My great- grandfather Wolfbear Abrahams, born 1855 in Russo-Poland and living in London England from the 1880s on, is pictured here in an unidentified uniform.  Can anyone identify the uniform and/or the shoulder patches?



Many thanks,
Stuart Wayne

Hello Eric,

The detail is available online. I suggest you review pages 11-13 (of 25) at
http://www.jgsob.org/newsletter/JGSOB%20Newsletter%202019-03.pdf
for an example of how to access the online detail. 

Stay safe,
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Moishe Miller
Brooklyn, NY
moishe.miller@...
JGFF #3391

George,

My father was a U.S. Army radar man assigned to a troop ship towards the end of his years of service.  I have found his name indexed in passenger manifests for at least some of his trips, though not all.

I searched your father's name in Ancestry's databases for 1945 arrival, and did not find him.

I do not know why some of the arrivals of my father's ship were manifested and indexed, and others cannot be found.

Some bodies were not recovered. Perhaps David's body was one of those not recovered.

Daniel Nussbaum II, M.D., FAAP
Retired Developmental Pediatrician
Rochester, New York

In case you missed it, you may now view the recording of our most recent episode of Genealogy Coffee Break here. In this episode, we explore the databases and online document collections that are preserving Ukraine's at-risk Jewish genealogy records and making them accessible to researchers worldwide. 
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Moriah Amit
Senior Genealogy Librarian, Center for Jewish History
New York, NY
mamit@...

I am researching descendants of a daughter of a HOROWITZ from Minsk
who married the son of the Rabbi of Novarodok, Rabbi David, son of
Moshe of Kletzki. In all the sources I've seen there doesn't appear a
family name for Rabbi David. He is also known for the sefer
(religious book) he authored " Galia Mesechta".

Happy Passover/Chag Sameach

Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem

I have a relative born in Germany in 1900, trained as a lawyer just
after WWI. When she married a much older doctor, he told her she could
no longer work (she described this to me in a matter-of-fact way,
without any apparent regret).

I have not found any records mentioning her training and profession. Her
family immigrated to the US in January 1940, and the 1940 census
describes her as a high school graduate and maid. Her naturalization
papers from that same year call her a mother/educator.

I would guess that part of the issue was that most women did not have an
opportunity to receive professional training during those years. But
even if they did, that information was rarely captured on official records.

JoAnne
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Continuing Jessica's remark about Jews not speaking Hebrew; my grandfather seems to have spoken two languages before he emigrated to the USA in 1905 at about age 13.  He lived in the Brest area and spoke Yiddish and Russian.  Later he added English. In other words, people spoke the languages that were spoken around them wherever they emigrated from.  Both my parents were born in the USA but spoke Yiddish before they learned English, mostly at school. This is common in immigrant families to this day, speaking the native language at home and the common language outside the home. Good luck, Nettie.
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Barbara Sloan
Conway, SC

Since he died in Haverstraw, his death certificate can be obtained either from Haverstraw or from NYS in Albany.  His death certificate should say where he is buried.  You give his name as Edenbaum, but elsewhere in this string it is listed as Eidenbaum.

Robert Hanna
NYC

A combined Birds of a Feather (BOF) session for both Suwalki and
Siauliai District Research Groups will be held over Zoom on Sunday,
April 24, 2022, at 12:00 noon EDT.

The Suwalki district includes the following towns and shtetls:

SUWALKI: Suwalki (city), Baklarzewo, Filipow, Jeleniewo, Wizajny

VILKAVISKIS: Bartininkai, Budvieciai, Kybartai, Vilkaviškis, Virbalis, Vistytis

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BOF sessions will be recorded and publicly available for a limited time.

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Jody Tzucker
Coordinator, LitvakSIG for both Suwalki and Siauliai District Research Groups
Carmel, IN

I have seen some who are midwives in Hungarian  records. And some of those who sent their husbands to register the births when the father was not available.

I have seen some women who were seamstresses...often of lingerie. And some who were farm day laborers.

