Can you help identify what military uniform the man in this photo, https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM100981, is wearing? The photo is dated on the back:

Hello I am trying to find insight into why and how my gt grandparents with their children, including my gt grandfather left Vilna in approx 1882 to set up life in England, they were furriers by

I recently read Robert Belenky’s book called “Collective Memories of a Lost Paradise” (2012), in which he describes Jewish agricultural settlements in Ukraine during the 1920s and 1930s. A

Gesher Galicia's own Renee Steinig, the moderator of Gesher Galicia's Discussion List, was featured prominently in The Forwards. She was asked to do a study of the pitcher Dylan Cease of the Chicago

I have been trying to find out information about my father's family. This was a letter written to him page 1 and short page 2. I would be very grateful if I could get help translating it. Thanking you

It says "Erysipelas secondary to burns of R hand". Erysipelas is a skin infection which can be severe, and in 1926 there were no antibiotics. This would have been a rough three months for everyone.

The "Grodzka Gate - NN Theatre" Center (ul. Grodzka 21) invites you to a meeting dedicated to the town of Brody, which in the 19th century was inhabited mainly by Jews. The event will take place on

My father was a doctor, and I always thought there must have been an anti-penmanship class in med school. The cert. is signed by a medical examiner, not an attending physician, so there just might be

Thanks everyone for the suggestions. To further complicate the issue, the 1900 Census lists my grandparents and their children (one being my father) as living on 31 Marion Place, Ward 14, which is

In the frameworks of the MGV Scanning Project, 1876 and 1880 collections of this newspaper were added to https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CbJof4iaJAXspOPKeMmFyEinCY2Ky5bG These issues are rich

That is some of the worst handwriting I've ever seen! I think that the parenthetical statement under contributing causes is "burned at home 3 months ago." I can't make it all of the words under the

I am writing to get help finding out where in Poland my great grandparents came from. Most census reports say they came from Russia. A 1930 census says my great grandmother came from Poland. I have my

I would be interested in seeing it's contents online. My father zl " cleaned up" the Warsaw ghetto under Nazi bayonet force. He could never forget the sight of dead Jewish children, of Jews shot dead

My Fidel family reportedly came to the agricultural colony of Ozeran from Kovel circa 1848. The family story is similar to the information you provided. The patriarch of the family had served in the

Hello, I don't know what the snippets have shown you about the Wyona Street Synagogue, but it was located in Brooklyn, in the East New York section. It was started in the 1880s by a group of German

I appreciate that your research is more recent than mine which is pre ww2; therefore there may be privacy laws, however here are some that I've tried. School board of L'viv -school records (an

Hello, Apparently a branch of my USVYATSKY family moved to Dzhankoy in Crimea in 1933. Zalman son of Elya and Shayna USVYATSKY (1906-?) moved there from Dubrowna, Belarus with his wife Shosha,

Hello Peter, I found a couple of sources: 1. A testimony in the following pdf about a man who left Triest, Italy in February, 1930 with the Adria ship. They reached Haifa on a rainy day. In Haifa a

Looks like a SW or WS. Diane Jacobs -- Diane Jacobs, Somerset, New Jersey

You need to contact Professor Ruth Leiserowitz of East Prussia Interest group: