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View Mate translation yiddish #translation

marcelo kisnerman
 

Please I would like you to translate the backs of pictures that are in yiddisch and are approximately 70 years old.

https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM92960
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM92961
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM92962
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM92963
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM92964
Thank you very much.
Marcelo Kisnerman
mkisnerman@...
Argentina
 
 
ViewMate Translation Requests #translation

paulmoverman@...
  

I've posted 3 death records in Russian for which I would greatly appreciate a translation. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses ...
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM93062
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM93063
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM93064
Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page.
Thank you very much for your expertise and time!

--
Paul Moverman
Milford, NH USA
Re: Birth record from The Netherlands #records

Sherri Bobish
 

Neilan,

Have you seen your family's passenger manifest dated 23 Apr 1921 arriving at NY:
https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/imageviewer/collections/7488/images/NYT715_2955-0096?treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=LwN7345&_phstart=successSource&pId=4025333178

Aron Crakowski, wife Hessia, and daughter Chaje, who is listed as one month old (in age column there is only years and months, no weeks, so she could have been less than exactly one month old.  She was born in Rotterdam.

It's a two page manifest with a lot of good information on the family.  It appears that their last residence was in Romania, and their native language was Russian.  There was a lot of movement during and after WW1, and the Russian Revolution.

Aron Krakovsky's naturalization papers gives Hanna's birth date as March 29, 1921 in Holland.
https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/imageviewer/collections/2280/images/32126_22248910134290-00281?treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=LwN7346&_phstart=successSource&pId=3364557

Hope this helps,

Sherri Bobish
Re: Vienna Austria genealogist #austria-czech

Andreas Schwab
 

Also, Genteam.eu has a lot of 19th century data, especially for Jewish Vienna. 
--
Andreas Schwab, Montreal, Canada
Searching BIELICA family from Poreba Koceby and Brok,. #holocaust

Stanley Diamond
 

In connection with the possible nomination of a righteous gentile in Poland,  I am trying to locate family
of any of the following individuals (listed in the Survivor Cards at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw):
 

SURNAME

Given Name(s)

Sex

Father's Given Name(s)

Mother's Given Name(s)

Mother's Maiden SURNAME

Date of Birth

Place of Birth

Address as at 1 Sep 1939

BIELICA

Anna

f

Jankiel

Maria

not stated

1928

Brok

Brok

BIELICA

Chana

f

not stated

not stated

not stated

1927

Brok

Brok

BIELICA

Helena

f

Jankiel

Maria

not stated

1930

Brok

Brok

BIELICA

Jankiel

m

Hersz

Gitla

not stated

1881

Brok

Brok

BIELICA

Jenta

f

not stated

not stated

not stated

1929

Brok

Brok

BIELICA

Maria

f

Srul

Jenta

not stated

1885

Lipki

Brok

BIELICA

Srul Aron

m

Hersz

Neszka

DZIEWULECKA

1914

Siedlce

Siedlce

BYLICA

Srul Icko

m

not stated

not stated

not stated

not stated

not stated

not stated
 
Help will be appreciated.
 
Stanley Diamond, M.S.M.  
Executive Director, Jewish Records Indexing - Poland, Inc.
 
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Re: Copying Hebrew text from a PDF into a Translation tool - OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Help Request #general

Dahn Cukier
 

Hi.

After you  read the following and do not understand, I will answer questions off-list,
I work in this 30 years, I do not expect everyone to understand in a few words.

There are 2 ways to create a PDF file. Enter data and save as PDF, scan
or  take a photo and create the photo as PDF.

As far as I know the second way will not be able to convert to text.

The first way. if a document was written in a word processor
spreadsheet or any application that saves characters and saved/exported as PDF,
then I can try converting  it in Linux operating system using "pdftotext". I do not know if the
software is available in Windows or iOS.

There is a second potential problem. Only in the last few years has there been a
"standard" that most software displays Hebrew. I think different fonts display Hebrew
using different binary codes.

If you can translate the PDF to text and it looks like encoded spy message,
I can attempt to translate this to other fonts using a program I wrote many years ago
in Regina/REXX.


If I can help anyone, please send me off-list using the subject field "help translate".

