeszi)

Gitel bas Yochanan 
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Yitschok Margareten

Hi,
Still have a couple of spots.

The email address genresearch13@... appears to be Truncated in the original message for some reason.
Please convert this email address "genresearch13@...", here is a written version you will have to convert - genresearch12 (@) yahoo.com. 
Or send me a message at 954-328-3559.  Paul from Southamton was successful in doing this.  Thanks Paul!
Both work for me.  Perhaps JG Discussion Group should put out some info on this.  I have had several comments on this problem.
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Regards,

Arthur Sissman

Jewish Genealogy SIG of Collier/Lee Co FL

genresearch13@...

genresearch13 (*) @yahoo.com (type email in email form erasing the (@)
954-328-3559

Join our FB page at Jewish Genealogy SIG: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hellojewishgen

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Researching: ZISMAN/ZYSMAN/ZUSMAN (Belarus); TELESHEVSKY (Belarus); CHANUTIN, (W. Russia), BRODY, (Hungary); FRIEDMAN, (Hungary); GRAUBARD, (Romania/Ukraine)

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From the linked article, or at least from the Goolge translation of it, which is the nearest thing to it that I can read. I cannot gather what the purport of the film is. However, an article in (very imperfect) English about the book Powrot do Jedwabnego by Wojciech Sumlinski makes clear what Smulinki's position is. He is advancing the claim that the Jedwabne massacre was perpetrated by Germans and that Jewish organizations are conspiring to pin blame on Poles so that they can exact reparation payments from them. Here is an excerpt:

The Banned Book That Many Jews Are Afraid Of: Holocaust Industry Terezin Tentacles, and The Jedwabne Lie is Unravelling: Bullet Casings Under Lenin Statue Prove German Guilt

Author Sumlinski had a fascinating discussion with Jerzy Kwasniewski, the President of Ordo Iuris (pp. 282-297). The discussion pointed out that international law can be “made up” arbitrarily, to be applied ex post facto, and to trump pre-existing national laws. The Nuremberg Trials are a classic example. The German defendants had not broken any German laws. Instead, they were charged in accordance with newly-minted international law, which trumped German law, and which furthermore was applied retroactively to their acts. (p. 286).

Enter the Holocaust Industry. To the extent that “Jews are owed” (or, more accurately, “the Holocaust Industry is owed”) positions become enshrined in international law, this can be forced on the nations, especially Poland. All the pre-existing national laws, for example those governing heirless property and the Agreement of 1960, no longer matter, because they are now trumped by this new international law.

The Terezin Declaration, having won at least the tacit approval of many nations, has elevated Jewish-centered “property restitution” claims to at least the level of international expectation, if not yet exactly international law. (p. 294). Furthermore, the U. S. government added weight to all this through Act S. 447. (p. 289). Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, merely by being physically present as Poland’s representative at Terezin, added credence to its claims against Poland. (pp. 290-291). It does not matter that he did not agree to any property restitution claims!

THIS INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST REALLY KNOWS WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT

Throughout this book, Sumlinski shows an excellent grasp of Polish-Jewish relations. He is quite familiar with Art Spiegelman’s Poles-are-Pigs in MAUS. (p. 48). He realizes that some Jews want to monopolize Jewish suffering (e. g, p. 40, 68). Truth does not matter.

And so nauseatingly on.
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Miles Rind
Cambridge, Mass.

I have Beila in one branch of my family used as a version of Rebecca - she is Rebecca in all the official records but Beila on her Ketubah and on her gravestone. This family branch has one line that could be Sephardic but I cannot prove it. NB Beila was a common Ashkenazi name in the middle ages in England. 

