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Translator Sends News of Brave Jewish Professor #ukraine #education

My friend Dmytro Aladko, translator for the Ukrainian language version of Yizkor Book of Mizoch, sends news of his colleague Maksym Gon. Professor Gon has produced materials commemorating the Shoah in

By Laurence Broun · #670895 ·

Re: Warsaw Uprising and liberation of "Gęsiówka" concentration camp. #holocaust #poland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C4%99si%C3%B3wka Frank Szmulowicz

By Frank Szmulowicz · #670894 ·

Re: Pinchas Halevi Horowitz and Miriam Beyla Isserles #names

Hello for some reason these names were familiar and the data I have on them was sourced via: The Freedmann files on Ancestry Jewage web site Loren family on Rootsweb.com 1. I have “Pinchas HaLevi

By Judy · #670893 ·

Re: Minsk - historic city street names #belarus

Hi Daniel, Here's a couple of options from a friend in the Jewish Families from Belarus Circa 1330-1945 Facebook group. He sent me 3+ page street list which I've attached. Site orda.of.by have

By Michael Paul · #670892 ·

Immigration/Emigration records sought #records

In the 1920s, Paul Seidner born in Hungary and Johanna Klein born in Romania sailed from Europe to Havana, Cuba, at a time when there was a large influx of Jews into the island. It is rumored they may

By ebachert@... · #670891 ·

can anybody make sense of this document? it uses Hebrew characters, but what does it say. #israel #sephardic #translation

Can anybody tell me the contents of the document. It may be a document from the Jews of Spain or Portugal, or their descendants. -- Angel KosfiszerRichardson, Texas

By angel kosfiszer · #670890 ·

Bessarabia Group progress report for the month of July, 2022 #bessarabia #ukraine #JewishGenUpdates #records

Dear friends, researchers, Here is an update for the Bessarabia SIG projects for the month of July 2022. See also at What's New at Bessarabia website. Bessarabian Databases. Updates: Revision

By Yefim Kogan · #670889 ·

Re: Jewish Convertions to Catholic in Austria before and during WW2 #austria-czech

A friend and former colleague did a great deal of research on Jewish conversions in Austria during the Nazi period. Though she never completed the book project, she can answer many questions. I'll

By David S STERN · #670888 ·

Re: Consanguinity and stillbirths #general

This is not just in Jewish families. My great great grandparents were double first cousins when they married in 1861. This was 1 marriage of five marriages over a ten year period. Four sisters and

By EdrieAnne Broughton · #670887 ·

Re: Translation and transcription request - German #translation #germany #austria-czech

Are you familiar with jewishgen's wonderful ViewMate feature? You can post images of each separate page, up to 5 images per week. I think that you are more likely to receive responses if each page is

By fredelfruhman · #670886 ·

This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page #JewishGenUpdates #yizkorbooks

“Jews and Christians — The Relationship between Neighbors” from the Yizkor book of Edineţ (Moldova) describes a kind of peaceful co-existence that lasted for a time between the two communities,

By Bruce Drake · #670885 ·

Re: Consanguinity and stillbirths #general

Jews not only accept but condone first cousin marriages. Last week's Parsha Massei, which concludes the book of numbers ends with the discussion of the 5 daughters of Zelophaphad. Their father died

By Sarah L Meyer · #670884 ·

ViewMate translation request - Polish #translation

Hi, I've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM99454 Please respond

By Joan · #670883 ·

ViewMate translation request - Polish #translation

Hi, I've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM99452 Please respond

By Joan · #670882 ·

Warsaw Uprising and liberation of "Gęsiówka" concentration camp. #holocaust #poland

Hello Exactly 78 years ago, on 5 August 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising, insurgents from Armia Krajowa batallion „Zoska” captured the Warsaw Concentration Camp (KL Warschau) called

By Krzysztof Witaszek · #670881 ·

Re: Gottlieb - Przemysl #poland

Hi Peter The Gesher Galicia Town Record Inventory has a large number of records from Przemysl, many linked to scans and relevant to the time period you are looking for. Have you tried scanning through

By David Birnbaum · #670880 ·

Re: Looking for coordinates or information for the the town of Lubashow #belarus

The JewishGen page about the town is https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-1945754 Susan Slusky Highland Park, NJ

By segslusky@... · #670879 ·

Re: Pinchas Halevi Horowitz and Miriam Beyla Isserles #names

Melody, Can you supply us all with a bit more background? Timeframe that they lived? Country or countries that they may have lived in? Did they emigrate, and to where? Good luck in your

By Sherri Bobish · #670878 ·

Re: Looking for coordinates or information for the the town of Lubashow #belarus

Google maps says 52.78N 26.42E Susan Slusky Highland Park, NJ

By segslusky@... · #670877 ·

Re: Finding history in Glasgow, Scotland and tracing un-named relative #unitedkingdom

What was more likely to happen was that passengers who disembarked at Hull, or any other East Coast Port such as Grimsby or Leith (for Edinburgh) or Newcastle upon Tyne, may have found: a) They had

By Jill Whitehead · #670876 ·

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