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Re: Russian army recruits 1880s #russia #general

Karen Lukeman
 

I know of two stories:
  • My brother-in-law's grandfather changed his name from Chorches to Lipman because he didn't want to be drafted.
  • I met someone whose father was "adopted" in Russia by another family because his own (original) family had too many sons and they wanted to protect him.
Karen
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Karen Calmon Lukeman
KALMANOWITZ (Lyubcha and towns near Grodno, Vilna and Minsk)
GOLDSMITH (Bakshty and Ivje)
NASSER (Damascus)
BENBAJI (Damascus)
BALLAS (Damascus)
Austrian Citizenship #austria-czech

Ronald Cohen
 

Hello everyone, This is my first message to this list and I would like to say hello.
My mother was born in Vienna in 1922. Both her parents were Polish citizens who had moved to Austria some years earlier. Did my mother automatically become an Austrian citizen by virtue of birth or would she be considered Polish? I would appreciate any help in this regard. Thank you.
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Ronald Cohen
Ft. Lauderdale, FL & Bethesda, MD
Re: A Murder #ukraine #general

Alan Shuchat
 

There is an article about Pen on a Russian-language Wikipedia page. It gives some family information about him and cites some references that might be helpful. You can use Google Chrome to translate it: https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Пэн,_Юдель_Моисеевич
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Alan Shuchat
Newton, MA

SHUKHAT (Talnoe, Simferopol, Sevastopol, Odessa, Balta (Abazovka), Pogrebishche)
VINOKUR (Talnoe), KURIS (Mogilev-Podolskiy, Ataki, Berdichev)
ZILBERMAN (Soroki, Kremenets), BIRNBAUM (Kamenets-Podolskiy)
KITAIGORODSKI (Zvenigorodka)
Re: Russian army recruits 1880s #russia #general

Alan Shuchat
 

The term of military service was greatly reduced over the years. See the details at: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Russia
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Alan Shuchat
Newton, MA

SHUKHAT (Talnoe, Simferopol, Sevastopol, Odessa, Balta (Abazovka), Pogrebishche)
VINOKUR (Talnoe), KURIS (Mogilev-Podolskiy, Ataki, Berdichev)
ZILBERMAN (Soroki, Kremenets), BIRNBAUM (Kamenets-Podolskiy)
KITAIGORODSKI (Zvenigorodka)
Update - Yedinitz Yizkor Book Translation project #yizkorbooks #bessarabia

bassfish4@...
 

I am pleased to provide an update on the Yedinitz Yizkor Book Translation Project.

Chag Sameach.

Allan Bass

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Progress Report Sept 2021.pdf

Re: German Jewish Community: Grötzingen, Alb-Donau-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany or Grötzingen, Durlach, Baden, Württemburg #germany

ccelaynarose3@...
 

thank you for your information on the communities. I am able to rule out  Alb-Donau-Kreis right away just from the date it was formed. my ancestor was born in 1749 if that helps at all. anyone who has information or leads on churches or synagogue records in the Durlach area during the mid 1700's, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again!
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Connie Derosier Carter
Kissimmee, FL, Leominster, MA
Jewish & US Genealogy Research Presentation Slides Available Online for Free #general #records #education #announcements

Michael Moritz
 

I've placed online for free viewing the presentation slides from 6 different online interactive workshops I've given, covering varying topics in US and Jewish genealogy research. There is a lot of information covered, and I hope you learn something new!

https://www.moritzresearch.com/presentations

Best,
Michael
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Michael Moritz
Director, Romania Research Division
mmoritz@...
Is there a commemoration of the Rumbula Massacre? #latvia #holocaust

JUROVSKY,Catherine
 

Does anyone  know if there is a special commemoration for the 80 th anniversary of the Rumbula massacre on Nov 30 and December 8 in Riga I would loke to participate. Likewise does anybody knows about the film which is being made on the subject.
Best regards
Catherine JUROVSKY
catherine.jurovsky@...
Re: Ancestry Appoints Former Amazon and Facebook Executives #announcements #records

mpipik
 

Thank you Ellen for this frightening analysis.  Alas, what you have to say is all to possible or should I say probable? 

Even these message boards.  Look at all the information we provide including our actual names. Can we expect to see some sort of targeted ads soon? "Visit the building in Ossining NY where your great-uncle Harry lived from 1934-1944."  If you don't understand the possible absurdity of an ad like this, please look up this town.  I'm not knocking Ossining since it is a nice town in a beautiful location.  Just pointing out bloopers that can be made with targeted ads.