Dahn Zukrowicz
Cukier, Zucker, Brieff, Brif, Liss, Lisobitsky, Sabath, Sklawer,


When you start to read readin,
how do you know the fellow that
wrote the readin,
wrote the readin right?

Festus Hagen
Long Branch Saloon
Dodge City, Kansas
(Gunsmoke)


On Tuesday, April 6, 2021, 1:06:01 PM GMT+3, Joyaa Antares <joyaa@...> wrote:


Hi Folks,
I have two medium-sized documents detailing my family ancestry.  Both documents are in PDF format, and both are in Hebrew.
I want to be able to copy the text into a good Hebrew-English translation tool in order to be able to understand and verify what has been written.  Unfortunately, these PDFs don't allow text to be "selected" in order to copy/paste but perhaps it could be done with a suitable OCR or Optical Character Recognition tool that would render the text "copyable"?  Does anyone know?  Does anyone have access to such a tool who could help me with this?
Thank you very much.
Joyaa ANTARES
Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
___________________________
Researching   SCHORR, SCHERZER, JURIS and DAWID in Buckaczowce, Ottynia, Nadworna, and Kolomyya
Re: Replying in private - no need to publish your email #guidelines

Mike Coleman
 

From personal experience, whether a public reply is deemed too personal to be of general interest, and is hence rejected, is entirely at the whim of the duty moderator.

Likewise the oft-seen direction mandating a personal response.


Mike Coleman   (London  U.K.)
Nineteenth century Polish vital record dates -- Julian or Gregorian calendars? #general

Dubin, David M. MD
 

Hi all,

Are dates in 19th century Polish vital records always the Gregorian dates? I have some records that record both Julian and Gregorian dates, but when only one date is mentioned which is meant? Specifically I’m looking at three areas in Poland:

Szrensk (1839)/ Prasnysz (1811, before Napoleon’s retreat, 1866-1877)/ Mlawa (1877) all about 35 miles north of Warsaw;

Pinczow (1822-30) about 40 miles south of Kielce ; and

Wojslawice (1849-67)/ Wohyn (1855-61)/ Miedzyrzec Podlaski (1862) near Lublin.

Poland, being a Catholic country likely went Gregorian early, but after 1795 when Poland was partitioned, and after Russia (which did not transition until after the 1917 revolution) suppressed the Polish uprising in 1864, did the Russian authorities impose Julian dates? And if so, is that true only in the records which contain both dates?

What I mean to ask is “can I assume that any date in a vital record is Gregorian unless both dates are listed?”

Sorry for the verbosity.

 

David Dubin, MD

Teaneck,  New Jersey

 

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Are "Muni" and "Munya" nicknames? For what name? #names

Susan J. Gordon
 

"Muni" or "Munya" are the first names for someone (a lawyer) from Skalat. The last name is Lempert or Lampert - which are my family names. They are written in the Skalat Memorial Book, which was published recently, by JewishGen. 

Are "Muni" and "Munya" nicknames? For what name? 

Susan Gordon
LEMPERT, SCHOENHAUT - Skalat
BIALAZURKEr - Zbaraz
Koschmin, Posen, Prussia, Germany-Is there a group or site that specializes in this town? #germany #poland

BRENERDA@...
 

I am looking for a group, organization, Facebook group or whatever whose primary interest is what was pre WW I Koschmin, Posen, Prussia, Germany. Now known as Kos(z)min, Krotosyn, Greater Poland. My interest is in the surname LAPSAP. My family immigrated from there in 1856 using the surname LAPSAK on Hamburg manifest and LAPSER(K) on the NYC arrival manifest. By 1860 NYC census had changed surname to LEVY. I want to learn more about the town and expand on what I already know about my family. Additional details upon request.

David Brener, Lancaster, PA
Looking for Meyers family of St. Louis #usa #photographs

Erika Gottfried
 

I’m looking for descendants or relatives of a Meyers family of St. Louis, for possible repatriation of a group of family photographs I was given by a cousin.  Although none of the photographs have names or dates, I’ve come to believe that most of them are not from my own family, the Grossbergs of St. Louis, but from that of one of my great-aunts by marriage, Doreen Grossberg (later Broudy), born Doreen Meyers, also of St. Louis.  It appears that Doreen (1898 - 1970) was born to a John Meyers and Sarah (Greenberg) Meyers in St. Louis and had two much-younger sisters, Beatrice and Josephine. The ca. dozen and half images--all formal portraits or formal group photos--seem to range from as early as the 1870s and stretch into the 1880s or ‘90s, and a number of them do bear stamps of St. Louis photo studios.  

