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Nice to hear >from Celia again, welcome back. Celia inquired, what might bring Sephardic Jews to Bohemia and Moravia. As known many of the Sephardic Jews >from Spain fled to what is today Holland and

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It is rather daunting writing my first posting in 6 months but here goes. When Kingston Synagogue, Surrey, UK inherited the Torah scroll of MAHR. OSTRAU, Moravia, the congregation undertook an unprece

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I don't know whether this is appropriate for our list but some of you may actually have known Uri or had a connection with his past. I had the brief pleasure to meet him professionally in Montreal. Ur

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The Austrian Jewish Museum has started the project "Reprocessing the Jewish cemetery in Mattersburg" Only a few fragments of the former gravestones of the Jewish cemetery in Mattersburg could be prese

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With reference to Vera Finberg's most interesting message on the 24th inst. the first of the two websites mentioned does indeed enable one to find maps of the desired places; however the scale is so s

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I was able to magnify the maps by clicking on them and was able to read each house number in the village. It took a long time for the magnification to come up. Vera Finberg Fairfax, VA

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Dear all, having only recently discovered a paper proving that the house of my gg-uncle in Prague had been confiscated during WWII and hoping that there might be a possibility to claim this house back

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Fellow Genners, Many of you may recall that a few weeks ago we initiated a project to solicit inputs, >from fellow SIG-members, who have had positive experiences dealing with for-fee eastern-Europe ge

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I plead complete ignorance but I regret to say that I have never heard of the Moravian cheese tvaruzky. It even has a a GOOGLE link which tells us that this unique cheese hopes to get an EU designatio

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I have received several postcards >from descendants of the HANDGRIFF family that was originally >from Tarnow and Vienna and settled in Argentina at the turn of the last century. We are hoping that the

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Dear Genners, The unselfish help offered by so many members of our SIG to fellow-Genners,is truly remarkable. I've read countless postings that really paved the way for individuals who needed a helpin

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I'm so happy to add my voice to the chorus of joy over Celia's courageous recovery and her return to the AustriaCzech SIG! Perhaps we'll meet again by chance in the Prague Archives or elsewhere this J

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welcome to Celia back on line!! warmest regards >from Chile juan carlos EMDEN

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The Czech Embassy in Washington, DC held a conference on Czech Jews on April 14 and has now made some of the presentations available on its website. Go to the website and serach for Jewish if you're i

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Dear Celia, What a wonderful surprise to read your postings! Welcome back and all best wishes-- Susan Buyer Potomac, Maryland

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Oliver Bryk asked for Jakob LEIMDORFER (O Umlaut) and his wife, born Julia ENGEL. Their son Aladar ... Jakab LEIMDOERFER >from Vag Besztercze and his wife Julia nee ENG(E)L >from Raab/Gyoer had (at le

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Adding my voice of welcome to the many messages to Celia. It's great to hear your health is improving Celia and I look forward to many future postings >from you, Claire Bruell. Auckland, New Zealand R

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Two big obstabcles to successful research in Jewish Genealogy are name changes and migration. This posting illustrates both obstacles and hopefully there is now a light at the end of the tunnel. I rec

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Hi All, For those of you with an interest in the tombstone photos >from the Mattersburg Jewish cemetery that are being posted on the Austrian Jewish Museum blog, I have started to annotate the ones of

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