Thank you for this information.
Susan Lubow

On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 12:50 PM Stephen Falk <sfalkjd@gmail.com> wrote:

There are catalogues listing doctoral dissertations >from German

universities going quite far back. I think a good university library
will have these books. If your great great uncle received his degree,
he may be listed.

Susan Lubow holijoli@gmail.com wrote:
My 2x great uncle, Samuel SCHWARZ (born in 1812), attended Ludwig
Maximilians Universitat in Munich in the 1830s. I would like to know
what faculty he was in, when and if he graduated, and what kind of
degree he may have received. Can anyone find this information or
point me in the right direction? Thank you.

Thank you for this information.
Susan Lubow

On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 12:50 PM Stephen Falk <sfalkjd@gmail.com> wrote:

There are catalogues listing doctoral dissertations >from German

universities going quite far back. I think a good university library
will have these books. If your great great uncle received his degree,
he may be listed.

Susan Lubow holijoli@gmail.com wrote:
My 2x great uncle, Samuel SCHWARZ (born in 1812), attended Ludwig
Maximilians Universitat in Munich in the 1830s. I would like to know
what faculty he was in, when and if he graduated, and what kind of
degree he may have received. Can anyone find this information or
point me in the right direction? Thank you.

All,

I recently learned about the death of Robert Neu, who served for many =
years as coordinator of the 1848 Hungarian Jewish Census records =
project, which was the first major component of the JewishGen =
collection of Hungarian census records. Even though his health had been =
in decline for some time, Robert's enthusiasm and commitment to =
Hungarian Jewish family research never waned. Those of you who worked =
with him on the 1848 records will recognize that his coordination of =
this project was of extraordinary value and will remain a fitting =
testament to him. The index of the 1848 census records was one of the =
first major additions to the Hungarian database and it =
has helped hundreds, if not thousands of researchers, trace their =
Hungarian Jewish families.

You can read his obituary at =
https://www.mattsonfuneralhome.com/notices/Robert-Neu

Vivian Kahn, Oakland, California
JewishGen Hungarian Research Coordinator

All,

I recently learned about the death of Robert Neu, who served for many =
years as coordinator of the 1848 Hungarian Jewish Census records =
project, which was the first major component of the JewishGen =
collection of Hungarian census records. Even though his health had been =
in decline for some time, Robert's enthusiasm and commitment to =
Hungarian Jewish family research never waned. Those of you who worked =
with him on the 1848 records will recognize that his coordination of =
this project was of extraordinary value and will remain a fitting =
testament to him. The index of the 1848 census records was one of the =
first major additions to the Hungarian database and it =
has helped hundreds, if not thousands of researchers, trace their =
Hungarian Jewish families.

You can read his obituary at =
https://www.mattsonfuneralhome.com/notices/Robert-Neu

Vivian Kahn, Oakland, California
JewishGen Hungarian Research Coordinator

Thanks, Randy. For those who don't want to wait until the 25th, note
that most of the same data >from holocaust.cz's database of victims can
also be found at

http://archive.pamatnik-terezin.cz/en/history-collection-research/jmenne-vyhledavace-byvalych-veznu-en?lang=en

It is mainly, or perhaps totally, under the 3rd collection listed on
that page:
"Victims of the Terezin Ghetto and Victims of the Transports >from the
Czech Lands to the Ghettos in Lodz, Minsk and to the Labour Camp Ujazdow"

which redirects to:
http://archive.pamatnik-terezin.cz/vyhledavani/Aghetto/index.php

There are differences between the search rules on the two sites, notably
holocaust.cz returns all matches beginning with the search key (e.g. a
search for "Kohn" also returns "Kohnova" and "Kohner"), while at
pamatnik-terezin.cz you need to search for "Kohn*" to get the same results.

A huge advantage of pamatnik-terezin.cz is that it gives info about
survivors as well as victims. A huge disadvantage is that it does not
give you the document images that are included with many records on
holocaust.cz. Both sites are very useful (when available).

The same data is also searchable at yadvashem.org. The
advantage/disadvantage there is that it is mixed with data >from many
other sources, mainly >from other countries.

It is great that we have such a wealth of resources available online!

