• Argentina – the AGJA submitted approximately 2,900 new records and 5,300 photos from 14 different existing and new JOWBR cemeteries, the majority from Buenos Aires.
• Belarus – approximately 7,700 records, mostly from Chesed Shel Emet, the largest set from Vitebsk.
• Canada – 7,600 records and 11,200 photos from new and existing cemeteries submitted primarily from the JGS of Montreal and the JGS of Toronto.
• Czech Republic – approximately 2,000 records and 1,600 photos from 8 new and updated cemeteries, the largest set from Bzenec.
• England – 2,800 records and 2,300 photos from 16 new and updated cemeteries, the majority of which are from Hazelrigg and London from the JCR-UK.
• Lebanon – 3,200 records from Ras El Nabba Cemetery in Beirut from the Jeff Malka Collection.
• Netherlands – added 105,800 mostly new records and burial permits from Amsterdam and Mulderberg submitted by Akevoth.
• Romania –approximately 2,200 new records from 37 mostly new cemeteries.
• Russia – added 7,400 records from 30 new and 5 updated Russian cemeteries, the largest sets from Perm and Saratov. 
• Ukraine – 71,400 records from 19 new and 4 updated cemeteries, submitted largely by Chesed Shel Emet, the largest sets from Odessa, Dontetsk, and Belaya Tserkov.
• United States - approximately 27,600 new records and 33,300 photos for 97 new and 63 updated cemeteries. Significant additions came from the Lasky Collection, JGS of Georgia, JGS of Greater Boston, and a number of dedicated individual volunteers and representatives of synagogues and historical societies.

• French Deportees
• German Towns (Peter W. Landé, Allison Zhang and Liliya Meyerovich / US Holocaust Memorial Museum)
• Italian DP Camps (Mina Mauerstein-Bail)
• LaManche Shoah Victims
• Norwegian Deportees (Kristian Ottosen)
• Traunstein, Germany Displaced Persons (DP) Camp Records (Peter W. Landé, Allison Zhang and Liliya Meyerovich / US Holocaust Memorial Museum)
• Ubès Camp Forced Labor

• Auschwitz Medical Test Victims (Jessica Skippon)
• Bucharest Pogrom Victims - January 22-23, 1941
• Romanian Returning Survivors (Sandy Malek / Maramures Records Indexing Project of JewishGen’s Hungarian Research Division)
• Rovno, Poland Community Fee Contributions - 1939
• Târgu Mureș (Marosvásárhely), Romania Students and Teachers Deported to Auschwitz 1944 (Professor John Hoenig and Andrei Grunfeld)
• The Lados List - Jews Saved by Aleksander Ładoś, Polish Envoy in Bern (The Pilecki Institute)

Jeff Malka Collection (Dr. Jeff Malka and Mathilde Tagger)

• 1941 Egyptian Directory
• Bulgarian Partisans
• Crete, Florinam and Volos Victims
• Deported to Bergen-Belsen
• French Deportees and Victims
• Monastir Jews in Treblinka
• Prominent Egyptian Jews
• Tunisian Camp Victims

• Ioannina, Greece Holocaust Victims (Marcia Haddad Ikonomopoulous / Museum Director -Kehila Kedosha Janina Museum)
• Jewish Children Attending the Umberto School in Thessaloniki, Greece Between the Wars
• Rhodes and Cos Deportees (Aron Hasson of the Rhodes Jewish Historical Foundation)
• Salonika Victims (Heinz D. S. Kounto & Marcia Haddad Ikonomopoulous / Museum Director -Kehila Kedosha Janina Museum)

• USC Shoah Foundation – Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive®)
• Haitian Jews Nationalized in Absentia (“Haiti’s Jewish History” by Joseph Bernard, Jr.)
• Mirer Yeshiva Students
• Palestine Certificates (Professor John Hoenig)
• The Breman Oral Histories (Peggy Mosinger Freedman & Jeremy Katz / William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum)

Is there data available on birth and marriage certificates. looking for marriage of Philip Sperber and Halina Horowicz marriage approx 1931

