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Mieczysław / Bronisław - interchangeable Polish Given Names?
#poland
Yaron Wolfsthal
Dear Group,
A person that I'm researching was born in Kaminiec Podolski to a Jewish family in 1884, and was given the name Bronisław (given name). Throughout his life, he used this name, until he perished in the Holocaust . Recently, I found one Polish government source (1920), where the given name Mieczysław was used to identify a person who I believe is same one I know as Bronislaw. I would like to ask native Polish speakers if these two names are known to be interchangeable. Thank you very much for your help - Yaron Wolfsthal
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Information on Jewish community in Landskrona, Swedish
#scandinavia
jackiebrinton@...
I have been searching for information about my Blumberg ancestors who went from Russia (now Poland) to Sweden (1873-1877) and eventually from Sweden to Philadelphia (1887). Jakob and Mina had 7 children, who, according to Swedish church records, were all born in Landskrona between 1877 and 1887. I am curious as to why my ancestors would have settled in Landskrona and am looking for any information about the Jewish community there. Thank you, Jacquelene Brinton.
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Re: Another facial identification question
#photographs
Bruce Drake
Sherri .. Sorry for the p.s., but this pairing has a better quality photo than I sent in my previous message
Bruce Drake Silver Spring, MD
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Help needed with Translation of sentence from Yiddish
#translation
#belarus
lesleyedwards@...
My Great Grandfather, who lived in Motol in Belarus at the end of the 19th century, unusually, had red hair and a huge beard. Family tradition has it that he was known locally as "Velvel der Gelbe", but der Gelbe translates as "Yellow" not red. Can anyone solve this apparent contradiction or is it just one of those Bubba Meisers that exist in most families?
Lesley Edwards Cheshire, England
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Re: Another facial identification question
#photographs
Bruce Drake
Thank you, Sherri. I've always been bad at using the NYC directories, so I hadn't found Grossman, although I'm not sure that would get me far except in the unlikely event that there's some stash of records that had survived more than 100 years. As to the Zlotnick family...yes, I pretty much have all the information about them you found. I put a lot of it in the history of my Kimmel family that you can find here: https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/kovel/kimmelhistory.htm
This has all made me rethink that the photo I originally posted is Jacob Zlotnick rather than my great grandfather Itzhak David Kimmel. If I look at the two attached photos side by side, it strikes me both have very similar looking noses, and David had sons much closer in age. Taken together with the fact that every other photo in my late mother's collection is a Kimmel, that seems to me to support this guess. Bruce Drake Silver Spring MD
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
#yizkorbooks
#belarus
#JewishGenUpdates
Bruce Drake
Yizkor books are filled with many different kinds of chapters: heart-rending stories of hardship, suffering, families torn apart, the horrors inflicted by the Germans and also accounts of heroism, bravery in the face of death, acts of faith, eking out a living against the odds and people who made special marks on their communities.
“Volozhin Memories” from the Yizkor book of Volzhin (Belarus) falls into another category, that is a favorite of mine: reminisces that paint word portraits of the daily life of a shtetl. Shoshana Nishri – Berkovich begins on market day, when peasant farmers in their distinctive garments poured into town and goes on to describe how the Jewish population lived in the time before electricity and running water. She describes the typical single-floor houses built of wood (increasing the frequency disastrous fires), the kitchens in which the housewives cooked (and especially, baked bread), ice-skating on a frozen lake and skiing in the hills, how people came together in times of mourning and trouble and how they rejoiced on happy occasions like weddings.
-- Bruce Drake Silver Spring, MD Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK Towns: Wojnilow, Kovel
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The Unbroken Chain Volume 3
#general
I would be most grateful if someone would scan page 689 of volume 3 of the newest edition of The Unbroken Chain and email it to me. I am looking for all the Grossbard listings specifically.Thank you in advanxe, Sharon Rottman rottman@...
