As we do at the end of every week on the JewishGen Facebook page, we have
posted a Yizkor book excerpt. This one is >from the book of Nowy-Dwor, near
Warsaw, in which a Jewish labor organizer describes his work and its
dangers. You can find it here: http://bit.ly/1WvnRWe

Bruce Drake
Silver Spring, MD

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

As we do at the end of every week on the JewishGen Facebook page, we have
posted a Yizkor book excerpt. This one is >from the book of Nowy-Dwor, near
Warsaw, in which a Jewish labor organizer describes his work and its
dangers. You can find it here: http://bit.ly/1WvnRWe

Bruce Drake
Silver Spring, MD

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

Subj: ViewMate translation request - Polish

I've posted a 1863 Polish death certificate for Isaac Koziol of Zambrow,
Poland. I would like a complete translation to include in a family book I am
writing. It is on ViewMate at the following address ...
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM46214
Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application.
Thanking you in advance for your assistance.
Sheldon (Shlomo) Beckerman
North Miami Beach, Florida

Subj: ViewMate translation request - Polish

I've posted a 1863 Polish death certificate for Isaac Koziol of Zambrow,
Poland. I would like a complete translation to include in a family book I am
writing. It is on ViewMate at the following address ...
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM46214
Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application.
Thanking you in advance for your assistance.
Sheldon (Shlomo) Beckerman
North Miami Beach, Florida

Sitzensdorf in Thuringia was the site of a 1944/45 forced labor camp for
Mischlingen, i.e. persons with both Jewish and non-Jewish parentage. Of the
total 203 survivors, most were Germans but there were also a few Dutch,
French and Belgian prisoners. Thanks to Alan Seid and Barbara Elkeles who
entered this information >from an immediate postwar list available at the
USHMM, these names will shortly appear on Jewishgen.

If any researcher has a particular interest in Sitzendorf or Mischlingen in
general please let me know and I will be happy to provide a copy of the
database.

Peter Lande, Washington, D.C. pdlande@...

Sitzensdorf in Thuringia was the site of a 1944/45 forced labor camp for
Mischlingen, i.e. persons with both Jewish and non-Jewish parentage. Of the
total 203 survivors, most were Germans but there were also a few Dutch,
French and Belgian prisoners. Thanks to Alan Seid and Barbara Elkeles who
entered this information >from an immediate postwar list available at the
USHMM, these names will shortly appear on Jewishgen.

If any researcher has a particular interest in Sitzendorf or Mischlingen in
general please let me know and I will be happy to provide a copy of the
database.

Peter Lande, Washington, D.C. pdlande@...

Thank you [Irene Peters]. I wish I knew for sure.

Zahnarzt I wonder about gold fillings?

I also have a letter in code equating an attempt to get sponsorships to the
US with the sale of merchandise

Tom Krakauer, Bahama, NC, USA thkrakauer@...

Thank you [Irene Peters]. I wish I knew for sure.

Zahnarzt I wonder about gold fillings?

I also have a letter in code equating an attempt to get sponsorships to the
US with the sale of merchandise

Tom Krakauer, Bahama, NC, USA thkrakauer@...

Tom,

from what I know about correspondence in my own family during that

time it is very possible that it was code.

I imagine that there was justified fear of letters being opened after
they were mailed etc., so it was likely that people who wanted to
communicate something private and/or dangerous would have used other,
inconspicuous terms. In the end you will have to judge that for
yourself, taking into account what happened around the time these
letters were written, how they were written, the context, and also
considering personalities etc. But I would not discount this at all
because I know that it happened in my own family.

Irene Peters, Berlin, Germany iupfamilyresearch@...


On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 Tom Krakauer thkrakauer@... wrote:

My parents , Hans S. KRAKAUER and Elizabeth GOTTSCHALK KRAKAUER left Germany
for Buffalo, NY in 1937 and at that time two of my uncles had already made
it to Ecuador. >from 1937 until after my grandparents made it to England in
July 1939 they wrote at least weekly letters to the 4 Ueberseeers which
fortunately my mother saved. So I have a treasure trove of the events that
the family faced in Hannover including Krystallnacht. These 400+ letters
have been donated to the Leo Baeck Institute.
In looking through the letters I am struck by the number of times that
trips to the dentist (Zahnarzt) were mentioned. With all that was going on
in Germany, the US and Ecuador, I am surprised that the trips to the dentist
rose to that level of significance.
Is anyone aware if Zahnarzt might be code for something that was taking
place? Or is it just the level of discomfort of a toothache.
I would appreciate any thoughts.

