Adam, all of your sleuthing and deductions are amazing. Needless to say, I have been absolutely hopeless at deciphering the actual images in JRI-Poland (from AGAD) but your point about Gittel Kurz'

Adam, all of your sleuthing and deductions are amazing. Needless to say, I have been absolutely hopeless at deciphering the actual images in JRI-Poland (from AGAD) but your point about Gittel Kurz'

My great grandfather Sucher Needelman (might be him) is listed as Nudelman with three other people. I picked this document because census documents show immigration as 1888 with two similar names.

Paul and Johana Seidner, Ashkenazi Jews, arrived in Cuba in the 1920s. Paul, from Budapest, and Johana (Ella), from Timisoara, Romania, are believed to have sailed into Havana on the same ship. The

Although it didn’t require the visit of holiday ghosts or lessons on the importance of opening one’s heart to others, “Shime-Leib the Miser” is a Scrooge-like redemption story. (This section

Very interesting. A thoughtful, well done presentation I think will engage people in different ways. -- Leah Heilpern Snider Silverdale, Washington/ USA

I wish to acknowledge the excellent service provided to me by the Kaunas [Lithuania] Regional State Archives. I submitted a request for documents to the Archives on August 31. They responded very

I am doing research into my Hungarian Kohn Family and am finding some with the last name Karpati. I know I am finding the correct people. My great uncle Jeno Kohn came to the US after the Holocaust,

George, Heddy BROOK passed on in 2019, according to this Ancestry.com database: England and Wales, Death Index Name:MS Heddy BrookGender:FemaleLast Residence:London, EnglandPostal Code

Thanks Sheryl. All of the records that identify place of origin for the family indicate 'Austria', 'Osterreich' or some variation thereof. Unless Prenzlau was located in the Austro-Hungarian Empire,

Hi George, You should use this UK website https://www.freebmd.org.ukl to search for the marriage of Heddy Gleich and then search for any children of the marriage. This is a free to search

On Jewish cremation in the UK, in the first instance see: https://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/Affiliations/JJBS.htm Emphasis mine. Sent to group as it may be of wider interest given prevailing

I did not perceive your comments as a suggestion someone was not Jewish. And I also make up stories as I try to unravel the lives of those I research. No worries!!!!! I have wondered about the

My cousin spells the family name Presslaff or Pressloff. They have an ancestor named Abraham BRESSLAU OR BRESSLOFF https://www.geni.com/people/Abraham-Presslaff/6000000019540131193 When you look up

I have just visited the Old Jewish Cemetery in Split Croatia. Many tombstones are engraved at top with: צ מ ק Is anyone familiar with what this represents? Thank you. Barb Snider, Chicago

Dear Genners, The Jewish community in Kobe started in the midst of the 19th century when Japan began opening to the West. The first Jews who arrived there were traders from Aleppo and then joined

Are you sure they flew? It was possible to enter Czechoslovakia from Hungary where Hungarian and Slovakian Jews were collecting first is Kosice and then to Bratislava on the way to Rothschild. From

My mom and her remaining family also went this way. Contact YIVO library and their sister organization CJE archivists and ask for photos of the DP camps they have. The USHMM has alot of data.as well

Tammy, Try Pełkinie which is about 20km north east of Kanczuga. I hope this helps, Rodney Eisfelder Melbourne, Australia

Today there's another beautiful and useful historical cadastral map on the Gesher Galicia Map Room, this time depicting the town of Mielec near Tarnów and Rzeszów (today in Poland) from land surveys