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Richard Sperber
Hi Art,
I have been working with an archive researcher from Belarus and he recently sent me the extract below of a record he found in Belarus's central archives. He sent it to me because the woman mentioned, Feyga Badash, and my great grandmother Chana Badash, were sisters (Movsha Badash being my g-g-grandfather). I thought you might be interested as Feyga's husband Mordukh Shpindler, being from Grodno and born about 1869, may well be a brother or first cousin of your g-g-grandfather Alexander. 1894. Personal information of residents from foreign passport applications, Grodno guberniya. April 15: Mordukh son of Neakh Shpindler, 25 years old; Jewish petty bourgeois from town Grodno, and his wife Feyga daughter of Movsha Badash, 22 years old applied for a foreign passport for a trip to abroad. He requested to send his passport to town Belsk, Walkovysskaya Street, Kaplan’s house. Fond 1/24/1184
Researching: SPERBER, JOLLES, SCHONHEIT (Western Ukraine) ROSCH, KRELL, NEUFELD (Western, Ukraine) SEGALOWICH (SIEGEL in U.S.), BADASH, (Belarus) LERER, FIDELMAN, MALAMED (Eastern Poland & Warsaw) BERLINSKY, GOLDWEBER, BUCHBINDER (Eastern Poland)
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Jews in Georgian Society - The Laras of London
#unitedkingdom
#sephardic
#events
contact@...
The extraordinary lives of the LARAS of London during the Georgian period.
Abraham collaborated with Pitt the Younger’s government to reduce the National Debt. Esther’s husband was a good friend and benefactor of Horatio Nelson. Benjamin was the perpetrator of a huge lottery swindle and his brother, Moses, accumulated a large fortune. Charlotte Dacre and her father, "the Jew King", were personalities of the day. Their life stories are absorbing and entertaining: drawn from letters, court proceedings, and other contemporary sources. Jews in Georgian Society is rich in detail and full of remarkable insights into the commonplace and exceptional circumstances of this extended family. Pearl Foster was born in London and moved to Bristol for teacher training and to complete a degree in Economics and Sociology. Her career in education was followed by ten years as a registrar of births, marriages, and deaths. She has pursued a lifelong interest in family history research – in particular a branch of the Lara and Furtado families who escaped the Inquisition of Portugal to England. Pearl is married, has two children, is happily retired, and will be pleased to hear from anyone tracing similar lines. Pearl's books, are available from SilverWood Books at https://www.silverwoodbooks.co.uk/pearl-foster The meeting is on Sunday 23 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 Best wishes, David Mendoza and Ton Tielen Sephardic World Sephardic Genealogical Society
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Re: List of Rabbis in New York Area mid 1800's
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Odeda Zlotnick
On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 11:56 PM, Paul Chirlin wrote:
I do not think that Michaels is the Rabbi, he is a witness to the marriage. The name of the Rabbi is shown on the smaller form as Dr ????. That's the name you need to chaseI agree. The witnesses are Michaels and Hydecker (part of the latter name appears on the second document). The Rabbi may have been Dr. -- Miller. -- Odeda Zlotnick Jerusalem, Israel.
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Re: How to obtain Lodz cemetery photo
#lodz
Bernard Flam
Hi from Paris,
Concerning persons who had been buried during Shoah in Lodz' cemetery ghetto fields, I attach my picture of the original identification poles / plates of graves. These original poles / plates are displayed in Yad Vashem Lodz' ghetto room. Bernard Flam
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Re: HKP Jewish Labor Camp 1943-1944
#holocaust
Russ Maurer
Hi Mindy,
There is no comprehensive list, but quite a bit of fragmentary information from items such as work group lists, daily sick lists, and the like. These were all researched and assembled into a book published 20 years ago. LitvakSIG obtained permission to index all of the names from this book (4467 total entries, but about 1000-1200 unique names as there was a lot of redundancy) and they were added to the All-Lithuania Database a few years ago. You can see all the names by searching Any Field Contains "HKP Jewish labor camp" (without the quotes) on the ALD search form, litvaksig.org/search-ald. The book, which also gives some camp history and context, has the same text in Lithuanian, Russian, and English. Title: The H.K.P. Jewish Labor Camp 1943-1944 Author: Irina Guzenberg Publisher: Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum (Vilnius), 2002 ISBN:9955-9556-1-9 Russ Maurer Records Acquisition & Translation coordinator LitvakSIG
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Re: Viewmate translation from polish to English
#translation
Kris Murawski
This is in German.
-- Kris Murawski Raleigh, North Carolina krismurawski24@...
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Re: The London Gazette
#unitedkingdom
The London Gazette is an official publication of HM Government. Its purpose is to carry announcements and official notices such as Parliamentary Acts, Wills, Honours etc.
Interesting to read from time to time. It is published every weekday.
Regards
Martyn Woolf
Sent from Mail for Windows
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“Torat Chasidism” by Rav Shmuel Chassid Bendet
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Shalom friends, I am wondering if someone could please help in finding a copy of the book.
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Re: ViewMate translation request - Russian
#translation
#records
Chaim Landau
Thank you very much!
The latter Mendel Friedman is indeed my 3xggrandfather, as evidenced by his wife's name Gitel Brandel, and yes he was a teacher and rabbinical judge in Radom - he officiated at weddings for a couple of years in Radom. All the best, Chaim Landau
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Hannah Sperber
Searching for marriage certificate of Abraham Faibish Philo Sperber and Halina Horowicz maybe in Stanislaus, Galicia approx 1930
Hannah Sperber Denver, Colorado u s a
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Descendants of Theo David Sperber
#unitedkingdom
#germany
#general
Hannah Sperber
Dear Genners,
does anyone know anything about Theo David Sperber born in Karlsruhe Germany in 1925, to Rugby UK in 1939, became British citizen in 1947, served in the British military any help will be greatly appreciated Hannah Sperber, Denver, Colorado USA
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JGS Toronto. Free Virtual Meeting. Preserving the Past – Protecting the Future: Who Will Inherit My Family History Research? Sunday, 30 January 2022, at 10:30 a.m. ET.
#announcements
#jgs-iajgs
Jerry Scherer
Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto
Preserving the Past – Protecting the Future: Who Will Inherit My Family History Research?
Sunday, 30 January 2022, at 10:30 a.m. ET. Virtual Meeting: Join from Home
Virtual doors open at 10:20 a.m. ET
The Program Committee of JGS Toronto regularly receives requests to organize a session entitled “Who will inherit my genealogy research?” As we age and discover that our children, grandchildren, nieces, and nephews do not display the same burning interest in our family tree, this becomes a key question.
In response we have assembled a panel of inspirational speakers, primarily from our membership, to talk about their “legacy” plans.
Henry Blumberg will outline how he has developed an interest among his sons and grandchildren through travel to ancestral towns, creating a website with their help, and visiting museums and Holocaust sites.
Henry Blumberg is a barrister in Toronto. He is on the Board of JGS Toronto, has served three terms as convener of the international Latvia SIG, and two terms on the Board of Governors of JewishGen. Henry has presented at twelve IAJGS Conferences and was a speaker in Riga at the “Names and Fates Project” in June 2008, as well as at International Conferences on “Jews in a Changing World” in 2011 and in 2014.
Adena and Harvey Glasner will talk about completing the Family History template that they received from their granddaughter (called “My Grandmother's Life"). They will talk about how they started this project of documenting their family histories for their children and grandchildren.
Harvey and Adena are long-time members of JGS Toronto, and were both very active in the 2011 production of the anthology, Tracing our Roots, Telling our Stories, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of JGS Toronto. Harvey is a former President of JGS Toronto, and Adena served as the Society’s Secretary for several years.
