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(Ireland-Poland) Exhibition: The Objects of Love Exhibition #poland
#poland
Jan Meisels Allen
If you are in or plan to visit Ireland, you might want to visit The Objects of Love Exhibition by Oliver Sears which tells the fate of individual lives torn apart in Nazi-occupied Poland is showing in Dublin Ireland’s Bedford Hall. The exhibit opened on January 12. The exhibition, a presentation of the Office of Public Works in association with Holocaust Awareness Ireland.
The exhibit is told through a curated collection of family objects, photographs and documents of Dublin-based art dealer Oliver Sears.
The article does not say if there is a virtual part of the exhibit.
Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Re: Coincidence?
#general
Robert Hanna
My paternal grandfather was born in Warsaw in either March or June of any year between 1876 and 1884. Every document has a different date. And I have been unable to locate his birth record. I haven't given up, but I don't spend a lot of time trying to research this anymore.
Oh, and his family name was Chanan or Hanan or Hana or Hanna or Hanne or Gane or Heine. His first name was Zelik. One census record has Joseph, the rest of his papers have Zelik. My father's birth certificate has his name as Geo. His gravestone has Joseph Heine. Robert Hanna NYC Researching: CHANAN/HANAN/HANNE/HEINE/HINEY (Warsaw, Poland); BLUMENBLAT (Sarnaki, Poland); KARASIK, THOMASHOW/TOMOSHOFF, COHEN (Babruysk, Belarus); RUBINSTEIN, BUNDEROFF, PASTILNIK, NEMOYTEN, DISKIN (Minsk, Belarus).
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Schwimmer and Ringler Families from Munkacs (Mukacheve)
#hungary
#names
#subcarpathia
#ukraine
#usa
Moishe Miller
Dear Group,
I have been putting together family groups for Schwimmer & Ringler that lived in Munkacs, formerly part of Austria-Hungary and now Mukacheve, Ukraine. My goal is to try and connect each of those families to a MRCA. My own family origins in Munkacs are Jakab Schwimmer and (Chaje) Szure Rifke who were born about 1800. There was also Moshe Aron Ringler (likely brother to Naftula Hersh Ringler [1835-1895] son on Lazar) married to Toni Salzberger. I have already connected distant SWIMMER/SCHWIMMER families that came to the USA in the 1890s, using DNA and then paper-trail. I also connected RINGLER families in Israel and Florida using paper-trail and DNA. So, if you have Schwimmer or Ringler family that you can trace back at least to 1890 and that lived in Munkacs, please reach out. If you are not sure where your Schwimmers are from, try the paper trail first? I have found that WWII draft records are an excellent source for town of birth. Of course, naturalization records would also list place of birth. I would be happy to hear from you and help you, if you. Kindly reply just to "sender". -- Moishe Miller Brooklyn, NY moishe.miller@... JGFF #3391
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Re: Webinar- Finding Your Polish Ancestors Online in the Polish State Archives
#announcements
#poland
meirr@...
The Moderator stated the presentation will be posted "in the open" for one day ONLY, so if you want it - you should not wait.
-- Meir Razy meir.razy@... Searching: Kisfajn / Sfard / Rothenberg / Ruttenberg / Rojtenberg in Rovno,Volhynia Ross in Dubno,Volhynia
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Thanks, JewishGen - Documentation of my GG Grandmother Voting
Lara Diamond
I knew my great-great grandmother's name from my own grandmother, but
until now I had no documentation that she existed. Now, thanks to a tip on JewishGen's Discussion Group, I know she voted and have her year of birth and address! Here's what I now know: https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/01/my-great-great-grandmother-voted-how-i.html Lara Diamond Baltimore, MD, USA
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Re: Coincidence?
#general
Trudy Greener
Both my parents were born in the Ukraine, in the early part of the 20th century, before the Russian Revolution, when the calendar was changed. All we knew is that we celebrated both their birthdays in January, but they never explained where those dates came from. My mother only said that they were both born during Chanukah, in different years. Only recently did I discover the ship manifest that confirmed the story we had, that they doctored her age when she, along with her mother and brother, joined her father in America, so that she would be counted as a minor child who could become an American citizen under her father's aegis.... no idea how she managed that, but the manifest actually shows a corrected age next to her name and that of her brother!
Trudy Litt (Litvak) Greener, Jerusalem
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Looking for SCHMULOWITZ CHAIM
#usa
anne.scotte@...
Hello, Anne Gouat-Brunin
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Searching J.cemetary Surany Slovakia
#slovakia
lamm.tommy@...
