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Online Exhibit of "Pre-War Cities, Towns and Shetls Drawn From Memory After Shoah
#poland
Jan Meisels Allen
An online exhibit permits you to visit pre-war cities and towns and shtetls in six countries through maps drawn from memory after the Shoah. The exhibit is called “Atlas of Memory Maps”. The exhibit is mounted by the Grodzka Gate NN Theater Center in Lublin, Poland The six countries are: Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, Moldova and Slovakia. See: https://teatrnn.pl/wystawy/wirtualny-atlas-map-pamieci/
By clicking on the Gallery of Maps (Galeria map pamieci) the list of drawings by town are avaialble. Many of the drawings aare from the Yizkor books of that town.
The website is in Polish. It is best to use Chrome as your browser as it will prompt you by asking if you want it translated.
Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Former Neveklarsfeld Website
#hungary
Hilary Osofsky
I want to thank one and all who so quickly and ably responded to my query about the status of the former Neveklarsfeld website (www,neveklarsfeld.org) databases. There is a good amount of information and many suggestions in these responses which, for better or worse, I now have plenty of time to investigate.
Wishing everyone a safe weekend.
Hilary (Stein) Osofsky
Orinda, California
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May is Jewish American Heritage Month
#usa
#announcements
Jan Meisels Allen
May is Jewish American Heritage Month (JAHM). Ever since 2006, by presidential proclamation May has been designated Jewish American Heritage Month in recognition of the indelible contributions American Jews have made, and continue to make, to our nation’s history, culture, and society. President Trump issued the 2020 proclamation on April 29th. To read this year’s proclamation see: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-jewish-american-heritage-month-2020/
In 2018, the National Museum of American Jewish History became the home of JAHM. Jewish American Heritage Month is now led by the National Museum of American Jewish History (NMAJH), located in Philadelphia, PA, NMAJH is the country’s only institution dedicated to telling the story of American history through the lens of the Jewish experience.
Organizations around the country are showing the ways in which this history deserves our collective attention, pride, and celebration.
To read “Only in America Stories” such as Sandy Koufax, Emma Lazarus, Ruther Bader Ginsburg, Albert Einstein , Barbara Streisand, and more see: https://www.nmajh.org/jewish-american-heritage-month/
Learn more in American Jewish History, art, and culture with resources from the JAHM partners including: “I Shall Appear Fearless: Military Nursing in World War l –National Museum of American Jewish History https://www.nmajh.org/exhibitions/ww2-nursing/
The Emma Lazarus Project American Jewish Historical Society https://ajhs.org/emma-lazarus-project
The Legacy of Survivor Eva Kor Candles Holocaust Museum https://candlesholocaustmuseum.org/eva-kor/
Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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2020 IAJGS Conference Announcement
#jgs-iajgs
#events
#announcements
The organizers of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical
Societies (IAJGS) 2020 San Diego Conference on Jewish Genealogy announce the following. Further details can be found on the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Page on our conference website at: IAJGS2020.org 1 May 2020 - Based on current events relating to COVID-19, the IAJGS has notified the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina that our conference scheduled for August 9-14, 2020 at that hotel cannot proceed. Full refunds will be made within the next two weeks to anyone who has already registered for the conference. Hotel cancellations should be handled directly with the hotel. We are currently exploring options for a virtual conference and details concerning that virtual conference will be released as they become available. On behalf of Robinn Magid, Ken Bravo and Jay Sage, Chuck Weinstein 40th Annual IAJGS Conference on Jewish Genealogy Communications Director |
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Re: In Memory of Zvi Bernhardt
#israel
#jgs-iajgs
Joyce Field
I was shocked and saddened this morning to learn of Zvi Bernhardt’s sudden death. I have many pleasant memories of Zvi during my time at JewishGen when we worked together on projects that benefitted both Yad Vashem and JewishGen.
First of all, I recall Zvi as a man of humility, integrity, and menschlikkeit, an honorable and selfless man whose word was his bond, who never sought glory for himself, whose primary goal was to rescue the names and lives of Jews lost to the Holocaust.
It may not be widely known how important Zvi was to the development of JewishGen’s Yizkor Book Project and the Holocaust Database. I recall one morning in 2000 about 7 am my phone rang and it was Zvi calling from Jerusalem with a stunning proposal of cooperation. He proposed that JewishGen’s large cadre of volunteers be enlisted to transliterate Yad Vashem’s large number of datafiles, which then would be included in JewishGen’s Holocaust Database as well as Yad Vashem’s database of names. I was so excited that I could barely contain myself. I immediately called Susan King, who was as elated as I was and we agreed that we would move forward expeditiously. As Zvi wanted to side step bureaucratic delays of Yad Vashem’s legal department, we agreed that JewishGen would draft a memorandum of agreement between our two organizations. We did and the data sharing arrangement was announced at the 2000 IAJGS Conference.
