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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I am looking for an historic photo of the Volozhin or Rakov marketplace or the Volozhin yeshiva to use in a book I have written. I need a high resolution, good quality scan. The images I have found in

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I am looking for an historic photo of the Volozhin or Rakov marketplace or the Volozhin yeshiva to use in a book I have written. I need a high resolution, good quality scan. The images I have found in

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I am researching a female relative who perished when Vilna ghetto was liquidated in September, 1943. The sources I have consulted say that some of the women went to Kaiserwald but that between 4,300 a

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I am researching a female relative who perished when Vilna ghetto was liquidated in September, 1943. The sources I have consulted say that some of the women went to Kaiserwald but that between 4,300 a

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My maternal grandfather was always known to me as Samuel Cohen and I was under the impression that before he left Russia around 1906 his name had been Shmuel. On the 1910 census he is listed as Solomo

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My maternal grandfather was always known to me as Samuel Cohen and I was under the impression that before he left Russia around 1906 his name had been Shmuel. On the 1910 census he is listed as Solomo

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A relative of mine came to the US >from Poland in 1939 and stayed with my American family during World War II. He worked for 7 years for a family business. In 1946, he left the States and joined his d

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A relative of mine came to the US >from Poland in 1939 and stayed with my American family during World War II. He worked for 7 years for a family business. In 1946, he left the States and joined his d

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On a US immigration form filed in the 1940s, my mother's great uncle indicated that his mother was born Bella Podrabinowitz in the town of Wishnewa, province of Wilno. I cannot find anything approachi

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On a US immigration form filed in the 1940s, my mother's great uncle indicated that his mother was born Bella Podrabinowitz in the town of Wishnewa, province of Wilno. I cannot find anything approachi

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I have been trying to find out when a relative (who held a Polish passport) left the US for Palestine in the 1940s. Thanks to the great suggestion of a Genner, I just received much fascinating informa

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I have been trying to find out when a relative (who held a Polish passport) left the US for Palestine in the 1940s. Thanks to the great suggestion of a Genner, I just received much fascinating informa

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A great uncle of mine left Poland just before World War II, joined our family in NYC, and then, sometime around 1947-48, left New York and joined his daughter in Israel. His Israeli grandchildren beli

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A great uncle of mine left Poland just before World War II, joined our family in NYC, and then, sometime around 1947-48, left New York and joined his daughter in Israel. His Israeli grandchildren beli

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I have letters >from a relative who was contemplating moving to Palestine in the summer of 1940. He wrote to his daughter, already resident in Palestine, that an official in New York told him that if

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I have letters >from a relative who was contemplating moving to Palestine in the summer of 1940. He wrote to his daughter, already resident in Palestine, that an official in New York told him that if

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I am researching family members who lived in Vilna during the Second World War. I have family letters that cover the period >from the outbreak of the war in 1939 until the Nazis stormed the city in Ju

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I am researching family members who lived in Vilna during the Second World War. I have family letters that cover the period >from the outbreak of the war in 1939 until the Nazis stormed the city in Ju

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Dear Genners, I'm wondering if anyone can share some tips on navigating the 1940 census. I'm searching for a relative who lived on W. 70th Street in Manhattan. I found the proper Enumeration District

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