Dear All, I have uploaded to Viewmate a copy of a wedding photo taken in Przemysl ca. 1920 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=21529 The patriarch in the photo, Selig Wang, is a dis

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Dear All, I have uploaded to Viewmate a copy of a wedding photo taken in Przemysl ca. 1920 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=21529 The patriarch in the photo, Selig Wang, is a dis

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Dear Genners, I'm trying to get information about graves in the Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, Long Island, NY, which are not listed in the JOWBR 1) Blanche Haber (nee Pomeranz) b ~1890 d 1969. This g

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Dear Genners, I'm trying to get information about graves in the Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, Long Island, NY, which are not listed in the JOWBR 1) Blanche Haber (nee Pomeranz) b ~1890 d 1969. This g

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I have posted a Russian/Ukranian annotation dated 1940 that I found on a birth record >from a woman born in Drohobych in 1911 I would like to know what it says. It is on ViewMate at the following addr

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I have posted a Russian/Ukranian annotation dated 1940 that I found on a birth record >from a woman born in Drohobych in 1911 I would like to know what it says. It is on ViewMate at the following addr

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I have a genealogical query that I would like some independent opinions on. It concerns the RUSS family of Drohobycz & Boryslaw. Until recently, all I knew of my grandfather Dawid RUSS's family was th

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I have a genealogical query that I would like some independent opinions on. It concerns the RUSS family of Drohobycz & Boryslaw. Until recently, all I knew of my grandfather Dawid RUSS's family was th

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This is an abbreviated repost of my query to JewishGen of Friday 26th September to which I received no replies, so I'm trying again in this more focused forum. My great-grandfather Dawid RUSS lived in

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This is an abbreviated repost of my query to JewishGen of Friday 26th September to which I received no replies, so I'm trying again in this more focused forum. My great-grandfather Dawid RUSS lived in

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I have come across a few records where people appear both in the 'Lwow Ghetto' database and in the 'Forced Laborers in Boryslaw and Drohobycz' database. The Lwow Ghetto records are all sparse, just in

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I have come across a few records where people appear both in the 'Lwow Ghetto' database and in the 'Forced Laborers in Boryslaw and Drohobycz' database. The Lwow Ghetto records are all sparse, just in

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Dear All, My great-uncle, Wolf Kramarov (later Ze'ev Carmi), writes in his autobiography that when he arrived in London >from Amsterdam he was met by "an emissary of some charitable institution, Schla

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Dear All, My great-uncle, Wolf Kramarov (later Ze'ev Carmi), writes in his autobiography that when he arrived in London >from Amsterdam he was met by "an emissary of some charitable institution, Schla

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Thank you, everyone, for your responses. Some of you have requested that I report back. The consensus opinion is that the two charities involved are the "Poor Jews Temporary Shelter" and "The Jewish B

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Thank you, everyone, for your responses. Some of you have requested that I report back. The consensus opinion is that the two charities involved are the "Poor Jews Temporary Shelter" and "The Jewish B

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My great-uncle Wolf Kramarov (later known as Ze'ev Carmi) arrived in Rohatyn 1906-7 to teach Hebrew at a school run by Raphael Soferman. Wolf also acted as secretary of the Stanislawow Hebrew Teachers

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My great-uncle Wolf Kramarov (later known as Ze'ev Carmi) arrived in Rohatyn 1906-7 to teach Hebrew at a school run by Raphael Soferman. Wolf also acted as secretary of the Stanislawow Hebrew Teachers

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Dear All, I've noted a pattern in the records of my family: if the husband's father dies, the first-born male after this event will be given the same name as the (deceased) grandfather. I'm guessing t

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Dear All, I've noted a pattern in the records of my family: if the husband's father dies, the first-born male after this event will be given the same name as the (deceased) grandfather. I'm guessing t

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