PASSOVER IN GALICIA From our Vice President, and Director of Historical and Public Education, Dr. Andrew Zalewski: Being in the midst of Passover many of you might find it interesting to learn

And not just in England! There were refugee hostels etc in Scotland and Wales. In Scotland, the story of hostels in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Whittingehame House, Polton House, Cardross etc is being

Hello everyone. I'm new to this site. I hope I'm posting this in the correct place and format. I would greatly appreciate your kind assistance in translating this marriage record that I believe

My great grandfather was Joseph Isaac BARNETT. He was born about 1832 in Golub, Prussia. A tree my cousin made cited his original surname as Opchitsy. I am sure my cousin wrote it as he heard it. I

I am looking for information about the H(G)erschman family from Vitbsk& Vilna area & Pass family from Rezekne, Latvia area.Thaking you in advance, Esther (Herschman) Rechtschafner, Kibbutz Ein-Zurim,

There's a Charles L Resin (aged 32) and wife Sarah (aged 26) on the 1910 census for Philadelphia https://tinyurl.com/yx6c7u6x. Could this be them? Peter Lobbenberg, London, UK

My late father was in Ferramonti di Tarsia Italian concentration camp in Calabria from 1940-43. Because of the prevalence of malaria in that region, the internees were given quinine tablets to be

Dear Garystuff24, The stone gives his Phillip's Hebrew name as Feitel son of Nahum HaCohen, died 7 Nisan (5)697 I hope this helps, Rodney Eisfelder Melbourne, Australia

Many Jewish cemeteries in the Mures and Harghita counties in Transylvania were digitized by two volunteers which uploaded the info onto an astounding site. The entire database with all the names,

@G.C. Kalman, I can't thank you enough for the tip! I've been combing through arcanum.hu for 12-16 hours a day for the past few days and I found a bunch of stuff about my GGparents and other family

Thank you for the quick reply. You are correct, there have been several spelling variations of this family's name. It appears to have been Meyer/Meyers in what was at the time Prussia, but once in

Go to https://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/ybip.html to the book listing for directions to order directly from JewishGen. Here are the books at much reduced prices from the list price or Amazon's

Please join the Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut on Sunday, April 19, 2020, at 4:00 pm for "From Clues to Conclusions: Can You Prove It?" presented by JGSCT member and noted genealogist

Dear Anonymous Researcher (!): My brother and I have looked over the birth and death records from the Breslau Jewish community from the 1820s and not found any sign of this family. The MYERS name

Hello Group, My cousin and I have been trying to find out more about our beloved great grandparents, Philip and Goldie Kaplan. Philip was born in Minsk (1865) and came to Brooklyn in 1898 with his

“To this day, the last laugh of our dear, sweet children echoes in my ears …” This is a heart-breaking account by Helen Kajman of events that culminated in a prison cell in Bialystock in 1943,

Dear JGenners, my grandmother Rykla Kisfayn was born in 1870 in Trisk (Other names: Turiys'k [Ukr], Turiysk [Rus], Turzysk [Pol], Trisk [Yid]) in Volhynia, the Russian Empire. I did not find any of

Those who stayed in the UK went to hostels in cities such as liverpool Manchester and london and spught employment. Many had successful careers. Some founded businesses. Judge Rinder is the grandson

Dear JGenners, Following a recent update from the Bessarabia SIG, I would like to remind all that the São Paulo Chevra Kadisha Association has a database containing details of tens of thousands of

Dear all When I was in Jerusalem at the “The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People” I tried to make photos of some registrar such as the one attached for Weener in Lower