Dear Friends,

We have promised this for a while and now we are ready to implement the move of the Gesher Galicia Discussion Board to the new platform of JewishGen. We plan to do this on Sunday November 13th, but the old board will still be up for a short while until it is shut down by Lyris.

We think you will enjoy the new platform. Posts will no longer need to be in plain text. Users can use hyperlinks and attach pictures. Diacritics and accent marks will now be able to be used as well as special formats such as bolds and italics.  Hashtags are used to make searching that much easier. 

One must be a member of the JewishGen Discussion Group to use our board which is considered a subgroup of the main board.

Instructions to sign up are as follows:

If you are currently a member of the JewishGen Discussion Group:

(1) Visit https://groups.jewishgen.org/g/GesherGalicia

(2) Click “+Apply For Membership in this Group”

If you are currently NOT a member of the JewishGen Discussion Group:

(1) Visit https://groups.jewishgen.org/g/main

(2) Click the “+Apply For Membership in this Group”

(3) Upon being accepted into the group, visit: https://groups.jewishgen.org/g/GesherGalicia

(4) Click “+Apply For Membership in this Group”

To post to this new board send an email to:

GesherGalicia@...

As always we are here to help you in any way we can. 

Sincerely,

Steven S. Turner

President, Gesher Galicia

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W1tIJXY80vSMUUCbifHcUFa9ao3o8MzZ7kHAGbY_qE8/edit?usp=sharing

Emory Jewish Archives Debut Three Important Collections
Emory University’s historical Southern Jewish Archive formally unveiled three important collections of documents at a reception on Oct. 19. The program, held at the Emory library, included an appearance by Emory president Gregory Fenves, who is Emory’s first Jewish president and the son of Holocaust survivors. He praised the role that the archives have played in Jewish history.

The new archives feature the papers of Georgia’s Morris Abram, a noted civil rights attorney and an early president of Brandeis University and, later, the national leader of the American Jewish Committee. Also, the library has completed cataloging the papers of Jack Boozer, an influential Emory professor of religion, and Bert Lewyn, an Atlanta businessman and a survivor of the Holocaust whose memoir, “On The Run In Nazi Berlin,” was written with his daughter-in-law Beverly Salzman Lewyn. It was the story of his 2 1/2-year ordeal hiding out in wartime Germany after escaping from a Berlin weapons factory, where he was a slave laborer.

Read more about the Southern Jewish Archive here:
Emory Jewish Archives Debut Three Important Collections - Atlanta Jewish Times

I have no connection with Emory University or the Atlanta Jewish Times, but thought that these collections might be of interest to others.

Peggy Mosinger Freedman

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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Students are encouraged to participate live but are welcome to watch or review class recordings as needed.

Greetings all,

I am trying to obtain the spelling of an eastern Polish city, the name of which I've only heard in audio form. It was mentioned in a description of Jewish Polish families going there in August of 1939, in order to escape the expected German invasion of Poland. The reasoning was, that the city would end up in Russian control, rather than German control, because it had once been part of Russia, which is exactly what happened. The Germans took over the city, but left after a month, at which time, the Russians took control. Jewish families who did not wish to become Russian citizens were sent to Siberia and other parts of Eastern Russian. In 1941, when Hitler broke the non-aggression pact he'd made with Stalin, the city, along with the rest of Poland, came under Nazi rule. Other cities mentioned, likely (but not necessarily) to be in the same general area, are Krakow, Lvov, and Kalwaria.  One family of which I'm aware ran a gasoline business in the city.  Phonetically speaking, I've heard the city pronounced as, either “Share-misk”, “Share-mish”, “Sheh-misk”, or “Sheh-mish”. I've played around with the "sounds like" search engine on this site, but am not familiar with the phonetic systems in place, nor with which combination of Polish consonants and vowels, would produce the best search results. I'd greatly appreciate any assistance with help in learning the spelling of my mystery city. Thanks, Allan Gilbert

I've posted a vital record in German for which I would greatly appreciate a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ...
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM100401
Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page.
Thank you very much.
Paul Moverman
Milford, NH   USA

It is my understanding that Jews were not welcome in Norway until some time in the 19th Century.  This was official policy.  Of course Norway was a part of Sweden at that time.  I studied in Oslo for an academic year in 1966-67, and am very interested in the Jews there.  In any case, the idea of a Jew migrating from Norway to Lithuania is hard to credit. 

Jules Levin, Los Angeles

I think that I found the link between the Goggers from Frankfurt (and more precisely my ancestor Hindle Googers who died in Frankfurt in 1770 spouse of Moses Seligman Oppenheimer Heidelberg from Frankfurt) and the Gokkers from Amsterdam. .
By trying to read the Ele Toldot family sheets related to Hindle I believe that she is a descendant from the Gokkers family from Amsterdam and in particular Aron Abraham Polak Gokkes. I believe there may be a link too with the Levie Drukker family from Amsterdam
I am not a novice anymore in Genealogy but I have difficulties reading all the abbreviations of ele toldot and would be happy if someone could check my analysis and point out mistakes so I can share the result more widely.
Thanks in advance
Joelle Meyer from Paris
joelle.meyer24@...
Looking for ancestors in Emden, Groningen, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Furth, Stuttgart etc..
My main tree is on Myheritage with the link below to Hindle.
https://www.myheritage.fr/site-family-tree-400415261/joelle-meyer?newTree=&rootIndividualID=19632678

Here is an update for the Bessarabia projects for the month of October 2022.   

See also at What's New at Bessarabia website.

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

• Vital Records, upload in December of 2022. There are records from Soroki uezd birth records for several years, Kishinev Death records for several years. See the progress.

Bessarabia Winter Symposium:

• History, Genealogy, Culture. 13-15 December 2022. The Bessarabia Special Interest Group and JewishGen invite you to participate in a Virtual Winter Symposium, a series of live, online presentations to run from December 13 through 15, 2022.
  Sessions will explore historical experiences of our ancestors in Bessarabia, assist your family research, and expand your understanding and appreciation of their culture.
  
  You will meet presenters from Canada, Germany, France, Brazil, Moldova, Ukraine, the United States, and perhaps others. Presentations will delve into ideas and issues that are relevant not only to Bessarabia but also to other regions.
  
  Here is full schedule of the Bessarabia Winter Symposium.
  
  Registration is free for the Symposium. Click here to register now!