Hi Genners, A friend of mine is just starting to research her father, who fled Vienna for London in 1938, possibly via the Netherlands. She would like to find out where he lived in Vienna, how he mana

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Private Henry Johnson, African-American (1892 - 1929), received the Medal of Honor at the same time as Jewish Sergeant William Shemin. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/us/two-world-war-i-soldiers-to-

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Private Henry Johnson, African-American (1892 - 1929), received the Medal of Honor at the same time as Jewish Sergeant William Shemin. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/us/two-world-war-i-soldiers-to-

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A lot has been written about Italy's Jews during the Second World War, but I'm curious about the experiences of Italian-American Jews. What did they hear >from relatives in Italy? For those who were d

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A lot has been written about Italy's Jews during the Second World War, but I'm curious about the experiences of Italian-American Jews. What did they hear >from relatives in Italy? For those who were d

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I am researching the CAMONDO Family -- Sephardi Jews >from Venice who moved to Istanbul and later to Paris. Known in their day as the Rothschilds of the East, the CAMONDOS were an extremely wealthy an

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I am researching the CAMONDO Family -- Sephardi Jews >from Venice who moved to Istanbul and later to Paris. Known in their day as the Rothschilds of the East, the CAMONDOS were an extremely wealthy an

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Dear Genners, With Hanukkah half-way through, I thought I would take this opportunity to alert you all to the paperback publication of my family history "The Family: A Journey into the Heart of the 20

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Dear Genners, With Hanukkah half-way through, I thought I would take this opportunity to alert you all to the paperback publication of my family history "The Family: A Journey into the Heart of the 20

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My paternal grandfather had his trigger finger amputated in order to avoid the Russian draft in 1911 when he was 21 years old. I'm wondering how long the term of service was in the Russian army at tha

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My paternal grandfather had his trigger finger amputated in order to avoid the Russian draft in 1911 when he was 21 years old. I'm wondering how long the term of service was in the Russian army at tha

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I recently wrote an article about the IAJGS conference in the Jewish Daily Forward, and one reader wrote in to comment that I had neglected to discuss the plight of children born to Jewish mothers and

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I recently wrote an article about the IAJGS conference in the Jewish Daily Forward, and one reader wrote in to comment that I had neglected to discuss the plight of children born to Jewish mothers and

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The Touro Synagogue, America's oldest, was built in the mid-18th century by Sephardi families who had immigrated to Providence, RI >from the island of Barbados. I would love to hear >from anyone desce

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The Touro Synagogue, America's oldest, was built in the mid-18th century by Sephardi families who had immigrated to Providence, RI >from the island of Barbados. I would love to hear >from anyone desce

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I'd love to hear >from Genners who have stories of ancestors who fought in the Great War -- either with the American Expeditionary Forces or in one of the European armies. Did you ancestors see action

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I'd love to hear >from Genners who have stories of ancestors who fought in the Great War -- either with the American Expeditionary Forces or in one of the European armies. Did you ancestors see action

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My maternal grandmother Gisri Gilpierjn emigrated >from the shtetl of Krasne (present-day Belarus; also spelled Krasnoye and Krasnoe) in 1921. There are several shtetlach with that name, but here is a

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My maternal grandmother Gisri Gilpierjn emigrated >from the shtetl of Krasne (present-day Belarus; also spelled Krasnoye and Krasnoe) in 1921. There are several shtetlach with that name, but here is a

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I am researching how the Great War (1914 to 1918) impacted Jewish families in the US and Eastern Europe -- and how the War marked the great divide between European and American Jewry. I would love to

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