Mel, the Ashkenazi Jews with "Oriental eyes" phenomenon was around before the 1918 Red/White Russian civil war. On my father's side, a 2nd cousin of mine once made inquiry regarding the

Could you perhaps give the source of this document? I'm sure this type of information would be of interest to many others, myself incuded. Mike Coleman, London U.K.

Hi, I think that all problems are due to the reading of handwriting names. It is possible to read “a” instead of “e” and vice versa, “n” instead of “u”, “k” instead of “h” or

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A recent paper on the question of genetic determination of facial features found We still don’t have a complete answer to this question, but recent work published in Nature Genetics by our

Trying to contact the #Teichman and #Bergman families who descend from Esther, died in Cracow in 1939, married Issachar Shual Teichman of Turka. Her grandson, Selig Bergman died and buried in #Toronto

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Louis, Alexander Beider hasn't listed Dondes as a surname of Sephardic origin. A Scottish origin for any Ashkenazic surname would be impossible but that's an interesting coincidence you've found. A

Some of my relatives obtained their Canadian citizenship years after arriving. Many of their records were destroyed, especially those that became citizens before 1900. On the reverse side, a

Feldafing was a Displaced Person’s’ Camp after World War II liberation. My adopted sister, a Holocaust survivor, was there after Dachau and before coming to the U.S. Molly Arost Staub 📱

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My great-great-grandmother was Rosa Citron, born around 1809, daughter of Levi, but she was born in Kowal. Irene Plotzker Wilmington, DE

You are sort of correct, but not quite. First, there was no concept of Citizenship in Canada. If you naturalized,you because a British Subject (citizenship in Canada did not come aboutuntil 1947). But

Today I found a Red Cross document that lists our parents as having spent 1 1/2 years each in Auschwitz and in Buchenwald. It says one was in Auschwitz and one was in Buchenwald, but neither ever

Hi Tema, Thank you! I thought it was five years. Three years fits perfectly (along with the other info), so this must be the correct person. BTW, my great great grandmother's name was Tema. Stay

We have relatives named Friedman, who derived from Rzezak. They came from Poland hometown via Feldafing,Germany, I believe. What that be your family? -- Sharon E. Siegel Port Jervis, NY USA

Hi Avrum, Interesting. I had no idea that my cousin had come to live in the USA first and naturalized there. I was under the impression he went right to Montreal. It all fits now. Maybe I'll be

They could be "naturalized" as Canadians after 3 years. -- Tema Frank Edmonton, Canada Project: https://temafrank.com/tema-frank-history-detective/

Does anyone have up-to-date information on how to purchase a copy of Dr. Thomas Weggemann's The Speaking Stones of Siret? I find it described at a kehilalinks site,

New discovery: In researching my great-grandfather's brother/half-brother Harris Bowman, I looked at HIS records to find some clues...he listed his birth town as Russcheitz, Poland or Russia. When I