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Re: ViewMate: Group of soldiers 1922, 42 regiment
#hungary
michele shari
Hi Margarita,
My grandfather, his brother and his cousin where in the Austro-Hungarian Army in 1914 (I have his original papers!) and I have several pictures of them in uniform I can share with you if it will be of any help to compare. The paperwork would say what division but the pictures may provide a comparison. Please email directly if you want me to send them to compare. Michele Farkas Boynton Beach, FL Researching Farkas, Weiszhauz, Izsak, Tauszig, Jakab: Hungary, (Tasnad and Carei), Romania, Transylvania
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Bernard Flam
Hi from Paris,
Dear Nicole, When Jews choose to switch their Hebraic / Yiddish given name to a more common name in their country of residence, they often kept the first letter as a reminder. The same when the given name was given to a baby of a following generation. So Ignacy was often from Isaac / Yitzchok or Isaia, as Bernard is from Baruch, Serge from Saul, Cesia from Czarna, etc. May I add that I manage a free weekly workshop of Jewish genealogy from Yiddishland roots by Zoom on behalf of Medem Center of Paris. Khavershaft Bernard Flam Archives & history of Medem Center - Arbeter Ring (Bund / Worker Circle of France)
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jskarf@...
It seems that also the records for Zhivotov aren't online, except for the 1851 Marriage records.
Thanks for arranging for the other records to get transcribed. Josh Skarf
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Nicole Berline
What was the jewish given name corresponding to the polonized name
Ignacy, in Warsaw around 1900 ? Nicole Berline, France . ROTENSTEIN, Warsaw.
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November 2021 Summary of IAJGS Records Access Alert
#general
#jgs-iajgs
#records
Jan Meisels Allen
As mentioned previously, every month I post a listing of the IAJGS Records Access Alert topics from the previous month for you to see the variety of issues…some were posted on this discussion group but most were not—all postings are included below. The following are the summaries for the month of November, 2021. In order not to miss out on important information it is worthwhile for you to be subscribed to the Records Access Alert. Without records, genealogists cannot do genealogy –making certain that we retain access and gain access where it is impaired is every genealogists' responsibility.
The IAJGS Board of Directors approved opening the Records Access Alert to anyone who is interested in records access. This was announced previously. We now have subscribers from many genealogical organizations not previously able to subscribe. To be on top of what is happening you are encouraged to register for the Records Access Alerts to receive the information in a timely manner. If you are interested in any of the above items, please register for the IAJGS Records Access Alert and look at them in the archives. To register for the IAJGS Records Access Alert go to: http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/listinfo/records-access-alerts and follow the instructions to enter your email address, full name and which genealogical organization you belong to a society, SIG or a subscriber of JewishGen, AVOTAYNU, Legal Genealogist etc. You will receive an email response that you have to reply to, or the subscription will not be finalized. The alerts are archived and once you register you may access the archives at: http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/private/records-access-alerts/
The IAJGS Records Access Alert is not a daily announcement list. Depending on what happens worldwide, there may be no postings for several days and other times there may be several in one day.
These are listed alphabetically not chronologically. Each month the locales covered differ.
Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities Calls for Independent Commission for Study of Cultural Assets # announcements
#holocaust
Jan Meisels Allen
The Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities (SIG/FCSI) [https://www.swissjews.ch/en/ - whose website is in German, French and English] has called on the Swiss government to designate so-called “escape property” as “cultural property seized as a result of Nazi persecution.” It has also called for the appointment of an independent study commission for the study of cultural assets.
According to the SIG/FCSI, the outdated assumption still persists that people fleeing the Nazi regime sold their works of art at market prices and without need. Thus, many still assume today – often wrongly – that a fair deal was struck between the buyer and the seller.
As reported in EuroJewish Congress, “In 1998, the Washington Declaration was signed by 44 states. It is a legally non-binding agreement that seeks to ensure that works of art confiscated by the Nazi regime are found and returned.
Likewise, the signatory states have undertaken to take the necessary steps to reach fair and just solutions. In recent years, the Washington Declaration has made it possible for well over a thousand paintings and art objects from some twenty states to be restituted to their owners or their heirs.”