Looking for birth of Hernryk Sperber 1932 or 33
irka Sperber 1934 or 35
Nathan Sperber 1937


Hannah Sperber, Denver, Colorado

I AM SEARCHING FOR SOME RECORD OF MY KRIEGERS FROM LITHUANIA.
Hirsh (age 15), Chaime (18), Ester (15) and Chame (10) arrived at Ellis between 1904 and 1906, as did their parents, Yankel (53) and Muse (48). They all went to their brother and son, Morris, who apparently arrived earlier (I could not Morris in the Ellis Island data bank). They all list  Ramigala or Ponewish as their last residence. 
I can not find any evidence clearly attributed to this family in the 1897 Russia census (Lithuanian Jews).
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

M Kaplan
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Mazel Tov - yes! to Joel and Vivian for their endless and amazing contributions to JewishGen and to all of us. Their achievements will outlast allll of us!

Susan Gordon
BIALAZURKER - Zbaraz, Budapest
LEMPERT - Lvov, Skalat 

Ann,

Baltic (1) foundered in the North Atlantic after a collision on 07 Feb 1898. Baltic (2) did not enter service until 1904. The White Star Line operated both ships.

See: http://norwayheritage.com/p_ships.asp?Ship=baltic&Submit=Submit

The Morton Allan Directory of European Passenger Steamship Arrivals shows arrival dates for the Baltic in 1904 landing at NYC from Liverpool on 01 Sep and 30 Sep. No further landings are listed after these dates (for 1904), though there are earlier landings. It is possible the arrival date on the naturalization is incorrect (which I have seen in other cases).

Another way to search for his manifest record would be to check Ancestry.com's collection "UK and Ireland, Outward Passenger Lists, 1890-1960," with the information that the Baltic sailed from Liverpool. Locating the UK record may lead you to locating the NYC record.

Best of luck in your search,
David Passman
Dallas, Texas

According to the JGS (NY)'s Burial Society Database
(https://jgsny.org/searchable-databases/burial-society-databases/burialsoc-joodb)
the Prusiner Charitable & Benevolent Assn. was connected to the town
that's now Pruzhany, Belarus. The society had sections at Mount
Lebanon Cemetery in Queens and United Hebrew Cemetery on Staten
Island. Mount Lebanon's online search
(https://www.mountlebanoncemetery.com/search/) brings up 551 burials
in the section there, including several Fines. Harris Fine (d: 1956)
and Tillie Fine (d: 1931) are also buried at Mount Lebanon, but not on
the society's grounds.

Renee

Renee Stern Steinig
Dix Hills NY
genmaven@...


Jeff Fine <finejeffy@...> wrote:

I have recently been given a copy of a short memoir outlining the
inception of this organization by Harris Fine, Samuel Fine, Morris
Kaplan, Barnet Levin, Barnet Chazen, Moses Watsky, and Fishel Levin.
It seems like a charter was granted by NY State on 3 Dec 1888. Harris
Fine was married to Tillie Berestitsky.

I am not clear on where Prusina is/was; it seems like Poland although
there are other towns with similar names. I haven't really located
much info about this association.

If anyone can point me in the right direction I would appreciate the
help. I am also happy to share the document.

It is from Pruzhany, Belarus
52°33' N 24°28' E
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Avrohom Krauss
Kiryat Yearim (Telz-Stone) ISRAEL
kraussfig@...
Researching: KRAUS, GOTTFRIED, MONAT from PRZEMYSL (Galicia) Poland/ KINSTLICH, GREENBERG, SCHMIDT from Tarnobrzeg, Rozwadow, Ulanow (Galicia) Poland
KLOTZ from Telsiai, Lithuania/ ROGOZIN, KAPLOWITZ, from Vyazyn, Ilya, Vilyayka, Belarus /LAPIDUS, SOKOLSKY, ROGOZIN, Maladzyechna, Belarus

I second that. The book is fascinating. Among those of Jewish descent that served in the German Armed Forces were a Luftwaffe Field Marshal (Milch), an Admiral and several generals.  Milch's story is especially interesting, as his father was Jewish, but once the Gestapo started investigating his ancestry, Göring intervened and obtained an affidavit from Milch's mother, stating that his biological father was her own uncle and not her husband. This allowed Milch to be issued the "German Blood" certificate, exempting him from German racial laws.  It is said that in response to a comment by an official regarding the validity of Milch's mother's statement, Göring said "I decide who is a Jew!".  After the war Milch was convicted at the Nuremberg trials of of war crimes and spent several years in jail.