Jerry Scherer will outline how, on Fathers’ Day, 18 June 2017, he gave a PowerPoint presentation to his children and grandchildren about his parents’ Holocaust stories. Each of his children then received a book on his talk so that they would never forget the stories of their grandparents. Jerry will demonstrate a creative technique he used to update his book for future generations.
Hersz (Jerry) Scherer, son of Holocaust survivors, was born in Siberia, USSR. He and his parents spent three years in a displaced persons camp, housed in the former barracks of the Waffen-SS in Germany, before emigrating to Montreal in 1949. Jerry has conducted a vast amount of personal genealogical research, meeting with great success. He is an active Board member of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto, currently serving as Vice-President, Communications.
Cyril Gryfe, a long-time JGS Toronto member, will talk about the website, populated with family stories, documents, and photographs, that he has created for his family.
In 1910, Sam Gryfe arrived on the shores of Canada from his hometown of Botosani, Romania. One hundred years later, more than 100 people from four generations of his family reunited to celebrate his life, and to meet and reconnect with long-lost family. Cyril played an instrumental role in connecting the family tree, which he posted at the reunion for all the relatives to see.
Les Kelman will talk about the Digital Scrapbooks that he has completed and is still working on.
Les is a former President of JGS Toronto, and is the current Program Coordinator, a role he has held for many years. Les sums up his genealogical journey with a birth history. His father was born in Ukraine, Les was born in Scotland, his children were born in Israel, and his grandchildren were born in Canada.
To register, please go to jgstoronto.ca/register
You will then receive an immediate acknowledgement plus the link to access the event on 30 January.
The presentation will be recorded. It will be available to JGS Toronto members in the “Members Only” section of the Society website a few days after the event. It will also be available to non-member registrants for one week after the event in the “Registration” location.
To our guests, consider joining our membership for only $40.00 per year by Clicking Here or consider a donation by Clicking Here to assist us in continuing our mission providing a forum for the exchange of genealogical knowledge and information. (Canadians receive a CRA tax receipt.)
Tel 647-247-6414 twitter: jgsoftoronto facebook: Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto
Jerry Scherer Vice President, Communications
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Arthur Pronin
I do see a Ariia Spindler in records-in Grodno. But born in 1841. Sam Spindler was born 1888-Im not sure the same man? Could Ariia be Alex?
Art Pronin
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Re: Who Betrayed Anne Frank and Her Family?
#holocaust
David Lewin
At 16:47 20/01/2022, Geoffrey Isaac Collins wrote:
Historians bash 'rubbish' findings of investigation into Anne Frank Why does it have to have been someone who betrayed them? Why conspiracy theories? The group of people hiding in the attic had to heat to survive. Food was scarce and rationed. It is quite enough for the SS or someone else to have noticed that more food was going into the house that "appropriate" for the number of people known to be living at that address. It is equally possible that a sound from the attic was heard by someone It was August 4th 1944 that they were discovered. A pity! Had it been in deep winter I would have come up with a conspiracy theory: The body heat of such a group of people in the cramp attic was sufficient to lessen the frost on the roof tiles. All we can do is to say - or think - a theoretical Kaddish for them, and to remember them. David Lewin London
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Re: The London Gazette
#unitedkingdom
David Lewin
At 17:04 20/01/2022, Richard Stower wrote:
I have found a possible cousin-in-law, Olga https://www.thegazette.co.uk/ It is the "Official Pub;lic Record" organ in the UK https://www.thegazette.co.uk/about The Gazette is formally the combination of three publications: The London Gazette, The Belfast Gazette and The Edinburgh Gazette. The Gazettes are official journals of record. As a publication, The Gazette consists largely of statutory notices. This means that there is some legal requirement for the notice placer to advertise an event or proposal in The Gazette. [snip] David Lewin London
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With Only Iran Dissenting the United Nations Approves Israeli Resolution Condemning Denial and Distortion of the Holocaust #holocaust
#holocaust
Jan Meisels Allen
On January 20th, the United Nations adopted an Israeli resolution that condemns denial and distortion of the Holocaust. The resolution was co-sponsored by Germany and supported by the United States, Russia and others. The 193-member General Assembly adopted the resolution by consensus — meaning it was approved without a country-by-country vote. Only Iran, Israel’s most ardent adversary, objected.
Diplomats said it was only the second time since Israel’s founding that the General Assembly had adopted an Israeli-backed resolution. The first was in 2005, when a resolution on establishing International Holocaust Remembrance Day was approved.
The resolution expresses concern about “the growing prevalence of Holocaust denial or distortion through the use of information and communications technologies,” and urges all U.N. members to “reject without any reservation any denial or distortion of the Holocaust as a historical event, either in full or in part, or any activities to this end.”
To read more see: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/20/world/americas/united-nations-holocaust-resolution.html
Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Leads on a 1921 Kesmarok Directory, or 1939-1940 confiscated assets from the Kesmarok area?
#slovakia
Alice Glasner
Hi everyone,
There was something called the “Chytil Directory” produced in 1921, that I understand included business information for Kesmarok Slovakia. Perhaps someone can shed light on whether such directories could be found for different years and for this and other regions. I’m wondering if this 1921 Kesmarok Directory can be browsed online.
Also, for Kesmarok and nearby villages, I would like to find a list of properties that were confiscated in 1939/1940. Does anyone know if such a list exists and if so, how I might be able to access it?
Thank you,
Alice Glasner
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Soroki uezd (county) Vital records
#bessarabia
#translation
Yefim Kogan
Hello Bessarabian researchers.
Here is a list of Soroki uezd (county) Vital Records (Births): 1883, 1893, 1895, 1897, 1898, 1902, 1904, 1905, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917 and 1920. 1920 was written in Romanian. If anyone is interested to translate from Romanian, please let me know. The rest of records are written in Russian and some records are in Russian and Hebrew. Some of the collections for a year include records from Soroki and also from Jewish colonies around Soroki: Brichevo, Vertuzheny, Dombroveny, Lyublin, Markuleshty. If anyone is interested, please let me know. All the best, Yefim Kogan Bessarabia Group Leader and Coordinator
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Re: The little-known original article telling the Oskar Schindler story.
#holocaust
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In my post yesterday, I mentioned the publication of the little-known, first article about Oskar
Schindler by Canadian Broadcasting Company journalist, Hebert Steinhouse in the April 1994
Canadian "Saturday Night" magazine, and also indicated that it was attached and could be
downloaded. As the link for downloading was deleted, the article has now been uploaded to
the website of the Ostrów Mazowiecka Research Family website at:
https://www.ostrow-mazowiecka.com/Steinhouse-Herbert_Saturday-Night_1994-April_relevant%20pages%20only.pdf
The preface to the article has illuminating details of Steinhouse's introduction to the SchindlerJuden,
his initial intrigue and then skepticism to what they were telling him. The article also has many
photos of the 1949 reunion of 35 Schindlerjuden with Schindler, and a sidebar with Steinhouse's
description of “The First Reunion,” of the Schindlerjuden in which he wrote:
Stanley Diamond, M.S.M. (Montreal)
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A Free Presentation: Finding Family in Online Newspapers, by Janeen Bjork to take place on Sunday, February 6, 2022 at 1 p.m.
#events
#announcements
synhe@...
Hello All, The presentation will begin with a brief look at OCR (optical character recognition, the technology that allows printed pages to be digitized and searched online) and its limitations. There will be a case study, Janeen’s cousins-in-law, the Kuznitzes of Syracuse, Rochester, Linden, NJ, and Boca Raton, and the techniques she used to find them in dozens of newspaper items, despite spelling errors and the unreliability of OCR. You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
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