*IAJGS Records Access Alert reported on the Bührle Foundation in another posting on October 19, 2021 which can be found in Record Access Alert archives—see below how to access the archives.
The SIG/FCS also demands that possible so-called “flight property” in Swiss museums and private collections be comprehensively investigated and, if claims are justified, restituted accordingly. The institutions concerned must actively and increasingly contribute to identifying and locating “cultural property seized as a result of Nazi persecution”. In doing so, the examination of the individual case would be decisive.
To read more see:
To read the previous postings about Nazi looted art, holocaust, cultural assets and more, go to the archives of the IAJGS Records Access Alert at: http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/private/records-access-alerts/. You must be registered to access the archives. To register go to: http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/listinfo/records-access-alerts and follow the instructions to enter your email address, full name and which genealogical organization with whom you are affiliated You will receive an email response that you have to reply to or the subscription will not be finalized.
Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Next Generation Research: Cultural Genography
#dna
Have you done every type of genetic testing, scoured every database, and still are not sure of your ethnic and cultural origins beyond a few documented generations, in fewer than all of your lineages?
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A Cultural Genography report is unique to you (no two are identical), using a peer-reviewed methodology (primary component analysis) prepared by a live human being (not automated), and based on the comparison of your autosome to that of nearly 3,000 ancient samples reported in the scientific literature covering Neolithic to Medieval times. The report identifies your closest cousins in each of 12 eras stretching from 10,000 BCE to 1300 CE, providing the most complete awareness of cultural and ethnic ancestry possible. Make your next trip a tour of all your ancestral homelands!
Each study includes a custom-made report, the accompanying interactive maps, and five scatter charts (including a Sephardic-Ashkenazic study, and a modern European/Near Eastern populations study), available for download in only ten days. If you or your loved one(s) have already obtained an autosomal test from any of the major companies (23andMe, Ancestry, FTDNA, MyHeritage, etc.), a Cultural Genography can be produced for merely US$120 (plus the US$12 to format your autosomal data into primary components, a 2-3 day process). Complete, step-by-step guidance and instructions are provided, including everything you need to know to conduct your own modeling studies, should you wish to do so. This is a new data-only version of the complete report which goes for $US600!
You deserve to benefit from this treasure trove of self-knowledge—and makes a fantastic gift as well. To see examples please view this short PDF presentation: What Is Cultural Genography? -- Adam Cherson NY, NY
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Re: Hebrew Minsker Old Men's Benevolent Society
#general
Sherri Bobish
From The American Jewish Yearbook, 1919:
Minsker Old Men's Benevolent Association 156 Henry Org. 1911 Rabbi, D.S. Stern; Pres., Charle Mishkin; Sec., Henry Dobkin; Members, 25 Services: Hebrew and Yiddish http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/erc-syn-manhattan.htm Former Synagogue List Manhattan 156 Henry Street --Minsker Independent Old Men --Anshei Moskve Following excerpt from: https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/front-page/freida-sima-and-the-great-depression/2016/03/09/4/ “Atheist or not, you will say Kaddish for your father!” Freida Sima whispered to Max as the funeral procession reached the Minsker Old Men’s Benevolent Association section in the Old Montefiore Cemetery in Queens, the landsmanschaft Abraham Kraus had joined upon his immigration to America over twenty years earlier. Hope this info is helpful, Sherri Bobish Searching: RATOWSKY / CHAIMSON (Ariogala / Ragola, Lith.) WALTZMAN / WALZMAN (Ustrzyki Dolne / Istryker, Pol.) LEVY (Tyrawa Woloska, Pol.) LEFFENFELD / LEFENFELD / FINK, KALTER (Daliowa/ Posada Jasliska, Pol.) BOJDA / BERGER (Tarnobrzeg, Pol.) SOKALSKY / SOLON / SOLAN / FINGER(MAN) (Grodek, Bialystok, Pol.) BOBISH / APPEL (Odessa?)
