If you need some help in locating this family, I suggest you contact The Together Plan, a Jewish charity based in Belarus and London, which aims to help the remaining Jewish population become

I am very pleased to announce that after 20 months of effort by a dedicated team of transcribers and a validator, transcription of the Budapest and Pest-Pilis-Solt megye Jewish censuses has been

Miriam wrote: Photos of graves in Trumpeldor cemetery are already online in several websites. One of them, relatively easy to use, is Gravez. The home page is in English but you have to search for the

Michele, Although she adopted the name Kate, since she came to the US late in life, she never learned English. She lived with her daughter's family and spoke only Yiddish. Best I can tell, she used

I want to thank Ed van Rijswijk for the generous and amazing work that he did regarding Holocaust related records, Dutch translations, and Dutch records prior to, during, and after the Holocaust for

We do not have this name, but we believe we are related to you in Jerusalem. We have traced you to some letters my husband's parents corresponded with close relatives with this last name. They are

Yes Mandy. Every passenger is registered and named. You included Slovakia so I think you might be referring to post Holocaust. Many ships left from DP camps to ultimate destination. Ship manifests

Where is Kristelowka/Kristelowha? I found a place, possibly a small village in Moldova, right on the border with Ukraine, named Hristovaia, Moldova. Sometime K or H sound the same. Try to play not

Susan I don't think that story is too unusual. Some passengers were forced to disembark becuase they only had enough fare for that part of the journey even though they thought they had tickets through

Giannis and Mike, Thank you both for these replies. That Kristinovka connection is interesting! I will look into it further. I have some cousins descended from Esther's siblings (the ones who go by

Jay, It's very likely that her last name was Yerusalimskiy, from Russian word Yerusalim (Jerusalem). This names was fairly common in the Kiev governorate, including in the Uman uezd (location of the

Hello! I've posted three Polish birth records from the 1860s of my Warsaw relatives. I would be thrilled to get an English translation of these records, which are on ViewMate at the following

Hello Jay, Maybe you are looking for Kristinovka in the Kiev region https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/Community.php?usbgn=-1041605 -- Giannis Daropoulos Greece

A LATVIAN CHANUKAH PRESENT - DAY 6 The Latvian Lady Dentist by Ann Rabinowitz In memory of my great uncle Max Hillman, who was born in Bauska, Latvia, and who started me on my genealogical

I asked this question when I discovered my GGM and two children on a manifest, but no sign of the youngest child, my grandfather. I wondered if my GF could have been on board, but just not entered in

Have the talks on Roots of Jews from..... been recorded? Can they be accessed? Thanks Miriam Fine -- Miriam Fine

How do I find Jewish birth records in the 1800s for Calau, which is a small town in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district, in southern Brandenburg, Germany. Thank you -- Miriam Fine

Aline, Did she naturalize in Canada? If so, I would think those documents may be helpful to you. Regards, Sherri Bobish

One of my great-grandmothers is listed on a ship's manifest as Esther Jirsolinsky, last place of residence Kristalowka/Kristelowha. This was the S.S. Statendam, sailing from Rotterdam to New York,

Hyman Wolk (b. 1873 in Petkunai, Lithuania) emigrated approx. 1900 to the U.S. with his wife Sarah and child, Charles. He was the first of his siblings to emigrate; a younger brother, Rabbi Louis,