Bob Lenk
Fort Collins, CO USA

Thanks, Randy. For those who don't want to wait until the 25th, note
that most of the same data >from holocaust.cz's database of victims can
also be found at

http://archive.pamatnik-terezin.cz/en/history-collection-research/jmenne-vyhledavace-byvalych-veznu-en?lang=en

It is mainly, or perhaps totally, under the 3rd collection listed on
that page:
"Victims of the Terezin Ghetto and Victims of the Transports >from the
Czech Lands to the Ghettos in Lodz, Minsk and to the Labour Camp Ujazdow"

which redirects to:
http://archive.pamatnik-terezin.cz/vyhledavani/Aghetto/index.php

There are differences between the search rules on the two sites, notably
holocaust.cz returns all matches beginning with the search key (e.g. a
search for "Kohn" also returns "Kohnova" and "Kohner"), while at
pamatnik-terezin.cz you need to search for "Kohn*" to get the same results.

A huge advantage of pamatnik-terezin.cz is that it gives info about
survivors as well as victims. A huge disadvantage is that it does not
give you the document images that are included with many records on
holocaust.cz. Both sites are very useful (when available).

The same data is also searchable at yadvashem.org. The
advantage/disadvantage there is that it is mixed with data >from many
other sources, mainly >from other countries.

It is great that we have such a wealth of resources available online!

Bob Lenk
Fort Collins, CO USA

I received an Email notice with details of the LBI fall program today.
For more about "The World of Aufbau" see the footnote below and also:
https://tinyurl.com/y3ktv7ya

"Aufbau"a German-language weekly published in New York and circulated
worldwide was an essential platform for the generation of refugees

from Hitler and the displaced people and concentration camp survivors

who arrived in the United States after the war. The publication served
to link thousands of readers looking for friends and loved ones in
every part of the world. In its pages Aufbau focused on concerns that
strongly impacted this community in the aftermath of World War II."

GerSIG volunteers have extracted birth, marriage, death and other data

from personal ads in the Aufbau. These data are searchable via

a link at the GerSIG website:

http://www.calzareth.com/aufbau/search.html

There is also a data file at JewishGen created by Peter Lande:
"More than 33,000 Holocaust survivors, published in the German-language
newspaper Aufbau, New York, 1944-1946." "Aufbau Survivors Lists" at:

https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Holocaust/aufbau.htm

Another event in the fall schedule is "Jews on the Upper East Side"
Walking Tour | Sunday, September 22, 2019, 11:00 AM
Details at https://tinyurl.com/y6hnfdqy

John Lowens, Suburban NYC JPL25@cornell.edu

Schrag, Peter, The World of Aufbau: Hitler's Refugees in America,
University of Wisconsin Press, 2019.
Leo Baeck Institute Library, st 12393.
Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019, 6:30 p.m.- 8:30 p.m.
Center for Jewish History, 15 W. 16th St., New York, NY 10011
LBI/CJH/Partner Members, Students, Seniors: $5, General: $10

I received an Email notice with details of the LBI fall program today.
For more about "The World of Aufbau" see the footnote below and also:
https://tinyurl.com/y3ktv7ya

"Aufbau"a German-language weekly published in New York and circulated
worldwide was an essential platform for the generation of refugees

from Hitler and the displaced people and concentration camp survivors

who arrived in the United States after the war. The publication served
to link thousands of readers looking for friends and loved ones in
every part of the world. In its pages Aufbau focused on concerns that
strongly impacted this community in the aftermath of World War II."

GerSIG volunteers have extracted birth, marriage, death and other data

from personal ads in the Aufbau. These data are searchable via

a link at the GerSIG website:

http://www.calzareth.com/aufbau/search.html

There is also a data file at JewishGen created by Peter Lande:
"More than 33,000 Holocaust survivors, published in the German-language
newspaper Aufbau, New York, 1944-1946." "Aufbau Survivors Lists" at:

https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Holocaust/aufbau.htm

Another event in the fall schedule is "Jews on the Upper East Side"
Walking Tour | Sunday, September 22, 2019, 11:00 AM
Details at https://tinyurl.com/y6hnfdqy

John Lowens, Suburban NYC JPL25@cornell.edu

Schrag, Peter, The World of Aufbau: Hitler's Refugees in America,
University of Wisconsin Press, 2019.
Leo Baeck Institute Library, st 12393.
Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019, 6:30 p.m.- 8:30 p.m.
Center for Jewish History, 15 W. 16th St., New York, NY 10011
LBI/CJH/Partner Members, Students, Seniors: $5, General: $10

I have posted a German death record on Viewmate for which I need a
translation.
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM74817
I am particularly interested in knowing if there is any information
giving the profession of the decedent, my ancestor, Samuel SCHWARZ or
Duerkheim.

Thank you, Susan Lowy Lubow holijoli@gmail.com

Researching: SCHWARZ >from Floss, Bavaria

I have posted a German death record on Viewmate for which I need a
translation.
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM74817
I am particularly interested in knowing if there is any information
giving the profession of the decedent, my ancestor, Samuel SCHWARZ or
Duerkheim.