Jessica Schein
Re: JEWS IN HIDING IN NICE DURING WW2 #france #holocaust

Bernard Flam
 

Dear Catherine, 
I reply in English, as most of our fellow detectives don't speak French : nobody is perfect !
  1. I have discovered it's not easy to recover a post on this forum only by its number, so I attach again the finding aid of "Alpes Maritimes war archives" and some papers by historians about fate of Jews in this area. 
  2. As soon as October 1940, Jews in France (foreign and French citizens) had to register themselves at police station in the place were they were living, free or house arrested. So files are kept in Police archives by the various "Archives départementales". When they registered, the infamous inked stamp "JUIF" was printed on their identity card.
  3. After the first rounds-up of Jews in 1941, some clever Jews printed themselves "JUIF" on their card without going to be registered at the police station. When they were controlled in the street, foreign Jews couldn't hide they were Jews (accent in french, etc.) but as the stamp was printed, policeman couldn't guess they weren't known by the administration and not written on lists for further round-up.
  4. When process of "dénaturalisation" (of Jews being French by easy 1927' naturalization law) started in 1942-1943, administration had to find where Jews were living across France from there official address before 1939. Decree of dénaturalisation was published in Journal Officiel of French laws, but of course, it wasn't the first reading of our Jews in the hiding. Some never heard of the decree. But police read it and could check with persons on their lists and go to search them.
  5. Concerning registration of foreign Jews living in France who were stateless (as soon as 1918 and as late as ...now, as others refugees), they were and they are registered at OFPRA, "Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides" : this is a State administration,  https://www.ofpra.gouv.fr/fr/histoire-archives/archives
  6. You can ask (in French) if they have a file at your "Losts" : https://www.ofpra.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/atoms/files/formulaire_consultation_arc.pdf
Khavershaft
Bernard Flam
Archives & history of Medem Center - Arbeter Ring (Bund / Workmen circle of France)

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Les Juifs et la question juive dans les Alpes Maritimes 1939 1945 rr86-1983-01.pdf
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Les politiques antisémites dans les Alpes Maritimes de 1938 à 1944.pdf
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Pérégrination des Juifs étrangers dans les Alpes Maritimes.pdf
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Archives départementales 06 _ guide des sources 1939 1945.pdf

Report of Eye Witness to 1941 Erev Sukkot Nadworna Massacre #galicia #holocaust #poland #ukraine

Steven Turner
 

It is a truly gruesome, horrible and unimaginable event.
My brother Jules and my father (Beryl <Knoll> Weinsieder), a resident of Maidon Gorney, a nearby shetl -  was a Jewish 
laborer at the Foresta Lumber Yard directly adjacent to the Bukowinka Forest murder site. He and the other Jews working there witnessed their friends and family members being unloaded from the trucks where they had been forced to lay down, packed in, side by side with several rows of Jews on top of them - stacked like firewood one on top of the other. 
 
They were taken into the forest to an abandoned ammunition trench from WW1, where they were forced to undress and were made to go onto planks spanning the open pit where they were shot to death. Snarling German Shepherd attack guards also assisting.  Our father had climbed a high stack of logs in the lumber yard, looking down onto and witnessing the massacre.  He saw at least  20 of his cousins, aunts and uncles from Nadvorna being murdered. The shootings went on for hours - and then suddenly stopped. We later learned, in researching this Aktion, that is was  because the Germans ran out of bullets. The survivors living long enough to experience internment in the ghetto, further deprivations and subsequent deportations.  
 
Lily Bink is our cousin. Her dad also worked at the lumber yard - but I am not sure if he was there at that time or later.
 
Kind regards,
Richard Weinsieder

Thank you, Richard, for sharing your father’s vivid and horrific memory of that day - I imagine it was seared into his mind forever. My father, Abe Winiger, did also work at the same Foresta Lumber Yard, but never spoke of that tragic day. He and my mom, Mina Winiger, also lost siblings, cousins and countless relatives in that Aktion. Whether Abe was not at the sawmill that day, or chose not to speak of it, I will never know. 

Lily Bink
Re: 84 Willett Street #general #usa

e l
 

The following article details available photographs and many other records of genealogical interest, held at the New York City Municipal Archives:
“Online Resources of Genealogical Value at the New York City Municipal Archives,” Avotaynu: The International Review of Jewish Genealogy, Teaneck, New Jersey, Vol. XXXV, No. 2, Summer 2019, pp. 11-14. To the best of my knowledge, it is not available online.

Edward David Luft
Washington, DC
https://sites.google.com/site/edwarddavidluftbibliography/home/edward-david-luft-bibliography
Re: Russian army recruits 1880s #russia #general

Jill Whitehead
 

At least one of my four great grandparents escaped to Britain in the late 1860's and early 1870's, to escape being called up by the Tsar, and for their fathers possibly being involved in the 1863 Polish Uprising. Once you were enlisted you were in the Russian Army for 25 years. 

Jill Whitehead, Surrey, UK
Re: Query about Hungarian marriage certificate from 1903 #hungary #general

stephen@...
 

