On September 12, 2018, Raphael Thurm littletalmid@gmail.com wrote:
"I'm researching my ggg-father Alfred BRIE (1870-1942) who was an
editor and journalist in Berlin >from 1900-1932. He was born in
Rawitsch and went to the local real-schule. We understand that Alfred
was very educated and that he eventually went to a university and
majored in writing. He and his parents later moved to Berlin and he
married into an established Berlin family in 1899.
I'm trying to find out more about my ancestor's education. Is there
any way l can find out which university he went to?"
=================>

Hello Raphael and fellow researchers,

This seems to be quite a quest: There is a "Wiedergutmachungsakte"
in Berlin - a request for restitution. Within you may find a CV
in which the various "steps" in his life are written down, yet I
do not know whether you have to do research on-site and how
cooperative the team is.

http://wga-datenbank.de/search.php?s=1

In those days not many scholars could afford a university-education - he
may also have achieved his repution without having went to university.
But for one of the Berlin-Universities (Humboldt-Universitaet) you will
find the Matriculation numbers ( Matrikelnummer) online via:

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Humboldt-Universit%C3%A4t_zu_Berlin/Matrikel

For fellow researchers: other (not all) German universities can be found
via:

http://genwiki.genealogy.net/Universit%C3%A4tsmatrikel#

By the way: this website is a wonderful research possibility for all
researchers on German genealogy: the Compgen society has set up
comprehensive databases on German genealogy (yet unfortunately all in
German) - with the help of many volunteers. The databases are accessible
without registration and use is free of charge:

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Portal:Datenbanken

Wish you luck with your further research!

Corinna Woehrl (nee Goslar) Hoisdorf (near Hamburg and Luebeck)
goslar@cwoehrl.d

On September 12, 2018, Raphael Thurm littletalmid@gmail.com wrote:
"I'm researching my ggg-father Alfred BRIE (1870-1942) who was an
editor and journalist in Berlin >from 1900-1932. He was born in
Rawitsch and went to the local real-schule. We understand that Alfred
was very educated and that he eventually went to a university and
majored in writing. He and his parents later moved to Berlin and he
married into an established Berlin family in 1899.
I'm trying to find out more about my ancestor's education. Is there
any way l can find out which university he went to?"
=================>

Hello Raphael and fellow researchers,

This seems to be quite a quest: There is a "Wiedergutmachungsakte"
in Berlin - a request for restitution. Within you may find a CV
in which the various "steps" in his life are written down, yet I
do not know whether you have to do research on-site and how
cooperative the team is.

http://wga-datenbank.de/search.php?s=1

In those days not many scholars could afford a university-education - he
may also have achieved his repution without having went to university.
But for one of the Berlin-Universities (Humboldt-Universitaet) you will
find the Matriculation numbers ( Matrikelnummer) online via:

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Humboldt-Universit%C3%A4t_zu_Berlin/Matrikel

For fellow researchers: other (not all) German universities can be found
via:

http://genwiki.genealogy.net/Universit%C3%A4tsmatrikel#

By the way: this website is a wonderful research possibility for all
researchers on German genealogy: the Compgen society has set up
comprehensive databases on German genealogy (yet unfortunately all in
German) - with the help of many volunteers. The databases are accessible
without registration and use is free of charge:

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Portal:Datenbanken

Wish you luck with your further research!

Corinna Woehrl (nee Goslar) Hoisdorf (near Hamburg and Luebeck)
goslar@cwoehrl.d

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Holocaust Survivors and
Victims (HSV) database has added a new collection "Jewish residents in
Modliborzyce. The collection contains an Alphabetical List of the Jewish
population of Modliborzyce and a Register Book of the Jewish Population
of Modliborzyc. Both may be accessed at
https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/source_view.php?Sourceid=19465.

This material is linked to the source documents. If you submit a request
form for a document you will receive the document in your email instantly.

Peter Lande
Washington, D.C.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Holocaust Survivors and
Victims (HSV) database has added a new collection "Jewish residents in
Modliborzyce. The collection contains an Alphabetical List of the Jewish
population of Modliborzyce and a Register Book of the Jewish Population
of Modliborzyc. Both may be accessed at
https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/source_view.php?Sourceid=19465.

This material is linked to the source documents. If you submit a request
form for a document you will receive the document in your email instantly.

Peter Lande
Washington, D.C.

Hi,

I would like to connect with Israelis who have the surname Kupka. I have a relative
-- Baruch Kupka -- who left Poland in the 1930's to go to Israel.

Any leads would be appreciated.

Pauline Rosenberg
paulinerosenberg@rocketmail.com

MODERATOR: Provate responses only, please

Hi,

I would like to connect with Israelis who have the surname Kupka. I have a relative
-- Baruch Kupka -- who left Poland in the 1930's to go to Israel.

Any leads would be appreciated.

Pauline Rosenberg
paulinerosenberg@rocketmail.com

MODERATOR: Provate responses only, please

Shalom to the Discussion Group
I have submitted as ViewMate Posting no. 69450 a photograph which I believe was
taken in Sosnowiec and is a family group of my (wife's)Tuchschneider and/or
Bronstein family. Ideally, I would like to identify the people in the picture.
Failing that,I would appreciate an estimated date for the photo, plus any
suggestions as to the ages and relationships of the people in the picture.

With thanks for any guidance offered, and good wishes for the New Year

Derek Stavrou
Kfar Sava, Israel

MODERATOR NOTE: Direct URL for the image is
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/responselist.asp?key=69450

Ontario has a 70-year restriction on death records. They're very good that
annually, they send one year's records to be digitized, so they keep current on
releasing records.

Here's some information >from the Archives of Ontario:
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/tracing/the_records.aspx

If there's a way to get records released early, they'd be the ones to talk to. When
I've called them for various questions over the years, they've been very pleasant
and helpful.

Hilary Henkin
Los Angeles area

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

Shalom to the Discussion Group
I have submitted as ViewMate Posting no. 69450 a photograph which I believe was
taken in Sosnowiec and is a family group of my (wife's)Tuchschneider and/or
Bronstein family. Ideally, I would like to identify the people in the picture.
Failing that,I would appreciate an estimated date for the photo, plus any
suggestions as to the ages and relationships of the people in the picture.

With thanks for any guidance offered, and good wishes for the New Year

Derek Stavrou
Kfar Sava, Israel

MODERATOR NOTE: Direct URL for the image is
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/responselist.asp?key=69450

Ontario has a 70-year restriction on death records. They're very good that
annually, they send one year's records to be digitized, so they keep current on
releasing records.

Here's some information >from the Archives of Ontario:
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/tracing/the_records.aspx

If there's a way to get records released early, they'd be the ones to talk to. When
I've called them for various questions over the years, they've been very pleasant
and helpful.

Hilary Henkin
Los Angeles area

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

Have posted 4 birth and death vital records in German for Harpuder family members
on View Mate.
These are the links:
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM69454
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM69455
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM69456
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM69457

Thank you very much and please respond via View Mate.
Karen Schneider

Have posted 4 birth and death vital records in German for Harpuder family members
on View Mate.
These are the links:
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM69454
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM69455
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM69456
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM69457

Thank you very much and please respond via View Mate.
Karen Schneider

Is there out there among you, fellow Jewishgen users, to be able to help
me? I would like to know, to whom and at what address, should I write in
order to obtain a copy of a death certificate for a person. known to me by
name and date of death who died in Toronto, Ontario, and was buried there,
fifty years ago.

I may be reached by e-mail: lenard@indiana.edu
Thank you for any help.
Andrew Lenard

Is there out there among you, fellow Jewishgen users, to be able to help
me? I would like to know, to whom and at what address, should I write in
order to obtain a copy of a death certificate for a person. known to me by
name and date of death who died in Toronto, Ontario, and was buried there,
fifty years ago.

I may be reached by e-mail: lenard@indiana.edu
Thank you for any help.
Andrew Lenard

A new collaborative website, Jewish Places, consolidates Jewish Life in
Germany in one interactive map. A prototype was developed for March
20150-May 2016 and the launch of the official website is set for September
13, 2018, I have been able to access at the time of posting this. The
website is being developed with the Jewish Museum of Berlin, the German
Federal Agency for Civic Education, and the F.C. Flick Foundation against
Xenophobia, Racism, and Intolerance.
See: https://www.jewish-places.de/ The site is in German but if you open it
in the Chrome browser it will be translated. Or use a translation service
such as https://translate.google.com/.

The map opens to four areas: places, facilities, people and walks. Some of
the places have photographs which will be stated on the icon. You can find
places of Jewish life, learn more about the project and participate by
sharing photographs and texts. To learn how you can participate see:
https://www.jewish-places.de/de/join. You will have to register with your
email address and username and password.
For more information read their FAQs at: https://www.jewish-places.de/de/faq

If you register, with username, password and email address an email will be
sent. I found my email in the spam box, and I needed to activate by clicking
on the link. The email is in German but using a translation service such as
mentioned above made it easy to understand and click where necessary. Note
if you approve the site to know your location it will take you to where you
are and it remembers! Just click again on walks, people, places or
facilities and it will take you back to Germany.