Sandy Malek
sandymalek@...

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Bruce Drake
Silver Spring, MD

Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK
Towns: Wojnilow, Kovel

Are there Russian/Latvian immigration records, such as passenger manifests or passport records, for people who immigrated from Libau, Latvia? I have the US passenger manifest and many other US documents for a relative who immigrated from Lithuania to the United States, via Libau in 1907. I'm curious if any records still exist from the Russian side, like the German records that are available for people who immigrated through Hamburg, Germany. 

Jenny Rappaport
New Jersey 

My great-grandmother, in Romania, was a bookbinder. This was a family craft. She continued this when she arrived in the U.S. in 1928. My grandmother in Stanislawow (now Ivano-Frankivsk) worked in an office after graduating from a business school. After she arrived in the U.S. in 1920 she worked as an embroiderer and a seamstress - skills highly valued in her family - her sister-in-law was an acclaimed embroiderer whose works were shown in galleries and this skill according to family stories was what saved her during World War II because of connections she made through her craft.
Janette Silverman

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Carl Kaplan

KAPLAN Minsk, Belarus
EDELSON, EDINBURG Kovno, Lithuania
HOFFERT, BIENSTOCK< BIENENSTOCK Kolbuszowa, Galicia
STEINBERG, KLINGER, WEISSBERG, APPELBERG Bukaczowce, Galicia

The origin of Tamara name is from the Biblical story of Amnon and Tamar. The "a" added at the end is an adaptation in order to make this name  a female name in European languages. The Hebrew word "tamar" translates to "date palm". Many Biblical names were taken after plants and animals.
Valentin Lupu
ISRAEL

Wrong address.  The one you show is for the national bank.  Use this instead: https://niab.by/newsite/en

I hope this helps.

Best regards,
Frank /swartz

The Boston Globe newspaper had, at that time,  a column entitled "Port of Boston"  I paged through one of the on-line archival issues of November, 1945. This is a clipping of the ship arrivals on Nov 14.  Four ships with returning servicemen arrived that day.   There were no details in the paper..
Searched Ancestry.com for Boston ship arrivals in November 1945 using each ship name in turn-  came back with zero results for any of the four.      

Another possibility is to locate the Military History of that division.  When I looked up 45th Armored Division on Google it identified the 45th as an Infantry Division.




David Rosen
Boston, MA

The Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island is delighted to invite you to our next meeting,

 

When: Wednesday, April 13, 7:00 PM, via Zoom

Topic: Interview with Rabbi Moyshe Kolesnik, Keeping the Galitzianer Flame Alive in the Heart of Galicia

Speaker: Steven Turner

 

This meeting will feature an update on the curernt situation in Ukraine from Steven Turner, along with pictures and impressions from Jeff Austin's meeting with Rabbi Kolesnik in 2019.

Rabbi Kolesnik is the rabbi of the Tempel Synagogue in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine formerly Stanisławów, Poland. Rabbi Kolesnik was born in Ivano-Frankivsk after his family was resettled east from Russia. After the fall of the USSR the building that housed the synagogue was returned to the Jewish community (1992) and Rabbi Kolesnik became the spiritual leader of the congregation. The Stanisławów district was one of the most densely populated districts with Jews in all of Galicia and interwar Poland. Now, as the only Rabbi in the district, Rabbi Kolesnik has responsibility for all the Jewish cemeteries and mass grave sites in the area. In addition, he has an extensive collection of genealogical and Holocaust records in his study. Gesher Galicia is currently categorizing this collection in order to make it available to the community.

 

Interview by Gesher Galicia President Steven Turner and a narrated tour of the Tempel Synagogue of Ivano-Frankivsk conducted by Rabbi Kolesnik.  Recorded: June 2021

  

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Our next meeting will take place on Sunday, April 24 at 2pm featuring Ellen Kowitt speaking about “Locating Jewish Records in the Golden Medina”.   This will be a ZOOM meeting.

 

I look forward to seeing you all!

 

Jeff Austin

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