Randolph Braham"s seminal work on the Hungarian Labor service says many jewish HLS conscripts were taken as prisoners of war following the battle near Voronezh in January 1943. Are there any records o

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Randolph Braham"s seminal work on the Hungarian Labor service says many jewish HLS conscripts were taken as prisoners of war following the battle near Voronezh in January 1943. Are there any records o

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This message is >from Richard Sobel <sobel2@...>, who tried to post this message to the list and failed. He asked me to try. A 2nd cousin recently visited Sarospatak where our grandparents

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This message is >from Richard Sobel <sobel2@...>, who tried to post this message to the list and failed. He asked me to try. A 2nd cousin recently visited Sarospatak where our grandparents

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I need help reading the name of a town on a ship manifest out of Hamburg, 1887. My g'grandparents are listed on this manifest as David Goldman and family. Their previous home is listed as what appears

I am looking for information/looking to find my cousin, Gary Goldman. He is around 59 years old, born in the Chicago area (Highland Park, perhaps), son of Bob Goldman and Shirley Goldschmidt. The last

Something to check, if you are not getting responses to emails about DNA matches: I just discovered that my email/message box on Ancestry was nonfunctional: Nothing coming in, nothing going out. Figur

Does anybody know what became of the private Suwalki-Lomza group run by Marilyn? Used to receive a quarterly newsletter. Would appreciate an update. Diane Jacobs

#lithuania

Trying to find graves for my g'g'grandparents, Fulop (Pinchas) Hochwald (may have changed last name to Havas) and Terez/Rezi/Rosa Friedman. He died in 1885 in Butin, Romania (then Buteni, Hungary), an

#hungary #romania

looking for cousins HARFENS also known as HARFENES. They came from the Arad area of Romania. My cousin, Magdalena HOCHWALD, married David HARFENES (later known as HARFENS). They had 2 daughters that I

#israel #romania

Looking for records of family members in Ekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovs'ka), Ukraine. Does anyone know if there are any records from the 19th century, and where I might find them? Thank you! Diane J

#ukraine

I ran across the index of Shoah Foundation testimonies at USC, which is tremendously useful. Have other databases of testimonies been indexed? I am aware of testimonies taken at a number of locations,

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Are there records anywhere of Nowy Zmigrod, Poland? Does anyone know where, or how to access? Diane Jacobs Austin, Texas

#poland

Very useful, thank you. Does anybody know of a master index, where all of these testimonies are listed together? Diane Jacobs Austin, Texas

#holocaust

My mother tells me there was a census taken of Jewish residents in yellow star (Jewish) apartments in Budapest in 1944. Does anyone know whether these census documents were preserved, and if so, where

#holocaust #hungary

Looking for records from Lyubo or Lyubar, Ukraine. Relatives named VIGODNER from there, 1880s. Would appreciate any information you can offer. Thank you! Diane Jacobs Austin, Texas

#ukraine

Ancestor named HANTMAN was born in a town listed on his Petition for Naturalization as Chartorey or Charlovey, Russia. Any ideas where this might be? Diane Jacobs Austin, Texas

#russia #romania

I am looking for information on how my g'grandfather chose to change his last name from GOLDMANN to GONDOS in Hungary in the mid-1890s. As an employee of the Hungarian government (a teacher at a Jewis

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Has anybody had success recently searching the Yad Vashem names database? I have tried on 2 different computers and can't get results from my searches. Diane Jacobs Austin, Texas

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My great-grandmother was orphaned young, and her son (my grandfather) told us his mother (and her sister) were raised by KONIGSBERG neni (Aunt Konigsberg). I haven't had any luck finding a Konigsberg

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