The book "Conscripted Slaves: Hungarian Jewish Forced Laborers on the Eastern Front during the Second World War", by Robert Rozett, has information about overall conditions and experiences of the peop

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I would appreciate any links to the sites that have the photos online that you mention... (I may have had ancestors there, but earlier.)

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Arolsen Archives has what looks like matching records: https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/search/person/67348748?s=ilona%20weisz&t=222908&p=1 https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/searc

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Also try https://names.jdc.org/ The JDC has many documents about refugee resettlement. There are several matches for the name Josef Erlich, that may or may not be your person.

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If you look at the name change records, there is a very large amount of variation. It doesn't seem like most people were constrained to a list. It was fairly common to choose name with the same first

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News article (translates very well in Google Translate): https://over.nos.nl/nieuws/loop-door-het-holocaust-namenmonument-in-online-special/ Summary from the article: King Willem-Alexander unveiled th

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I understand you've been connected with Gary Perlman, who I know will do a great job for you. He is a local legend having photographed thousands upon thousands of Montreal gravestones. You'll get a gr

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I played a bit with your image in a photo editor, and my best guess on the name is "Johanne Birkedal". I agree with the others that it's Aalborg. And a little Google shows e.g. https://www.fotohistori

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Dear Moshe, Hi from next door (Exton PA) Using Kickstarter, this film-maker was able to raise about $20000 for a film about his grandmother's journey: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1516460982/m

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My mother's cousin is 81 and a Holocaust survivor, living in Southern California. She was born in Debrecen Hungary and her father was taken into the Labor Battalion (6th Battalion) in 1942 or 43, when

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This reminded me of a different volume with lots of information on the Jewish community of Balassagyarmat, also including many victims' names. It seems to be published by the Nógrád County Archives an

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How much text is there? If it's a modest amount, then posting to ViewMate as Julia suggested can work. There are also Facebook forums where volunteers are doing an incredible service helping people un

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For convenience, here's the direct link to Bernard Flam's instructions on researching in France: https://groups.jewishgen.org/g/main/message/646211 Peter Cherna

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Dear Hilary, The reporter is Dr. Orbán Laszloné, which in English would be Mrs. Dr. Laszló ORBÁN, that is the reporter is the wife (or widow) or Laszló ORBÁN, (the -né suffix in Hungarian signifies th

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Eric, it depends on which database. If you click through to the info link on a given database, the page that tells you about the origin and contents of the database often has contact info for the proj

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Dear Selma, I appreciate your conundrum, and understand your desire here. That said, if the JewishGen database entries match the source documents from which they are based (e.g. birth registers), but

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The digital records for the Vienna Marriages database are deemed correct when they match the specific source documents from which that database was derived. If you have different, also valid documents

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"Alternate asset manager" is a broad and loose term that includes venture capitalists and private equity fund managers. Imprecisely, it means managing money in ways other than buying and selling publi

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I have a handful of audio and video recordings of my parents and other relatives for which I would love to have transcriptions. In the spring I found a (not free) web site called https://veed.io to wh

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I have found some elementary school yearbooks on hungaricana.hu, in case someone is interested in hunting. (I was searching by family name, which is viable for unusual family names but hopeless for co

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