MyHeritage is having a special for FamilyTreeDNA (FTDNA) members. I have no affiliation with either. Here is a copy & paste of the email which I received. Karen Lukeman <Karen_Lukeman@...> View in

I believe, but I am not certain, that the exit questionnaires are available at USHMM via the library, but you cannot access them online for privacy reasons. Not all families were included in the exist

"It was registered three months following the event. Why might they have waited so long to report it?" Why would a Jew register their births at all in Russia (or elsewhere in Europe)? Birth records

Meron Lavie wrote: "I recently found a photo of a relative's grave, a married woman with a young child, who died in 1910.The headstone has "BELOVED MOTHER" inscribed above the woman's name, and

Thanks. My grandfather's Ellis Island "Cause of Detention" codes are "JPG 1140 Monn". Any ideas as to what they mean? He apparently was released the next day. -- Ken Ryesky Petach Tikva,

Peter Heilbrunn wrote: My mother came to England from Vienna in April 1939 on a so called Domestic Visa or Green Card. I have learnt a lot about refugees from Austria who came to England but never

A section of the Yizkor book of Švencionys, Lithuania is titled “Heroism.” It contains the accounts of “the Jewish heroes from the region about the daily battle they fought in the ranks of the

RR is for "railroad." In this case, a woman and her daughter traveling alone, it probably means they were released to the custody of the railroad for delivery to the waiting relative. In some such

Two of my Guttenberg great aunts/uncles, brother and sister Abraham Simon (b Hull 1872) and Rachel Guttenberg (b Hull 1882) married Gorfunkles, Minnie and Isaac. Both the Guttenberg and Gorfunkels

I have received a birth record from Warsaw. It is interesting that the house numbers for my family and the witnesses are indicated, but the street name is not given. How might I learn the street

I have received a birth record from Warsaw for my Great Aunt. It was registered three months following the event. Why might they have waited so long to report it? Elizabeth Jackson

Hello Leah Heilpern Snider, Contact World Jewish Relief in London, England as they have an archive documenting Refugees from before and after WWII. The website page that you want is as follows:-

Can anyone tell me if there exists an English translation of the late Professor Dov Levin's 12-page paper, "The Tactics of the Gestapo towards the Underground Resistance in Riga Ghetto in the light of

Thank you to all who have replied to me. I am sure that Salomon Schloß meant "shalom", in the deeper meaning of the word. Since often words in the German text are written in the way they are

Regarding the entering of family tree info on a website such as Ancestry, it's a good idea to ask first. When I first followed Ancestry' s policy of leaving the names of living relatives off of the

Have you tried contacting the IKG Wien directly? The website is https://www.ikg-wien.at. Stephen Katz

I think the word is "Shalom" = Peace (שלום). Only it's written as it heard in a Yiddishe dialect שולם = "Sholem".

It may be supposed to say "shalom" peace. The spelling is a bit confused though,it seems to read שולם instead of שלום.

I can't directly help with your request, but I was suspicious that Lechas Yosher was misspelled from Lekach Yosher or something else. I did a simple Google search and found some information about a

I totally agree with Jeff. Besides the high probability that there has never been a King David, at least in the form described in our "Tanach", there is a vast literature on Branching processes