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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Dear JewishGen Community. As the world marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 75th Anniversary since Auschwitz was liberated, JewishGen remains steadfast in our commitment to ensure tha

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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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Hi from Paris, Polish diplomats in Switzerland had also an unknown action during these tragic years. From 1942 to 1944, more than 200 members (families or single children) of French Arbeter Ring (Cerc

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An article that appeared in Poland-In may be of interest to you. The article is about Jews who were saved during the Holocaust by Polish diplomats in Switzerland working with Jewish groups and using f

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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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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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