I would greatly appreciate help with translation of 3 Dutch documents
relating to my cousin Samuel BALIN's immigration papers processed in
Antwerp. These 3 documents (part handwritten and printed) were part
of an immigration packet I found for him >from 1926 prior to his
immigration to the US. Here are the 3 links to the documents at
ViewMate:
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM76591
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM76592
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM76593

I would be very grateful for any help you can provide.
Thank you.
Rivka Horowitz
Niantic, CT
USA

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I agree with Boris.  I know a cousin who married a Catholic during the war and was saved but only if she converted.   The priest asked her to convert and she did.

Isabel  Cymerman
Southbury, CT

It is a gmail.com address:
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Dear Michael,

You hit the point. Moravian Jewry was much reluctant to adopt both
surnames and given names by force of the decree issued in 1787.
Something must have happened around year 1828; since then the surnames
were used by Moravia Jews on regular basis.

ad H : Havakuk, Henoch and Hebron were only allowed.
ad L : Laser, Lazar, Levi and Lukas were only allowed.

Julius Muller
Toledot
Prague

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Please join us for the following program, presented by the Ackman & Ziff Family
Genealogy Institute and Gesher Galicia.

Family History Today: Jewish Students, Medical Globetrotters, and Persevering
Women
Date: Wednesday, February 5, 6:30 PM
Location: Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
Description: Andrew Zalewski, vice president of Gesher Galicia, will explain how
he uncovered the surprising history of Galician Jewish doctors through archival
research - and how this case can inform your family history search.

Tickets: $10 Regular; $5 Center for Jewish History/Partner Members, Seniors,
and Students; You may purchase tickets in advance at zalewski.bpt.me or
800-838-3006.

Moriah Amit
Senior Genealogy Librarian at the Center for Jewish History (New York, NY)

January 27, 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of
Auschwitz. Between now and February 22, but mainly between January 27
and 31, a series of commemorative events is planned in 35 towns in
southeastern Poland, under the auspices of the Marshal of Podkarpackie
[Subcarpathian] voivodeship, Wladyslaw Ortyl.

The complete list of towns and villages is: Baranow Sandomierski,
Blazowa, Czudec, Debica, Dukla, Dynow, Glogow Malopolski, Gniewczyna
Lancucka, Grodzisko Dolne, Jankowice, Jaroslaw, Jasionka, Jaslo,
Jodlowa, Kraczkowa, Krosno, Lezajsk, Lubaczow, Markowa, Mielec,
Niebylec, Pruchnik, Przemysl, Przeworsk, Rudnik nad Sanem, Rymanow,
Rzeszow, Sanok, Stalowa Wola, Tarnobrzeg, Tyczyn, Tryncza, Ustrzyki
Dolne, Zagorz, and Zarszyn-Nowosielce. There will be talks, including
by Holocaust survivors, musical performances, exhibitions, church
services, and various other commemorative events.

The driving force behind this program, as in earlier years, is the
Department of Jewish History and Culture at the University of Rzeszow,
under Prof. Waclaw Wierzbieniec. Many other institutions, though, are
also involved in the sponsorship and organization of events, including
municipal councils, cultural centers, schools, teacher training
colleges, historical societies, organizations for the preservation of
Jewish heritage, museums, and local community groups.

For further information, please contact:
ur.dzienholokaustu2020@... at Rzeszow University, or else:
anna.dziama@.... English-speakers can also call for information
at: +48 609504192, or +48 661582989.


Michal Majewski, Holocaust Project Coordinator, Gesher Galicia
Tony Kahane, Research Coordinator, Gesher Galicia

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Should we add a another rule for moderators, not to accept posts
without a name and a location? I think that everyone should identify
themselves in this way, because this makes for more considered posts
and helps others to give more appropriate.responses.. .

Eva Lawrence
St Albans, UK
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Eva Lawrence
St Albans, UK.

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David Lewin
London

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We also assist in the process of re-possession of property in the Czech Republic and Israel.
See our Web pages at https://remember.org/unite/ and at https://searchandunite.org/

Dan Leeson’s thoughtful JewishGen Info File, “Military Conscription in Russia in the 19^th Century” (find by clicking on “Get Started” button at top of JewishGen homepage, then click “InfoFiles,” and then click “Military”), raises the question as to whether the maiming of Jewish males (i.e. cutting off a finger or crushing toes) to avoid the Russian draft in the last decades of the 19^th century, actually occurred or was a Jewish myth, like the myth about name changes at Ellis Island. I have such a story in my own family. My grandfather wrote in his autobiography: “My uncle [b.c.1847 from Kupel, Russia] avoided the draft by chopping off his right thumb. As a child, while sitting on his lap [c.1896], I noticed the missing thumb.  It was years later that I heard the story from him.”  I’d like to hear from any of you if you have a story in your family about such maiming occurring.

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Jeff Marx
Researching ANSPACHER, AUGAPHEL, AUGENBLICK, BREAKSTONE, BREGSTEIN, CARLEBACH, HIEGENLICH, KUBELSKY, MARX

   How can you contact Yulia Prokop to purchase her book when all we are given in the several announcements is the incomplete email address yulia13.prokop@...?  

I think there's a Murphy's law about that, if you're correcting someone's grammar or spelling, you'll have a typo of your own.

(Yes, I read this post 3 times before clicking Send....)

;-D

Hilary Henkin

Researching:
Mogilev - BERLIN;  BELIISKI;  HENKIN - GENKIN;  MESCENIKOV;  POZ - POZE
Ekaterinoslav (Dnipro) - KATZ; LAPIDUS;  LAVROTIN - LAVRUTIN - AVRUTIN;  PESACHINSKY; SHIMERNITSKY - SEMERNITSKY;  STEINHART
Roumania:  DONNENFIELD;  DOLLINGER;  RINCOVER - HARINCOVER;  WISENTHAL - VIESENTAUL
Harbin, China:  FELDMAN;  PENZNER;  SREBERK - SCHRIEBER;
Lublin, Poland:  KATZ;  JARMUSZ

How do I get to the Zamosc book. I see no link on Jewishgen.
Thanks
Prof. Yitzchak Kerem

I agree with everything Joel and Vivian wrote—and am including Vivian’s message below.