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Asparagirl
Josh, almost all of those specific records you mentioned are already transcribed and already online for free searching at JewishGen. I know this because I paid for their acquisition and transcription and helped get them added to the site several years ago. :-)
If you check the Ukraine SIG vital records inventory spreadsheet, which is online here...
...you can see that the Ukraine Births, Ukraine Marriages, and Ukraine Deaths databases (i.e. vital records) at JewishGen do include those same books you're asking about.
The only ones that appear to be missing from JewishGen are the Pyatigorsk and Tetiev books. I don't have those, so the Ukrainian wikipedia site is currently the only online source I know for them.
I also gave JewishGen the Khodorkov (now Khodorkiv) 1846 synagogue attendees book (which was labeled, possibly mis-labeled, as the Stavishche 1847 community book), which I think you're also asking about here. It's not listed in the official Ukraine SIG spreadsheet linked above, because it seems to have been loaded into the Ukraine Revision Lists database at JewishGen rather than the vital records databases. But in any case, that one is online, too.
Happy searching. :-)
- Brooke Schreier Ganz
Mill Valley, California
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Re: ViewMate: Group of soldiers 1922, 42 regiment
#hungary
beer_tom@...
Frank is correct that the writing is Hungarian so it would be the Hungarian army and it is most likely that the 19 year old is doing his compulsory military service.
There are, however, unusual aspects about the uniforms of the officers. In particular, my reading indicates that it was not usual for Hungarian officers to have peaked caps, or epaulettes. Yet some of the officers have both. My guess is that the group photo was taken to commemorate the visit of some senior officers from the army of another country. This may be incorrect, as it is possible that this particular regiment had different uniform traditions to the rest of the army. There is a Hungarian Museum of Military History. They may (or may not) be able to provide further information. My recollection is that one needs to correspond with them in Hungarian. Tom Beer Melbourne Australia
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Re: Which shtetl is Wytkor / Witkor / Vitkor Galicia / Austria? #
#galicia
#austria-czech
Mark Halpern
Hi Tracy:
On 2021-12-02 2:20 pm, Tgrigoriades via groups.jewishgen.org wrote:
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Re: Another facial identification question
#photographs
Sherri Bobish
Bruce
In 1916 NYC city directories is listed under "picture dealers" Gabriel GROSSMAN at 60 Suffolk. In 1917 George GROSSMAN at 60 Suffolk, picture dealer. In 1915 George Grossman is at 58 Suffolk. Since when searching on surname GROSSMAN and address 60 Suffolk in the keyword field only finds those two listings, than Grossman was likely at another address in other years. Your photo was likely taken circa 1916 / 1917. Also, if the photo is indeed Jacob ZLOTNICK, he passed on in 1919. Also, is this the Zlotnick family that you seek? This is from the 1910 census and they were living on The Lower East Side on Madison Street. In 1910 there are three sons. Sons Harry and Hyman about 14 years apart. Lena states she has given birth to eight children and six are living.
New York, U.S., Wills and Probate Records
Sherri Bobish Searching: RATOWSKY / CHAIMSON (Ariogala / Ragola, Lith.) WALTZMAN / WALZMAN (Ustrzyki Dolne / Istryker, Pol.) LEVY (Tyrawa Woloska, Pol.) LEFFENFELD / LEFENFELD / FINK, KALTER (Daliowa/ Posada Jasliska, Pol.) BOJDA / BERGER (Tarnobrzeg, Pol.) SOKALSKY / SOLON / SOLAN / FINGER(MAN) (Grodek, Bialystok, Pol.) BOBISH / APPEL (Odessa?)
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Which shtetl is Wytkor / Witkor / Vitkor Galicia / Austria? #
#galicia
#austria-czech
Tgrigoriades@...
Hello friends - I have a branch of the family, the Adlers, whose ship manifests say that they hailed from Wytkor / Witkor / Vitkor in Galicia / Austria. I searched on Jewish Gen to try to find where that shtetl might've been, but am coming up empty. Has anyone seen this town name before?
Thank you! Tracy Grigoriades
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