Hi Allan, I live near Geneva and I will try and help you with this. If someone else is doing it as well, please let me know. Let's not duplicate efforts, especially in those times of Covid

Johann, if one cannot travel there, how does one contact these archives to get information? I am talking about living survivors who were there? Feigie Teichman

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Allan, The easiest records to check from Berlin are the Berlin Adressbuch, which can be viewed starting from https://digital.zlb.de/viewer/cms/141/ I think I found Boris KAPLON in the 1930 edition

Hi I need to find the address where my grandparents lived in Magdeburg in 1934. How can I do that? thank you Chaya Lerner

In 1930, children spontaneously played with their neighbor's kids in the streets or the apartment building's hallways, instead of watching television, playing games on their iPhones, going on

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My father's first cousin, Alfred Brawer, escaped to Switzerland when Jews were expelled from his Medical School in Vienna. In Switzerland he was put in an internment camp. From his letters it is clear

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For information on the Jewish records of Nasielsk, write to Nasielsk@... For information on the Jewish records of any town in Poland and Galicia, write to [townname]@jri-poland.org For an overview of

1) Mail to archives@... and ask your questions heading "hidden children".They have a collection about it. 2) Service social juif is still existing. Mail info@.... Wish you good luck -- Françoise

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My father and his brothers changed their last name to make it easier for business purposes and perhaps to sound more American. They did not use the courts to do so. They were all born in the USA, so

I think several explanations here are plausible. My father, who was named Louis at birth in 1917, is listed as Lawrence in the 1920 census. His last name was spelled incorrectly on his birth

Hello all, The depression might have been a catalyst-not that people made up names of "extra children or relatives" for the census but rather that the depression caused parents to leave their children

I just learned that there may be family document in the Wloclawek archive. They relate to survivors who, after the war, tried to establish the death of relatives during the war. They may also have

Hello, Does anyone know if there is an office or other contact information for burials at South Hills Hebrew Cemetery in York, Pennsylvania? Neither Google nor Find-a-Grave seem to have a contact

Debbie, Chant d'Oiseau is a street in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre in Brussels. I searched for Chant d'Oiseau at https://genealogyindexer.org/ and found one listing. It is for 1914, but perhaps you may find a

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PS: I forgot to note that Hyman Pat/Patt/Pate was the only one of his siblings in 1910 who was male (and who would therefore die with the family name of "Pate" -- which seems to have been adopted by