This initial arrangement between Yad Vashem and JewishGen led to many other fruitful initiatives, including Yad Vashem’s donation to us of the transliteration of many necrologies in yizkor books as well as considerable assistance with the Pinkasim HaKehillot and many other projects too numerous to list. Especially noteworthy is Yad Vashem’s help with the Pinkas HaNitzolim in the Holocaust Database. The introductions to both volumes l and ll describe Zvi’s assistance with this massive project, which would never have been done without him.
This symbiotic arrangement was the precursor for similar arrangements with other institutions. This arrangement would not have been possible without Zvi Bernhardt, representing Yad Vashem.
My thoughts and prayers are extended to Zvi’s family and to Yad Vashem.
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RaichieS@...
My grandmother had a sister and several first cousins named Ruth. I believe they were all named after someone from her mother's family in Kezmarok, today in Slovakia. What other names would a Ruth be named after?
Thank you, Rachel Snyder Los Angeles GERMANSKY: Eisiskes/, Lithuania BROURMAN: Birlad, Romania, Kishinev, Moldova WIDLANSKY: Voronova, Belarus HANOVER: Kezmarok, Slovakia; Sebes, Slovakia? POLLAK: Kezmarok, Slovakia; Hunfalu,Hungary//Huncovce, Slovakia SCHNEIDER: Volin/volinya Ukraine GELLER: Rowno/Rivne Ukraine |
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Good afternoon,
I'm looking for any information on Rabbi Avrohom Lichtshtein. His father was Eliezer lipman.
According to his hebrew books he printed it seams like he passed away in the 1820's or 30's
He was Rabbi in many cities in his lifetime. From his books it seems like he was Rabbi in lask and proshnitz in Poland and some other places.
I'm really wondering if and who his children were.
Thank you in advance
Jacob
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2020 IAJGS Conference Announcement
#jgs-iajgs
#events
#announcements
The organizers of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) 2020 San Diego Conference on Jewish Genealogy announces the following. Further details can be found on the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Page on our conference website at: IAJGS2020.org.
1 May 2020 – Based on current events relating to COVID-19, the IAJGS has notified the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina that our conference scheduled for August 9-14, 2020 at that hotel cannot proceed. Full refunds will be made within the next two weeks to anyone who has already registered for the conference. Hotel cancellations should be handled directly with the hotel. We are currently exploring options for a virtual conference and details concerning that virtual conference will be released as they become available.
On behalf of Conference Organizers Robinn Magid, Ken Bravo, and Jay Sage
Chuck Weinstein 40th Annual IAJGS Conference on Jewish Genealogy Communications Director |
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Translation of the Memorial (Yizkor) Book of Rozniatow, Ukraine (Rozhnyativ) available at reduced price
#yizkorbooks
#ukraine
Joel Alpert
Memorial (Yizkor) Book of Rozniatow, Perehinsko, Broszniow, Swaryczow, and Environs Other towns covered in the book are Dolina, Stanislawow, Stryj, and Lvov. Yizkor Books in Print is happy to make this book available at severely reduced pricing by ordering through JewishGen List price: $59.95, available from JewishGen for $38 For more information and directions for ordering go to: https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ybip/YBIP_Rozhnyativ.html Go toward the bottom of the page below "Available at:" for the link to start your order. For information on the other 95 other Yizkor book we publish, go to: https://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/ybip.html Joel Alpert, Coordinator of the Yizkor-Books-in-Print Project |
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Translation need
#translation
b_nye008@...
I believe the attached is a birth record for my great grandmother Sura Leja born in Lithuania and on the JRI-Poland.
Barbara Kahn Nye 
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Re: Former Neveklarsfeld Website
#hungary
Risa Heywood
You may already be familiar with the following resources but they cover some of the areas in which you are interested:
1944 Budapest Housing Census - This census was done in preparation for moving the Jews of Budapest to yellow-star houses. It was only found recently within the walls of a Budapest apartment. They are now available through the local archives to be searched online. See the following links, https://qz.com/556567/a-budapest-couple-unearthed-a-holocaust-era-census-while-remodeling-their-apartment/ and https://hungaricana.hu/hu/adatbazisok/leveltari-iratgyujtemeny/lakas-adatszolgaltatasi-ivek-adatbazisa/ (in Hungarian). I found some amazing member lists of forced labor battalions on YadVashem, not through the Shoah Names Database, but through The Document Archives, https://documents.yadvashem.org/index.html?language=en&page=advanceSearch. There are a number of these lists but the names on them are not searchable. I used keywords in a Title search such as, list AND "forced labor". I would try several different, similar searches because I don't know if they are consistently indexed. I have also searched for the Neveklarsfeld lists without success. While in Budapest in 2017, I inquired in person about the lists at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest. The English-speaking researcher there did not know their whereabouts. Also, The Politics of Genocide by Randolph L. Braham, a 2-volume series, has some information on individual labor battalions. It's also just a great resource for understanding the history of the battalions. -- Risa Daitzman Heywood Arizona |
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Re: Slovakia deportations: Volunteers needed
#general
Barbara Kenzer
Peter, I will be happy to help. Barbara Kenzer Buffalo Grove IL On Fri, May 1, 2020, 2:19 PM Lande <pdlande@...> wrote:
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Slovakia deportations: Volunteers needed
#general
Lande
Volunteers are needed to enter names into a database from a 107 page ledger book held at the USHMM listing Jews scheduled to be deported in 1944 from Sered, Slovakia. Each volunteer would receive 10 pages with 30 names per page. No language skill is required but good eyesight and patience would be useful. Familiarity with Slovak town names would be a bonus.
This is an unusual collection since, unlike earlier Slovak deportations which went north to death camps, these Jews were primarily sent to camps located in Germany where some may have survived.
Peter Lande
Washington, D.C.
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Re: Manifest Question
#poland
jbonline1111@...
It's entirely possible that he traveled by himself claiming an older age or with another relative of another surname. My grandfather came to America with an uncle, but was separated from him at Ellis Island, so he lied about his age. This was in 1905.
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JewishGen Webinar this Sunday: Tracing your your Jewish Roots through Catholic and Inquisition records (SPANISH)
#JewishGenUpdates
#sephardic
Avraham Groll
**This Sunday 5/3 @ 1:00 PM EDT - Tracing your your Jewish Roots through Catholic and Inquisition records (SPANISH)**
JewishGen.org is pleased to partner together with the American Sephardi Federation in presenting this important webinar by Genie Milgrom, a well known author and expert on Crypto-Judaic studies. We will be announcing an ENGLISH version of this presentation shortly.
Advance Registration Required: Please visit: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EPT0-7cvSqefuBrR82Vagw?fbclid=IwAR2kDug7xZJL0hmskjZQYtBVPDY6G5aHvcaiwJSf3JWApklUz65hE87LdEM Avraham Groll Executive Director JewishGen.org |
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In memory of Zvi Bernhardt z'l
#holocaust
#announcements
#JewishGenUpdates
Dear JewishGen Community,
We were extremely saddened to learn of the untimely passing of Zvi Bernhardt, z'l, who was both Deputy Manager of the Hall of Names, and Deputy Manager of the Consulting Department at Yad VaShem in Israel.
He worked with JewishGen and many other organizations to ensure information and records would be accessible as widely as possible, and he constantly made himself available to anyone who sought his assistance.
His dedication and commitment to Jewish genealogy has no doubt enabled thousands of people to both identify relatives, and learn about the Holocaust, and he will be tremendously missed.
May the entire Bernhardt family be consoled among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem. Avraham Groll Executive Director JewishGen.org |
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Re: Former Neveklarsfeld Website
#hungary
Vivian Kahn
Another source for information on the Labor Battalion is the Hungarian War Archives at http://www.hadifogoly.hu/web/hadifogoly/search
