The Socialist movement among the Jews in the city dated back to the 1880s and 1890s, with vehicles being the Socialist Labor Party and the Workmen's Circle (Arbeter Ring). Jewish Socialists also

My mother's cousin, a German-Jewish refugee, was also one of the Ritchie Boys. Like many others here, I based my "knowledge" of the Ritchie Boys on the film, which actually portrayed only one,

A study released jointly by the government and the World Jewish Restitution Organization details the plunder from Jewish estates and lists some of the works still held in Croatian museums. the

The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society (NYG&B) is holding a program open to the public on Wednesday, November 9 at 7:00PMPST/6:00PM Central Standard Time/5:00PM Rocky Mountain Standard

I have one branch kind of like this. Between DNA and US records, have established the link, and that their grandfather was likely a cousin (or 1c1x ) to my grandfather. My suspicion is my GGM was

I have been dealing with several Yizkor books over the years. For the towns where my family or my wife's family has lived, I see books for several towns in Galicia and in Poland. For Lithuania, I

Which one of the following is more likely to be accurate? MyHeritage result 89.8% Ashkenazi Jewish, 5.2% Balkan, & 5% Middle Eastern. Ancestry result 98% Jewish peoples of Europe, 1% Levant, & 1%

I thought my reply was posted..if so, forgive the repeat. I just discovered that my relative, Erick Liebenstein was a Ritchie boy. Also, he was a hero as I read that he and two others captured a group

We should remember that the American Ritchie Boys were based on the British X-Troop founded by Churchill two years earlier in 1942 and composed of mainly German-speaking Jewish refugees who could

The “c” at the end is not a “ch” sound, but rather a “tz” sound: Gawłuszowice is pronounced Gav-wu-show-VEE-tze. BTW - Polish uses a modified Latin alphabet as do, for example, French

Dear Friends - My grandfather, living in Vienna, was sent to a labour camp, 'Arbeitslager Wendefurt', in April 1938 (a few days before his son's wedding!) We know that he was deported, with his wife,

A free online meeting this Sunday, from the Sephardic Genealogical Society. Jeosua Nunez Netto and Joseph Pereira, two Portuguese-born Jews, left a fascinating account of their trip from Amsterdam to

I made a typo in my original post. I said "about 2000" when I should have said "about 2600" according to the information I have. My mistake. I have seen estimates that say 1/5 were Jewish, but that

Nov. 13 1:30-3:30 PM EST The JGS of Greater Boston presents Dr. Kelly O’Neill – Into the Archive: Voyagers from the Russian Empire to the United States Free for JGS of Greater Boston members, $5

Dear Mr. van Frank, One of my relatives spent a year at Hospice de Scheut home located at 32, rue de l'Orphelinat in the commune d'Anderlecht in Brussels (https://journals.openedition.org/cmc/1046).

Like many others I have seen the movie and read the book. What I was surprised to learn in Josh's writeup above was a) how many Richie Boys there were and b) that the vast majority were not Jewish.

Hoping that somebody here can help me with this issue. I recently through probate records obtained information on Leon Prager, who was my first cousin, the son of my father's sister. He was born in

Absolutely overdue, in my opinion. If anyone is interested in reading the text by Congressman Trone, it can be viewed at https://trone.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/TRONE_061_xml.pdf -- Josh

I am searching for information on a relative, Chaja Doba Palarz(Paliarz/Palasz/Palash/Pallas). This family name appears in all these variations in records. She was born in 1878 in Nowy Korczyn,

In the late 80’s I went to Novato, California to meet a distantly related cousin. He talked about immigrating to Chicago in the late 30s and graduating high school there. He then enlisted and was