The Jewish Museum of Berlin is one of the participants in the project and
they also have a website located at:
https://www.jmberlin.de/en/jewish-places

This is an interesting project which is not complete-more information is
requested-that is how you can help. It can help you find Jewish communities,
synagogues and more for your research.

Thank you to Jewish Heritage Europe for informing us about this new website.

I have no affiliation with this project or its sponsors and am posting this
solely for the information of the reader.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

A new collaborative website, Jewish Places, consolidates Jewish Life in
Germany in one interactive map. A prototype was developed for March
20150-May 2016 and the launch of the official website is set for September
13, 2018, I have been able to access at the time of posting this. The
website is being developed with the Jewish Museum of Berlin, the German
Federal Agency for Civic Education, and the F.C. Flick Foundation against
Xenophobia, Racism, and Intolerance.
See: https://www.jewish-places.de/ The site is in German but if you open it
in the Chrome browser it will be translated. Or use a translation service
such as https://translate.google.com/.

The map opens to four areas: places, facilities, people and walks. Some of
the places have photographs which will be stated on the icon. You can find
places of Jewish life, learn more about the project and participate by
sharing photographs and texts. To learn how you can participate see:
https://www.jewish-places.de/de/join. You will have to register with your
email address and username and password.
For more information read their FAQs at: https://www.jewish-places.de/de/faq

If you register, with username, password and email address an email will be
sent. I found my email in the spam box, and I needed to activate by clicking
on the link. The email is in German but using a translation service such as
mentioned above made it easy to understand and click where necessary. Note
if you approve the site to know your location it will take you to where you
are and it remembers! Just click again on walks, people, places or
facilities and it will take you back to Germany.

The Jewish Museum of Berlin is one of the participants in the project and
they also have a website located at:
https://www.jmberlin.de/en/jewish-places

This is an interesting project which is not complete-more information is
requested-that is how you can help. It can help you find Jewish communities,
synagogues and more for your research.

Thank you to Jewish Heritage Europe for informing us about this new website.

I have no affiliation with this project or its sponsors and am posting this
solely for the information of the reader.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

Hello. I am researching the OPPENHEIMER family >from Wurzburg. My great
grandmother is Sophia Luisa OPPENHEIMER, born 9 July 1843, and was a
Circassian Beauty in P.T. Barnum's American Museum under the name
Zobeide Luti. According to her death certificate, her father's name
was Rudolph. I do not know the mother's name. She had a sister
Barbetta, who married Moses Seligmann and lived in San Francisco. My
goal is to find information on the family in Germany, her mother's
name, and determine when she migrated to the USA.

My native language is English, I am also fluent in Spanish.
My ID number is 802582.
OPPENHEIMER- Wurzburg and surrounding area

Carole Brandt, Overland Park, Kansas brandt.cm@gmail.com

Hello. I am researching the OPPENHEIMER family >from Wurzburg. My great
grandmother is Sophia Luisa OPPENHEIMER, born 9 July 1843, and was a
Circassian Beauty in P.T. Barnum's American Museum under the name
Zobeide Luti. According to her death certificate, her father's name
was Rudolph. I do not know the mother's name. She had a sister
Barbetta, who married Moses Seligmann and lived in San Francisco. My
goal is to find information on the family in Germany, her mother's
name, and determine when she migrated to the USA.

My native language is English, I am also fluent in Spanish.
My ID number is 802582.
OPPENHEIMER- Wurzburg and surrounding area

Carole Brandt, Overland Park, Kansas brandt.cm@gmail.com

I am planning, along with relatives >from the U.S., a roots tour to Bessarabia/Ukraine  in the next
spring. I am looking for a recommended company which could organize the tour, provide us with
suitable guides etc. The targets are Family and public Jewish heritage sites in Chisinau, Odessa
and Orgeyev. Does anyone in the forum have recommendations?

Thanks in advance.

Yaron MEHULAL
RAANANA, ISRAEL

I am planning, along with relatives >from the U.S., a roots tour to Bessarabia/Ukraine  in the next
spring. I am looking for a recommended company which could organize the tour, provide us with
suitable guides etc. The targets are Family and public Jewish heritage sites in Chisinau, Odessa
and Orgeyev. Does anyone in the forum have recommendations?

Thanks in advance.

Yaron MEHULAL
RAANANA, ISRAEL