The link for the Virtual Genealogy Jamboree is https://next.scgsgenealogy.com/jamboree-2021-exhibitor-detail/248/orange-county-california-jewish-genealogy-society/. Michelle Sandler President

The Orange County California Jewish Genealogy Society has a booth at the Genealogy Jamboree. We are giving away two prizes on the 12th of June around noon. One prize will be a free copy of Getting

I am researching two men, whose descendants all claim were brothers. Only problem is they have the names Abraham and Abram. One of the brother's names was Abraham, born est 1858. Abraham's wife,

Oddly enough, the 1965-1971 American television show "Hogan's Heroes," created by Jews (Bernard Fein & Albert S. Ruddy), appears to have been one of the first efforts to bring the Holocaust out of the

The first major religious pogrom in the US (not counting wars against Native Americans) may have been the "Bloody Monday" massacre in Louisville, KY, 6 August 1855. Nativist Protestants attacked

The Przemysl Identification Project, which has been discussed before in this forum, has reached its conclusion and the results are launched this week. The aim of this collaborative project between

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has a total of 80,778 oral histories. These include ones we have done, ones we have received from other organizations (including the USC Shoah Foundation)

Daniel, I may well be wrong! I was thinking in terms of the founders of Ashkenazi Jewry, who date around that time or a little later

The Joseph in District 13, that Steven refers to, is Hirsch's son. He was affiliated with an Orthodox Zionist group. Hirsch appears in the 1937 edition (possibly the year of his death). I'm surprised

On July 8th, 1939, my great aunt Sheindel wrote a letter to my grandfather Joseph Wallach. Would anyone be able to read the return address? I can tell it is from Cernauti Romania, but I cannot read

Hi, With regards to evidence of one’s Halachic Jewish status, one would in normal circumstances produce one’s parents’ Ketubah, but this was as the previous replies suggest not always

The firsthand description of pogroms set forth in the Cowen report is eerily similar to the description of the Tulsa riots that survivors have recently been giving on TV. Who says we don't have

Dear Friends Looking to fill in information on the following on my late father ..either background or family members that were there Kurt Ehrmann dob 7.11.1922 Boarded in Berlin kindertransport

The name Yom Tov can stand on its own - it doesn't have to be combined with Jacob or any other name. I had a relative named Shlomo Yom Tov who, according to another relative was was named after Yom

Hello this is Sara Wolf, I can be reached in Israel via saraw@.... My mom Edith Schmitz-Bank and my aunt Helga Schmitz -Luden and their parents, my grandparents, Adolf Schmitz and Else Fernich

There was a report with haunting pictures from concentration camps on the front page of the Observer very soon after they were uncovered, it must have been 1945. As 12-year-old, living in England, I

I'm requesting a translation of the Przasnysz marriage record of Chana Laia Lew and Aryia Mgla. It's written in Russian Cyrillic script. The marriage record no. is 26. It's on ViewMate at the

"Chanayah Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum (22 May 1836 – 15 February 1904)[1] was the Grand Rebbe of Siget, and the author of Kedushath Yom Tov, a Hasidic commentary on the Torah he wrote in 1895". My mom's

I visited Dachau in 1973 when I was 20 years old and back packing through Europe. I took the train from Munich. Ironically it was packed. We all got off at the Dachau station and walked silently

Hello again, I have done a bit more digging and established that both Eliza and Morris were granted authorisations to marry in Liverpool synagogues in 1890 (Old Synagogue) and 1892 (Princes Road