Jill Whitehead, Surrey, UK

Merci Bernard
Oui je parle français d'ailleurs nous avons déjà été en contact! Je dois être un peu bête mais je n'ai pas réussi à retrouver votre post du 06/03
J'ai été sur le site en ligne des Archives des Alpes maritimes mais sans rien trouver. Je ne sais pas si il n'y a rien en ligne ou si je ne  sais pas chercher . En tout état de cause je suis sûre qu'il y a au moins un dossier pour mes grands parents car dans le dossier de naturalisation de mon grand-père aux Archives Nationales il y a le résultat d'une enquête demandée par le Ministère de l'Intérieur auprès de la préfecture des Alpes maritimes dans le cadre de la commission de dénaturalisation (en PJ) Cela signifie qu'ils ont dû se déclarer à Nice à un moment ou un autre et qu'il y a donc un dossier quelque part à leur nom. Par ailleurs pour mes grand oncles qui étaient apatrides j'ai cru comprendre qu'ils avaient également une obligation de s'enregistrer? J'ai écrit aux archives pour leur demander une aide mais je n'ai aucune réponse à ce stade. Cordialement
Catherine JUROVSKY

catherine.jurovsky@...

I have heard and read stories about Jewish brothers living with different families or using different surnames to avoid being in the army in Russia. All of it being anecdotal.

Where can I find proof of this? Is there a Russian law somewhere that states the requirements or exemptions for Jews serving in the army in the 1880s?

Roberta Berman
Sunny Southern California
Researching: OPPENHEIM from Brest-Litovsk; WEISBERG from Kiev; CHAMEIDES.

On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 06:58 AM, Robert Fraser wrote:

Check out:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.k._Gendarmerie
If you use Google chrome as your search engine then it will automatically translate the German to English.
It was a military rank entitled to 3 stars.
Tom Beer
Melbourne, Australia.

Hi,

I do not know about getting a photo of the building ~1900, but NYC took photos of every building in 1940.  Here is a link to the site:

1940s NYC | Street photos of every building in New York City in 1939/1940

 

Hope this helps.

Avi Brickner

The Jewish Genealogy Society of Southern Nevada (JGSSN) invites you to a Zoom meeting at 11:00 a.m. (Pacific Daylight Time) on Sunday, October 10: “"Routes to Roots Foundation: New Surnames Databases, Maps, Town Images and More!” with Miriam Weiner

 

To request a Zoom link, please complete this short form: which can also be found on our Meetings webpage.

Members of JGSSN can attend for free.  Non-members can pay $5.00 on the Donate webpage and complete the short form.

Session Description:

From 30+ years of working in the archives of Eastern Europe (Poland, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Lithuania), Miriam has acquired hundreds of various document collections yielding millions of surnames. She formed a close working relationship with archivists on all levels many of which continue to this day. 

During the past two years, she has created a surname database containing over 2,000,000 names (with continuing updates regularly). At the website, a surname search can produce entries from Holocaust name lists, vital records, census lists, school records, property lists, various telephone and business directories, applications for Communist Party membership and much more, most of which do not appear elsewhere online. A surname search can produce document results with that surname and links to a street map and town images. All in a single search!  A town name search can yield archive data for that town, as well as town images and a link to a street map of the town.  Another valuable website resource is the Maps database.  Miriam has acquired many maps from various localities. A map search will bring up very detailed maps that, when you zoom in, may reveal even the smallest shtetl.

About Miriam Weiner:

In 1989, Miriam Weiner accepted an invitation from the Polish National Tourist Office to visit the Polish Archives in preparation for arranging genealogy tours to Poland. That visit led to a 30+ year career working in the archives of Poland, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and Lithuania. 

In 1991, The Jewish Week in New York, referred to Miriam as “The Genealogist who Lifted the Archival Iron Curtain”. 
In 1998, The Forward referred to her as “The Indiana Jones of Pre-war Polish Jewry.” 
In 2019, The Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia referred to Miriam in a lecture review as "Genealogy Rock Star Discusses Digging up Jewish Roots."

