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Re: Viewmate translation from polish to English #translation

Kris Murawski
 

This is in German.
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Kris Murawski
Raleigh, North Carolina
krismurawski24@...
Re: The London Gazette #unitedkingdom

Martyn Woolf
 

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

 
“Torat Chasidism” by Rav Shmuel Chassid Bendet #general

aaran1286@...
 

Shalom friends,

A page from this encyclopaedia mentions that my ancestor Rav Shmuel Chassid wrote a book called “Torat Chassidim”. 

I am wondering if someone could please help in finding a copy of the book.


Thank you very much,

Yoav Aran
London 
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
Searching Marriage Certificate of Abraham Faibish Philo Sperber and Halina Horowicz #galicia #general

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
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
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.)

 

 

 

 

 

info@...      www.jgstoronto.ca

Tel 647-247-6414         twitter: jgsoftoronto

facebook: Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto

 

 

Jerry Scherer

Vice President, Communications

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Re: Spindler- Grondo #belarus #records #russia

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
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
betrayal |
Headline in web newspaper TIMES OF ISRAEL

Big conclusions demand big proof," historian Johannes Houwink ten
Cate told The Times of Israel. "I cannot believe that a member of
the Jewish Council traded addresses for freedom. After the Council
was abolished, its members were sent to camps, if they did not go into hiding."

As professor emeritus of Holocaust studies at the University of
Amsterdam, Houwink ten Cate spent decades researching the city under
German occupation. According to the scholar, Van den Bergh was in
hiding throughout most of 1944, including during the raid on the
secret annex in early August.

"Van den Bergh's special status [of being protected as a council
member and otherwise] had been withdrawn by the Nazis," said Houwink
ten Cate. "If he had betrayed the Frank family, he had to come out
into the open, and that exactly was what he was trying to prevent."

From
GEOFFREY ISAAC COLLINS
HAIFA
geoffic at gmail.com

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
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
(Haves) Suchostawer, listed in the August 23,
1949 issue of The London Gazette. The page
appears to list the names and occupations of
refugees and/or displaced persons living in
post-war London. Her husband, Sigmund, was murdered in the Holocaust.

Is there someone who knows the purpose of The London Gazette?

Thank you.

Richard Stower
Yarmouth, Maine

Researching Kolomyya: SECHESTOWER, SPIERMAN, THAU, BEISER, GRAFF.

Chortkiv/Budaniv: GROSS, FELLNER, HOCHMAN

Dobrowa TarnowskÄ…: KANNER, SCHMIDT, WERNER

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
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

 
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
 
 

 

 
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
Re: The little-known original article telling the Oskar Schindler story. #holocaust

Stanley Diamond
 

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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: 

"Early in 1949, a group of some thirty-five Schindlerjuden gathered privately at Aux de Colmar, an Alsatian restaurant in the north of Paris, to fete their friend Oskar Schindler, who was then passing through the city.  All were gay and exuberant as they surrounded the beaming and perspiring Schindler.  “Sto Lat!” they toasted him with passion as they roared out the traditional Polish song “A hundred years may he live!”   Glasses of white wine flashed in the air and, on raised arms, sleeves slipped back to reveal the tattoos of the concentration camp.
 
The speeches were full of florid tributes.  “It was known throughout Poland that whoever went to Schindler’s factory was safe,” said an industrialist movingly. “At the Sudetenland factory they sneered at as ‘Schindlerjuden,’ ” said a textile worker.  “Today we are proud of that name.”
 
Schindler spoke with tears in his eyes, stammering his thanks for the warm demonstration.  “Germans today seem to share a collective innocence," he told them, “not the collective guilt they should.”  When his speech was over, he rushed from table to table embracing each of them with his strong arms.   As we ate our Alsatian meal, everyone eagerly plied me with new details of the common experience and confirmed the stories originally recounted by Stern, as well as those I had heard from Schindler himself when I had visited him a few months earlier in his modest room in a Munich suburb."  H.S.

Stanley Diamond, M.S.M.   (Montreal)
 

10a. 
The little-known original article telling the Oskar Schindler story. #holocaust
From: Stanley Diamond
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 09:57:52 EST
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I would like to touch on another aspect of the Oskar Schindler story of which the 
majority of the public are unaware.
 
Only one journalist knew Oskar well and wrote his story long before Thomas Keneally 
penned "Schindler's Ark."  That journalist is the late Montrealer, Herbert Steinhouse, 
at the time the Western Europe News Correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting 
Company.  
 
The article he wrote in 1949 lay untouched in his voluminous files for 45 years after
it was rejected by Atlantic Monthly and several other leading magazines...at a time 
when few people wanted to hear stories about good Germans.
 
He finally agreed to the publication of the original article after viewing the film and 
satisfying himself that Stephen Spielberg had captured the essences of the man
and had not given the story a whitewashed Hollywood treatment.  It was finally 
published in the Canadian "Saturday Night" magazine (attached). You can also 
 
Following the publication in "Saturday Night," Steinhouse was interviewed on the 
Canadian nightly news.  The interview can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/XGSzuNNImGY.
 
