JewishGen offers New Class: Jewish Genealogy in East Prussia and the
Baltic States August 3 - August 26.

For the first time, JewishGen is offering a research class with focus
on Jewish Genealogical research in East Prussia and the Baltic States.

This course will focus on the modern countries of Lithuania (Kaunas),
Latvia, Estonia and the western part of East Prussia that borders the
Baltic Sea.

This region was once inhabited by the Baltic Prussians and Jews where
German language and culture dominated. Regional wars, famine, trade and
treaties influenced Jews who were permitted to live there. The ports and
the rivers that ran into the Baltic determined Jewish life.

If your ancestral roots were in East Prussia, Northern Poland, Western
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia this class may help you break stumbling
blocks in your research. We will work at records still in existence for
these areas. Where records are sparse we will concentrate on finding
alternate sources.

JewishGen education classes are private, open for your posts 24/7.
You post your family information and the instructor will help you set
objectives to find the solutions for finding missing data.

Tuition for this class is $125. for three weeks of instruction.

If you are interested in this class, we encourage you to send the
instructor a brief summary of your research information and your
questions to see if your research project fits within the scope of
this class. More information

https://www.jewishgen.org/education/

For information about the Application
click on Requirements and Course Details.

Send your questions and application to nholden@...

Nancy Holden
Curriculum Moderator
JewishGen Education

Shalom,

Last month, the Yizkor Book Project, saw important additions to many
of our ongoing projects, some of which have been on a "low flame" for
quite some time. For myself, this is a very encouraging sign and am
hopeful that this trend will continue in months to come.

In what has become a regular part of my monthly reports, I am pleased,
once again, to let you know that a further Yizkor Book has been
completely translated. The book this time, is the Tovste, Ukraine book
- the "Memorial book of Tluste" which has been deftly coordinated by
Douglas Hykle and who, with the assistance a number of skilled
volunteer and professional translators, succeeded in achieving this
lofty goal. Many thanks to Doug and all those involved in this effort.

The timely completion of this translation comes just before the IAJGS
conference in Warsaw and I do wish all the participants a very
memorable, and enlightening time there. As always, we have a Yizkor
Book Birds of a Feather meeting which will be lead this year by Max
Heffler who has been very active in our project for numerous years. I
join with Max in inviting you to this meeting where you can learn more
about what we're doing and meet those already active in the YB
project.

Another very timely addition to the Yizkor Book Project, to be exact
to the Yizkor Books in Print Project, is the publishing of the "We
Remember Lest the World Forget" book, containing unique and moving
personal testimonies of Minsk Ghetto survivors. Thanks, as always, to
Joel Alpert and his dedicated and amazing team of volunteers for all
the work they do in this project. Joel has also informed me that the
translation into English of the Brody, Ukraine Yizkor book will be
made available to the public in the very near future, which is also
great news. For details of the 70 odd books that are already
available, please see the link to this project at the end of this
report.

The Yizkor Book Project is only able to achieve what it does through
the tireless assistance of a great number of volunteers who have a
special place in their hearts, like myself, for this endeavor.
Although we have many volunteers, we are still "greedy" for more to
help advance the myriad of projects we have running. For instance, we
are always on the lookout for editing help, especially people with
knowledge of Hebrew and/or Yiddish.

We are also currently looking for a volunteer who can transcribe
Cyrillic into English so that we can make a list of martyrs from
Vitebsk, Belarus available in the YB project. If the above fields of
expertise suit you to a tee and you are able to dedicate some time to
our project, I would be pleased to hear >from you.

As one of the aims of the Yizkor Book Project is to make the material
they contain freely available to a wide as possible audience, I was
pleased to receive the complete translation into Polish of the Sierpc,
Poland Yizkor Book which was kindly presented to us by Avraham Nanes.
This translation, together with the many others we have online in
languages other than English, is linked in the "Other Languages"
section in our Translations Index page - the link to which, is
provided at the end of this report.

And now for details of all the updates and additions that were carried
out in the Yizkor Book Project in July.

