Hello Moshe, I recently was doing research on my family tree in Riga as well, and discovered that there seem to be Riga city directories available. You can search the web for "Rigasches Addressbuch."

There is a very well researched (25 years) book on the subject of Jewish criminals, trafficking, pimps and prostitution, covering Southern Africa north and South America, Europe, Russia, India,

I am looking for descendants of the Bariot and Pikelny families in Minsk or other locations in Belarus Bariot first names: Parents Moshe Chaim, Sura Esther (Pikelny), children Izrail, Malka, Hinde:

First ethnicity percentages are estimates - not set in stone. As more data arrives they get revised. I do suggest that you upload your results (download the raw data from FTDNA, then upload the

On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 04:01 PM, <bshifman@...> wrote: I would suggest that you do searches for Teichman or Teichner on the following website https://www.krakowjewishheritage.org/home This website

There's a film "The Longing", produced by Gabriela Bohm 2007, deals with the exact subject....there was another book the ring i think...these beautiful girls were promised work, marriage until they

YOAV ARAN Hello, I've been researching by Latvian side, from Rezekne. I am told my relative, Moshe Shmuel Goldberg, was humiliated by being made to force to sweep the streets. He was then gathered

Hi, Thanks for the thinking it might be Varick. I tried a reverse search in the census for 1910, looking at both Varick in Brooklyn and Manhattan, but there was either no "120" or no Yurowitz at that

You can view an article that shows how to obtain some Bank Immigrant Passage Records in Philadelphia at: http://www.jgsob.org/newsletter/JGSOB%20Newsletter%202019-03.pdf starting on page 11. Moishe

Years ago, I visited an office in PHila, and obtained several sheets of records for my father and others for the period 1935-45. I can’t recall if there was a charge or “suggested donation”.

My friend was Argentinian and she vividly remembered the area where the Jewish prostitutes lived and worked. She was not allowed to associate with them. This is a fabulous book about the subject:

I found a letter that my mother had written to relatives in Romania. The letter is to "Fanciu and "Dutu". Can anyone tell me the English equivalent of these "pet" names?

Hi, There has always been a lot of movement between the South of Tunisia and Libya - my own grandfather, born in Tunis, spent a year in Tripoli at one point. And we have some MIMOUN/MEÏMON/etc. in

From a late 1890s photo taken in BULAWAYO of six men there is my great-great Uncle MAX CLARKE/SZKLARKIEWICZ and my teenage grandfather SAMUEL CLARKE and on the back of the photo is the name

In response to the following: Hello all. I would appreciate your assistance please. I wish to locate information for Anna S. GRUSZECKA. I do not know anything about her or her GRUSZECKA roots. I am

Looking for parents/family of Regine Heckscher b. 5 Aug 1823 married to Ephraim Salomon in Altona Her daughter Helene H Salomon (1853-1940) married to Adolph M. Engers my great grandfather. thanks in

It seems that people get too hung up on "my work, my tree". It's not a contest of who has the largest or "the best" tree, though some seem to go that route. I think of it more in terms of uncovering

You can search on the internet, there are sites that specialize in this kind of contract hiring in which different people offer different services (some do translations) and buyers can solicit price

Would minors who left via Kindertransport or Youth Aliyah have filled out these forms as well? (i.e. by their parents/ guardians?) Thanks, Debbie Lifschitz Jerusalem

Hi from Paris, Dear Shelley, A French investigation journalist reported on "Jewish white slave trade" in Argentina (1927). To be compared to Joseph Pulitzer, Albert Londres (1884 – 1932) was a