There are 81 listings for Mutchnik survivors on the Arolsen archives website at https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/search/?s=mutchnik Gary Pokrassa gpokrassa@... Data Acquisition

Checking with GOOGLE (a researchers’s good friend) would let you know that oblast is "an administrative division or region in Russia and the former Soviet Union, and in some of its former

I understood the maiden name of my grandfather's mother to be Rose Sussman and the maiden name of my grandmother's mother to be Rose Smith. Both were from Romania. But on my grandparents New York

It is definitely not Russian. Probably Polish or Austrian.

It is definitely not Russian. Probably Polish or Austrian.

Definitely NOT Russian. Looks rather Austrian than Polish.

My father-in-law, Herschel Saevitz (aka Harry Sayevitch), was brought to the UK as a child from the Poltava region of Ukraine c 1905. The 1911 UK census shows him to have been born in Kriukov, which

Hello, For those that are new to genealogy, I would like to add one more thing to be cautious about. A source citation does not automatically make something true. For instance, in researching my

“Leah Tziger [née Pinchuk] is a chapter from the Yizkor book of Rafalovka in the Ukraine. It is the story of a young girl’s struggle to survive after she and her family went into hiding and

I've attached the inventory for the 1834 Vilna Revision List.

I have a listing of a family member born in 1846 in Minsk,Minsk, Oblast, Belarus, Ssr. I assume there is a town minsk in the state of Minsk and Where/ what is Oblast? Mary Ellen Pollack #222350 --

I'm not at all an expert but just from looking at images on Google and looking up who controlled Stanislaw during WWI I think it's actually an Austrian uniform. Binyamin Kerman Baltimore MD

Hi Barry, Jedwabne is in Lomza Gubernia adjacent to Suwalki Gubernia in NE Poland. Both these were and are border gubernias, in the 19th century being the border with East Prussia (Konigsberg). The

ryabinkym@...: I have been working under the assumption that Shliomovich Sinensky was a combination of two last names based on the revision list showing the father of Fayvush Shliomovich Sinensky as

The name seems to be Sanneh סאנע which is short for Nesanel נתנאל. It is followed by the word Hacohen הכהן. David Shapiro Jerusalem

My ggg-gf Lewin LICHTENSZTEJN was born in 1832 in Mlawa, Poland. He moved to Plock when he married Rayca LEDERBERG. His parents were Nusen, who died in 1835, and Feyga, a sister of the Kuzmir Rebbe,

Działoszyce researchers will be pleased to hear that the Jewish entries in the 1890-1931 Book of Residents Index are extracted. The Index directs us to one of four volumes and the page where we can

Looks to me to be Sana followed by the title HaCohen, then YALEN. The symbol of the open hands giving the priestly blessing is for a descendant of the Cohens the tribe of priests from

The 1834 Revision List for "Vilna" includes records from LVIA/515/15/542 - 548. The records from 542 are currently part of the ALD. I have taken full inventory of the records in 543 - 548. Jill and

My guess is that the seemingly long name in question is in fact two words (notice space in between). It appears to me that the first word is the fathers name (Sine); the second, tribal status