We have added in one new book:

- Sieprc, Poland (The Community of Sierpc; Memorial Book)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/sierpc/sierpcp.html [Polish]

We have added in 2 new entries:

- Klaipeda, Lithuania (Preserving Our Litvak Heritage - Volume I)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lithuania4/lit4_091.html

- Veisiejai, Lithuania (Preserving Our Litvak Heritage - Volume I)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lithuania4/lit4_612.html

And we have continued to update 29 of our existing projects:

- Belitsa, Belarus (Book of Belitzah-Bielica)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Belitsa/Belitsa.html

- Bialobrzegi, Poland (Book of Remembrance of the Community of
Bialobrzeg)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Bialobrzegi/Bialobrzegi.html

- Bialystok, Poland (The chronicle of Bialystok)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Bialystok/Bialystok.html

- Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyy (Akkerman), Ukraine (Akkerman and the Towns
of its District; Memorial Book)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Akkerman/Akkerman.html

- Capresti, Moldova (Kapresht, our village; memorial book for the
Jewish community of Kapresht, Bessarabia)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Capresti/Capresti.html

- Chelm, Poland (Yizkor book in memory of Chelm)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/chelm1/chelm1.html

- Czyzew-Osada, Poland (Czyzewo Memorial Book)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Czyzew/Czyzew.html

- Dieveniskis, Lithuania (Devenishki book; memorial book)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/dieveniskes/dieveniskes.html

- Dolginovo, Belarus (Eternal flame; in memory of Dolhinow)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/dolginovo/dolginovo.html

- Dubno, Ukraine (Dubno; a Memorial to the Jewish community of Dubno,
Wolyn) https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/dubno/dubno.html

- Dynow, Poland (The Memorial Book of Jewish Dinov)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/dynow1/dynow1.html

- Kamyanyets, Belarus (Memorial Book of Kamenets Litovsk, Zastavye,
and Colonies) https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Kamenets/Kamenets.html

- Kherson, Ukraine (Jewish Farmers in Russian Fields)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/JewishFarmers/JewishFarmers.html

- Kolomyya, Ukraine (Memorial Book of Kolomey)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/kolomyya/kolomyya.html

- Kovel, Ukraine (Kowel; Testimony and Memorial Book of Our Destroyed
Community) https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/kovel1/kovel1.html

- Krasnik, Poland (Book of Krasnik)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/krasnik/krasnik.html

- Kurenets, Belarus (The scroll of Kurzeniac)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/kurenets/kurenets.html

- Lithuania (Lite, volume 1)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lita/lita.html

- Lithuania (Lite, volume 2)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lita2/lita2.html

- Lithuania (Preserving Our Litvak Heritage - Volume I)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lithuania4/lithuania4.html

- Miechow, Charsznica & Ksiaz, Poland (Miechov Memorial Book,
Charsznica and Ksiaz)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Miechow/Miechow.html

- Miedzyrzec Podlaski, Poland (Mezritsh Book, in Memory of the Martyrs
of our City)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Miedzyrzec_Podlaski/Miedzyrzec_Podlaski.html

- Ozerna, Ukraine (Memorial book, Jezierzany and surroundings)
https://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Ozeryany/Ozeryany.html

- Smarhon, Belarus (Smorgonie, District Vilna; memorial book and
testimony) https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/smorgon/smorgon.html

- Svencionys, Lithuania (Svintzian region: memorial book of 23
communities) https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/svencionys/svencionys.html

- Tarnow, Poland (The life and decline of a Jewish city)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/tarnow/tarnow.html

- Tovste, Ukraine (Memorial book of Tluste)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/tovste/tovste.html

- Volkovysk, Belarus (Wolkovisker Yizkor Book)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/volkovysk/volkovysk.html

- We want to live
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/WantToLive/WantToLive.html

Some important links to note:

- This month's additions and updates are flagged at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html to make it easy to
find them.
- All you would like to know about the Yizkor Books in Print Project
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ybip.html
- Yizkor Book Translation Funds
http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/v_projectslist.asp?project_cat=23
where your financial support will assist in seeing more translations

go online.

