According to Where Once We Walked, Kopaygorod, Ukr had a prewar Jewish population of 1,595 and is located 65 km SW of Vinniytsya at 46o52'/27o47'. Zhvanets, Ukr whose Yiddish name was Zvanitz, had a p

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According to Where Once We Walked, Kopaygorod, Ukr had a prewar Jewish population of 1,595 and is located 65 km SW of Vinniytsya at 46o52'/27o47'. Zhvanets, Ukr whose Yiddish name was Zvanitz, had a p

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Families were registered in a location; presumably someone at sometime lived there. While one might have permission to live somewhere else, changing the registration site was complicated. In his autob

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Families were registered in a location; presumably someone at sometime lived there. While one might have permission to live somewhere else, changing the registration site was complicated. In his autob

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Re: Susan Lasser's question about untangling family relationships I had a similar problem, and was able to resolve it by obtaining marriage certificates for the people involved (who were, fortunately,

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Re: Susan Lasser's question about untangling family relationships I had a similar problem, and was able to resolve it by obtaining marriage certificates for the people involved (who were, fortunately,

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According to Where Once We Walked there is a town called Shabo, also known as Shaba, Saba, or Szaba, 46 km SW of Odesa at coordinates 46o08'/30o23' which had some Jews at one time. WOWW also lists Sho

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According to Where Once We Walked there is a town called Shabo, also known as Shaba, Saba, or Szaba, 46 km SW of Odesa at coordinates 46o08'/30o23' which had some Jews at one time. WOWW also lists Sho

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According to Where Once We Walked, Staszow, Poland, had a prewar Jewish pop. of 4,704 and is located 103 km ENE of Krakow at coordinates 50o33'/21o10'. Sz is pronounced like sh in English, and the fin

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According to Where Once We Walked, Staszow, Poland, had a prewar Jewish pop. of 4,704 and is located 103 km ENE of Krakow at coordinates 50o33'/21o10'. Sz is pronounced like sh in English, and the fin

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Yad V'Shem's Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust says the following: LIPOVETS, Vinnitsa dist., Ukr. Jews in Lipovets are first mentioned in 1747. There were over 1,000 in the a

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Yad V'Shem's Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust says the following: LIPOVETS, Vinnitsa dist., Ukr. Jews in Lipovets are first mentioned in 1747. There were over 1,000 in the a

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My principal source for that comment is Hal Bookbinder's IAJGS lecture, "Why Did our Ancestors Leave a Nice Place Like the Pale" which I heard at a conference (Los Angeles, I think) a few years ago, a

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My principal source for that comment is Hal Bookbinder's IAJGS lecture, "Why Did our Ancestors Leave a Nice Place Like the Pale" which I heard at a conference (Los Angeles, I think) a few years ago, a

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They moved around a lot. If you read the autobiographies of Chaim Aronson or Pauline Wengeroff, for example, they speak of living in half a dozen different towns over the course of their lifetimes. We

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They moved around a lot. If you read the autobiographies of Chaim Aronson or Pauline Wengeroff, for example, they speak of living in half a dozen different towns over the course of their lifetimes. We

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Ekaterinoslav (now called Dnipropetrovsk) was in "New Russia" where the Russian government tried to convince the Jews to move so that they could become farmers and settle the relatively recently occup

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Ekaterinoslav (now called Dnipropetrovsk) was in "New Russia" where the Russian government tried to convince the Jews to move so that they could become farmers and settle the relatively recently occup

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According to Where Once We Walked, Ruzdwiany is now called Radvanov, Ukr. It had a Jewish prewar population of 45, and is located 83 km. SSE of Lviv, at coordinates 49o12'/24o36'. Rohatyn (Rogatin) is

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According to Where Once We Walked, Ruzdwiany is now called Radvanov, Ukr. It had a Jewish prewar population of 45, and is located 83 km. SSE of Lviv, at coordinates 49o12'/24o36'. Rohatyn (Rogatin) is

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