Thank you but ... Is there a way to translate the Hungarian into English? Susan J Gordon EISMANN Budapest BIALAZURKER Budapest

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Thanks for this, Jan. On a related note, I must mention "The Enemy I Knew: German Jews in the Allied Military in World War II," edited by Steven Karras, pub 2009 Zenith Press. It's a powerful collecti

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You might try asking at the Jewish Museum of London; it holds a lot of information but... I expect that it's closed now. In any case, staff members might respond to email queries. Good luck! Susan J G

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I also recommend a book - A Brotherhood of Memory: Jewish Landsmanshaftn in the New World, by Michael R. Weisser, pub 1985 by Basic books, and 1989 by Cornell U Press. as paperback. Susan Gordon Lempe

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My interest in the name, "Moni," and variations is inspired by what I've been reading in the recently published Memorial Book of Skalat. The stories in the book were recounted and recorded by survivor

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"Muni" or "Munya" are the first names for someone (a lawyer) from Skalat. The last name is Lempert or Lampert - which are my family names. They are written in the Skalat Memorial Book, which was publi

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I recommend Jewish Budapest: Monuments, Rites, History, by Kinga Frojimovics , Geza Komoroczy and two others. First pub in Hungarian in 1995; English edition pub 1999 by Central European University Pr

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Lucy Baras survived the Nazis in Skalat, and wrote a memoir that is housed in the Archives Dept of Library of UWisconsin - Milwaukee. She called her story "Twentieth Century Cavemen." It's 300+ pages

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Small correction - JBS is Jewish Broadcasting Service. At jbstv.org Good luck! Susan J. Gordon

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I, too, recommend Alex Dunai. In 2006 he was my guide through Lvov, Chernivitski and small towns in western Ukraine. You can read about him in my book, BECAUSE OF EVA: A Jewish Genealogical Journey. G

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My family, too, is searching for Sephardi data, but nothing comes up... yet. From what I've gathered, not enough DNA data has been collected yet. Susan Gordon BIALAZURKER - Zbarazh, Budapest LEMPERT -

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There is a very good book, YOUNG PEOPLE SPEAK - SURVIVING THE HOLOCAUST IN HUNGARY, edit by Andrew Handler & Susan V. Meschel, 1993 Franklin Watts publ, which contains adults' recollections about thei

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About 20 years ago, my husband were vacationing in Barbados where we met several families of Scottish Jews also on vacation there. They told us that when their ancestors left Russia in the late 19th c

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On December 17, 1900, when the new Immigration Center opened on Ellis Island in New York, it was Hanukkah time. You can listen to my story at Hanukkah Lights 2018 : NPR Susan J. Gordon BIALAZURKER - Z

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The family of Jewish Senator Jacob Javits from New York (1904 -1984) came from Zbarazh in Ukraine, and I recall reading that his grandfather had been a mayor of the town. In Zbarazah, the name was "Ja

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If you haven't been to the Jewish Museum of London, it's worth a visit or (nowadays) a look at the website. Over the years, I've been there several times, and have found that most staff members are qu

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Hi again, and I neglected to mention that roughly 30,000 Jews (about 10% of the population) lived in virtually every town on the map of Sicily in Taormina. Susan J. Gordon New York ZBARAZ SKALAT CASTE

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On a prominent wall inside the Town Hall of Taormina, Sicily, is a large map depicting towns where Jews lived on the island before 1492. My husband and I saw it when we visited his ancestral towns in

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Years ago, when I first found an online copy of my grandfather's 1883 birth info and name listed as "Unehelichen"/illegitimate, I wondered why, as there was no question or doubt that his parents were

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Sometimes, writers receive unexpected payoffs when their words spur readers into action. My article describes what happened when a cousin I never knew read my memoir, BECAUSE OF EVA: A Jewish Genealog

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