All the best,
Lance Ackerfeld
Yizkor Book Project Manager

JewishGen offers New Class: Jewish Genealogy in East Prussia and the
Baltic States August 3 - August 26.

For the first time, JewishGen is offering a research class with focus
on Jewish Genealogical research in East Prussia and the Baltic States.

This course will focus on the modern countries of Lithuania (Kaunas),
Latvia, Estonia and the western part of East Prussia that borders the
Baltic Sea.

This region was once inhabited by the Baltic Prussians and Jews where
German language and culture dominated. Regional wars, famine, trade and
treaties influenced Jews who were permitted to live there. The ports and
the rivers that ran into the Baltic determined Jewish life.

If your ancestral roots were in East Prussia, Northern Poland, Western
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia this class may help you break stumbling
blocks in your research. We will work at records still in existence for
these areas. Where records are sparse we will concentrate on finding
alternate sources.

JewishGen education classes are private, open for your posts 24/7.
You post your family information and the instructor will help you set
objectives to find the solutions for finding missing data.

Tuition for this class is $125. for three weeks of instruction.

If you are interested in this class, we encourage you to send the
instructor a brief summary of your research information and your
questions to see if your research project fits within the scope of
this class. More information

https://www.jewishgen.org/education/

For information about the Application
click on Requirements and Course Details.

Send your questions and application to nholden@...

Nancy Holden
Curriculum Moderator
JewishGen Education

Shalom,

Last month, the Yizkor Book Project, saw important additions to many
of our ongoing projects, some of which have been on a "low flame" for
quite some time. For myself, this is a very encouraging sign and am
hopeful that this trend will continue in months to come.

In what has become a regular part of my monthly reports, I am pleased,
once again, to let you know that a further Yizkor Book has been
completely translated. The book this time, is the Tovste, Ukraine book
- the "Memorial book of Tluste" which has been deftly coordinated by
Douglas Hykle and who, with the assistance a number of skilled
volunteer and professional translators, succeeded in achieving this
lofty goal. Many thanks to Doug and all those involved in this effort.

The timely completion of this translation comes just before the IAJGS
conference in Warsaw and I do wish all the participants a very
memorable, and enlightening time there. As always, we have a Yizkor
Book Birds of a Feather meeting which will be lead this year by Max
Heffler who has been very active in our project for numerous years. I
join with Max in inviting you to this meeting where you can learn more
about what we're doing and meet those already active in the YB
project.

Another very timely addition to the Yizkor Book Project, to be exact
to the Yizkor Books in Print Project, is the publishing of the "We
Remember Lest the World Forget" book, containing unique and moving
personal testimonies of Minsk Ghetto survivors. Thanks, as always, to
Joel Alpert and his dedicated and amazing team of volunteers for all
the work they do in this project. Joel has also informed me that the
translation into English of the Brody, Ukraine Yizkor book will be
made available to the public in the very near future, which is also
great news. For details of the 70 odd books that are already
available, please see the link to this project at the end of this
report.

The Yizkor Book Project is only able to achieve what it does through
the tireless assistance of a great number of volunteers who have a
special place in their hearts, like myself, for this endeavor.
Although we have many volunteers, we are still "greedy" for more to
help advance the myriad of projects we have running. For instance, we
are always on the lookout for editing help, especially people with
knowledge of Hebrew and/or Yiddish.

We are also currently looking for a volunteer who can transcribe
Cyrillic into English so that we can make a list of martyrs from
Vitebsk, Belarus available in the YB project. If the above fields of
expertise suit you to a tee and you are able to dedicate some time to
our project, I would be pleased to hear >from you.

As one of the aims of the Yizkor Book Project is to make the material
they contain freely available to a wide as possible audience, I was
pleased to receive the complete translation into Polish of the Sierpc,
Poland Yizkor Book which was kindly presented to us by Avraham Nanes.
This translation, together with the many others we have online in
languages other than English, is linked in the "Other Languages"
section in our Translations Index page - the link to which, is
provided at the end of this report.

And now for details of all the updates and additions that were carried
out in the Yizkor Book Project in July.