Thank you, Susan Lowy Lubow holijoli@gmail.com

Researching: SCHWARZ >from Floss, Bavaria

I would appreciate an English translation of the Russian text for the
following birth and death records. I would like a translation of all the
genealogically significant information.

They are on ViewMate at the following addresses:

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM74782.
Sina PUTER 1905 birth, Akta 29

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM74782.
Sura PUTER 1905 birth, Akta 30

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM74784.
Pinkwas PUTER 1907 birth, Akta 47

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM74785.
?Unknown PUTER 1909 birth, Akta 49

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM74786.
Josef PUTER 1905 death, Akta 39

Please respond using the online ViewMate form.
Thank you very much.


Sinai (Sonny) PUTTER
Bellevue, Washington U.S.A.
sonny_putter@prodigy.net

I would appreciate an English translation of the Russian text for the
following birth and death records. I would like a translation of all the
genealogically significant information.

They are on ViewMate at the following addresses:

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM74782.
Sina PUTER 1905 birth, Akta 29

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM74782.
Sura PUTER 1905 birth, Akta 30

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM74784.
Pinkwas PUTER 1907 birth, Akta 47

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM74785.
?Unknown PUTER 1909 birth, Akta 49

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM74786.
Josef PUTER 1905 death, Akta 39

Please respond using the online ViewMate form.
Thank you very much.


Sinai (Sonny) PUTTER
Bellevue, Washington U.S.A.
sonny_putter@prodigy.net

Dear All,

I am extremely grateful to Mr. Pierre Hahn who assisted with locating the
death record of a relative of my mother's who left Lublin,Poland for Paris
with her parents who were tailors, in the year 1928. Her name was Fradla
Rebeka WEKSTEIN and I have a photo of her. She was born September 3,1919 in
Lublin, Poland and died November 3,2014 in Saint Gratien. According to her
death record, her widower is/was Raymond Maurice GETNER. If anyone can
suggest the process for trying to find out if they have any children or if
her husband is still alive, please send information on how to do so. We know
very little about our long-lost family member.

Thank you kindly for any and all assistance,
Rachel Steckler

Dear All,

I am extremely grateful to Mr. Pierre Hahn who assisted with locating the
death record of a relative of my mother's who left Lublin,Poland for Paris
with her parents who were tailors, in the year 1928. Her name was Fradla
Rebeka WEKSTEIN and I have a photo of her. She was born September 3,1919 in
Lublin, Poland and died November 3,2014 in Saint Gratien. According to her
death record, her widower is/was Raymond Maurice GETNER. If anyone can
suggest the process for trying to find out if they have any children or if
her husband is still alive, please send information on how to do so. We know
very little about our long-lost family member.

Thank you kindly for any and all assistance,
Rachel Steckler

Wow. Overwhelming response. Alfred Holzman found it by accessing the
Municipal Archives through the Steve Morse site. I know, it wasn't
supposed to be there, but Alfred took a look. Good sleuthing! Eternal gratitude.

Several people asked if I would provide the information furnished by
other researchers on this question. Here's a list of the sources they
suggested. Apologies if there are some dups in here:

This is a long shot, but have you contacted the Museum of the City of
New York, New York Historical Society, and New York Pubic Library
about what they have in their photo repositories? You might also
check out these links:
https://www.brickunderground.com/live/research-building-history-nyc
http://www.gothamcenter.org/archives-and-libraries.html

42nd street library photo collection
Photographic views of New York City, 1870's-1970's, >from the collections of the
New York Public Library - NYPL Digital Collections

https://www.oldnyc.org/
https://nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/photographic-views-of-new-york-city-1870s-1970s-from-the-collections-of-the-ne-2#/?tab=3Dabout
Another is https://www.oldnyc.org/

Center for Jewish History
New York Historical Society
Museum of the City of New York
Tenement Museum
New York Times
Access NYC Municipal archives through Steve Morse's website
city directories or local newspapers or radio or TV photo archives?

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/
Look for "Collections About New York City" about halfway down the page.

You can search the address at www.fultonhistory.com which is a free site of old
digitized newspapers. BTW, the site began with NY papers,but has expanded to other
states.

Sometimes a photo of a house next door may show a part of the house.

Sanborn maps. No pictures but great architectural drawings.


I believe I have thanked everyone personally. What an outpouring of kindness!

Thank you all,

Wendy Griswold
Pittsfield MA

Wow. Overwhelming response. Alfred Holzman found it by accessing the
Municipal Archives through the Steve Morse site. I know, it wasn't
supposed to be there, but Alfred took a look. Good sleuthing! Eternal gratitude.

Several people asked if I would provide the information furnished by
other researchers on this question. Here's a list of the sources they
suggested. Apologies if there are some dups in here:

This is a long shot, but have you contacted the Museum of the City of
New York, New York Historical Society, and New York Pubic Library
about what they have in their photo repositories? You might also
check out these links:
https://www.brickunderground.com/live/research-building-history-nyc
http://www.gothamcenter.org/archives-and-libraries.html

42nd street library photo collection
Photographic views of New York City, 1870's-1970's, >from the collections of the
New York Public Library - NYPL Digital Collections

https://www.oldnyc.org/
https://nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/photographic-views-of-new-york-city-1870s-1970s-from-the-collections-of-the-ne-2#/?tab=3Dabout
Another is https://www.oldnyc.org/

Center for Jewish History
New York Historical Society
Museum of the City of New York
Tenement Museum
New York Times
Access NYC Municipal archives through Steve Morse's website
city directories or local newspapers or radio or TV photo archives?

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/
Look for "Collections About New York City" about halfway down the page.

You can search the address at www.fultonhistory.com which is a free site of old
digitized newspapers. BTW, the site began with NY papers,but has expanded to other
states.

Sometimes a photo of a house next door may show a part of the house.

Sanborn maps. No pictures but great architectural drawings.


I believe I have thanked everyone personally. What an outpouring of kindness!

Thank you all,

Wendy Griswold
Pittsfield MA

While your advice to always save the original document is very sound,
the document might still be on the website, but on a different page or
with a different name, so the link (the path to the document) isn't
accurate now. You might try truncating the URL a piece at a time (some
shortened versions won't work because of directory limitations), and see
where that takes you.

If the site offers a site search,that might also be helpful

At one time there was a website dedicated to the Jewish Cemetery in Harbin, China,
with lists of all those buried there. I printed out every page, and one day, the
site was gone. But I still have my printed pages....

Don't give up quite yet....

Hilary Henkin

Researching:
Mogilev - BERLIN; BELIISKI; HENKIN - GENKIN; MESCENIKOV; POZ - POZE
Ekaterinoslav - KATZ; LAPIDUS; LAVROTIN - LAVRUTIN - AVRUTIN;
PESACHINSKY; SHIMERNITSKY - SEMERNITSKY; STEINHART
Roumania: DONNENFIELD; DOLLINGER; RINCOVER - HARINCOVER; WISENTHAL -VIESENTAUL
Harbin, China: FELDMAN; PENZNER; SREBERK - SCHRIEBER; Lublin,Poland: KATZ; JARMUSZ

Mel Comisarow melcom4@gmail.com wrote:

While your advice to always save the original document is very sound,
the document might still be on the website, but on a different page or
with a different name, so the link (the path to the document) isn't
accurate now. You might try truncating the URL a piece at a time (some
shortened versions won't work because of directory limitations), and see
where that takes you.

If the site offers a site search,that might also be helpful

At one time there was a website dedicated to the Jewish Cemetery in Harbin, China,
with lists of all those buried there. I printed out every page, and one day, the
site was gone. But I still have my printed pages....

Don't give up quite yet....

Hilary Henkin

Researching:
Mogilev - BERLIN; BELIISKI; HENKIN - GENKIN; MESCENIKOV; POZ - POZE
Ekaterinoslav - KATZ; LAPIDUS; LAVROTIN - LAVRUTIN - AVRUTIN;
PESACHINSKY; SHIMERNITSKY - SEMERNITSKY; STEINHART
Roumania: DONNENFIELD; DOLLINGER; RINCOVER - HARINCOVER; WISENTHAL -VIESENTAUL
Harbin, China: FELDMAN; PENZNER; SREBERK - SCHRIEBER; Lublin,Poland: KATZ; JARMUSZ

Mel Comisarow melcom4@gmail.com wrote:

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) has added digitized
documents for about 4,500 name records in the collection Ghetto
Lublin-Majdan Tatarski List 1942 to the Holocaust Survivors and Victims
(HSV) database. You can search/request and immediately receive digital
copies of the original documents in your email. Search at
https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/source_view.php?Sourceid=20732.

Peter Lande
Washington, D.C.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) has added digitized
documents for about 4,500 name records in the collection Ghetto
Lublin-Majdan Tatarski List 1942 to the Holocaust Survivors and Victims
(HSV) database. You can search/request and immediately receive digital
copies of the original documents in your email. Search at
https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/source_view.php?Sourceid=20732.

Peter Lande
Washington, D.C.