Dear Moshe, I did a search for Opole and Vienna in the USHMM Collections Search catalog, collections.ushmm.org. There are digitized archival collections, oral histories and photographs you can access

A group of high-definition photos of the youth of Dieveniskes (Divenishok) has been posted to the Photo Gallery (https://groups.jewishgen.org/g/main/album?id=254998). Persons with Divenishok ancestry

Todd Brody asked about Lithuanian directories before 1930, writing that "The earliest directory on the Genealogy Indexer seems to be 1930." Genealogy Indexer actually includes many Lithuanian

Hello Genners, As I recall from my childhood and just double checked with my mother in Israel, the word שוואנץ meant a tail and was not a compliment (he/she is such a schwantz). Shabbat

Hi Paul, Thanks very much. Where in my previous message I mention 'gold rush' I think it should have been 'diamond rush'. My special interest goes out to the peddlers that at that time made their

Dear Susan, Otto Selig married Berta Annis 31 Jul 1928 in Berlin. He died already 26 Nov 1928 in Charlottenberg, Berlin. The informer on the death record was Ludwig Latz. I get the impression that his

It is a word in Yiddish "vantsun" - plural, mean bed bugs and "vontsun" - plural, mean mustache. Michael Ryabinky

I have recently done a DNA test on Ancestry and whilst it added a lot of confusion to my research by highlighting more than 160,000 connections, it identified one person who is close to me but a

Hi All My grandmother Minnie Kaplin came from Minsk. The information I have about her is as follows: Minnie Kaplan, born in 1879, and her husband Lazarus Kirshner settled in London, UK.. She

This is an excellent discussion. Could someone type out in Hebrew (or spell out in English transliteration) the last word in the first line that Leya Aronson writes as "Nechmad." I am not reading the

I've posted before about helping a Ukrainian and Russian Kagan/Cohen family who lost track of their American cousins in the 1930s, after falling into conversation on a train with the grandson of the

A "vonce" also pronounced "Vantz" is a bed bug! Not complimentary Philip Heilbrunn

Ingrid, Have you tried looking for your family in these databases of Latvian & Lithuanian records? Try a soundex search if you don't get hits on the exact spelling of the

I'm sorry, but I do not have any pictures or letters. Everything was taken away from my parents when they crossed into Russia to escape from the approaching Germans. There is a memorial book from

In 1947 my cousins name GARBATY flew to Montevideo from New York to see Hedwig PELZEL, 1483 Calle Largo, Montevideo They had spent the war in Shanghai, and perhaps this person was a relative who

I am looking for information about my grandmother’s family. Her maiden name was Vetensky. We believe before she emigrated to London it was probably Witunski or Witenski, probably from Lutomiersk in

Hi All, Someone has my Great grandfather Louis Kaplan and wife Esther Wallach and other family in a Kaplan Tree on Ancestry.com with lots of wrong information. He's listed as Louis Svisloch Kaplan

In the house where I grew up, we had an annual invasion of flying ants that my parents referred to as "voncen" -- same word I guess. Bedbug in German is Wanze. -- JoAnne

Anyone else remember the episode of M*A*S*H ("38 Across")? Hawkeye couldn't finish a crossword puzzle because he didn't know the five letter Yiddish word for bedbug that begins with V. Laurie

The Jewish Genealogy Society of Southern Nevada invites you to a Zoom meeting at 1:00 p.m. (Pacific Standard Time) on Sunday, November 8: “Woman in Gold” with Randy Shoenberg. To request a Zoom