Tom,

from what I know about correspondence in my own family during that

time it is very possible that it was code.

I imagine that there was justified fear of letters being opened after
they were mailed etc., so it was likely that people who wanted to
communicate something private and/or dangerous would have used other,
inconspicuous terms. In the end you will have to judge that for
yourself, taking into account what happened around the time these
letters were written, how they were written, the context, and also
considering personalities etc. But I would not discount this at all
because I know that it happened in my own family.

Irene Peters, Berlin, Germany iupfamilyresearch@...


On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 Tom Krakauer thkrakauer@... wrote:

My parents , Hans S. KRAKAUER and Elizabeth GOTTSCHALK KRAKAUER left Germany
for Buffalo, NY in 1937 and at that time two of my uncles had already made
it to Ecuador. >from 1937 until after my grandparents made it to England in
July 1939 they wrote at least weekly letters to the 4 Ueberseeers which
fortunately my mother saved. So I have a treasure trove of the events that
the family faced in Hannover including Krystallnacht. These 400+ letters
have been donated to the Leo Baeck Institute.
In looking through the letters I am struck by the number of times that
trips to the dentist (Zahnarzt) were mentioned. With all that was going on
in Germany, the US and Ecuador, I am surprised that the trips to the dentist
rose to that level of significance.
Is anyone aware if Zahnarzt might be code for something that was taking
place? Or is it just the level of discomfort of a toothache.
I would appreciate any thoughts.

JewishGen Education will offer Basic 4:Exploring the new Belarus
SIG website, May 15-May 30. Visit http://www.jewishgen.org/education
to register. The course is a workbook class, open on the private
JewishGen forum. It is free for JewishGen Value-Added Services users
(donated $100 to the JewishGen General Fund in the last 12 months),
otherwise the cost is $18.

This course will explore the new Belarus SIG website and help you
search for your ancestors, explain the Belarus Records Inventory,
the new translation projects and more.
http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/index.html

If you have any questions, contact Nancy Holden
nholden@...

JewishGen Education will offer Basic 4:Exploring the new Belarus
SIG website, May 15-May 30. Visit http://www.jewishgen.org/education
to register. The course is a workbook class, open on the private
JewishGen forum. It is free for JewishGen Value-Added Services users
(donated $100 to the JewishGen General Fund in the last 12 months),
otherwise the cost is $18.

This course will explore the new Belarus SIG website and help you
search for your ancestors, explain the Belarus Records Inventory,
the new translation projects and more.
http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/index.html

If you have any questions, contact Nancy Holden
nholden@...

My parents , Hans S. KRAKAUER and Elizabeth GOTTSCHALK KRAKAUER left Germany
for Buffalo, NY in 1937 and at that time two of my uncles had already made
it to Ecuador. >from 1937 until after my grandparents made it to England in
July 1939 they wrote at least weekly letters to the 4 Ueberseeers which
fortunately my mother saved. So I have a treasure trove of the events that
the family faced in Hannover including Krystallnacht. These 400+ letters
have been donated to the Leo Baeck Institute.

In looking through the letters I am struck by the number of times that
trips to the dentist (Zahnarzt) were mentioned. With all that was going on
in Germany, the US and Ecuador, I am surprised that the trips to the dentist
rose to that level of significance.

Is anyone aware if Zahnarzt might be code for something that was taking
place? Or is it just the level of discomfort of a toothache.

I would appreciate any thoughts.

Thomas Krakauer, thkrakauer@...

My parents , Hans S. KRAKAUER and Elizabeth GOTTSCHALK KRAKAUER left Germany
for Buffalo, NY in 1937 and at that time two of my uncles had already made
it to Ecuador. >from 1937 until after my grandparents made it to England in
July 1939 they wrote at least weekly letters to the 4 Ueberseeers which
fortunately my mother saved. So I have a treasure trove of the events that
the family faced in Hannover including Krystallnacht. These 400+ letters
have been donated to the Leo Baeck Institute.

In looking through the letters I am struck by the number of times that
trips to the dentist (Zahnarzt) were mentioned. With all that was going on
in Germany, the US and Ecuador, I am surprised that the trips to the dentist
rose to that level of significance.

Is anyone aware if Zahnarzt might be code for something that was taking
place? Or is it just the level of discomfort of a toothache.

I would appreciate any thoughts.

Thomas Krakauer, thkrakauer@...

Who is the person who collects success stories >from GERSIG members?
I'm going to write something in response to the request >from the Leo
Baeck Institute for success stories with their resources, and I figure
I can kill two birds with one stone and submit a version of it for
GERSIG as well.