My g.grandmother Fanny Lamm was buried in Surany slovakia 1926.I have read that a Tomas Salzman photographed many of the gravestones in this Jewish cemetary and I would like to contact him.Any other way of seeing a photo of the gravestone would also be helpful.Thanks in advance
Tommy Lamm Israel.
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isak@bm.technion.ac.il
Hello Geners This is indeed re-writing of history. Conspiration theories made up by radical polish nationalists together with main stream Catholic newspapers (and several important Church figures), were behind the strong and wide anti-Semitism that existed in Poland during the first half of the 20th century. These theories described how Polish Jews and international Jewry, together with the Freemasons, managed to cause the partition and subjugation of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the end of the 18th century, and were continuously working to ruin the Polish Republic in the present (i.e. 20th century). You may find all about it in an article entitled : “A Polish School of Jewish History: From Clerical Judeophobia, through late Nineteenth Century Racial Antisemitism to Revisionist Polish-Jewish Historiography” It was published in the online version of the periodical “Polin”. Anybody interested is welcome to write to me and shall email her/ him the PDF version. Prof. Isak Gath isak@...
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Re: Coincidence?
#general
Yehuda Berman
Our ancestors used the mostly lunar Jewish calendar - the "week before Pesach" is a good example. My mother was born on Hoshana Rabba (the seventh day of the holiday of Sukkot/Sukkos). But when she was 16, she had to get a (Russian) ID card and for that she had to give a secular date. So she used the date that Hoshana Rabba fell on that year and that became her "official" birthdate and was used on all future documents and for celebrating birthdays. For her it was no big deal. But it meant that there was almost a month's difference between her official birthdate and the date she was actually born. The Jewish calendar doesn't have a leap year day - i.e., a day added every 4 years - but a "leap year month", a month added before Pesach every two or three years so that Pesach will always fall in the Spring.
Yehuda Berman Efrat, Israel Searching: Echtman/Achtman, Kaminsky from Odessa; Berman from Tomashpol, Ukraine
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Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean?
#events
#sephardic
The idea of Jewish pirates was popularised by Ed Kritzler's book Jewish
Pirates of the Caribbean. Ed was a much-loved personality with a deep interest in Jamaican history, but how accurate was his research? As well as his work, there has been a short film, a number of articles, and the phenomenon is all over social media. How much truth is there to it? Who are the people presented as Jewish pirates, and what is the evidence for piracy? Ton Tielen has reviewed the sources, and has studied the Pallache and the Portuguese-Sephardic Cohen families. He has thirty years' experience in Sephardic research, and is the expert on the Amsterdam Portuguese-Jewish archives. Ton is a founder-admin of The Sephardic Diaspora group on Facebook and co-host of Sephardic World. He was formerly archivist of the Netherlands Red Cross. The meeting is on Sunday 16 January 2022, at 11am in LA, 2pm NYC, 7pm London, 8pm Paris/Amsterdam and 9pm Jerusalem. Patrons can join us on Zoom. The link is shared at our Patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/sephardi Everyone is invited to join us for free at: https://www.youtube.com/SephardicGenealogyAndHistory/ Please subscribe to the YouTube channel. It helps us a lot and reminds you when we are going live! Over the last two years Sephardic World has become the leading forum for learning about Sephardic history and genealogy. We have no commercial sponsorship or public funding. There is no charge to attend our meetings or to view our content. If you are not a patron and can afford it, please consider supporting our work: https://www.patreon.com/sephardi Join Sephardic World's free mailing list at: https://mailchi.mp/sephardicgenealogy/ars1w3v45e Best wishes, Ton Tielen and David Mendoza Sephardic World Sephardic Genealogical Society
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Re: Location of Lenchyza Poland Russia?
#poland
Yossi Jalas
As far as I know, the only Jewish Records that still exist from Leczyca are from 1817, 1818 and 1824 and are at the Lodz archive, fond #1558. If anyone knows of more extant Jewish records from that town, please do let us know the precise location and fond number.
The good news is that there are very good Books of Residents for this town starting from 1865. These books are not available online yet so in order to search them you would have to reach out to the Plock archive, here: leczyca@... Yossi Jalas USA
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Re: Coincidence?
#general
ramot418@...
On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 06:18 AM, Yitschok Margareten wrote:
"In fact, the weekly portion of the Torah reading, is not the main thing of a Bar Mitzvah. The main thing of a Bar Mitzvah is being obligated by Jewish law to observe all Mitzvahs [commandments]."Very true. The actual bar mitzvah 'ceremony' is during the week when the boy first puts on tefillin for the first time and gets an aliyah (Monday, Thursday or Rosh Hodesh). -- ---------------------------- Steve Goldberg Jerusalem, Israel Researching: Sagan/Shagan family from Veliuona (Velon), Lithuania Goldberg family from Vidukle, Lithuania Susselovitch/Zuselovitch family from Raseiniai (Rassein), Lithuania
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Re: Coincidence?
