As an ancillary aide, this might be helpful: Chaim Buryak JewUA.org - Research of Jewish Heritage in Ukraine +38 (096) 392-58-00 Kiev, Ukraine -- Carol Sicherman Oakland,CA

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I am about to start reading. My uncle, born in Tetiev, lost a brother in a pogrom and could not talk about his experiences for decades. Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye's novel A Farm Called Kishinev imagines

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The cover of this document (Reise-Pass) says that there are 16 pages. Is there anything recorded other than the two pages you give here? The first of these pages is for a trip to Philadelphia from Str

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In addition, beginning in 1985, there are "Berliner Gedenktafel" on buildings around the city (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_memorial_plaque). This one--https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:

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I mistakenly wrote "San Diego" when I should have written "Santa Cruz Jewish Genealogical Society." My apologies.

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Karen Franklin, in her talk for the San Diego Jewish Genealogical Society on 14 Aug. 2022, urged audience members to publish our research. I have published a short essay detailing what I learned about

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For an example of a different way of saying thank you, I offer my experience in Uganda. I had helped with education expenses of an orphan, age 7. She thanked me an a culturally appropriate way by knee

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In one Galician family that I researched, the older children had the mother's name, while the younger ones had the father's. It appears that a religious marriage took place first, causing the children

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These are two brothers who served in the Austria-Hungarian army in WWI. The seated man had a higher rank, hence a different uniform.

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Perhaps someone on the list can suggest ways of tracing further the family of Wolf Cukierman, born ca. 1926, most likely in Wolbrum, Poland. The Joint archives record the arrival in New York on 26 Feb

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I've found two ways of finding street addresses: the telephone directories and (in a couple of cases) the 1939 Minority Census. Can anyone suggest another means?

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Anita Desai's novel Baumgartner's Bombay concerns a situation like that of Dr. Seltzer and his family, a story that she learned from her German mother.

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Many thanks for the reference to Jewish Genealogy in Berlin, where I've now posted a query. I wonder if Hans Ulrich Meyer would have attended reunions, since he took an English name (Kenneth William K

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Thank you! I've already tried World Jewish Relief; it asks for the inquirer's relationship with the person named, and then it requires the inquirer to name a living person--whcih I can't do. My "Hans

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Hans Ulrich Meyer, born in Berlin in 1926, was (along with his parents) listed in the German Minority Census in May 1939. The list of Kindertransport individuals in JewishGen has him arriving 30 June

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Just to add that there are other sources, via JewishGen, for photos of Olevsk and the cemetery.

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This is fantastic! One of those little rectangles is probably my family's house. Your website is an amazing resource. I'll be able to find other locations, like Bakwitz in Prussia. Thank you so much!

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Thanks to yet another helpful suggestion, I requested help from the maps division of the Library of Congress: Geography and Map Division <maps@.... A reply came within days, attaching three to

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Thank you, Sherri. Igor Holyboroda, an expert living in Ukraine, tells me that despite JewishGen's "populated place," Dolgosel'ye doesn't exist as a separate entity. It seems to have been absorbed by

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Edward David Luft just now replied to my earlier query with this information: I suggest that you look at a copy of the 11 + 1 volume Vasmer, Max, Russisches Geographisches Namenbuch, https://www.world

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