We have added in one new book:

- Sieprc, Poland (The Community of Sierpc; Memorial Book)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/sierpc/sierpcp.html [Polish]

We have added in 2 new entries:

- Klaipeda, Lithuania (Preserving Our Litvak Heritage - Volume I)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lithuania4/lit4_091.html

- Veisiejai, Lithuania (Preserving Our Litvak Heritage - Volume I)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lithuania4/lit4_612.html

And we have continued to update 29 of our existing projects:

- Belitsa, Belarus (Book of Belitzah-Bielica)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Belitsa/Belitsa.html

- Bialobrzegi, Poland (Book of Remembrance of the Community of
Bialobrzeg)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Bialobrzegi/Bialobrzegi.html

- Bialystok, Poland (The chronicle of Bialystok)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Bialystok/Bialystok.html

- Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyy (Akkerman), Ukraine (Akkerman and the Towns
of its District; Memorial Book)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Akkerman/Akkerman.html

- Capresti, Moldova (Kapresht, our village; memorial book for the
Jewish community of Kapresht, Bessarabia)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Capresti/Capresti.html

- Chelm, Poland (Yizkor book in memory of Chelm)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/chelm1/chelm1.html

- Czyzew-Osada, Poland (Czyzewo Memorial Book)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Czyzew/Czyzew.html

- Dieveniskis, Lithuania (Devenishki book; memorial book)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/dieveniskes/dieveniskes.html

- Dolginovo, Belarus (Eternal flame; in memory of Dolhinow)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/dolginovo/dolginovo.html

- Dubno, Ukraine (Dubno; a Memorial to the Jewish community of Dubno,
Wolyn) https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/dubno/dubno.html

- Dynow, Poland (The Memorial Book of Jewish Dinov)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/dynow1/dynow1.html

- Kamyanyets, Belarus (Memorial Book of Kamenets Litovsk, Zastavye,
and Colonies) https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Kamenets/Kamenets.html

- Kherson, Ukraine (Jewish Farmers in Russian Fields)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/JewishFarmers/JewishFarmers.html

- Kolomyya, Ukraine (Memorial Book of Kolomey)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/kolomyya/kolomyya.html

- Kovel, Ukraine (Kowel; Testimony and Memorial Book of Our Destroyed
Community) https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/kovel1/kovel1.html

- Krasnik, Poland (Book of Krasnik)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/krasnik/krasnik.html

- Kurenets, Belarus (The scroll of Kurzeniac)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/kurenets/kurenets.html

- Lithuania (Lite, volume 1)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lita/lita.html

- Lithuania (Lite, volume 2)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lita2/lita2.html

- Lithuania (Preserving Our Litvak Heritage - Volume I)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lithuania4/lithuania4.html

- Miechow, Charsznica & Ksiaz, Poland (Miechov Memorial Book,
Charsznica and Ksiaz)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Miechow/Miechow.html

- Miedzyrzec Podlaski, Poland (Mezritsh Book, in Memory of the Martyrs
of our City)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Miedzyrzec_Podlaski/Miedzyrzec_Podlaski.html

- Ozerna, Ukraine (Memorial book, Jezierzany and surroundings)
https://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Ozeryany/Ozeryany.html

- Smarhon, Belarus (Smorgonie, District Vilna; memorial book and
testimony) https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/smorgon/smorgon.html

- Svencionys, Lithuania (Svintzian region: memorial book of 23
communities) https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/svencionys/svencionys.html

- Tarnow, Poland (The life and decline of a Jewish city)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/tarnow/tarnow.html

- Tovste, Ukraine (Memorial book of Tluste)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/tovste/tovste.html

- Volkovysk, Belarus (Wolkovisker Yizkor Book)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/volkovysk/volkovysk.html

- We want to live
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/WantToLive/WantToLive.html

Some important links to note:

- This month's additions and updates are flagged at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html to make it easy to
find them.
- All you would like to know about the Yizkor Books in Print Project
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ybip.html
- Yizkor Book Translation Funds
http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/v_projectslist.asp?project_cat=23
where your financial support will assist in seeing more translations

go online.

