Years ago, when I first found an online copy of my grandfather's 1883 birth info and name listed as "Unehelichen"/illegitimate, I wondered why, as there was no question or doubt that his parents were

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Sometimes, writers receive unexpected payoffs when their words spur readers into action. My article describes what happened when a cousin I never knew read my memoir, BECAUSE OF EVA: A Jewish Genealog

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Maybe 25 years ago, I met a bunch of Scots at a resort in the Caribbean, and they said they were Jews. Apparently, in the late 19th c. when their ancestors from eastern Europe left a European departur

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Thank you but ... Sorry - how do I translate to English? Is there a particular place to click and see "Translate to English?" Susan J Gordon New York ZBARAZH, SKALAT, LVOV

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Again, thanks for this, Jan. A few years ago, I visited the former Jewish Ghetto of Rome, which had been established in 1555. Small shops, restaurants and residences still lined the narrow streets, bu

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PS: I neglected to mention that I learned about my family's losses in the Holocaust from Eva. Until then, I accepted the story that "we didn't lose family in the Holocaust because we all were safely h

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When I began digging into my family history about 20 years ago, all I was seeking was what happened to my maternal grandfather, who died (I believed) in New York City some time in the 1960's. By that

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You might enjoy the memoir, The Forgetting River, by D. Carvajal, a (Catholic) who learned her family's history back to the Inquisition... until now. Unfortunately, her book does not have an index, so

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Andres - how can I contact you? Please let me know - I'm at sjgwed@... Susan Gordon, member

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Thank you for sending this, Bruce. I always read your news about Yizkor book excerpts. The murdered of Kovel are being remembered, and Kaddish has been said many (many) times. How sad that none of the

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Re: "Sylvesterabend in German" -- my Hungarian cousin, Eva, who survived the Holocaust in and out of hiding in Budapest, called New Year's Eve "Sylvester Night." This date was particularly harrowing i

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I am trying to contact Joanne Brodkin. Last week, she sent a short note to me through YouTube, and mentioned Tarnopol and Zbaraza. I am hoping she is a member of Jewish Gen. Please let me know how I m

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There is a writer named Janice Aronofsky who lives, I think, in Arizona. Her website is www.janicearonofsky.com Good Luck! Susan BIALAZURKER (Hungary, Zbaraz) LEMPERT ( Skalat)

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Like Tony, I also recommend Alex Dunai who lives in Lvov, speaks English very well, and is familiar with most of western Ukraine. You can read about Rawa-Ruska in The Holocaust by Bullets, by Patrick

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I, too, visited some of my ancestral towns in eastern Galicia, including Zbaraz, in late fall, 2006. By then, the dark years of the Holocaust had come and gone like a giant tsunami, its colossal waves

Thanks so much for this news, Jan. If possible, please let us know when the records become available. Susan Gordon

My mother z"l always remembered her father's friend, "Schuster," whose pointer finger had been cut off "long ago, so he wouldn't be taken into the army" in Galicia. She knew Schuster when she was a ch

A harrowing story in the 1993 book, Young People Speak: Surviving the Holocaust in Hungary, (pub Franklin Watts & Co.) was written by Peter Barta and is called "The Brickyard." Peter was ten years old

At c 25 #320235 At last, and thanks to the invaluable help of member Deanna Levinsky, I am now able to reply. A recollection in the 1993 book, Young People Speak: Surviving the Holocaust in Hungary, F

Please forward my message to the "page" about the brickyard in Budapest, 1944. I am UNABLE TO REPLY and hope you can tell me how to do it. Susan Gordon, JG member. "A story in the book, Young People S