Please get in touch with me if you're one of those Meyers descendants or relatives, or know where or how I can find same.  The photos are quite striking and I’d love to send them “home.” 
 
--
Erika Gottfried
Teaneck, New Jersey
Yad Vashem Opens Online Exhibit Commemorating 80 Years Since the Beginning of the Holocaust #announcements #holocaust

Jan Meisels Allen
 

 

Yad Vashem opened a new online exhibit entitled “The Onset of Mass Murder – The Fate of Jewish Families in 1941”. The exhibit highlights the stories of 12 Jewish families who were caught in the fury of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa in June 1941.  The new exhibition tells the stories of Jewish families in the wake of Operation Barbarossa and their ultimate fate in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Eastern Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Romania and Yugoslavia.  To see the exhibit go to: https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/jewish-families-1941/index.asp

The exhibit is free although Yad Vashem would appreciate a donation to support the Museum.

 

Following this invasion, mass shootings committed by the Einsatzgruppen, other German soldiers and police forces and local collaborators began across Eastern Europe and continued into 1943, during which some 1.5 million Jews were murdered.

 

Personal letters, works of art, photographs, documents, testimonies and Pages of Testimony submitted to Yad Vashem are used in the 12 entries to portray the families who lived through these times and describe what happened to them.

 

“Operation Barbarossa was a significant turning point,” Yona Kobo the exhibitions coordinator at Yad Vashem said. “Until then, the anti-Jewish steps were mostly putting Jews into ghettos and concentration camps, but the invasion brought about first mass murder and then deportation to concentration camps. They murdered first men and then soon all the women, children and babies. We wanted to give these 1.5 million a name, a face and a story to personalize what happened to them.”

 

Jan Meisels Allen

Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

 

 
Re: Birth record from The Netherlands #records

hennynow
 

Dutch is my 2nd language, so, if you need a translator, please contact me:  Henny M. Roth in Los Angeles, CA - (310) 289-8713 - or <hennynow@...>.

Cordially,
Henny
Re: Vienna Austria genealogist #austria-czech

Corinna Woehrl (nee Goslar)
 

Hello Lynn,

I would first try searching the Database of Familia Austria via
https://www.familia-austria.at/index.php/en/overall-search
Good luck and kind regards from Germany

Corinna Woehrl, née Goslar, Hoisdorf near Hamburg
Why Did Jews Marry Christians? #general

Cliff Karchmer
 

Hello.  A colleague with a Jewish ancestor told me she heard that her Jewish grandmother from Lvov married a Christian (Russian Orthodox) to preserve wealthy family assets.  Could that have been a legitimate reason for intermarriage in the 19th century?  If so, what were the advantages that could compel a Jew to protect assets in such an extreme way?  thanks for your advice. Feel free to reply to me directly:  ckarchmer@...
 
Thanks,
 
Cliff Karchmer
JewishGen Talks: What You Need to Know About Jewish Given Names #JewishGenUpdates

Avraham Groll
 

We invite you to attend the next presentation in our series of JewishGen Talks webinars:
 
What Jewish Genealogists Need to Know about Jewish Given Names
Speaker: Dr. Sallyann Amdur Sack 
Tuesday, April 13, 2021 @ 2:00 PM Eastern Time
 
Registration is free with a suggested donation.
 
About the Talk
All genealogy research starts with names. Though that statement seems simple enough, in the world of our ancestors, names and the issues governing them, could be quite complex. Among other topics, this talk will cover how Jews got their names, what names were chosen, amuletic names, diminutives and spelling, and what happened to names after emigration from Eastern and Central Europe. A case study will demonstrate how understanding all of the above demolished a long-standing brick wall and carried the Amdur family tree back to the early 1700s.
 
About the Speaker
Founding chair of the International Institute for Jewish Genealogy; past president of IAJGS and recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award; editor and co-owner of AVOTAYNU the International Review of Jewish Genealogy; founder of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington, author or co-author of seven genealogy books; chair or co-chair of seven IAJGS conferences.
 