All the best,
Lance Ackerfeld
Yizkor Book Project Manager

Congratulations to Carol Hoffman!
Bonni Showalter

Congratulations to Carol Hoffman!
Bonni Showalter

Mazel tov, Carol!!! Well deserved!

Danielle Weiner
Dallas, TX

Mazel tov, Carol!!! Well deserved!

Danielle Weiner
Dallas, TX

Dear all,

My presentation "Vital records >from the former Prussian provinces of Posen
and Silesia" complements Roger Lustig's "Researching the Jews of Prussian
Poland". You can download the revised handout (PDF) and the PowerPoint
presentation (PPSX, 26 MB) >from https://tinyurl/warsaw-jm; the password is
the beginning of the folder name next to the cloud symbol (5 letters, all
caps).

**The files are intended for your personal use as a conference
participant and/or GerSIG member. Neither the files nor the
link to them may be passed on to non-members of GerSIG or
published elsewhere in any form without my consent.

Joachim Mugdan, Basel, Switzerland JGFF Researcher 5749

Dear all,

My presentation "Vital records >from the former Prussian provinces of Posen
and Silesia" complements Roger Lustig's "Researching the Jews of Prussian
Poland". You can download the revised handout (PDF) and the PowerPoint
presentation (PPSX, 26 MB) >from https://tinyurl/warsaw-jm; the password is
the beginning of the folder name next to the cloud symbol (5 letters, all
caps).

**The files are intended for your personal use as a conference
participant and/or GerSIG member. Neither the files nor the
link to them may be passed on to non-members of GerSIG or
published elsewhere in any form without my consent.

Joachim Mugdan, Basel, Switzerland JGFF Researcher 5749

Philip Moravcik inquired as to how to access Yad Vashem's Pages of
Testimony.
I just used this site and found it by inquiry to Google:
yvng.yadvashem.org/names
Central database of Shoah Names

On the inquiry sheet I placed the surnames and town and out came the two
people I was searching.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

I've posted 2 additional vital records in Hungarian for which I need
translations, on ViewMate at the following 2 addresses:

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=68954, and

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM68955

I seek as many translations & interpretations as possible. The more
points of view, the better, for complete translation and clues I seek.

Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application.
Thank you very much.
Barrie Karp PhD
---
barriekarp@...

KARP/CARP; WIEN (Horowitz) (Fine) (Vine); BERCOWICZ; TUCHFELD; HORN;
HOROWITZ; GOTTESMAN, DORNBAUM (Romania: Vaslui, Falticeni, Iasi,
Tulcea, etc.); Ukraine, Galicia, Horodenka, Kolymyya, Lviv, Stryj,
Stanislawow, Sambor, L'viv; Austria Hungary, Vienna); WEISS (Kohan?);
GRUNBAUM/ GREENBAUM, BERCOWITZ, FUCHS/Fox,KLEIN, GOTTLIEB [?];
ROSENFELD, ENGEL, LOVENRIN
(Hungary: Munkacs/Mukacevo, Kovago-Eors, Kisvarda; Ukraine, Austria,
Germany, Vienna). Possibly: HAIMOWITZ;

NYC all; Wilkes-Barre, PA; Syracuse, NY; Scranton, PA; Cleveland, OH;
Los Angeles, CA; Rochester, NY; Broward, FL; NJ

I am following up to let you know that my request has been resolved.
Wolf-Erich Eckstein and Randy Schoenberg each kindly sent me an image
of a transcript of Franziska Granichstaedten's gravestone. It is
quite amazing to me that these transcripts have been recorded and
saved, given that most of these gravestones are now destroyed or at
least unreadable, Franziska's included. The explanation is that,
sometime around 1905, Dr. Pinkas Heinrich, the archivist of IKG Wien,
inventoried the graves >from this cemetery and recorded some of the
Hebrew inscriptions >from the headstones.

Many thanks to all of you who helped me. With this help, I did
succeed in connecting Franziska to my Hungarian family. The story of
how I originally came to suspect her connection to my family is an
interesting one.

Martin.

I have a photograph taken in July 1939 in Kyjov of the Cantor of
Hodonin. He was responsible for Kyjov as well, and would travel once
a week to teach the boys and girls of Kyjov. Can anyone help me put a
name to this person?