#general
Yitschok Margareten
A Bar Mitzvah is not related to the week the boy was born, it's actually the day he turns 13 according to the Hebrew calendar.
The weekly portion of the Torah reading, is not according to the week he was born, but rather to the week he turns 13, which might be different that year than on the year he was born. In fact, the weekly portion of the Torah reading, is not the main thing of a Bar Mitzvah. The main thing of a Bar Mitzvah is being obligated by Jewish law to observe all Mitzvahs [commandments]. -- Yitschok Margareten
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What was his name? I found my great-aunt’s Fremdenpass in her citizenship application on archives.gov.il You may be able to find it there.
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Re: Webinar- Finding Your Polish Ancestors Online in the Polish State Archives
#announcements
#poland
Asparagirl
Robert Hanna asked if Ted Gostin's webinar about using the Polish
State Archives websites (plural!) to do Polish genealogy would be available to view afterwards. The Los Angeles Public Library has now put it online at YouTube, free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJqAzI9vxGk It's about an hour and half long, with some Q&A at the end. A short summary: Over forty million scans of old Polish records are now online, including books for some areas that used to be in Poland but aren't anymore. Many of them are hosted on the main "Szukaj w Archiwach" ("Search in Archives") website that supplanted/absorbed the old Pradziad database. The search interface has some really annoying quirks, and it is also tremendously slow when displaying images or zooming into them, but the site also has tons of material that was never microfilmed by FamilySearch and which isn't available anywhere else. So it's absolutely worth learning about how to use the website (warts and all) so that you can view the scans online for free, from home. Sometimes the newest Polish record scans are only posted at the smaller archives' individual branch websites and don't get sent up to the main "Szukaj w Archiwach" website in a timely manner, so you need to know how to check each of the small archive branch sites, too, and Ted explains how to do that. Finally, the Kuyavia and Pomerania area in north-central/northwestern Poland has a unique and separate website with text-searchable surname indexes of their records, just from two of the archive branches (Bydgoszcz and Torun) so far. It also has some of its own very annoying quirks in its search interface, and Ted explains how to work around them to find records. It's a really excellent talk, very in depth, and I highly recommend watching it. - Brooke Schreier Ganz Mill Valley, California
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Looking for family TURTIETAUB
#latinamerica
Boris Shapira
Looking for Turtelbaum, turkeltaub, TURTlETAUB lived in Argentina Ave Bandila 107 or 705 Buenos Aires
My grandfather name!
Thanks
Boris Baruch Shapira Szapiro
Philadelphia - Tel Aviv
-- boris baruch shapira cwiren Philadelphia usa Tel aviv israel boris.shapira@...
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Save the Date: Gesher Galicia Zoom Membership Meeting
#announcements
#education
#events
#galicia
#poland
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David Buford
My great grandparents were from somewhere in Russia and moved to Denver Colorado in the early 1890's. My G Grandfather Michael's last name was Saliman. His wife's name was Bessie or (Pelte). I have been trying to find out her maiden name. On my grandmother's death certificate, it said Segal was her mother's maiden name, but the more research I have done shows it may have been Schreiber. Someone on ancestry says that Bessie's father was Shalom Schreiber. Her brother was Morris Schreiber who had a son named Joseph. When I look at the 1910 census my G Grandparents lived on Clay St in Denver. There were others, a son and two different inlaw's that lived on Clay st. as well. There is also a Joseph Schreiber on the same street. This is speculation from what I am finding but I have no proof. I was just wondering if anyone out there knows for sure. Also on her gravestone it show's her father's first name was Ze'ev. Any help would be wonderful. Thanks.
-- Linda Gold Buford davidlinda@... Researching: Poland or other GOLD, BREWDA - BREVDA - , BLUMENTHAL, PALTER - also Israel, SPITZ Kobryn, Belarus Belarus - KAMENETZKI - KAMIENKA Russia - SALIMAN, SCHREIBER, SEGAL, WALDMANN
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Re: Helene ALEXANDER, of Liegnitz
#germany
Boris Shapira
Hi, I lived in Liegniz, in the jewish cemetery there are graves from 18 hundreds
Good luck Boris Shapira -- boris baruch shapira cwiren Philadelphia usa Tel aviv israel boris.shapira@...
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