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Re: Ritchie Boys to be put up for Congressional Gold Medal
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Alan Cohen
We should remember that the American Ritchie Boys were based on the British X-Troop founded by Churchill two years earlier in 1942 and composed of mainly German-speaking Jewish refugees who could infiltrate behind the German lines to carry out commando warfare. They were so well trained that one who was captured was even interrogated by Rommel who didn't realise he was a Jew.
Unfortunately it was the Americans who got all the kudos.
Alan Cohen
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Re: Need help with spelling of 1939 city name in eastern Poland
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Yale Reisner
The “c” at the end is not a “ch” sound, but rather a “tz” sound: Gawłuszowice is pronounced Gav-wu-show-VEE-tze. BTW - Polish uses a modified Latin alphabet as do, for example, French or German. Do you consider those to be different alphabets? Russian actually does use the entirely different Cyrillic alphabet associated with the Orthodox Church. Even in this bunch of inquiries, there is, once again, someone saying that a document is in either Polish or Russian. Even those who don’t know either language, should be able to distinguish between the two if they just keep that in mind.
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Deportation from Vienna
#holocaust
Robert Fraser
Dear Friends - My grandfather, living in Vienna, was sent to a labour camp, 'Arbeitslager Wendefurt', in April 1938 (a few days before his son's wedding!)
We know that he was deported, with his wife, on a transport from Vienna to Riga on Dec 3 1941; presumably from 'Aspangbahnhof'. He was never seem again and is presumed to have died in the massacre at Bikernieke woods near Riga.. My research shows that the Wendefurt camp inmates worked on dam construction. It is assumed that he was returned to Vienna at some point, so my question is - how long might he have remained in the camp? Can anyone theorise what might have happened? We have no family stories on what might have happened between these dates. Please respond privately, unless the response is of general interest. Shabbat Shalom Robert W Fraser, Perth, Western Australia Researcher 6342 girof@... |
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Sunday meeting - A Trip to the Dutch Wild Coast: A 1658 Sephardic Expedition
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#sephardic
contact@...
A free online meeting this Sunday, from the Sephardic Genealogical Society.
Jeosua Nunez Netto and Joseph Pereira, two Portuguese-born Jews, left a fascinating account of their trip from Amsterdam to Pomeroom (on South America's Caribbean coast) in 1658. Their goal was to establish a Jewish colony on the Essequibo River. The authors appear to waver between commercialism and salvation, Portuguese and Dutch identity. The account captures an important moment in Sephardic history after the loss of Dutch Brazil. Jonathan Schorsch holds the Chair in Jewish Religious and Intellectual History at the University of Potsdam (Germany). Among his books are Swimming the Christian Atlantic: Judeoconversos, Afroiberians and Amerindians in the Seventeenth-Century Iberian World (Brill, 2008) and Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern World (Cambridge University Press, 2004). With his colleague Sina Rauschenbach he co-edited The Sephardic Atlantic: Colonial Histories and Postcolonial Perspectives (Palgrave, 2018). This meeting is on Sunday 6 November 2022 at 11am in LA, 2pm NYC, 7pm London, 8pm Paris/Amsterdam and 9pm Jerusalem. Patrons can join us on Zoom. The link is shared at our Patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/sephardi Everyone else is invited to join us live at: https://www.youtube.com/SephardicGenealogyAndHistory Please subscribe to the channel. It helps us a lot. Over the last two and a half years Sephardic World has become the leading forum for learning about Sephardic history and genealogy. We have no commercial sponsorship or public funding. There is no charge to attend our meetings or to view our content. If you are not a patron and can afford it, please consider supporting our work. Best wishes, David Mendoza Sephardic Genealogical Society https://www.sephardic.world/ |
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Re: Ritchie Boys to be put up for Congressional Gold Medal
#usa
Josh Freeling
I made a typo in my original post. I said "about 2000" when I should have said "about 2600" according to the information I have. My mistake. I have seen estimates that say 1/5 were Jewish, but that number seems to apply to just those who completed the 8 week course, where the figure is around 20% who are Jewish, but those numbers do not tell the whole story. Some did not finish, due to grades and the like. Others however may not have graduated because the Army urgently needed them, so they pulled them from the course. According to the research by Dan Gross, from 7/27/1942 to 9/20/1945, there were 19,669 who graduated any course at Camp Ritchie. Approximately 3800 did not graduate.
Just over 2100 Jewish Ritchie Boys were sent overseas. Just over 220 were known not to have been sent overseas. The three largest birth place among Jewish Ritchie Boys were: America: 781 Germany: 1103 Austria: 339 Those three countries alone account for 2223 Jewish Ritchie Boys -- Josh Freeling North Carolina |
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JGS of Greater Boston November Zoom Program
#jgs-iajgs
#announcements
#russia
Jessie Klein
Nov. 13 1:30-3:30 PM EST The JGS of Greater Boston presents Dr. Kelly O’Neill – Into the Archive: Voyagers from the Russian Empire to the United StatesFree for JGS of Greater Boston members, $5 for non-members. Information at www.jgsgb.org Jessie Klein Co-President JGS of Greater Boston president@... |
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Re: Belgium
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phesske@...
Dear Mr. van Frank,
One of my relatives spent a year at Hospice de Scheut home located at 32, rue de l'Orphelinat in the commune d'Anderlecht in Brussels (https://journals.openedition.org/cmc/1046). She was arrested in August 1943 and brought to Kazerne Dossin in Malines/Mechelen prior to being transferred to Scheut because of her age (she was 66 yeas old by then) while the rest of her family perished in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Could that information be of any help to you ? Here is some information I found about the Home de Miravalle in Boitsfort : https://monument.heritage.brussels/fr/Watermael-Boitsfort/Avenue_Georges_Benoidt/22/37428 https://journals.openedition.org/cmc/592 Best regards, Philip Hesske, Paris (France) |
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Re: Ritchie Boys to be put up for Congressional Gold Medal
#usa
jsheines@...
Like many others I have seen the movie and read the book. What I was surprised to learn in Josh's writeup above was a) how many Richie Boys there were and b) that the vast majority were not Jewish. I had always presumed that it was practically an all-Jewish unit. Live and learn.
-- Herschel Sheiness San Antonio, Tx jsheines@... |
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My Cousin was Possibly Euthanized in Vienna: Looking for Hospital File
#austria-czech
#holocaust
Hoping that somebody here can help me with this issue. I recently through probate records obtained information on Leon Prager, who was my first cousin, the son of my father's sister. He was born in Vienna in 1929 although the IKG has no birth record for him. He was born deformed and was institutionalized his whole life.
After the Anschluss my father went to visit him and he was not there and nobody in the hospital knew what happened to him. We suspect he was euthanized.
The IKG found a burial record (attached) for him at Zentralfriedhof IV and I had this picture taken of what was an unmarked grave. The cemetery said they put up this plaque a few years ago. The burial record said he died on January 2nd, 1939 at the Steinhof Hospital.
I have engaged with a professor who is an expert in this field and he asked me to get the hospital file of Leo. I applied to the Municipal Archive but have had no luck.
Anybody have any idea how I can get this file? Thanks so much.
Steven S. Turner 
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Re: Ritchie Boys to be put up for Congressional Gold Medal
#usa
Josh Freeling
Absolutely overdue, in my opinion.
If anyone is interested in reading the text by Congressman Trone, it can be viewed at https://trone.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/TRONE_061_xml.pdf -- Josh Freeling North Carolina |
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Chaja Doba Palarz
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tobis44@...
I am searching for information on a relative, Chaja Doba Palarz(Paliarz/Palasz/Palash/Pallas). This family name appears in all these variations in records. She was born in 1878 in Nowy Korczyn, Poland. Her parents were Abram Iser Palarz and Chana Roza Chopfenberg(Hopfenberg), also born in Nowy Korczyn.Her sisters were Sura Estera Palarz, born 1885 and Malka Palarz born 1889. Both Esther and Malka were married and living in the UK by 1913. I have not found any further information about Chaja Doba, other than her birth record, and a photo with her sisters in Lodz, sometime before they both left Poland. If you might know anything about Chaja Doba Palarz,I would appreciate any information. Thank you.
Sharon Shulman
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Re: Ritchie Boys to be put up for Congressional Gold Medal
#usa
Edward Stone
In the late 80’s I went to Novato, California to meet a distantly related cousin. He talked about immigrating to Chicago in the late 30s and graduating high school there. He then enlisted and was sent to a special school which would teach him to use his German language and culture to work for the Allies behind the lines in Germany. He never mentioned the term Richie Boys but when I made the association, I found him on the lists of those who had served as Richie Boys. His name was Walter Monasch.
Edward A. Stone 6718 Rolling Vista Dr. Dallas, TX 75248 (214) 392-3600 Edward@...
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November 10 on Zoom: Finding Clues in your Family Photos with Sherlock Cohn, presented by the Center for Jewish History
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#photographs
Moriah Amit
Family History Today: Clued In - Case Studies from Sherlock Cohn, The Photo GenealogistThursday, November 10, 5-7 pm Eastern Time (U.S./Canada)
At its core, genealogy research is detective work. In this fun and informative talk, Sherlock Cohn, the photo genealogy sleuth, will explore how and why it is important to find the clues our ancestors left for us in our family photos. Participants will learn what clues an expert looks for in photos, how to organize your approach to dating and interpreting photos, and how to match photo information with vital records. Additionally, Sherlock will present how she solved “The Case of the Mistaken Date,” demonstrating how accurate dating, photo identification, knowledge of fashion, and records matching can illuminate our ancestors’ lives and help us solve some of our vexing genealogy mysteries. At the conclusion, she will help attendees begin the process of analyzing their own family photos. Note: The deadline to submit a family photo for potential analysis has passed.
This program is sponsored by the Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute at the Center for Jewish History.--Moriah Amit Senior Genealogy Librarian, Center for Jewish History New York, NY mamit@... |
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Re: Location please, help - where is Jaroszowka Russia, and Faroozowka, Russia
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Hap Ponedel
Arthur,
This has been a good puzzle. I assume the Jaroszowka you speak of is the town as named when your ancestor was on the move, so before WWII, at least. Thus I would search for these locations on historical maps. Searching for the first two locations provided above by Sherri turn up nothing on historical images. So searching for the third location, first from the modern Google map takes me to a location in the former area of Austrian Galicia. This is contradictory to your suggestion of a location in Russia. But take a look at this screenshot from an 1878 map:  The spelling is pretty clear. This village is east of the town of Gdow, (G'dov) a few miles. Here is a larger screenshot:  Notice Jaroszowka in the lower right corner. Here is a link to the map: http://easteurotopo.org/indices/zoom/zoomviewer.php?indexname=galiciaindex&displayname=Wieliczka%20Und%20Myslenice&attribution=the%20Library%20of%20Congress&year=1878&fileurl=c5_Wieliczka%20und%20Myslenice_LC_1878.jpeg&coordinates=c5 I hope you find this useful. Hap Ponedel Eugene, OR hapsky@... http://easteurotopo.org/ |
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question of what the debate between socialists and communists in the Lower East Side was in the mid 1920's
#usa
Johanna
I am putting together a keepsake of my ancestors and a relative said of my great-grandfather: "He loves Saturdays and attends shul religiously. After shul, he returns home to a nice lunch, takes a nap, and heads downstairs to argue his socialist views with his communist neighbors." |
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Re: British Military Rabbi in Alexandria Egypt WW2
#unitedkingdom
#sephardic
Michael Hoffman
Good afternoon, Jacob,
I would suggest that you contact AJAX The Association Jewish Ex Serviceman & Woman at https://www.ajex.org.uk/our-people from past experience they should have a list of the British Military Rabbi's that served during WWII. They may refer you to the Jewish Military Museum which is now based at the Jewish Museum in Camden, London. Regards, Michael Michael Hoffman Borehamwood, HERTS UK |
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Re: British Military Rabbi in Alexandria Egypt WW2
#unitedkingdom
#sephardic
janicemsj@...
How many pages is the book? Have you considered creating an index for it? Janice M. Sellers Gresham, Oregon On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 10:47 AM Evelyn and Christopher Wilcock via groups.jewishgen.org <eandcw=aol.com@...> wrote: > I have the autobiography of Rabbi Isaac Levy, Now I can Tell. Privately published 1978. Rabbi Levy was military chaplain in Egypt for a time in World War 2, including Alexandria. > Do you have a date for the wedding? Or the names of the couple? Rabbi Isaac Levy mentions South Africans possibly also with a Rabbi as Chaplain. > But he also mentions Rabbi Louis Rabinowitz who arrived first as Senior Army Chaplain. > Unfortunately his book has no index. -- Everything turns out all right in the end. If it's not all right, it's not the end. |
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US Census Bureau StatVentures Gives Public Opportunity to Submit Concept in Ways to Improve Census Bureau Data
#announcements
#general
#records
#usa
Jan Meisels Allen
The U.S. Department of Commerce welcomes comments from public on data collection methods and sources called StatVentures. StatVentures scouts technology through collaborations with innovators outside government to ensure the Census Bureau provides quality data more efficiently, creatively and effectively.
Traditionally, the Census Bureau has sought out technologies that improve its existing data collection methods. The new program will hold multi-phased competitions to reinvent and improve datasets – specifically those that have been earmarked by the Census Bureau as ripe for innovation.
The initiative gives participants from outside the government the opportunity to submit a concept on ways to significantly improve Census Bureau data. They can develop it to the point of testing and receive periodic feedback and award money. Their concepts may eventually be adopted by the Census Bureau.
If you wish to attend an information session on November 17 click on: https://statventuresinfosession.splashthat.com/ to RSVP. To read more see: https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/11/public-help-data-collection-methods.html Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Announcing the publication of the Zychlin Yizkor Book
#yizkorbooks
#poland
Susan Rosin
Shalom,
JewishGen Press is proud to announce the publication of our 154th title: Zychlin Memorial Book (Żychlin, Poland).
This is the English translation of Sefer Zychlin.
Details:
HardCover 8.5” x 11”, 334 pages with original photographs
Editor of Original Yizkor Book: Ami Shamir Project Coordinators: Leon Zamosc, David Goren and Lori Sandoval Cover Design: Jan R. Fine Name Indexing: Jonathan Wind
Żychlin, Poland is located at 52°15' N 19°37' E and 59 miles W of Warszawa
This is the English translation of the Memorial Book of Zychlin (Sefer Zychlin), published in 1974 by the Zychliner Organization in Israel and America.
Zychlin, a small town in the District of Kutno in central Poland, was home to a Jewish community for more than 400 years, until the last remaining Jews were deported and murdered at the Chelmno extermination camp by the German Nazis. The book contains much insight about the local community and its involvement in the processes and events that shaped the fate of the Polish Jews in different historical periods and especially during the 20th century. Through personal accounts, narratives, documents and photographs, it tells the stories of the Zychliners’ difficulties and successes in their efforts to live their lives as Jews. It also gives us a somber sense of their helplessness and despair as the community faced persecution and destruction following the occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany. While this English edition preserves the original content of the book in its entirety, it also includes some photographs, written materials, and lists of Holocaust victims that only became available after the Hebrew and Yiddish book was published in 1974.
For more information and how to order, please visit: https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ybip/YBIP_Zychlin.html Please visit: https://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/ybip.html to see all JewishGen's publications.
Susan Rosin Jewishgen Press Publications Manager
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Sue Siegal
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From: ssiegal1221@... To: main@... Cc: Bcc: Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2022 06:54:09 -0700 Subject: Dawid Simche Blonder death record #records David Simche Blonder was my great grandfather - Believe he was born 1837-1840 in or near Tarnow around the same time as his 1st wife, Ester Storch who was born 1840. They married and had their first baby 1858. Ester died 1882 in Tarnow. Dawid Simche moved to Oswiecim with his second wife prior to 1923, where his son, Betzalel and daughter, in law lived (her name Gucha) and their sons. Dawid Simche Blonder died between 1921-1923 - His second wife, Chaja nee Rand Blonder is buried at the Oshpitzin cemetery and date on gravestone is 1930. I have not yet been able to determine the year of Dawid's death -also read that if couples were Orthodox, they probably wont be buried together- Would you help me find the year that Dawid Simche died and where he is buried? Have started this search in 2001 - I do have copy of Ester's death which showed she was born 1840 and died 1882 thanks to a very nice manager in Tarnow years ago. Betzalel, Gucha and their sons died in the Holocaust. Thank you for your time . Sue Siegal
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