The Steinhouse files are now in the Canadian National Archives and the fond 
which in part states:
 
"The appearance of Steven Spielberg’s film “Schindler’s List” in 1993 convinced 
him to submit his old manuscript “The German Who Saved a Thousand Lives”, 
written half a century earlier, to “Saturday Night” magazine. Its publication as 
“The Real Oskar Schindler” brought Steinhouse belated recognition as the 
journalist who had first discovered the Schindler story and whose hard research 
backed up the claims of the “fictional” film and novel. The article was translated
and reprinted throughout the world.”
 
For the sake of full disclosure, the late Herbert and I are first cousins. 

Stanley Diamond, M.S.M.   (Montreal)
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 Jewish Genealogical Society of Central New York will present a virtual program (Zoom): “Finding Family in Online Newspapers,” on Sunday, February 6, 2022 at 1:00 pm by TV researcher and genealogy teacher and author, Janeen Bjork.

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.

There will also be an overview of the resources, both for-fees and free, that are available online for finding historical newspapers. Prior to the Q&A, Janeen will do a brief walk-through of a handout with tips and resources that will give participants all they need to find their family members in online newspapers.

You are invited to a Zoom meeting. 
When: Feb 6, 2022, 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) 

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqc-6rpjotE9XngSogRhpetKU_ezPiC1tF 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

 


JGSCNY
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Yonat Klein
Syracuse NY

 
entry no. vs. death certificate no. #records

Trudy Barch
 

I am using FamilySearch and find death information about my great-uncle in Chicago.  It gives an Entry number.   Is that the same as a Death Certificate No.?

Thank you for your explanation if this is the same or different information.

 

Trudy Barch,  FLorida
JewishGen Summer Fellowship: Applications Now Open! #JewishGenUpdates

Avraham Groll
 

JewishGen is pleased to invite applications for our second JewishGen Future Scholars Fellowship program, to take place from July 5, 2022 – July 14, 2022. Graduate students, along with current third and fourth-year undergraduate students, are invited to apply.

This immersive program, created in partnership with The Matzevah Foundation, and the Friends of Jewish Heritage in Poland, focuses on the role of Jewish cemeteries today in preserving the memory and legacy of former Jewish communities. Participants will help clean-up a cemetery, learn about symbols and epitaphs on tombstones, the general state of Jewish cemeteries in Poland after the Holocaust, efforts to preserve them from both a communal, political, and Halachic perspective,  and what lessons can be gleaned to inform our own life choices today. 

On this 10-day journey, participants will tour many Jewish heritage sites including Warsaw and Lublin, spend an inspirational Shabbat in Krakow, visit Auschwitz/Birkenau, and then travel to Przysucha, Poland, where the group will participate in the clean-up and preservation of the Jewish cemetery in partnership with a Polish university student group. 

The trip will be led by highly experienced staff and participants will have an opportunity to learn from rabbis, scholars, dignitaries, and community leaders, who will offer first-hand insights regarding the imperative (and challenges) of cleaning-up cemeteries in accordance with Jewish law. They will address how local Polish communities view Jewish cemeteries in their towns, the need to preserve Jewish memory, and more. 

During the trip, Fellows will play a leadership role in working with the Polish university students (in collaboration with the Historical Institute of the University of Szczecin), and will have nightly reflection exercises. Upon returning home, each Fellow will record a video and write an essay describing his or her experience. These recordings/essays will be made available on the JewishGen website.

This program is nearly fully subsidized, save for a $350 non-refundable registration fee (to be paid upon acceptance and commitment to the program). All other expenses will be completely covered by JewishGen (including r/t travel from NY, transportation in Poland, meals, lodging, materials, etc). Dietary laws will be observed.

To learn more, and apply, please visit: https://www.jewishgen.org/fellowship/.
If you feel you know of someone who might like to apply, please share this email and/or the attached flyer.

As always, if you have any questions, or would be interested in helping sponsor this program, please feel free to contact me at agroll@....

Avraham Groll
Executive Director
JewishGen
Re: The London Gazette #unitedkingdom

Eva Lawrence
 

The London Gazette acts as a sort of official notice board of the
British Civil Service and the legal profession here. It publishes
reports of Court cases, naturalisations, diplomatic appointments, royal
honours lists, bankruptcies, official notices of the fighting forces,
lists of ranking officers, but the contents have varied over time. Its
archive is now freely available to search online.
For its history, which goes back to the 18th century or earlier, I
suggest you search Wikipedia.
Eva Lawrence
St Albans, UK.
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Eva Lawrence
St Albans, UK.
Re: List of Rabbis in New York Area mid 1800's #records

Paul Chirlin
 

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 chase

paul chirlin
florida
Re: The London Gazette #unitedkingdom

Michael Sharp
 

The London Gazette is the official journal for the publication of official government announcements, such as honours awarded by the monarch, medals for gallantry and for naturalisation certificates (i.e. the award of British citizenship)
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Michael Sharp
Manchester UK
michael.sharp@...
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