People, calm down. We don't know what the true facts are. For example, there are 2 stamps on the back of this item, one supposedly from Yad Vashem and the other from Encyclopaedia Judaica. Are the sta

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Wow - Binghamton! Who knew?! Thank you for this post, Karen. My great-grandmother, surname KABACHNIK, was from Butrimonys. She married a KAPLAN, and they emigrated in the 1890s and settled in Boston.

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Since several people have asked, here is further information about how I requested documents from the Kaunas Regional State Archives. The email address I used to transmit my request was kaunas@archyva

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I wish to acknowledge the excellent service provided to me by the Kaunas [Lithuania] Regional State Archives. I submitted a request for documents to the Archives on August 31. They responded very quic

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I would like to request a record from the Kaunas Regional State Archives. I will contact them by e-mail. Could someone who has done this recently advise as to whether the request should be translated

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I find highly regrettable, if not shocking, the parallel drawn between trauma allegedly suffered by a child rescued and resettled in safety in Cardiff with that suffered by persons doomed to concentra

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In response to your question: Roman Abramovich is a Russian "oligarch" and the owner of the Chelsea Football Club in London. He has had his assets frozen by the UK government in response to Russia's i

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A big question is, why do you want to do that? I suggest you consider whether the risks involved, some of which have been elucidated by other commenters, are worth the expected gain. Several years ago

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The book has now been called into question by its publisher, which has expressed regret at not having been more critical in its assessment of the manuscript prior to deciding to publish. See https://w

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It's very difficult for one, over 75 years after the event, to judge actions taken in desperation under the conditions of those times. On the other hand, the suspected betrayer knew that the Franks wo

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Followers of this topic might be interested in a book I'm reading, Good Living Street by an Australian author, Tim Bonyhady. It's about his Jewish ancestors who moved to Vienna in the 1800s from vario

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For those planning to visit Vienna, the memorial is located in the Ostarrichipark, a green area in front of the Austrian national bank. It is in Vienna's ninth district (near, incidentally, where I us

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It's on line at jstor: https://www.jstor.org/stable/23882051. If your library or institution (college, etc.) has a subscription, it might offer at-home access to library card-holders, alumni, etc. Ste

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To Joachim Mugdan's very helpful explanation, I would only add that these were registers of vital records kept by the relevant "Standesamt" -- essentially, registry office. So one would have to know w

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I have received several replies to my query, both privately and via the group, and they've been unanimous in their spelling of the name in Hebrew! I've responded to all replies that I've seen so far.

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A relative's Jewish name has been pronounced (phonetically) by his family as "Ioiel" or "Yoyel." He was from Poland, and his family spoke Yiddish. I would like to know how this name should be written

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The Vienna address listings (Adolph Lehmann's allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger) for the period 1914 - 1917 has a Josef Mermelstein in the 13th District at Breitenseerstrasse 28. However, it has no one wi

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Records of the Blitzstein, Rosenbaum, Lipschutz/Peoples and Rosenbluth “banks” have been digitized and are online at https://digital.library.temple.edu/digital/collection/p16002coll16. On that site, d

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I found an easier way to download the report. I open the archive.gov page containing the report (https://catalog.archives.gov/id/602984), Just below the first page of the report and above the "thumbna

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Yes, this is a problem. Early in my genealogy journey, I posted my family tree on geni.com. That turned out to be a big mistake. It was latched onto (hijacked) by other people who added individuals to

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