Don Efrat
Cherry Hill, NJ

Despite its name, Manhattan State Hospital was in Islip, Suffolk County. A quick Google search doesn't turn up a history of it, but there are photos and it was there in the 1960s when I visited my sister. It was a scary hospital, feared by patients with kinder therapies.
Jessica Skippon, London, England
researching Schanzer,, Borger, Birn and Jachzel in Andrychow, Wadowice, Bielsko Biala and Berlin.

Hi Marion,

I am wondering whether the conference meeting will be recorded, as it is at 03:45 AM  for those of us living on the East Coast of Australia.

Thanks in advance, 

Joyaa ANTARES
Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

Thank you very much for this very insightful background.  I will share it with my other Gottlieb direct descendants and explore further.   
--
Indy Crowley
Redmond, Washington USA
indy.crowley@...
Gottlieb
Eichenstein
Eisenstein
Allit
Olisky

I'm trying to find a link to a lecture I heard on zoom over this past year.

I might not have all the details correct but as I remember it was the story of a British woman whose mother was adopted as a child in England during or after the war. Her parents were Polish. The father was a Polish diplomat in England or maybe somewhere else in Europe. At some point she discovered that her grandparents were Polish jews and started working on her genealogy.

Does that ring a bell for anyone?

Please let me know if it does.
--
Jeff Fine
Montclair, NJ, USA
finejeffy@...
Family names/towns
Sekuran, Bessarabia and Odessa (Shecter, Eisenberg)
Igumen, Minsk, Belarus (Ekelchik, Sussman)
Minsk(?) (Fine, Z(w)erlin)
Ulanow, Poland (Hassenfeld, Laufer, Reich, Ölbaum)

I have recently been given a copy of a short memoir outlining the inception of this organization by Harris Fine, Samuel Fine, Morris Kaplan, Barnet Levin, Barnet Chazen, Moses Watsky, and Fishel Levin.It seems like a charter was granted by NY State on 3 Dec 1888. Harris Fine was married to Tillie Berestitsky.

I am not clear on where Prusina is/was; it seems like Poland although there are other towns with similar names. I haven't really located much info about this association.

If anyone can point me in the right direction I would appreciate the help. I am also happy to share the document.

Thanks,
--
Jeff Fine
Montclair, NJ, USA
finejeffy@...
Family names/towns
Sekuran, Bessarabia (Shecter, Eisenberg)
Igumen, Minsk, Belarus (Ekelchik, Sussman)
Minsk(?) (Fine, Z(w)erlin)
Ulanow, Poland (Hassenfeld, Laufer, Reich, Ölbaum)

Thanks to all who attended today's Romania meeting! Copies of the slides from today's presentation are available here: https://romania.jewishgen.org/iajgs.

Best,
Michael
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Michael Moritz
Director, Romania Research Division
mmoritz@...

My wife's grandparents married in Warsaw, Poland around 1914. My wife's mother was born in Warsaw in 1916. When my wife's mother was not 3 years old her parents got sick and the father past away.
My wife has no documents of her family in Warsaw. Anybody has tried to get marriage, birth and death certificates from Warsaw during the period 1914-1919? I appreciate your help.
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Angel Kosfiszer

Richardson, Texas

On behalf of the Board and members of the San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society, we are thrilled to learn that our long-time member, Vivian Kahn has been co-honored with the Susan E. King Volunteer of the Year award. I’ve personally known Vivian for many years. She is a fount of information, indefatigable, and an endless supply of infectious enthusiasm.

Congratulations!

Jeremy Frankel

President
San Francisco Bay Area
Jewish Genealogical Society

Look for the phone number of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Baltimore.  Call them or email them and someone should be able to help you.  Good luck!

Linda Gordon Higgins
Spring, TX
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