In 2016, I posted the attached list on ViewMate as #48010. https://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/responselist.asp?key=48010 I am now asking about the last name on the list. Almost all of the

A bible hidden in an attic as Nazis invaded was reunited with family’s heirs after 80 years. It was found by a family who was renovating their home in 1990 where they found a double wall in the

Yad Vashem has placed an online exhibit Last Letters from the Holocaust – 1942. Go to: https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/last-letters/1942/index.asp The letters displayed here were

My grandmother came to the US with my mother from Ropczyce (Ropshitz), Galicia in 1917, bringing 8 almost identical candlesticks along with her. Hers also screwed onto a footed base. They have no

Can anybody tell me if there are index of Alegata in Warsaw. I see there are Alegata in micofiche in the Polish Archives for Warsaw but I wonder if one needs to look at all the images for a year or

Shimy, how did you find the Wiznitz records with help of Ruth from the group, in the range 1918-1930? I also had family from there. Thank you.-- Dan Gutfreund Phoenix, Arizona

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=VM94927 Please respond via

I have several photographs of unidentified children that look for all the world to be pre-WWI Russia. But the backs say "post card," "place stamp here" etc in English. How do I reconcile this? Israel

https://wah.foundation Hi I watched a recording of the KehilaLinks BOF the other day, as I was unable to attend the live session. I write and manage 88 Jewishgen KehilaLinks and have written

The Jewish Museum in New York City, NY has opened an exhibit entitled: Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art to run through January 9, 2022. The exhibit traces the timelines of

Serfdom in Russia was abolished in 1861 for private serfs and 1866 for state serfs. Both of these were subclasses within the peasant social class. Vast majority of Jews were part of the meshchane

Over the many years that I have been researching my father's family, I was under the false impression that my paternal grandfather Isak Moses Knisbacher (for whom I am named) had served in the German

Hello friends, I found the a record of a sister of my grandfather that was killed in the Holocausts. No living one remember her name and what happened with her. this is the first sign found that she

Jacob, You might try searching the old Eastern European city directories at: https://genealogyindexer.org/directories Hopefully the site has directories for your town from that time frame. You can

Thanks to a JewishGen user who contacted me privately, it seems that the grave is in section 19, row 47 of the Vienna Zentralfriedhof. Is anyone in Vienna able to photograph the entire row for me

A.J., I believe that the death of an American citizen abroad is routinely reported to the American Consulate in the country where the U.S. citizen passed away. It does not mean that he had any other

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=94827 We have a David Joseph Wajncymer and Hanna Chrust in our tree, who may be this child's parents. Can someone look at the image and see if

Marilyne, A Google search of Pinsk Jewish Orphanage finds this book: The Pinsker Orphans: The life and times of the children from the three Pinsk Jewish Orphanages in the 1920sby David Solly

In answer to Susan Goldsmith's query, the LitvakSIG Discussion Group still operates on the Lyris platform. If you are one of the more than 2500 subscribers, simply send your message to

Dan, At Ancestry.com I found this person who naturalized in Illinois and was born in Uman, who may have a relation to ITZIG RANBAM (b. ca. 1888). Moses was also a carpenter as also Itzig stated he