WORLD JEWISH COMMUNITIES: BIALYSTOK, POLAND. Here is a series of twenty-four photographs that appeared from 1924-1927 in the Forverts (Jewish Forward newspaper), all of people or scenes from Bialystok

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I have photographed more than 100 society plots at Beth David. Perhaps if you can tell me what society plot your people are buried in, and their names, I can check to see if I have info on them. Steve

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About eight or nine years ago I photographed nine plots in Acacia and twelve in Bayside. I gave jpegs of these matzevot to Nolan Altlman of JewishGen's JOWBR. I don't know if they are online via JOWBR

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In an article written by Joseph Rumshinsky, he mentions that "Berl the Chazn" was the cantor and prayer leader in this Vilna shul. Can someone tell me what the proper word here would be for "Gabranish

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It is a fitting tribute to the many Jews who perished in the Holocaust that they are remembered through the many memorials that have been erected over the past decades throughout the world, that their

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Besides having included many photos of North American Holocaust memorials on my Museum of Family History website, I also have an online exhibition about European memorials. Here is the introduction to

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GUIDE TO THE UNITED STATES FOR THE JEWISH IMMIGRANT Some years ago I put online the text to the aforementioned guide, which was published by the Immigrant Publication Society in 1916. You might like t

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Most of the victims of the Holocaust (Shoah in Hebrew) were European Jews. In all, approximately six million Jews perished, mostly at the hands of the Nazis and their collaborators during the second W

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In this exhibition you can read six articles, etc. about Jewish life in Philadelphia (many years ago). The link is: https://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/mfh-philadelphia.htm The Russian Jew in the Un

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In the years that preceded the end of World War II the photograph served a very important function, not only for families who were living in Europe at the time, but also for those who decided to emigr

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a Would someone please translate these for me completely? Thanks. Steve Lasky

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There are so many stories of our families, both of their struggles and their triumphs, who lived in Europe before the second World War. Many have been told by those who were characters in these storie

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A special wing of this virtual museum has been built, which is dedicated to the people of Brooklyn, New York (Kings County). Here you will find a series of exhibits about its neighborhoods, its people

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You might find this publication interesting. These are articles and studies of Social Conditions in New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago, With a description of Rural Settlements. Planned and Edited by

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Thanks to all for their translations. This double matzeva are of the parents or grandparents of Curly Howard of the Three Stooges. Steve Lasky

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In this exhibition, you hopefully will have the opportunity to form some sort of imagery and an understanding of what life might have been like for the citizens of Łapy, Poland, for Jew and non-Jew al

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The Museum of Family History cordially invites all those who are interested in preserving the heritage of their ancestral homes to become one of the Museum's World Jewish Communities. Through a combin

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The Coney Island that many of us have known and grown to love in our youth is, without a doubt, one of the world’s most famous seaside attractions. An island less than five miles long and half a mile

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