I am happy to share the photo privately if you can help identify.

Michael Gordy
Takoma Park, MD, USA
Researching towns of Kyjov, Boskovice, Straznice, and Hodonin.

Philip Moravcik inquired as to how to access Yad Vashem's Pages of
Testimony.
I just used this site and found it by inquiry to Google:
yvng.yadvashem.org/names
Central database of Shoah Names

On the inquiry sheet I placed the surnames and town and out came the two
people I was searching.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

I've posted 2 additional vital records in Hungarian for which I need
translations, on ViewMate at the following 2 addresses:

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=68954, and

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM68955

I seek as many translations & interpretations as possible. The more
points of view, the better, for complete translation and clues I seek.

Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application.
Thank you very much.
Barrie Karp PhD
---
barriekarp@...

KARP/CARP; WIEN (Horowitz) (Fine) (Vine); BERCOWICZ; TUCHFELD; HORN;
HOROWITZ; GOTTESMAN, DORNBAUM (Romania: Vaslui, Falticeni, Iasi,
Tulcea, etc.); Ukraine, Galicia, Horodenka, Kolymyya, Lviv, Stryj,
Stanislawow, Sambor, L'viv; Austria Hungary, Vienna); WEISS (Kohan?);
GRUNBAUM/ GREENBAUM, BERCOWITZ, FUCHS/Fox,KLEIN, GOTTLIEB [?];
ROSENFELD, ENGEL, LOVENRIN
(Hungary: Munkacs/Mukacevo, Kovago-Eors, Kisvarda; Ukraine, Austria,
Germany, Vienna). Possibly: HAIMOWITZ;

NYC all; Wilkes-Barre, PA; Syracuse, NY; Scranton, PA; Cleveland, OH;
Los Angeles, CA; Rochester, NY; Broward, FL; NJ

I am following up to let you know that my request has been resolved.
Wolf-Erich Eckstein and Randy Schoenberg each kindly sent me an image
of a transcript of Franziska Granichstaedten's gravestone. It is
quite amazing to me that these transcripts have been recorded and
saved, given that most of these gravestones are now destroyed or at
least unreadable, Franziska's included. The explanation is that,
sometime around 1905, Dr. Pinkas Heinrich, the archivist of IKG Wien,
inventoried the graves >from this cemetery and recorded some of the
Hebrew inscriptions >from the headstones.

Many thanks to all of you who helped me. With this help, I did
succeed in connecting Franziska to my Hungarian family. The story of
how I originally came to suspect her connection to my family is an
interesting one.

Martin.

I have a photograph taken in July 1939 in Kyjov of the Cantor of
Hodonin. He was responsible for Kyjov as well, and would travel once
a week to teach the boys and girls of Kyjov. Can anyone help me put a
name to this person?

I am happy to share the photo privately if you can help identify.

Michael Gordy
Takoma Park, MD, USA
Researching towns of Kyjov, Boskovice, Straznice, and Hodonin.

Yad VaShem does not remove Pages of Testimony.

Don't search in "Testimonies,"

Rather, go to their "CENTRAL DATABASE OF SHOAH VICTIMS' NAMES" and
type in the relative's name. A few with the same name may come up. If
a Page of Testimony was submitted, it will be easy to see.

Stefanie Putkowski

Go to http://yadvashem.org/
Touch "Digital Collections"
Click on the first line in the digital collections, it says: "Shoah Names Database".

The direct link to the Shoah Names Database is:
https://yvng.yadvashem.org/

A search of the Yad Vashem site for "pages of testimony" yields relevant
results in the first result.
So does a search for that term in Google.


Odeda Zlotnick
Searching:
KULIKOWER, BLASS, BOTTWIN-MELLER in Lemberg and Vienna;
LEISEROWITZ, ZIGLER; COSULEANU in Iassy and Cosula;
MENDELOWITSCH (MENDELWICZ) in Tomaszow Mazowietsky;
ZLOTNICK >from Lapicih (Lapich) Belarus, FEIGIN in Minsk, Belarus

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