My family lived in Holland before and after the war. My grandfather & father were lucky enough to escape to Switzerland during the war but my grandfather's unmarried sister was too scared to join them

Could anyone point me in the right direction to find my ancestors' addresses in Brest Litovsk and Warsaw in the 20s and 30s? Many thanks Michael Rosenberg Canberra, AUSTRALIA

My family lived in Bedzin. Sadly last member died three years ago. Sam Pivnik wrote a book Survivor and wrote about growing up there before the war. My family was Abramovitch and Pivnik and Sam’s

Stan I think you will find that the Nechele in question, married to R. Aaron Moses Ashkenazi Munk, was the daughter of Moses Aaron Teomim of Prague and Rivka (bat Israel) Horowitz of Prague. Nechele

I am looking for STAUB in Breslau, 1945. My ggf SIMON STAUB-pots/pans factory. Thank you. Daniel Weinberg #12555

I apologise for the omission. I clicked the link 'reply to this message' and also used the same subject line as the query in my response. Unfortunately that wasn't picked up. Perhaps I should have

The real and official yiddish name is Dwoire (Dvoyre) which can be found in Polish and Russian civil records. Devorah is the Biblical name which was not used in dayly life. Look for references A.

I would like to protest the new Jewishgen format and use this message as a typical example To me, at least, a response to an absent question is meaningless. How can the "Power that Be" of Jewishgen

You did not say which country Dwoire was from. This is not a misspelling at all. The "w" is pronounced like a "v" in a number of languages. This would be a correct spelling in Poland, for

FELD is, alas, a common name. Still, no harm in seeing if anyone connects. My grandfather was Yitzhak FELD b abt 1860. Family story says he came from Poznan in Poland but I have never been able to

Besides, the idea that names had a "correct" spelling was pretty much confined to the upper classes until well into the twentieth century in most of Europe and the United States. People spelled their

I recently came upon a photo of a gravestone for my husband's grandfather in the Netherlands which I don't believe anybody in his family knew about. He died in Amsterdam on April 5, 1945 but the

I am researching for any information possible on "Simcha Goldberg" from the town Mielic (son of "Moshe Menachem Goldberg"). He had two daughters. Reizel (married to David Brand) & Bracha (married to

Thiere is a website (in Russian), https://minsk-old-new.com/life/pereimenovaniya/tablica-pereimenovaniya-ulic, which lists all renamed streets In Minsk, with names in 1911 and in 1989. The

I think that Eva Lawrence is right when she links the creation of the document with a person's personal interest in their origin, their ancestors. Perhaps someone here has the opportunity to obtain

Susan Miller had questions about a document entitled “Auszüge aus dem Registern der Juden der Gemeinde Griesheim Kr. Darmstadt” that concludes with “Die Richtigkeit des Auszugs wird

Hello, There is an interesting site for Warsaw that shows old street photographs. http://www.warszawa1939.pl It's only in Polish, but try to use it. Type the street (or with the pre-war house

I would appreciate help translating these four tombstones from Hebrew into English. They are for my 4 x and 5 x grandparents. Please respond privately to me at R.D.Oppenheimer at gmail.com Thank you.

I have found the Gospitalnaya str on the map of the modern Minsk. Big (military) Hospital stands on it. I think it has existed in 1913 too (if your Gf wrote...) Google showed me the map in

Gesher Galicia’s journal, the Galitzianer, invites members and non-members of Gesher Galicia to submit articles with a clear connection to Jewish life in Austrian Galicia (1772–1918). Submissions