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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Hi from Paris, Jean, you're right for the first pages of "Memorial de la Shoah" web site but when you "search a person" (deportee, resistant, etc.) it's only in French. As I am often at Memorial (we o

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you can search the Memorial de la Shoah web site in English, they have an English version of the website, here is the url: http://www.memorialdelashoah.org/en At the top of the Memorial de la Shoah ho

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This is a great list of resources. Links can also be found at https://www.jewishgen.org/French/links.htm.

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People deported from other countries to France are also listed in the https://stevemorse.org/france pages. I found the parents of a friend who survived the Shoah. They were from Germany, but were inte

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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 Steve Morse pages are in English.

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Thank you for this information. For those of us who do not speak French can these search pages be translated to English ? Regards Geoff Ackerman Melbourne Australia

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Hi from Paris, There is often a feeling by foreign people, specially American, that Shoah is forgotten in France and not many places are dedicated to memory and researches. This feeling could have bee

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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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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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Abby Pariser asked : In Lyon, France, the Museum of the Resistance, has huge book listing the 71,000+ Jews deported from Lyon in World War II. I found 5 of my Pariser family that I had no idea about b

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In Lyon, France, the Museum of the Resistance, has huge book listing the 71,000+ Jews deported from Lyon in World War II. I found 5 of my Pariser family that I had no idea about before this. Are there

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The New York Times has an article about Stella Levi a 96 year old Holocaust survivor from Rhodes, Greece. The article depicts her life on Rhodes until taken to Auschwitz. The article also mentions a p

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Shalom Hevra: Attached are poor copies of gravestone photographs taken in the old Rumshishok (Rumsiskes) cemetery in 1940. In the early 1950's the shtetl of Rumshishok and surrounding area was flooded

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Freda has made me aware that my post about USHMM and Yad VaShem is misleading. There are many unscanned documents in the archive. https://arolsen-archives.org/en/ They have an online search site, as m

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Hi Vered, If you're mobile - the whole Bad Arolsen Archive including the things that are not online (identical to what they have in USHMM) is available in the Yad VaShem library in Jerusalem, Israel O

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I copied and pasted the URL into FireFox, and got several citations, the second being the following (when clicking on that, it brings up the USHMM database): Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database -

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Thank you, Peter Lande, for your frequent updates from the USHMM. I have a question regarding the last paragraph in your latest message about the material that cannot be publicly posted. Since not all

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Sorry to say, but for different reasons, Peter’s and Barbara’s provided e-mail addresses are incorrect. I found that the following e-mail address worked for me, and I found the site to be all that Pet

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