Miriam's work in the genealogy field has produced a slew of awards beginning more than 30 years ago; among them are: 

In 1988, a writing award from the Council of Genealogy Columnists for her syndicated genealogy column

• In 1999, 2000, and 2003, three major awards from IAJGS (one for each of her two books and the Lifetime Achievement Award)
• In 2000, Reference Book of the Year award from the Association of Jewish Libraries
• In 2019, The National Genealogical Society presented Miriam with the prestigious "President's Citation" at its annual conference in St. Louis
• In 2020; The Federation of Genealogical Societies awarded her the Rabbi Malcolm H Stern Humanitarian Award 

The new version of the RTRF website has produced many comments from noted members of the genealogical community, See www.rtrfoundation.org/comments2020.shtml

 

Ben Kempner

Vice President,

Jewish Genealogy Society of Southern Nevada

Translation assistance, please, Yiddish to English.  This is a two page letter written, most likely, to my grandmother, Bessie/Basia (her husband is Benjamin Aronson). Malka and Rosa (her sisters) are names within the letter. Thank you, in advance, for taking the time to read. A full translation, most appreciated, but also will be very happy with names, places and events discussed.

 

https://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/viewmateview.asp?key=95178

 

https://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/viewmateview.asp?key=95179 


Thanks again!

Harlene Rosenberg
Researching Aronson (Kolno, Poland), Gavurin (Slonim, Poland), Zaretsky (Gomel, Belarus), Gancevitz (Neshviz, Belarus)

Correction - The (misspelled) name does not have to "live into perpetuity". A cousin of mine,who lived alone, had passed away some time ago. When I visited the cemetery and saw her matzevah, (headstone), I realized that the attorney, who had handled the arrangements, had supplied  the wrong Hebrew names for both the deceased, and her father. After I interceded, the monument company somehow made the correct changes to the stone in a manner that the changes were not readily apparent.

Neilan Stern      neilan1@...
researching: Stern, Pistrong, Stieglitz - Radomysl Wielki;  Aonov/wsky, Cohen - Vilijampole, Kovno, Lithuania; Black, Schwarz - Nesvizh, Belarus

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David Silvera

L'Shanah Tova!
I have posted three different vital records relating to the Siedlce region of Poland for which I would appreciate translations:
1) #95207 Miedzyrzec Podlaski death record
2) #95208 Terespol birth record
3) #95209 Radzyn Podlaski death record

All three are written in Polish.
With gratitude!
Tammy Weingarten

Hello everyone,
I've posted 4 vital records in Russian for which I need translations. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses ...

1.  Death record of Lejbus PRZEDNOWEK:  https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jewishgen.org%2Fviewmate%2Fviewmateview.asp%3Fkey%3DVM95300&data=04%7C01%7C%7C79c355e6cb614809dd8708d97b96b000%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637676709394576188%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=iAkCKMOUdKYDv0T6ZjAqFe932iBHpVLZA7hJj5C2d10%3D&reserved=0

2.  Death record of Nachman PRZEDNOWEK:  https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jewishgen.org%2Fviewmate%2Fviewmateview.asp%3Fkey%3DVM95301&data=04%7C01%7C%7C837e2da9836c4991f62b08d97b96b1ef%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637676709425498640%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=QoqhZ17H0k6xDbnM6XgugBxbJsq2wxtBp6ZSyUKFHfE%3D&reserved=0

3.  Death record of Ryfka KAUFER:  https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jewishgen.org%2Fviewmate%2Fviewmateview.asp%3Fkey%3DVM95302&data=04%7C01%7C%7C8277233bfa3048792f3b08d97b96b361%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637676709466965107%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=HKQlCVwvTIeKGiGqujpCTuPvmDln66NcLbjo3VfqHGs%3D&reserved=0

4.  Birth record of Simcha Chil WINTER:  https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jewishgen.org%2Fviewmate%2Fviewmateview.asp%3Fkey%3DVM95303&data=04%7C01%7C%7C3633a22bea77445ad5d408d97b96b567%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637676709483885507%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=ThbGPxcXZEQCKUzjzshYzIOfeFm8uAhEa5rkeWP1Otc%3D&reserved=0

Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page.
Thank you very much.

Greg Tuckman
Phoenix, Arizona   USA