Her name is written as Gertner. If you’re certain it’s your grandmother then it’s a mistake. I’ve never seen married names written for the bride, but I’ve seen lots of wrong names being recorded. 
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Stephen Schmideg
Melbourne, Australia
stephen@...
Re: German Jewish Community: Grötzingen, Alb-Donau-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany or Grötzingen, Durlach, Baden, Württemburg #germany

Rodney Eisfelder
 

Connie,
According to the German wikipedia, there are three places called Grötzingen, all in the state of Baden-Würtemburg.
See: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%B6tzingen
One of them is next to Durlach, on the outskirts of Karlsruhe. One is in Alb-Donau-Kreis not far from the city of Ulm, and the third is part of the town of Aichtal, roughly midway between the other two.
You'll need to assess your sources to decide which is the correct one, or perhaps you could reach out to the local archives to see if they have any trace of your ancestors family.

I hope this helps,
Rodney Eisfelder,
Melbourne, Australia
Re: Austrian military official #austria-czech #general

Ilan Ganot
 

The term Militär-Rechnungsoberoffizier can be translated to: Senior Military Paymaster.
The following image shows the inscription on the gravestone of a Rechnungsunteroffizier, which can be translated to: Non-commissioned Officer Military Paymaster.

Ilan Ganot
Query about Hungarian marriage certificate from 1903 #hungary #general

Richard Gartner
 

Hello everyone,
 
This is my first message to this list and I would like to say hello. My query relates to a record I have found of my grandparents' marriage in 1903. It took place in Kezmarok, now in Slovakia but then in the Kingdom of Hungary.
 
My grandmother was born Rosa SCHENKHEIN in Krakow in 1885 but on the record she is recorded as 'Rachel GARTNER' - GARTNER was her groom's surname. This is rather strange but I wonder if it was the custom to record the bride with her new surname and to use a biblical first name instead of her original one?
 
I wonder if anyone who has experience with the genealogy of this area could clear up this mystery?
 
Many thanks and it's nice to meet you all!
 
Best wishes,
Richard Gartner
 
 
Help locating J. Weissberg or his family #general #usa

JOSEPH GODELNIK
 

I found, right these days, a letter envelope, bearing the date of October 1963. The letter sent to my father (Chaim Godelnik) who died in 1977. The name and address of the sender is J. Weissberg 1822 E. 29th St. Bklyn N.Y. USA. I have a reasonable basis to believe that this is a relative. I would appreciate help in locating the writer or his family members so I can contact them.

 

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Joseph Godelnik
A Murder #ukraine #general

sandra.penn@...
 

In 1937, Yehuda Pen was murdered in Vitebsk, Ukraine. He was the first art teacher of Marc Chagall. I have not been able to find out his relatives. We share the name Pen (my grandfather and father were listed as Pen on their documents.) The name is unusual in eastern Europe. How would I find out if we are related when I can find no family for him?
Thank you.
Sandra Penn (the extra n was added at Castelgarten.)
Survivors Returning to Sighet and Maramures #holocaust #hungary

Sandra Malek
 

Survivors Returning to Sighet and Maramures

We are in the process of indexing some interesting new records for Maramaros-Maramures researchers! These are the books that registered returning persons from the Shoah, and recorded accounts of money and goods, such as clothing, food, and bedding that were provided to the returners.

There are two record books in this set:

·         Book I, Returning Persons to Sighet, Maramures, Romania, and

·         Book II, Returning Persons from various towns to Maramures, Romania.

These books were kept in the Jewish Community Center in Sighet, Maramures, Romania. They are not in the Romanian National Archives, so far as we know.

The fields of information indexed in this set, for either of the books, are as follows:

·         Record number, organized alphabetically, by first letter of surname. And then by registration or arrival date after the Shoah

·         Date of return or registration

·         Surname and Given name of returned person

·         Town of residence, with street address where available (primarily in Sighet). It is not clear if this address is where the person lived before deportation, or where they were living at the time of their registration

·         Occupation, translated from Romanian as possible

·         Birthplace

·         Date of birth

·         Surname and given name of the mother

·         Place from which the person was deported

·         Place where the person was interned

·         Record number. It is unclear what this number represents. In many cases it appears to be the ID given inmates in the camps, but there is no explanation in the record.

Not included as a field in the index where the record kept on money provided to the returning persons, or records of food, bedding and clothing distributed to the persons.

You can search the records in the Holocaust database, and the Hungarian and Romanian databases. You can also search it through a general search.

We thank the following individuals who have devoted much time and effort to indexing these materials:

Daniel Horowitz, who located the records, arranged permission from the Jewish Community Center in Sighet, Romania, to photograph the pages, made the images, and then stitched them together beautifully!

Indexers Ronald Wagmann, Ida Gold, Suzanne Geroe, and Sandy Malek for the Sighet book. Sandy Malek for the Maramures book.  Special thanks to Vivian Kahn and Nolan Altman for all support freely given!

The book of Sighet returners is now available on JewishGen, and contains in excess of 2100 records. The book of Maramures returners will be available shortly, and will contain in excess of 5000 additional records.

Sandy Malek,

Coordinator of the Maramures Records Indexing Project of the Hungarian Research Division

#general, #holocaust, #hungary, #romania

 
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