In doing my family research, I am really curious as to the arrangements in Vienna for Jewish burials circa 1894. Were family members involved? Was there a Jewish Community Burial Society? Is there a s

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Dear all, I came across a very interesting set of books related to the Holocaust, mainly in the Czech Republic and Poland, but also in Slovakia and Hungary. You might be interested in it. See: http://

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Those Siggers attending the conference and available Monday at 12:30 are invited to bring your own lunch and get together with our SIG co-ordinator Randy Schoenberg. Randy will not be present for the

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Dear Cousins :] I also see occasional requests for help with Yiddish/English translation and thought you might like to use the FREE online translation available at: http://www.ectaco.co.uk/English-Yid

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Dear SIGers - A relative, Emil STERNSCHEIN, who was serving or had served as a Major in the Kaiser's army, is described as a "K und K Militar-Rechnungsoberoffiziel". This is in Vienna in 1916. I estim

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We are pleased to welcome the following webpages to JewishGen ShtetLinks. We thank the owners and webmasters of these shtetlpages for creating fitting memorials to the Jewish Communities that once liv

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Hi, I found out that an ancestor of mine was a veteran of Austro-Hungarian infantry regiment #54 under General Lamezar-Salins between 1818 and 1827. I wondered if there was some source of information

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Rick Glaser asked: Where is Gaya? One question on the form is religion. The answer: mos for mosaic, i.e., Jewish. But then there is a second question jude? Is the person Jewish? Why ask it twice? One

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Dear Genners - This is an attempt to ferret out some information on my great-great-grandfather's siblings. My gggf David NOWAK was born somewhere in Moravia, died in 1879 and is buried in Uhersky Brod

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Dear SIG members, The Salzburg Festival was founded by Max Reinhardt and owed its post World War II revival in large part to Jewish artists. Stefan Zweig lived in the city, until he was driven out--th

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Hi All, I came across an Auslander Family that is connected to my Benovics family. I have a list of names who came into the USA in 1945. They are Jozef, Ruzena, Ales, Teodor, Kornelia. If anyone has a

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My husband's father Baruch FISCHER was born in Chernovitz in 1880. We have two birth certificates, one in German and one in Rumanian. He is listed as the illegitimate son of Chancie BRUM and Fischel F

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On 15 May 2005 Katrina Sorauer wrote to us in a posting entitled OBERNIK family in Beroun: "I have been trying to find out what happened to the family of my ggfather Adolf OBERNIK and his wife, August

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Thanks Hanus, I just wanted to add these points that two members had sent in. I think this could go on for ever and I do believe we have made some good progress! Bye celia --- Hans Peter Grab <hpgrab@

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Dear Genners - Partly in preparation for a trip next year and partly out of curiosity, I'm trying to understand the relationship, if any, between various towns in Bohemia and Moravia. My great-greatgr

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Dear Group - I have recently discovered that a grandfather of mine, born in Kostel/Podivin in 1844, and known to me as Ignatz EISINGER, was also known by a few other names - Isak and Dondek. Could any

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Thanks for the answer, it was good information to have, but what I meant by civil registration is at what point did the civil authority assume responsibility for keeping birth, marriage and death reco

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We are pleased to report that seven new entries and 11 updates have been added to the Yizkor Book Project translations page at http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html. New entries: -Akmene,

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At the conference you will find the following talks of interest to Austria-Czech SIG members: Austro-Hungarian Empire : Conventional & Unconventional Resources (Henry Wellisch) Jewish Soldiers In The

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Bo Brainin [>from ?] wrote to us that he is a new member of our SIG and would appreciate information on the: 1. Roots, history, and origin of any family member of the last name HORETZKY (please only t

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