Searching for any mention of my G Grandparents who might have lived in Kuzmyn, in 1800's. Aryeh (Louis) was a rabbi. Daughter was Bess (or Rebecca) who married Sam (Schlomo?) Shectman.

I had a quick look through a DYM family on Geni and noticed that one of these is married to a member of the TOLEDANO family - a well known Moroccan Rabbinic family. So maybe your husband has also this

Last year JRI-Poland made available a complete extraction of more than 262,000 registration cards from Łodz, circa 1916-1921. You can read details about this enormous project

I will be happy to pay a fee for a search for Auerbach records. My great-uncle Abraham Auerbach arrived in Philadelphia from Belaya Tserkov, then-Russia now-Ukraine, in 1906. Sam Auerbach, a relative

In Russian: 231 Состоялось в городе Пжетборц двадцать первого декабря/второго января, тысяча восемьсот девяносто

Can anyone inform me where to find archival material for entry permits and/or visa to Germany during the period 1928-31? The person in question was a Swedish citizen and resident of Norway. Seth

I am researching my grandfather’s town of origin which is now called Stalavichy. I am unable to find much about the Jewish community there in the late 1800’s. Any suggestions would be most

Dear Group, My cousin, Fani Jurovits (born 1887), arrived in NY on the Bremen, 24 Sep 1913. Fani was my great-grandfather's baby sister. It was nice to see Fani's father as the last address in Europe.

There were plenty of Jewish prostitutes all around. Sholem Ashe's play "Got fun nekome" (The Gold of Vengeance) from 1906 is about a brothel in Poland. New York City's Lower East Side was full of

My mother was the fourth daughter born to my grandparents. She was born at the end of January in London, England, and the doctor told my grandmother not to bother too much about this child as she was

A few people out there might remember me when I was more active in all things Proskurov. That was my mother's hometown and she and her family (miraculously) survived the 1919 pogrom. I had always

My greatgrandmother Sheina/Szeyna/Jane/Jenny Cohen nee Smolenski appears on the 1901 census with her two sisters Chayka/Annie Kalinsky nee Smolenski and Tilly/Matilda/Toby (Taube?) Bernstein nee

Dear all, Maybe someone in the Toledo area can help me or other relatives... I’m doing some family history research for my mom. I read a really nice article on the toledoattic.org website about the

The Lodz ghetto workers cards are indexed on Ancestry via the World Memory Project; access is free. If you find a match there are instructions on how to order a copy from USHMM. -- Megan

The story in my husband's family is that, although his grandfather emigrated to the US from Galicia, the family ended up there, circuitously and many generations earlier, as a result of the expulsion

I am searching for a long lost relative who was last known to be living in Germany. His name is Shymek Plocki. Any suggestions or directions on how to get started on this search would be greatly

According to Ellis Islands repository, August 27, 1901, Appelbaum Genendel arrived in the United States with Russian nationality and place of residence - Semiaticy (the exact name of the place is

One assumes the civil authorities had their reasons/excuses for the seemingly erratic laws on Jewish marriages that we've been reading about this weekend. I suspect, though, the basic

This appeared in a recent posting: Mr. Chester, and fellow readers. I am sorry if I've hurt your national pride but facts are facts. I in no way condemned the entire Jewish population of Argentina

Earlier posters are correct- only people who needed IKG's assistance completed questionnaires. The Vienna Jewish community records are divided up into 2 main parts: The Vienna component (records