The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) asked New Yorkers for family artifacts from World War ll. They collected 250 artifacts thus far. As Holocaust survivors are aging and many have died

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day is commemorated on January 27th. January 27, 2020 is the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration, the ending of World War ll and

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Dear Everyone, My sincere gratitude to everyone that continues to help reunite families that were displaced during the Holocaust. Being the 75th anniversary of the Auschwitz liberation, it stands as a

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This is a list of 48 martyrs from Belitzah/Belitsa, now Belarus. It is in handwritten Cyrillic. If translated to English, I will post back to Yad Vashem and send it to JewishGen for the Holocaust data

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I have photos of various people from Ferramonti di Tarsia internment camp whose identity I am trying to establish. They were a married couple, no children, he apparently from Zagreb, she German. He wa

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During the IAJGS 2019 International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, Ancestry announced that through their partnership with the Arolsen Archives (formerly known as the International Tracing Service-ITS

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in her visit to Auschwitz pledged $66 million USD or 60 Million Euros to fund its memorial museum. The funds, half from Germany’s federal government and half from the

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Hello, I've downloaded a document from the United States Holocaust Memorial museum. It comes from a file of residents of Biala Podlaska who were deported to Miedzyrzec Podlaski. The document was loade

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Does anyone know if there are travel records of the 400 surviving forced labor workers from the Pfaff sewing machine factory in Kaiserslautern, Germany? I contacted the Jewish Museum, Yad Vashem and t

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GREAT IDEA, PETER! But the URL is incorrect. It should be https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/person_advance_search.php and the word master should be deleted. Barbara Mannlein

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I was just exploring a link to the Oriental research collection at Oxford University in England. This includes Yizkor books, publications in Yiddish and Hebrew and much more. I do not know how much of

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In the late 1940s there were numerous often scattered attempts to list Jewish survivors resident in German towns, whether or not they originated there. Most of the 111 Jews resident in Karlsruhe ident

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Thank you for your comments. I totally agree with you that too few people realize what is available and are very quick to jump to conclusions. And yes, le Mémorial de la Shoah is impressive and... chi

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The German Parliament, the Bundestag, rejected a proposed law that would have guaranteed naturalization for German Jews who fled the Nazis. On January 30, "reparation in the German nationality law" wa

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/arts/wolf-kahn-dead.html?referringSource=articleShare

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Shalom, dear readers! We are two teachers and a class (grade 5-7) from the Montessori School Chemnitz, Germany. At the moment we are up to start a long term research project, funded by the state of Sa

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convoi 68 of february 10th 1944 from Drancy to Auschwitz ladies and gentlemen, we are looking for people having known deportees of convoy 68 of February 10th 1944 from Drancy, in order to tell of the

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There is a suburb of Karlsruhe called Diedelsheim. They have a Wikipedia page in German where it says: The Jewish community of Diedelsheim The beginning of the Jewish community in Diedelsheim, a distr

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War Lives is a new website to document the lives of people in World War II. The information is shown as a timeline that combines records from different archives and other organizations. Go to: https:/

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Genealogy Online is commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of World War ll . See: https://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/wo2slachtoffers/ The website supports, English, German and French. The word

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