Shalom,

As it is quite likely that this finds you in the midst of preparations
for the Pesach/Passover holiday, I will try not to take up to much of
your time. I would, however, like to let you know about the highlight
activities of the Yizkor Book Project during March.

During last month I was pleasantly surprised and delighted to receive
donations of complete books that we have now placed online. The books are:

- " My Survival" written by Israel Stern z"l, a survivor of the community
of Mielnice, now Melnytsya-Podilska, Ukraine was kindly presented to the
YB Project by his grandson, David Stern.
- " Frampol in the memory of its descendants" is a book in Russian about
the community of Frampol, Ukraine which is now called Kosohirka. It was
written by Mikhail Freyder and Roman Geller in order to preserve the
memory of their ancestor's community of Frampol and has been gratefully
been made available to our project.

I am always pleased to see the addition of material written in languages
other than English as it enables the exposure of this important material
to an even wider audience. The material we do have in other languages
appears in our Translations Index (link below) under the category "Other
languages" and includes material in Hebrew, Spanish, French, Polish,
Russian and even, Lithuanian.

Further good news is that in March we completed uploading the "Preserving
Our Litvak Heritage" book abut various communities in Lithuania, kindly
presented to us by Joel Alpert. For your information, this book is also
available for purchase under the auspices of our Yizkor Books in Print
Project.

And on the YBIP Project, last month yet another new book hit the shelves
- "Memorial book of the Ritavas Community" about the community of
Rietavas, Lithuania. Once again, the wheels of this project continue to
roll and present us with new books on a regular basis and we have Joel
Alpert and his dedicated and talented team of volunteers to thank for that.

Now, all that is left for me before our list of new and updated projects,
is to wish you dear readers and your families a most enjoyable Pesach/
Passover holiday.

And now for the additions and updates are what we've carried out during
March:

We have added in 6 new entries:

- Crocmaz, Moldova (Akkerman and the Towns of its District; Memorial Book)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Akkerman/akk374.html

- Jieznas, Lithuania (Preserving Our Litvak Heritage)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lithuania6/lit6_055.html

- Krekenava, Lithuania (Preserving Our Litvak Heritage)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lithuania6/lit6_089.html

- Luts'k, Ukraine (Memorial Book of Lutsk)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lutsk1/lutskh.html [Hebrew]

- Ramygala, Lithuania (Preserving Our Litvak Heritage)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Lithuania6/lit6_221.html

- Zelva, Belarus (Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Poland - Volume
VII) www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/pinkas_poland/pol8_00346.html

And two new books:

- Kosohirka (Frampol), Ukraine (Frampol in the memory of its descendants)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Kosohirka/Kosohirkar.html [Russian]

- Melnytsya-Podilska, Ukraine (My Survival)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Mielnice/Mielnice.html

And we have continued to update 23 of our existing projects:

- Biala Podlaska, Poland (Book of Biala Podlaska)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Biala_Podlaska/Biala_Podlaska.html

- Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyy (Akkerman), Ukraine (Akkerman and the Towns of
its District; Memorial Book)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Akkerman/Akkerman.html

- Braslaw, Belarus (Darkness and desolation)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Braslaw/Braslaw.html

- Chelm, Poland (Commemoration book Chelm)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/chelm/chelm.html

- Dubno, Ukraine (Dubno; a Memorial to the Jewish community of Dubno,
Wolyn) www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/dubno/dubno.html

- Grabowiec, Poland (Memorial Book Grabowitz)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Grabowiec/Grabowiec.html

- Kherson, Ukraine (Jewish Farmers in Russian Fields)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/JewishFarmers/JewishFarmers.html

- Lithuania (Lite) www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lita/lita.html

- Miskolc, Hungary (The martyrs of Miskolc and vicinity)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Miskolc/Miskolc.html

- Ozerna, Ukraine (Memorial book of Jezierna)
www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Ozerna/Ozerna.html

- Ozeryany, Ukraine (Memorial book, Jezierzany and surroundings)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ozeryany/ozeryany.html

- Przemysl, Poland (Przemysl memorial book)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/przemysl/przemysl.html

- Raciaz, Poland (Memorial book of the community of Racionz)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Raciaz/Raciaz.html

- Radekhov, Ukraine (Memorial Book of Radikhov)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Radekhov/Radekhov.html

- Shumskoye, Ukraine (Szumsk - Memorial book of the Martyrs of Szumsk)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/szumsk/szumsk.html

- Slutsk, Belarus (Slutsk and vicinity memorial book)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Slutsk/Slutsk.html

- Stowbtsy, Belarus (Memorial volume of Steibtz-Swerznie and the
neighboring villages Rubezhevitz, Derevna, Nalibok)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Stowbtsy/Stowbtsy.html

- Svencionys, Lithuania (Svintzian region: memorial book of 23
communities) www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/svencionys/svencionys.html

- Tarnow, Poland (The life and decline of a Jewish city)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/tarnow/tarnow.html

- Turobin, Poland (The Turobin book; in memory of the Jewish community)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Turobin/Turobin.html

- Voranava, Belarus (Voronovo: Memorial Book to the Martyrs of Voronovo)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/voronovo/voronovo.html

- Wolomin, Poland (Volomin; a memorial to the Jewish community of Volomin)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/wolomin/wolomin.html

- Wyszkow, Poland (Wyszkow Book)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Wyszkow/Wyszkow.html

Some important links to note:

- This month's additions and updates are flagged at
www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html to make it easy to find them.
- All you would like to know about the Yizkor Books in Print Project
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ybip.html
- Yizkor Book Translation Funds
www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/v_projectslist.asp?project_cat=23
where your financial support will assist in seeing more translations go
online.

Happy Passover/Pesach Sameach,
Lance Ackerfeld
Yizkor Book Project Manager

As mentioned previously, every month I post a listing of the IAJGS Records
Access Alert topics >from the previous month for you to see the variety of
issues.some were posted on this discussion group as they were final edicts,
but advocacy, and pending legislation and regulations- were not posted to
the discussion group-all postings are included below. Any postings that had
a time limit for access, such as free access that has expired are not
included below.