It’s in Hungarian but relatively easy to search WWII military deaths including Labor Battalion with some names of father (apja) and mother (anyja), birthplace (szul.hely) and birth date (szul.ido) Vivian Kahn -- Vivian Kahn, Santa Rosa, California Researching families including: BERKOVICS/BERKOWITZ/ROTH/GROSZ. Avas Ujvaros, Hungary/Orasu Nou, Romania KAHAN/JOSIPOVITS/DUB, Sziget, Kabolacsarda, Nagyvarad, Hungary/Sighet, Ciarda, Oradea, Romania KOHN/Zbegnyo/ Zbehnov, Tarnoka/Trnavka, Slovakia; Cleveland LEFKOVITS/Kolbasa/Brezina, Slovakia MOSKOVITS/Honkocz, Szobranc, Osztro, Kassa, Hungary/Chonkovce, Sobrance, Ostrov, Kosice, Slov., Nyiregyhaza, Hungary ELOVITS/Hornya, Hungary/Horna, Slovakia NEUMANN/Szeretva, Kereszt, Nagymihaly, Miskolc, Hung./Sobrance, Kristy, Stretavka, Michalovce, Slov. POLACSEK/Hunfalu, Hungary/Huncovce, Slovakia SPITZ/Nikolsburg/Mikulov, Prosnitz/Prostejov, Moravia/Czech Republic; Kismarton/Eisenstadt, Hungary/Austria; Hunfalu,Hungary//Huncovce, Slovakia |
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Re: Former Neveklarsfeld Website
#hungary
Vivian Kahn
Have you checked the US Holocaust Memorial Museum website? The page at https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/source_view.php?SourceId=33482 includes the following information:
As of Spring 2013 the Neveklarsfeld.org website and its searchable names database have no longer been available online, with just a "placeholder" webpage offering sale of the Neveklarsfeld.org web domain instead. Since 2015 the now-defunct Neveklarsfeld.org website's dataset of 174,748 name entries and associated metadata drawn from a variety of sources, including the books 'Counted Remnant' and the 'Nevek = Shemot = Names' irregular monographic series of Hungarian-related name registers have been included in the 'Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database--Name Search' system found online at http://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/person_advance_search.php as the source named "[Names from the Nevek Project] (ID: 39683)."Vivian Kahn Santa Rosa, California Former Neveklarsfeld Website #hungary -- Vivian Kahn, Santa Rosa, California Researching families including: BERKOVICS/BERKOWITZ/ROTH/GROSZ. Avas Ujvaros, Hungary/Orasu Nou, Romania KAHAN/JOSIPOVITS/DUB, Sziget, Kabolacsarda, Nagyvarad, Hungary/Sighet, Ciarda, Oradea, Romania KOHN/Zbegnyo/ Zbehnov, Tarnoka/Trnavka, Slovakia; Cleveland LEFKOVITS/Kolbasa/Brezina, Slovakia MOSKOVITS/Honkocz, Szobranc, Osztro, Kassa, Hungary/Chonkovce, Sobrance, Ostrov, Kosice, Slov., Nyiregyhaza, Hungary ELOVITS/Hornya, Hungary/Horna, Slovakia NEUMANN/Szeretva, Kereszt, Nagymihaly, Miskolc, Hung./Sobrance, Kristy, Stretavka, Michalovce, Slov. POLACSEK/Hunfalu, Hungary/Huncovce, Slovakia SPITZ/Nikolsburg/Mikulov, Prosnitz/Prostejov, Moravia/Czech Republic; Kismarton/Eisenstadt, Hungary/Austria; Hunfalu,Hungary//Huncovce, Slovakia |
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
#yizkorbooks
Bruce Drake
“On the day of the liquidation, as though heaven sent, there arrived a peasant acquaintance, Vasil Vaika from Kozmatch, to save me and my child.” So begins the account of Chana Weinheber-Hacker from the Yizkor book of Kolomey (Kolomyya, Ukraine). It is one of several testimonies in a chapter titled “Khurbn,” the Yiddish for Holocaust. As the sound of shooting from the ghetto made clear that the extermination of Jews there had begun, Weinheber-Hacker found herself in peril from an “old witch” who threatened to reveal her hiding place to the Gestapo unless she was given more money — and the amount increased by the hour. After three days, the peasant showed up with his wagon. “The Escape,” as this testimony is called, began “with fear of death and hope of being saved” for the three women, including Weinheber-Hacker, who were dressed to look like peasant women whose husbands had been called to work in Kolomey, and their children, hidden under the hay. The group reached a new hiding place where they crowded — seven people in all — in a small attic over a cow’s stall. “The peasant was a wonderful person. He rightfully wanted to keep us alive even though he knew very well that his head was at stake.” The danger for him was very real, and ultimately Weinheber-Hacker and her group had to undertake a new journey to safety.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/3003573262998142?__tn__=K-R
Bruce Drake Silver Spring MD |
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In Memory of Zvi Bernhardt
#israel
#jgs-iajgs
Elena Bazes
The Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA) is deeply saddened to
hear of the passing of Zvi Bernhardt, Deputy Director of the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem. Our organization, as well as many of the individuals that make up our leadership and members, worked closely with Zvi on a multitude of projects over his years working at Yad Vashem, from the earliest days of our organization (and earlier) to as recently as this week. We will miss him, as both a colleague and as a friend. It is hard to express the shock we feel at this loss. An empty void is left behind in the worlds of Holocaust research and Jewish genealogy, two areas that he worked in and tried to integrate. To his colleagues at Yad Vashem, and in the many organizations that worked with him, we share in your sorrow. To his family, we offer our deepest condolences. May God comfort you among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem. זכר צדיק לברכה With a heavy heart, Philip Trauring President, IGRA |
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