My name is Gerald Kirzner. I was intrigued by the research on my family name. My father came to Windsor Canada before the war where he had some cousins and was the only one of his nuclear family to

There appears to be at least 3 men named Solomon Oppenheimer in Philadelphia and nearby areas, in the early 1900s. One of them was married to a woman named Harriet, a second Solomon was married to a

My paternal grandfather, Avraham Rapaport, told me when I was in high school, that we are related to the great Rabbi, Solomon Judah Loeb HaCohen Rapaport from the Ukraine / Prague, Czech Republic

This is a wonderful resource. There are so many who lived but were unable to tell their stories. My friend, who was born in 1929 in Austria, was too traumatized to record his story. He remembered

Jerry, If you look closely to all these links using the capital G from Sherri's post you can see that all of these places are in present day Ukraine. But if we consider where the historical borders

“The Old Cemetery” is a section from a chapter titled “The Eishishok Surroundings” from the Yizkor book of Eišiškes, Lithuania. It was among the places that attracted youths of the area with

Dear Genners, Need your help in finding the relatives of Yaaqub Moshi Sayegh who lived in Batawin neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq in the late 1940s. He was born around the turn of the 20th century and

Tuesday, November 29 at 12:30 pm ET Tune in for the official launch of the DNA Reunion Project at the Center for Jewish History, a new worldwide effort by the Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute

Hello, Please heip me with translation of three birth records of ZALCSZTAJN family from Opole Lubelskie, Lublin Voivodeship. Thank you very much -- Emanuel Binder Haifa, Israel emanub@...

Philip Shalom, In answer to you question regarding the following shtetls in Lithuania, see below for information and appropriate URL: Kretinga is in the Panevezys District, Kaunas Guberniya. Gordz is

Jerome, A soundex search for town Oranif in Ukraine at The Jewishgen Gazetteer https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/LocTown.asp finds these possibilities: Location (Native names in BOLD)Feature Type

The following article (in German) describes the history of this institution: David Gutmann und das israelitische Mädchenwaisenhaus in Wien-Döbling, by Ursula Prokop, DAVID - Jüdische

I would appreciate a translation of the ViewMate document number: VM100452 from Russian to English. Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you so much. Denise Segal

Hi Ethan: Following up on the information you provided, Lillian Patten is buried at Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum in Hartsdale, Westchester County, NY. FindaGrave has a record for her burial

Hi Jerry I have looked up for a place named Oranif in the Jewisgen site with no matches. Just a long shot: Maybe she was referring to the ship boat Oranias, which was sailing Jews from present day

There is a wonderful Kirzner family here in New Jersey, with extended family near and far. If interested in contact, reply to me please. Inda Sechzer Maplewood NJ sechzer_arch@... Moderator note: As

the name of the town is ISERLOHN best hansmatin unger

Hello David, Can you please advise me of any Groups researching the Shteitls of Kretinga, Gordz, Trisket all near Memel from where my two sets of grandparents came to England and Ireland from in the

And for completion, "Here is buried" are in both stars at the top. Ira Leviton

In rabbincal sources (names for divorces) the female name Doda is listed as a Sefardi name - not Yiddish. There were Saferdi communities in south-eastern Europe. David Shapiro Jerusalem