+ Archive Grid Worldwide Collection of 5 Million Archival Materials

+ (Australia) National Library of Australia Launches Australian Web
Archive

+ (Australia) News Corp Australia Asks Australian Competition and
Consumer Commission to Break Up Google

+ CORRECTION: (Canada) 1926 Prairie Provinces Census Online at Library of
Canada and FamilySearch

+ (European Union) Entire EU Parliament up for Election this May

+ (European Union) EU Gives up on Taxing Technology Plans-Countries Go it
Alone

+ (European Union) EU Parliament Votes in Favor of Controversial
Copyright Law

+ (European Union) GDPR and Clinical Trials European Data Protection
Board Opinion and Right to be Forgotten

+ (European Union) Google Fined A Third Time for Antitrust Violations in
European Union

+ (European Union) Google Offers Android Users a Choice of Search
Engines; EU Citizens Being Tracked on Sensitive Government Sites;
European Data Protection Board Renders Opinion Between Proposed ePrivacy
Regulation and GDPR

+ (European Union-Austria) Austrian Court Grants Permission to Max
Schrems To Sue Facebook in Civil Action

+ (European Union-Netherlands) Netherlands Released Its Own Fining
Policy; Spotify Sues Apple In EU Complaint

+ (European Union) Parliament Votes to Eliminate One Hour Time Change
Between Summer and Winter

+ Facebook Announces More Private vs Public Messages; India Gives
Facebook 10 Days to Respond to Prevent tis Platform >from Being Abused
Prior to Elections

+ Facebook Charged With Violating Fair Housing Laws by US Housing and
Urban Development Agency

+ Facebook's Zuckerberg Calls for More Regulation of the Internet

+ (France) French Government Imposes 3 Percent Tax on Internet Giants

+ (Ireland) Data Protection Commissioner Releases First Annual Report
Following GDPR

+ More on Facebook

+ (Netherlands) Dutch Data Privacy Regulator States Tracking Cookies
are not GDPR Compliant

+ (Romania) Prime Minister Announces Law Guaranteeing Access to State
Archives for Federation of Jewish Communities of Romania

+ (UK) The General Register Office Makes PDF Experiment Permanent

+ (US) 15 US Senators Send Letter to Department of Justice Regarding
Confidentiality of 2020 Census Responses

+ ( US) 17 States Sign Amicus Brief In Favor of Citizenship Question on
2020 US Census

+ (US) 51 Jurisdictions of Freedom of Information Laws--MuckRock State
By State Look at Public Records Law

+ (US) Bill to Prohibit Use of Facial Recognition Technology Without
Affirmative Consent

+ (US) Census Bureau Hosts Census Day One Year Out; Commerce Secretary
Ross Testifies Before House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on
March 14, 2019

+ (US) Concerns About Identity and Ethnic Categories in 2020 Census
By Those of Middle Eastern or North African Descent

+ (US) Federal Trade Commission Annual Report on Privacy and Data
Security Update 2018

+ (US) Federal Trade Commission Seeks to Examine the Privacy
Practices of Broadband Providers

+ (US) US Department of Homeland Security Would Provide US Census
Bureau Information on Non-Citizens

+ (US) Senator Cortez Masto of Nevada Introduces a Bill on Digital
Accountability and Transparency

+ (US) Sunshine Week March 10-16, 2019 Your Right to Know

+ (US) Supreme Court Determines that Copyright Infringement Happens
After Register Has Processed Registration Application

+ (US) Supreme Court Expands Scope of Citizenship Case Question

+ (US) Supreme Court Remands Google Privacy Deal to Lower Court

+ (US-CA) California Data Privacy Legislation Faces Fight--Lawmakers
Introduce 20 Bills to Amend Strongest Consumer Privacy Law in Country

+ (US-California) US District Court of Northern California Rules
Inclusion of Citizenship Question on 2020 Census

+ (US-MA-Boston) Birth and Death Certificates May Be Ordered Online

+ (US-NJ) Data Breach Notification Bill On Governor's Desk

+ (US-NY State) Reclaim the Records Wins its Fourth Lawsuit: New
York State Department of Health Marriage Indices

+ (US-Ohio) Ohio Data Protection Act Effective November 2, 2018

+ (US-WA) Washington State Senate Approves Consumer Privacy Bill

+ (Vatican) Pope Francis Announces Vatican Archives Will Unseal the
Archives of Pope Pius Xll

IAJGS opened its Records Access Alerts to anyone who is interested. This
was announced previously. We now have subscribers >from many genealogical
organizations not previously able to subscribe. To be on top of what is
happening I encourage you to register for the Records Access Alerts to
receive the information in a timely manner. If you are interested in any of
the above items, please register for the IAJGS Records Access Alert and look
at them in the archives. To register for the IAJGS Records Access Alert go
to: http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/listinfo/records-access-alerts and
follow the instructions to enter your email address, full name and which
genealogical organization you belong to-a society, SIG or a subscriber of
JewishGen, Avotaynu Online, Legal Genealogist etc. You will receive an
email response that you have to reply to, or the subscription will not be
finalized. The alerts are archived and once you register you may access the
archives at: http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/private/records-access-alerts/

The IAJGS Records Access Alert is not a daily announcement list. Depending
on what happens worldwide, there may be no postings for several days and
other times there may be several in one day.

These are listed alphabetically not chronologically. Each month the locales
covered differ.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

Shalom,

As it is quite likely that this finds you in the midst of preparations
for the Pesach/Passover holiday, I will try not to take up to much of
your time. I would, however, like to let you know about the highlight
activities of the Yizkor Book Project during March.

During last month I was pleasantly surprised and delighted to receive
donations of complete books that we have now placed online. The books are:

- " My Survival" written by Israel Stern z"l, a survivor of the community
of Mielnice, now Melnytsya-Podilska, Ukraine was kindly presented to the
YB Project by his grandson, David Stern.
- " Frampol in the memory of its descendants" is a book in Russian about
the community of Frampol, Ukraine which is now called Kosohirka. It was
written by Mikhail Freyder and Roman Geller in order to preserve the
memory of their ancestor's community of Frampol and has been gratefully
been made available to our project.

I am always pleased to see the addition of material written in languages
other than English as it enables the exposure of this important material
to an even wider audience. The material we do have in other languages
appears in our Translations Index (link below) under the category "Other
languages" and includes material in Hebrew, Spanish, French, Polish,
Russian and even, Lithuanian.

Further good news is that in March we completed uploading the "Preserving
Our Litvak Heritage" book abut various communities in Lithuania, kindly
presented to us by Joel Alpert. For your information, this book is also
available for purchase under the auspices of our Yizkor Books in Print
Project.

And on the YBIP Project, last month yet another new book hit the shelves
- "Memorial book of the Ritavas Community" about the community of
Rietavas, Lithuania. Once again, the wheels of this project continue to
roll and present us with new books on a regular basis and we have Joel
Alpert and his dedicated and talented team of volunteers to thank for that.

Now, all that is left for me before our list of new and updated projects,
is to wish you dear readers and your families a most enjoyable Pesach/
Passover holiday.

And now for the additions and updates are what we've carried out during
March:

We have added in 6 new entries:

- Crocmaz, Moldova (Akkerman and the Towns of its District; Memorial Book)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Akkerman/akk374.html

- Jieznas, Lithuania (Preserving Our Litvak Heritage)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lithuania6/lit6_055.html

- Krekenava, Lithuania (Preserving Our Litvak Heritage)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lithuania6/lit6_089.html

- Luts'k, Ukraine (Memorial Book of Lutsk)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lutsk1/lutskh.html [Hebrew]

- Ramygala, Lithuania (Preserving Our Litvak Heritage)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Lithuania6/lit6_221.html

- Zelva, Belarus (Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Poland - Volume
VII) www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/pinkas_poland/pol8_00346.html

And two new books:

- Kosohirka (Frampol), Ukraine (Frampol in the memory of its descendants)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Kosohirka/Kosohirkar.html [Russian]

- Melnytsya-Podilska, Ukraine (My Survival)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Mielnice/Mielnice.html

And we have continued to update 23 of our existing projects:

- Biala Podlaska, Poland (Book of Biala Podlaska)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Biala_Podlaska/Biala_Podlaska.html

- Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyy (Akkerman), Ukraine (Akkerman and the Towns of
its District; Memorial Book)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Akkerman/Akkerman.html

- Braslaw, Belarus (Darkness and desolation)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Braslaw/Braslaw.html

- Chelm, Poland (Commemoration book Chelm)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/chelm/chelm.html

- Dubno, Ukraine (Dubno; a Memorial to the Jewish community of Dubno,
Wolyn) www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/dubno/dubno.html

- Grabowiec, Poland (Memorial Book Grabowitz)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Grabowiec/Grabowiec.html

- Kherson, Ukraine (Jewish Farmers in Russian Fields)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/JewishFarmers/JewishFarmers.html

- Lithuania (Lite) www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lita/lita.html

- Miskolc, Hungary (The martyrs of Miskolc and vicinity)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Miskolc/Miskolc.html

- Ozerna, Ukraine (Memorial book of Jezierna)
www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Ozerna/Ozerna.html

- Ozeryany, Ukraine (Memorial book, Jezierzany and surroundings)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ozeryany/ozeryany.html

- Przemysl, Poland (Przemysl memorial book)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/przemysl/przemysl.html

- Raciaz, Poland (Memorial book of the community of Racionz)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Raciaz/Raciaz.html

- Radekhov, Ukraine (Memorial Book of Radikhov)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Radekhov/Radekhov.html

- Shumskoye, Ukraine (Szumsk - Memorial book of the Martyrs of Szumsk)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/szumsk/szumsk.html

- Slutsk, Belarus (Slutsk and vicinity memorial book)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Slutsk/Slutsk.html

- Stowbtsy, Belarus (Memorial volume of Steibtz-Swerznie and the
neighboring villages Rubezhevitz, Derevna, Nalibok)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Stowbtsy/Stowbtsy.html

- Svencionys, Lithuania (Svintzian region: memorial book of 23
communities) www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/svencionys/svencionys.html

- Tarnow, Poland (The life and decline of a Jewish city)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/tarnow/tarnow.html

- Turobin, Poland (The Turobin book; in memory of the Jewish community)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Turobin/Turobin.html

- Voranava, Belarus (Voronovo: Memorial Book to the Martyrs of Voronovo)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/voronovo/voronovo.html

- Wolomin, Poland (Volomin; a memorial to the Jewish community of Volomin)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/wolomin/wolomin.html

- Wyszkow, Poland (Wyszkow Book)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Wyszkow/Wyszkow.html

Some important links to note:

- This month's additions and updates are flagged at
www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html to make it easy to find them.
- All you would like to know about the Yizkor Books in Print Project
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ybip.html
- Yizkor Book Translation Funds
www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/v_projectslist.asp?project_cat=23
where your financial support will assist in seeing more translations go
online.

Happy Passover/Pesach Sameach,
Lance Ackerfeld
Yizkor Book Project Manager

Shalom,

As it is quite likely that this finds you in the midst of preparations
for the Pesach/Passover holiday, I will try not to take up to much of
your time. I would, however, like to let you know about the highlight
activities of the Yizkor Book Project during March.

During last month I was pleasantly surprised and delighted to receive
donations of complete books that we have now placed online. The books are:

- " My Survival" written by Israel Stern z"l, a survivor of the community
of Mielnice, now Melnytsya-Podilska, Ukraine was kindly presented to the
YB Project by his grandson, David Stern.
- " Frampol in the memory of its descendants" is a book in Russian about
the community of Frampol, Ukraine which is now called Kosohirka. It was
written by Mikhail Freyder and Roman Geller in order to preserve the
memory of their ancestor's community of Frampol and has been gratefully
been made available to our project.

I am always pleased to see the addition of material written in languages
other than English as it enables the exposure of this important material
to an even wider audience. The material we do have in other languages
appears in our Translations Index (link below) under the category "Other
languages" and includes material in Hebrew, Spanish, French, Polish,
Russian and even, Lithuanian.

Further good news is that in March we completed uploading the "Preserving
Our Litvak Heritage" book abut various communities in Lithuania, kindly
presented to us by Joel Alpert. For your information, this book is also
available for purchase under the auspices of our Yizkor Books in Print
Project.

And on the YBIP Project, last month yet another new book hit the shelves
- "Memorial book of the Ritavas Community" about the community of
Rietavas, Lithuania. Once again, the wheels of this project continue to
roll and present us with new books on a regular basis and we have Joel
Alpert and his dedicated and talented team of volunteers to thank for that.

Now, all that is left for me before our list of new and updated projects,
is to wish you dear readers and your families a most enjoyable Pesach/
Passover holiday.

And now for the additions and updates are what we've carried out during
March:

We have added in 6 new entries:

- Crocmaz, Moldova (Akkerman and the Towns of its District; Memorial Book)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Akkerman/akk374.html

- Jieznas, Lithuania (Preserving Our Litvak Heritage)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lithuania6/lit6_055.html

- Krekenava, Lithuania (Preserving Our Litvak Heritage)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lithuania6/lit6_089.html

- Luts'k, Ukraine (Memorial Book of Lutsk)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lutsk1/lutskh.html [Hebrew]

- Ramygala, Lithuania (Preserving Our Litvak Heritage)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Lithuania6/lit6_221.html

- Zelva, Belarus (Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Poland - Volume
VII) www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/pinkas_poland/pol8_00346.html

And two new books:

- Kosohirka (Frampol), Ukraine (Frampol in the memory of its descendants)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Kosohirka/Kosohirkar.html [Russian]

- Melnytsya-Podilska, Ukraine (My Survival)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Mielnice/Mielnice.html

And we have continued to update 23 of our existing projects:

- Biala Podlaska, Poland (Book of Biala Podlaska)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Biala_Podlaska/Biala_Podlaska.html

- Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyy (Akkerman), Ukraine (Akkerman and the Towns of
its District; Memorial Book)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Akkerman/Akkerman.html

- Braslaw, Belarus (Darkness and desolation)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Braslaw/Braslaw.html

- Chelm, Poland (Commemoration book Chelm)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/chelm/chelm.html

- Dubno, Ukraine (Dubno; a Memorial to the Jewish community of Dubno,
Wolyn) www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/dubno/dubno.html

- Grabowiec, Poland (Memorial Book Grabowitz)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Grabowiec/Grabowiec.html

- Kherson, Ukraine (Jewish Farmers in Russian Fields)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/JewishFarmers/JewishFarmers.html

- Lithuania (Lite) www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lita/lita.html

- Miskolc, Hungary (The martyrs of Miskolc and vicinity)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Miskolc/Miskolc.html

- Ozerna, Ukraine (Memorial book of Jezierna)
www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Ozerna/Ozerna.html

- Ozeryany, Ukraine (Memorial book, Jezierzany and surroundings)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ozeryany/ozeryany.html

- Przemysl, Poland (Przemysl memorial book)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/przemysl/przemysl.html

- Raciaz, Poland (Memorial book of the community of Racionz)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Raciaz/Raciaz.html

- Radekhov, Ukraine (Memorial Book of Radikhov)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Radekhov/Radekhov.html

- Shumskoye, Ukraine (Szumsk - Memorial book of the Martyrs of Szumsk)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/szumsk/szumsk.html

- Slutsk, Belarus (Slutsk and vicinity memorial book)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Slutsk/Slutsk.html

- Stowbtsy, Belarus (Memorial volume of Steibtz-Swerznie and the
neighboring villages Rubezhevitz, Derevna, Nalibok)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Stowbtsy/Stowbtsy.html

- Svencionys, Lithuania (Svintzian region: memorial book of 23
communities) www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/svencionys/svencionys.html

- Tarnow, Poland (The life and decline of a Jewish city)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/tarnow/tarnow.html

- Turobin, Poland (The Turobin book; in memory of the Jewish community)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Turobin/Turobin.html

- Voranava, Belarus (Voronovo: Memorial Book to the Martyrs of Voronovo)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/voronovo/voronovo.html

- Wolomin, Poland (Volomin; a memorial to the Jewish community of Volomin)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/wolomin/wolomin.html

- Wyszkow, Poland (Wyszkow Book)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Wyszkow/Wyszkow.html

Some important links to note:

- This month's additions and updates are flagged at
www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html to make it easy to find them.
- All you would like to know about the Yizkor Books in Print Project
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ybip.html
- Yizkor Book Translation Funds
www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/v_projectslist.asp?project_cat=23
where your financial support will assist in seeing more translations go
online.

Happy Passover/Pesach Sameach,
Lance Ackerfeld
Yizkor Book Project Manager

As mentioned previously, every month I post a listing of the IAJGS Records
Access Alert topics >from the previous month for you to see the variety of
issues.some were posted on this discussion group as they were final edicts,
but advocacy, and pending legislation and regulations- were not posted to
the discussion group-all postings are included below. Any postings that had
a time limit for access, such as free access that has expired are not
included below.

+ Archive Grid Worldwide Collection of 5 Million Archival Materials

+ (Australia) National Library of Australia Launches Australian Web
Archive

+ (Australia) News Corp Australia Asks Australian Competition and
Consumer Commission to Break Up Google

+ CORRECTION: (Canada) 1926 Prairie Provinces Census Online at Library of
Canada and FamilySearch

+ (European Union) Entire EU Parliament up for Election this May

+ (European Union) EU Gives up on Taxing Technology Plans-Countries Go it
Alone

+ (European Union) EU Parliament Votes in Favor of Controversial
Copyright Law

+ (European Union) GDPR and Clinical Trials European Data Protection
Board Opinion and Right to be Forgotten

+ (European Union) Google Fined A Third Time for Antitrust Violations in
European Union

+ (European Union) Google Offers Android Users a Choice of Search
Engines; EU Citizens Being Tracked on Sensitive Government Sites;
European Data Protection Board Renders Opinion Between Proposed ePrivacy
Regulation and GDPR

+ (European Union-Austria) Austrian Court Grants Permission to Max
Schrems To Sue Facebook in Civil Action

+ (European Union-Netherlands) Netherlands Released Its Own Fining
Policy; Spotify Sues Apple In EU Complaint

+ (European Union) Parliament Votes to Eliminate One Hour Time Change
Between Summer and Winter

+ Facebook Announces More Private vs Public Messages; India Gives
Facebook 10 Days to Respond to Prevent tis Platform >from Being Abused
Prior to Elections

+ Facebook Charged With Violating Fair Housing Laws by US Housing and
Urban Development Agency

+ Facebook's Zuckerberg Calls for More Regulation of the Internet

+ (France) French Government Imposes 3 Percent Tax on Internet Giants

+ (Ireland) Data Protection Commissioner Releases First Annual Report
Following GDPR

+ More on Facebook

+ (Netherlands) Dutch Data Privacy Regulator States Tracking Cookies
are not GDPR Compliant

+ (Romania) Prime Minister Announces Law Guaranteeing Access to State
Archives for Federation of Jewish Communities of Romania

+ (UK) The General Register Office Makes PDF Experiment Permanent

+ (US) 15 US Senators Send Letter to Department of Justice Regarding
Confidentiality of 2020 Census Responses

+ ( US) 17 States Sign Amicus Brief In Favor of Citizenship Question on
2020 US Census

+ (US) 51 Jurisdictions of Freedom of Information Laws--MuckRock State
By State Look at Public Records Law

+ (US) Bill to Prohibit Use of Facial Recognition Technology Without
Affirmative Consent

+ (US) Census Bureau Hosts Census Day One Year Out; Commerce Secretary
Ross Testifies Before House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on
March 14, 2019

+ (US) Concerns About Identity and Ethnic Categories in 2020 Census
By Those of Middle Eastern or North African Descent

+ (US) Federal Trade Commission Annual Report on Privacy and Data
Security Update 2018

+ (US) Federal Trade Commission Seeks to Examine the Privacy
Practices of Broadband Providers

+ (US) US Department of Homeland Security Would Provide US Census
Bureau Information on Non-Citizens

+ (US) Senator Cortez Masto of Nevada Introduces a Bill on Digital
Accountability and Transparency

+ (US) Sunshine Week March 10-16, 2019 Your Right to Know

+ (US) Supreme Court Determines that Copyright Infringement Happens
After Register Has Processed Registration Application

+ (US) Supreme Court Expands Scope of Citizenship Case Question

+ (US) Supreme Court Remands Google Privacy Deal to Lower Court

+ (US-CA) California Data Privacy Legislation Faces Fight--Lawmakers
Introduce 20 Bills to Amend Strongest Consumer Privacy Law in Country

+ (US-California) US District Court of Northern California Rules
Inclusion of Citizenship Question on 2020 Census

+ (US-MA-Boston) Birth and Death Certificates May Be Ordered Online

+ (US-NJ) Data Breach Notification Bill On Governor's Desk

+ (US-NY State) Reclaim the Records Wins its Fourth Lawsuit: New
York State Department of Health Marriage Indices

+ (US-Ohio) Ohio Data Protection Act Effective November 2, 2018

+ (US-WA) Washington State Senate Approves Consumer Privacy Bill

+ (Vatican) Pope Francis Announces Vatican Archives Will Unseal the
Archives of Pope Pius Xll

IAJGS opened its Records Access Alerts to anyone who is interested. This
was announced previously. We now have subscribers >from many genealogical
organizations not previously able to subscribe. To be on top of what is
happening I encourage you to register for the Records Access Alerts to
receive the information in a timely manner. If you are interested in any of
the above items, please register for the IAJGS Records Access Alert and look
at them in the archives. To register for the IAJGS Records Access Alert go
to: http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/listinfo/records-access-alerts and
follow the instructions to enter your email address, full name and which
genealogical organization you belong to-a society, SIG or a subscriber of
JewishGen, Avotaynu Online, Legal Genealogist etc. You will receive an
email response that you have to reply to, or the subscription will not be
finalized. The alerts are archived and once you register you may access the
archives at: http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/private/records-access-alerts/

The IAJGS Records Access Alert is not a daily announcement list. Depending
on what happens worldwide, there may be no postings for several days and
other times there may be several in one day.

These are listed alphabetically not chronologically. Each month the locales
covered differ.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

Shalom,

As it is quite likely that this finds you in the midst of preparations
for the Pesach/Passover holiday, I will try not to take up to much of
your time. I would, however, like to let you know about the highlight
activities of the Yizkor Book Project during March.

During last month I was pleasantly surprised and delighted to receive
donations of complete books that we have now placed online. The books are:

- " My Survival" written by Israel Stern z"l, a survivor of the community
of Mielnice, now Melnytsya-Podilska, Ukraine was kindly presented to the
YB Project by his grandson, David Stern.
- " Frampol in the memory of its descendants" is a book in Russian about
the community of Frampol, Ukraine which is now called Kosohirka. It was
written by Mikhail Freyder and Roman Geller in order to preserve the
memory of their ancestor's community of Frampol and has been gratefully
been made available to our project.

I am always pleased to see the addition of material written in languages
other than English as it enables the exposure of this important material
to an even wider audience. The material we do have in other languages
appears in our Translations Index (link below) under the category "Other
languages" and includes material in Hebrew, Spanish, French, Polish,
Russian and even, Lithuanian.

Further good news is that in March we completed uploading the "Preserving
Our Litvak Heritage" book abut various communities in Lithuania, kindly
presented to us by Joel Alpert. For your information, this book is also
available for purchase under the auspices of our Yizkor Books in Print
Project.

And on the YBIP Project, last month yet another new book hit the shelves
- "Memorial book of the Ritavas Community" about the community of
Rietavas, Lithuania. Once again, the wheels of this project continue to
roll and present us with new books on a regular basis and we have Joel
Alpert and his dedicated and talented team of volunteers to thank for that.

Now, all that is left for me before our list of new and updated projects,
is to wish you dear readers and your families a most enjoyable Pesach/
Passover holiday.

And now for the additions and updates are what we've carried out during
March:

We have added in 6 new entries:

- Crocmaz, Moldova (Akkerman and the Towns of its District; Memorial Book)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Akkerman/akk374.html

- Jieznas, Lithuania (Preserving Our Litvak Heritage)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lithuania6/lit6_055.html

- Krekenava, Lithuania (Preserving Our Litvak Heritage)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lithuania6/lit6_089.html

- Luts'k, Ukraine (Memorial Book of Lutsk)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lutsk1/lutskh.html [Hebrew]

- Ramygala, Lithuania (Preserving Our Litvak Heritage)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Lithuania6/lit6_221.html

- Zelva, Belarus (Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Poland - Volume
VII) www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/pinkas_poland/pol8_00346.html

And two new books:

- Kosohirka (Frampol), Ukraine (Frampol in the memory of its descendants)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Kosohirka/Kosohirkar.html [Russian]

- Melnytsya-Podilska, Ukraine (My Survival)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Mielnice/Mielnice.html

And we have continued to update 23 of our existing projects:

- Biala Podlaska, Poland (Book of Biala Podlaska)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Biala_Podlaska/Biala_Podlaska.html

- Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyy (Akkerman), Ukraine (Akkerman and the Towns of
its District; Memorial Book)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Akkerman/Akkerman.html

- Braslaw, Belarus (Darkness and desolation)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Braslaw/Braslaw.html

- Chelm, Poland (Commemoration book Chelm)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/chelm/chelm.html

- Dubno, Ukraine (Dubno; a Memorial to the Jewish community of Dubno,
Wolyn) www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/dubno/dubno.html

- Grabowiec, Poland (Memorial Book Grabowitz)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Grabowiec/Grabowiec.html

- Kherson, Ukraine (Jewish Farmers in Russian Fields)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/JewishFarmers/JewishFarmers.html

- Lithuania (Lite) www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lita/lita.html

- Miskolc, Hungary (The martyrs of Miskolc and vicinity)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Miskolc/Miskolc.html

- Ozerna, Ukraine (Memorial book of Jezierna)
www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Ozerna/Ozerna.html

- Ozeryany, Ukraine (Memorial book, Jezierzany and surroundings)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ozeryany/ozeryany.html

- Przemysl, Poland (Przemysl memorial book)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/przemysl/przemysl.html

- Raciaz, Poland (Memorial book of the community of Racionz)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Raciaz/Raciaz.html

- Radekhov, Ukraine (Memorial Book of Radikhov)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Radekhov/Radekhov.html

- Shumskoye, Ukraine (Szumsk - Memorial book of the Martyrs of Szumsk)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/szumsk/szumsk.html

- Slutsk, Belarus (Slutsk and vicinity memorial book)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Slutsk/Slutsk.html

- Stowbtsy, Belarus (Memorial volume of Steibtz-Swerznie and the
neighboring villages Rubezhevitz, Derevna, Nalibok)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Stowbtsy/Stowbtsy.html

- Svencionys, Lithuania (Svintzian region: memorial book of 23
communities) www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/svencionys/svencionys.html

- Tarnow, Poland (The life and decline of a Jewish city)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/tarnow/tarnow.html

- Turobin, Poland (The Turobin book; in memory of the Jewish community)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Turobin/Turobin.html

- Voranava, Belarus (Voronovo: Memorial Book to the Martyrs of Voronovo)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/voronovo/voronovo.html

- Wolomin, Poland (Volomin; a memorial to the Jewish community of Volomin)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/wolomin/wolomin.html

- Wyszkow, Poland (Wyszkow Book)
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Wyszkow/Wyszkow.html

Some important links to note:

- This month's additions and updates are flagged at
www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html to make it easy to find them.
- All you would like to know about the Yizkor Books in Print Project
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ybip.html
- Yizkor Book Translation Funds
www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/v_projectslist.asp?project_cat=23
where your financial support will assist in seeing more translations go
online.

Happy Passover/Pesach Sameach,
Lance Ackerfeld
Yizkor Book Project Manager

Five German companies announced on April 2 they would each donate one
million Euros (collectively 5millions Euros or $5.6 million US dollars) to
the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem. The
donations are for the expansion of the archives collection to the new
Heritage Collections Center which is scheduled to open in 2021. The five
companies are: Daimler, Deutsche Bahn, Deutsche Bank, Volkswagen and soccer
club Borussia Dortmund. The companies said their effort is "a clear sign of
our solidarity with the victims of the Holocaust and as our responsibility,
past and future, in the fight against racism and anti-Semitism."

To read more see: https://tinyurl.com/yy2anm4j
Original url:
https://www.dw.com/en/german-companies-pledge-support-for-yad-vashem-holocaust-center/a-48170155

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

Five German companies announced on April 2 they would each donate one
million Euros (collectively 5millions Euros or $5.6 million US dollars) to
the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem. The
donations are for the expansion of the archives collection to the new
Heritage Collections Center which is scheduled to open in 2021. The five
companies are: Daimler, Deutsche Bahn, Deutsche Bank, Volkswagen and soccer
club Borussia Dortmund. The companies said their effort is "a clear sign of
our solidarity with the victims of the Holocaust and as our responsibility,
past and future, in the fight against racism and anti-Semitism."

To read more see: https://tinyurl.com/yy2anm4j
Original url:
https://www.dw.com/en/german-companies-pledge-support-for-yad-vashem-holocaust-center/a-48170155

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

Greetings to all.

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami, Inc. will be
celebrating a 30th anniversary at the Greater Miami Jewish Federation
(4200 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL) on Sunday, April 7, 2019 at 11:00
AM to 1:30 PM.

The celebration will include a brunch, video of highlights of the past
thirty years since the founding of the society, a presentation to honor
our founding leaders, and "show and tell" presentations by current
members.

If you are in the Miami area please join us for this momentous event.

Please RSVP to Yoram Millman (ymillman.jgs@gmail.com).

Members - free. Guests - $5.00.

Access to the parking is through the street in back of the Federation
building. For a GPS or Google maps, use "4199 Federal Highway, Miami
FL 33137" as the address. The Federation phone is 305-573-9174
(Security desk) Remember to check our web site: http://jgs-miami.org

Warm regards,

Paulette Bronstein
President
Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami
jgsgm.president@gmail.com

GAMBURG, SHAPIR, LEVIN, PITTEL, KRANE, GORDON Salakas, Lithuania

Greetings to all.

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami, Inc. will be
celebrating a 30th anniversary at the Greater Miami Jewish Federation
(4200 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL) on Sunday, April 7, 2019 at 11:00
AM to 1:30 PM.

The celebration will include a brunch, video of highlights of the past
thirty years since the founding of the society, a presentation to honor
our founding leaders, and "show and tell" presentations by current
members.

If you are in the Miami area please join us for this momentous event.

Please RSVP to Yoram Millman (ymillman.jgs@gmail.com).

Members - free. Guests - $5.00.

Access to the parking is through the street in back of the Federation
building. For a GPS or Google maps, use "4199 Federal Highway, Miami
FL 33137" as the address. The Federation phone is 305-573-9174
(Security desk) Remember to check our web site: http://jgs-miami.org

Warm regards,

Paulette Bronstein
President
Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami
jgsgm.president@gmail.com

GAMBURG, SHAPIR, LEVIN, PITTEL, KRANE, GORDON Salakas, Lithuania

Dear researchers,

Here is an update for the Bessarabia SIG projects for the month of March
2019. See also at What's New at Bessarabia SIG website.
There are a number of projects we made a good progress of, like Revision
Lists, Miriam W.'s Archival material, but this time I am only going to
updates at the Kishinev Jewish Cemetery.
Kishinev was a main town in Bessarabia, and later in the republic, part
of the Soviet Union, and now it is a capital of independent state
Republic of Moldova. The cemetery we are talking about is one of the
largest in the region, but this is counting that about half of the
cemetery was destroyed, and a park was built on the territory. Also
when some smaller cemeteries were destroyed during 60-70s, a number of
people moved the graves of their loved once to Kishinev Jewish cemetery.
In may family was such a case in 1970s, when my uncle moved grave of his
mother >from Kaushany Jewish cemetery (cemetery was destroyed in 1970s)
to Kishinev.

Jewish Cemeteries. Updates:

Completed photographing and indexing sector 4 in Kishinev Jewish
Cemetery and sent to JOWBR 1517 burial records with 1371 images and 33
images of Unknown graves can be viewed at Bessarabia SIG website at
Kishinev Jewish Cemetery Report
(https://www.jewishgen.org/Bessarabia/files/cemetery/Kishinev/KishinevJewishCemeteryReport.pdf)
or directly at Kishinev Jewish Cemetery Unknown graves
(https://www.jewishgen.org/bessarabia/files/cemetery/Kishinev/KishinevJewishUnknown.asp).

I want to add that we received a set of photos >from Sector 5 (about
3000!), and part >from sector 3. Planning to get all photos >from 3, 6
and 7 this year, and remaining 1, 8 and 9 will be photographed next
spring.

Kishinev Jewish Cemetery events report (end of 2018 – February 2019).
(https://www.jewishgen.org/Bessarabia/files/cemetery/Kishinev/KishinevJewishCemeteryEvents2019.pdf)

Aerial view of Kishinev Jewish Cemetery after major cleaning in December
of 2018:
(https://www.jewishgen.org/Bessarabia/files/cemetery/Kishinev/KishinevJewishAerialPhotosFeb2019.asp)

Damaged tombstones after major cleaning in December of 2018 (100+
monuments were damaged or destroyed):
(https://www.jewishgen.org/Bessarabia/files/cemetery/Kishinev/KishinevJewishCemeteryDamagedStonesFeb2019.asp)

If you have any problems with the links, take the whole string up to ")",
and put it into a browser and it should work. Also if you have access to
Kishinev Jewish Cemetery Report, you can go >from there to all other pages
on the list above. If you still have problems, please email me directly.

All the best,
Inna Vayner, Yefim Kogan
JewishGen Bessarabia SIG Leaders and Coordinators

Dear researchers,

Here is an update for the Bessarabia SIG projects for the month of March
2019. See also at What's New at Bessarabia SIG website.
There are a number of projects we made a good progress of, like Revision
Lists, Miriam W.'s Archival material, but this time I am only going to
updates at the Kishinev Jewish Cemetery.
Kishinev was a main town in Bessarabia, and later in the republic, part
of the Soviet Union, and now it is a capital of independent state
Republic of Moldova. The cemetery we are talking about is one of the
largest in the region, but this is counting that about half of the
cemetery was destroyed, and a park was built on the territory. Also
when some smaller cemeteries were destroyed during 60-70s, a number of
people moved the graves of their loved once to Kishinev Jewish cemetery.
In may family was such a case in 1970s, when my uncle moved grave of his
mother >from Kaushany Jewish cemetery (cemetery was destroyed in 1970s)
to Kishinev.

Jewish Cemeteries. Updates:

Completed photographing and indexing sector 4 in Kishinev Jewish
Cemetery and sent to JOWBR 1517 burial records with 1371 images and 33
images of Unknown graves can be viewed at Bessarabia SIG website at
Kishinev Jewish Cemetery Report
(https://www.jewishgen.org/Bessarabia/files/cemetery/Kishinev/KishinevJewishCemeteryReport.pdf)
or directly at Kishinev Jewish Cemetery Unknown graves
(https://www.jewishgen.org/bessarabia/files/cemetery/Kishinev/KishinevJewishUnknown.asp).

I want to add that we received a set of photos >from Sector 5 (about
3000!), and part >from sector 3. Planning to get all photos >from 3, 6
and 7 this year, and remaining 1, 8 and 9 will be photographed next
spring.

Kishinev Jewish Cemetery events report (end of 2018 – February 2019).
(https://www.jewishgen.org/Bessarabia/files/cemetery/Kishinev/KishinevJewishCemeteryEvents2019.pdf)

Aerial view of Kishinev Jewish Cemetery after major cleaning in December
of 2018:
(https://www.jewishgen.org/Bessarabia/files/cemetery/Kishinev/KishinevJewishAerialPhotosFeb2019.asp)

Damaged tombstones after major cleaning in December of 2018 (100+
monuments were damaged or destroyed):
(https://www.jewishgen.org/Bessarabia/files/cemetery/Kishinev/KishinevJewishCemeteryDamagedStonesFeb2019.asp)

If you have any problems with the links, take the whole string up to ")",
and put it into a browser and it should work. Also if you have access to
Kishinev Jewish Cemetery Report, you can go >from there to all other pages
on the list above. If you still have problems, please email me directly.

All the best,
Inna Vayner, Yefim Kogan
JewishGen Bessarabia SIG Leaders and Coordinators

I've posted a vital record in German for which I need a translation. It is
on ViewMate at the following address ...
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM72728

Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page.
Thank you very much.

It is a death record for Rosa Schram in 1920. I am most interested in the
handwritten notes and names mentioned. Any help will be appreciated.

Sally Vetstein

I've posted a vital record in German for which I need a translation. It is
on ViewMate at the following address ...
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM72728

Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page.
Thank you very much.

It is a death record for Rosa Schram in 1920. I am most interested in the
handwritten notes and names mentioned. Any help will be appreciated.

Sally Vetstein

Hello all,
I would greatly appreciate translation of brief Yiddish notes written
on the back of an old photo found by my cousin. The firstphoto is of his
grandmother (my gg aunt), and it appears that the note was written to
two of her children.
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM72755

We are not sure who is in the second photo, or to whom the message was
written.
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM72756

Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Ed Posnak

Hello all,
I would greatly appreciate translation of brief Yiddish notes written
on the back of an old photo found by my cousin. The firstphoto is of his
grandmother (my gg aunt), and it appears that the note was written to
two of her children.
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM72755

We are not sure who is in the second photo, or to whom the message was
written.
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM72756

Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Ed Posnak

As required by the LitvakSIG Bylaws, the LitvakSIG board has approved
the following members of the LitvakSIG Nominating Task Force for 2019:

Carol Hoffman (chair)
Judy Baston
Susan Lieberman
Ralph Salinger
Marion Werle

In the near future, the Nominating Task Force will issue a call for
nominations to the board. The actual election to the board will take
place electronically and will conclude at the LitvakSIG Annual
meeting during the IAJGS Conference in Cleveland, Ohio.

Jill Anderson
President, LitvakSIG

As required by the LitvakSIG Bylaws, the LitvakSIG board has approved
the following members of the LitvakSIG Nominating Task Force for 2019:

Carol Hoffman (chair)
Judy Baston
Susan Lieberman
Ralph Salinger
Marion Werle

In the near future, the Nominating Task Force will issue a call for
nominations to the board. The actual election to the board will take
place electronically and will conclude at the LitvakSIG Annual
meeting during the IAJGS Conference in Cleveland, Ohio.

Jill Anderson
President, LitvakSIG

Chaskiel LAUER was the last person to see my maternal grandmother and little
aunty alive. They were all deported on 21 January 1942 >from Leipzig to
Riga. Chaskiel was 14 at the time. I have received documents >from an
archive in Hanover, in which my mother states that in 1950 she met Chaskiel,
who told her exactly what happened to my grandmother and aunt. My mother
states that her little sister Etti Lea MENDZIGURSKY (then 7 years old) was
"separated >from her mother and killed first". I assume this must refer to
after they were loaded on to the train and during the transit, because they
never did arrive at Riga. It also conflicts with what my mother told me
years ago, that her mother and little sister had frozen to death. But my
mother had also filed a POT on Yad Vashem stating that little Etti Lea had
been used for medical experiments. The fact is, only Chaskiel LAUER knew
exactly what had happened to them, because he appears to have witnessed
their deaths.

Chaskiel LAUER survived the Holocaust, ending up in London and then Israel,
where he died in Netanya in 1993. I have found Stoke Newington birth
records for his children, Nigel H. LAUER (born 1963), Sarah M. LAUER (born
1957) and Gary Jonathan LAUER (born 1960). I have found a tree on Geni.com
and Ancestry.com and messaged the managers. I have found his wife Vivienne
COUSIN LAUER, and their children on Facebook, and messaged them. They are
not active FB users.

Please can someone find a personal email address or phone number for any of
these 3 children, who I believe all live in England. Maybe, just maybe,
their father talked to them about my grandmother and little aunty. And if I
knew how Chaskiel had survived and what he had witnessed, I might be able to
finally have an answer as to what happened to my grandmother and aunt. My
mother tried to find out all her life, so now it is my turn to take on this
task. Please respond privately.

Judith E. Elam
Kihei, Hawaii
mailto:elamj@hawaii.rr.com

Chaskiel LAUER was the last person to see my maternal grandmother and little
aunty alive. They were all deported on 21 January 1942 >from Leipzig to
Riga. Chaskiel was 14 at the time. I have received documents >from an
archive in Hanover, in which my mother states that in 1950 she met Chaskiel,
who told her exactly what happened to my grandmother and aunt. My mother
states that her little sister Etti Lea MENDZIGURSKY (then 7 years old) was
"separated >from her mother and killed first". I assume this must refer to
after they were loaded on to the train and during the transit, because they
never did arrive at Riga. It also conflicts with what my mother told me
years ago, that her mother and little sister had frozen to death. But my
mother had also filed a POT on Yad Vashem stating that little Etti Lea had
been used for medical experiments. The fact is, only Chaskiel LAUER knew
exactly what had happened to them, because he appears to have witnessed
their deaths.

Chaskiel LAUER survived the Holocaust, ending up in London and then Israel,
where he died in Netanya in 1993. I have found Stoke Newington birth
records for his children, Nigel H. LAUER (born 1963), Sarah M. LAUER (born
1957) and Gary Jonathan LAUER (born 1960). I have found a tree on Geni.com
and Ancestry.com and messaged the managers. I have found his wife Vivienne
COUSIN LAUER, and their children on Facebook, and messaged them. They are
not active FB users.

Please can someone find a personal email address or phone number for any of
these 3 children, who I believe all live in England. Maybe, just maybe,
their father talked to them about my grandmother and little aunty. And if I
knew how Chaskiel had survived and what he had witnessed, I might be able to
finally have an answer as to what happened to my grandmother and aunt. My
mother tried to find out all her life, so now it is my turn to take on this
task. Please respond privately.

Judith E. Elam
Kihei, Hawaii
mailto:elamj@hawaii.rr.com