Registration is free with a suggested donation.
Please click here to register now! After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about how to join the webinar.
 
Questions?
Please click here. 
 
Re: Does DNA prove that Jews are a race? #dna

Erika Gottfried
 

"By Jewish law, tradition and practice, a Jew is a Jew is a Jew, whether their nearer relations lived in Ethiopia or China or Brooklyn or Aleppo.  We are all one people (Yes, there are distinctions, divisions, biases and social advantages / disadvantages within the Jewish world but for our purposes I'm just addressing whether someone is or isn't a Jew.) “  
Like everything else in this extended discussion, this is more slippery and less simple than it seems.  Who decides what is Jewish law, tradition and practice? The complexity of this question is well-illustrated by some of the problems encountered by Ethiopian immigrants to Israel, who certainly saw themselves as Jews, but whose claims to this identity were rejected by state religious authorities in many cases.   A good examination of this particular story (as well as a pretty wrenching personal narrative) is a documentary called “400 Miles” ( https://jfi.org/watch-online/jfi-on-demand/400-miles-to-freedom ).
Erika Gottfried
Teaneck, New Jersey
Yom Hashoah Global Commemoration #education #announcements

Eli Rabinowitz
 

 

Yom HaShoah 2021 Global Commemoration

 
7 April 2021
 
The WE ARE HERE! Foundation and our partners HAMEC are proud to present a live streamed event for Yom HaShoah.
The “Yom HaShoah Global Commemoration,” features students and educators from nine schools in six countries - US, South Africa, Australia, Moldova, Bulgaria and Russia. 
Holocaust survivors presenting testimony of experiences include Miriam Lichterman and HAMEC speakers Daniel Goldsmith and Ruth Hartz.
Students present their perspectives of what this legacy means to them!
We present the brand new recording of Zog Nit Keynmol in Yiddish from Sholem Aleichem College of Melbourne, Australia.
Special thanks to:
Jewish Partisans’ Educational Foundation, San Francisco, USA
World ORT, London, USA
 
The event will be available on YouTube from Thursday, April 8th at 11pm AEST, 9pm WST, 2pm in London, 9am EDT, and 6am PST.
Maximise video to Full Screen.
No pre registration is required.
 
Updated news of our Global Yom HaShoah program can also be found on our WE ARE HERE! Foundation website:  https://wah.foundation/yom-hashoah/
Sholem Aleichem College's new Yiddish version:
Thank you and regards
Eli Rabinowitz
CEO WE ARE HERE! Foundation
e. eli@...
Re: pronounciation of name #names #poland

Susan&David
 

Sheryl:  J is pronounced as Y,  and W is pronounced as V. 
This is on FamilySearch.org:   https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Poland_Languages
 

Pronunciation Guide

c = ts
ch,h = kh
ć,cz,ci = ch
ś,sz,si = sh
ż,zi,rz = zh
ą = om, on
ę = em, en
j = y
dz = j
ł = w
w = v


David Rosen
Boston MA

On 4/7/2021 8:35 AM, Sheryl Prenzlau wrote:

How would one pronounce Wajsman from old Polish records? Waxman or Weissman? 
Thanks
Sheryl Prenzlau

Re: Does DNA prove that Jews are a race? #dna

Sarah L Meyer
 

Even taking into consideration the fact that we are not a definable subspecies biologically - and neither are Blacks or Latino/as or Asians - a much kinder term than race, the DNA can't bring into consideration conversion INTO Judaism and the halachic considerations.   So we have a AJ mother who marries a Jewish man who went through an Orthodox conversion (or vice-versa), their children are fully Jewish halachically but DNA will show only 50% AJ.   Furthermore some of us are Sephardic or Mizrachi- but many of us do have some evidence in our DNA of something other than AJ.   We are an ethnic minority - and while I answer caucasian for race, I do put Jewish for ethnicity.

--
Sarah L Meyer
Georgetown TX
ANK(I)ER, BIGOS, KARMELEK, PERLSTADT, STOKFISZ, SZPIL(T)BAUM, Poland
BIRGARDOVSKY, EDELBERG, HITE (CHAIT), PERCHIK Russia (southern Ukraine) and some Latvia or Lithuania
https://www.sarahsgenies.com
19261 - 19280 of 676769