Thanks, Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer, Hyde Park, NY christine3cats@...

Moderator Note: Send success stories to: success@...

Read other success stories at:
http://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen/testimonials/pages/CurrentStories.html

More info at:
http://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen/testimonials/pages/Introduction.html

Who is the person who collects success stories >from GERSIG members?
I'm going to write something in response to the request >from the Leo
Baeck Institute for success stories with their resources, and I figure
I can kill two birds with one stone and submit a version of it for
GERSIG as well.

Thanks, Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer, Hyde Park, NY christine3cats@...

Moderator Note: Send success stories to: success@...

Read other success stories at:
http://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen/testimonials/pages/CurrentStories.html

More info at:
http://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen/testimonials/pages/Introduction.html

After months of planning, the 36th IAJGS Conference
(http://www.iajgs2016.org/ ) is very happy to announce that the
preliminary conference program is now live, and registration is open for
meals and workshops! Banquet registration is still in development.

If you are already registered, you may log in to the Attendee Service
Center with the password shown in your registration confirmation email,
click "EDIT" next to your name and click Continue until the fee-added
events page appears. After selecting any items, be sure to click
Continue until you reach the payment page and submit the revised
registration.

Early registration with discounts on registration, LIVE! and audio
session recordings ends 30 April 2016 at 11:59 PM PDT.

Looking forward to seeing you in Seattle

Janette Silverman
Chuck Weinstein
Phyllis Grossman

Conference Co-Chairs

The Israel State Archives has begun putting its entire collection online
The site is still under development
With the first 9,000,000 scanned pages
http://www.archives.gov.il/en/


Rose Feldman
Israel Genealogy Research Association
http://genealogy.org.il
http:/facebook.com/israelgenealogy

Keep up to date on archives, databases and genealogy in general and
Jewish and Israeli roots in particular with
http://twitter.com/JewDataGenGirl

Greetings...here in JewishGen land we are dedicated to making the
search easier by promoting better organization ( (want to find the
items quickly?) and research methodology (need to remember where you
got that piece of data?). Our classes are detailed on
www.jewishgen.org/education

Organize & Research Online (starting April 21st) is for advanced
beginners who have used Ancestry and other online databases and still
have questions or want to really organize information. It focuses on
your immigrant ancestors and their immediate families in the United
States. See the full description of the lessons etc on
http://www.jewishgen.org/education/description.asp?course=40046
Highlights: Lessons are read/downloaded at your own pace; this is a
one on one personal mentoring program where students post an ancestral
branch, set goals for their research, and work with the instructor
24/7

We also offer one of our Basic courses, Lets Get Organized in May.
This text based course with daily exercises is part of the Value-Added
Services program, and we waive the tuition for those who have
contributed $100 to our general fund within the last 12 months....And
we're planning a May Value Added Class for the new Belarus Website!

Notes: The sedar can be a wonderful opportunity to exchange
information and encourage family interest. Also, consider the 5 minute
videos on navigating JewishGen and its key databases on the bottom of
the education page (http://www.Jewishgen.org/education)

happy hunting!
Phyllis Kramer, NYC & Palm Beach Gardens, Fl
vp, education, JewishGen

Greetings...here in JewishGen land we are dedicated to making the
search easier by promoting better organization ( (want to find the
items quickly?) and research methodology (need to remember where you
got that piece of data?). Our classes are detailed on
www.jewishgen.org/education

Organize & Research Online (starting April 21st) is for advanced
beginners who have used Ancestry and other online databases and still
have questions or want to really organize information. It focuses on
your immigrant ancestors and their immediate families in the United
States. See the full description of the lessons etc on
http://www.jewishgen.org/education/description.asp?course=40046
Highlights: Lessons are read/downloaded at your own pace; this is a
one on one personal mentoring program where students post an ancestral
branch, set goals for their research, and work with the instructor
24/7

We also offer one of our Basic courses, Lets Get Organized in May.
This text based course with daily exercises is part of the Value-Added
Services program, and we waive the tuition for those who have
contributed $100 to our general fund within the last 12 months....And
we're planning a May Value Added Class for the new Belarus Website!

Notes: The sedar can be a wonderful opportunity to exchange
information and encourage family interest. Also, consider the 5 minute
videos on navigating JewishGen and its key databases on the bottom of
the education page (http://www.Jewishgen.org/education)

happy hunting!
Phyllis Kramer, NYC & Palm Beach Gardens, Fl
vp, education, JewishGen