Uh, that would be Vitebsk gubernia - typo or autocorrect. Sorry about that! Marion Werle <canadagenes@...>

Hello, does anyone have the Alexander Beider books who can look up a surname?The name is BYMEL. Would love to know what he says. They lived in modern day Czechoslovakia (UnterJamny) Thank you! Shelly

The Museum of Southern Jewish Experience will open in New Orleans, Louisiana in the fall of 2020 with over 7,000 artifacts in 9,000 square feet. It will cover the 13 states of the 11 Confederate ones

Sounds like a nickname for the man's name Mordechai. Other versions are Motti, Mottel, Mottke. Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device

Thanks to the Operation Benjamin article (Jan Allen) for this important string of messages. To follow up on Eric Feinstein, I appreciate your links because I have also found a cousin who was killed in

I, too, visited some of my ancestral towns in eastern Galicia, including Zbaraz, in late fall, 2006. By then, the dark years of the Holocaust had come and gone like a giant tsunami, its colossal waves

I did eventually get a list with info. Best not to try this on an iPad, bc the screen isn't big enough to see it all! Once you have found the name on the list scroll down to the scan image and click

the commonwealth war graves commission maintains graves for fallen soldiers of britain and the commonwealth countries (canada, australia, new zealand, india, etc.) all over the world. they replace

Hi Jan, Is there an English option in the actual archives site? Somewhere down the bottom there is a link to the archives site, but before I start with the online translations megillah I thought I

Newspapsers.com, part of the Ancestry family of companies is offering FREE access on all newspapers through February 17, 2020 p.m. Mountain Time. Registration is required. No credit card information

There are other organizations in the world that are changing the monuments of Jewish soldiers that fell in battle. Believe it or not the Volksbund or German War Graves commission has been active in

Keila Yevreyski-Kremer is in a suffocating, overcrowded railroad car packed with Jews who are starving and in near-panic as the train heads to Treblinka. She stands up on tip-toe to look out a little

This is from the Operation Benjamin website: "The aim of Operation Benjamin is to locate Jewish personnel at American military cemeteries all over the world who, for various reasons, were buried under

I have missed that report ! - May I learn how this reversion was achieved? I am prompted by Nicole Heymans' response to ask another question. Have you any knowledge of Half-Jews dying in German

I have found very limited information regarding the ORDANSKY family in my research thus far. Gershen ORDANSKY (later ORDAN) b 1878 "Lachowitz" m. Dora KAPLAN b 1882 in Augustow emigrated about 1906

My Heritage is offering FREE access to 446 million records from February 14-18, 2020 (they did not say which time zones based on past offers let’s guess at Central Time Zone 11:59 PM on February

Jan Meisels Allen wrote: Seventy-five years later a mistake has been rectified: Jewish WW ll soldiers buried under a cross are now buried under a Star of David headstone at the Manila American

How about this? FOCSANI, ROMANIA Barbara Hershey Portland, Oregon, USA

We are genealogists. We all, or almost all, know IGRA in this mailing list is Israel's Genealogy group. Nobody thinks there is a meeting of tuberculosis tests or interferon. If you want to refer to

Open Archives which is a Dutch genealogical website announced they have placed the passenger lists of the Holland-America Line 1900-1920 online. Go to: