The entire community is invited to join us for our next free JewishGen Talks webinar: Topic: Jewish Genealogy in the Germanies Date: Wednesday, May 25th, 2022 Time: 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time Regis

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JewishGen Press is proud to announce the publication of our 144th title: Krynki In Ruins This is the translation of Krinik in khurbn: memuarn. The book was written in Yiddish by A. Soifer. Details: Tr

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JewishGen Press is in need of a volunteer to help with publicity. JewishGen Press published 142 books so far and the number is growing every month. Most are Yizkor Books, written by survivors of the H

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JewishGen Press is proud to announce the publication of our 143rd title: Memorial Book of Kamenets Litovsk, Zastavye, and Colonies (Kamyanyets, Belarus). This is the translation of: Sefer Yizkor le-Ke

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“Immediately after they took my father, which happened in the first weeks of the German occupation, hunger knocked at our door. My mother who worked and sewed her whole life was broken after losing fa

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The entire community is invited to join us for our next free JewishGen Talks webinar: Topic: Jewish Genealogy in the Germanies Date: Wednesday, May 25th, 2022 Time: 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time Regis

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The entire community is invited to join us for our next free JewishGen Talks webinar: Topic: Jewish Surnames and Patronymics: Tracing Your Ancestors Before They Had Surnames Date: Wednesday, May 18th,

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The title “Our Child Saved Us” from the Yizkor book of Voronovo (Belarus) sums up what this week’s excerpt is about. It is Kay Lisorki’s story of how she and her husband survived the ghettos and later

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I think they mean "Ashkenazi Jewish", rather than just "Jewish". :) Best wishes, David Mendoza President, Sephardic Genealogical Society

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The entire community is invited to join us for our next free JewishGen Talks webinar: Topic: Jewish Surnames and Patronymics: Tracing Your Ancestors Before They Had Surnames Date: Wednesday, May 18th,

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JewishGen Press is proud to announce our 142nd title: The Book of Strzyzow and Vicinity (Strzyżów, Poland) Details: Original Yizkor Book Edited by: Itzhok Berglass and Shlomo Yahalomi-Diamond Project

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This is an update on our JewishGen Ukraine Research Division project to translate the newly digitized Revision Lists from three districts in Volhynia Gubernia, Novograd Volinsky, Zaslav, and Starokons

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“The Tarnow El Capone” is a section of a long chapter titled “Memories, Personalities and Types” from the Yizkor book of Tarnow (Poland). I’m not sure how Al Capone became El Capone in this translatio

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May 5, 2022 - 4 Iyar 5782 Dear JewishGen Community, Among the many virtues of placing family history information online, is coming across items of historical value. In honor of Yom Ha'Atzmaut, Israel

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Shalom, As you surely know, in the week that has just past, Holocaust Day was marked amongst the world’s Jewish communities. For those involved in the YB Project, memorializing the Holocaust is for us

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“The Great Rescue” from the Yizkor book of Rokitno (Ukraine) is Baruch Goldman’s memory of how he and other children escaped death at the hands of the Banderovtzis — followers of Stepan Bandera whose

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JewishGen Press is proud to announce our 141st title: Volomin; a Memorial to the Jewish Community of Volomin (Wołomin, Poland). Details: Editor of Original Yizkor Book: Shimon Kanc Project Coordinator

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JewishGen is offering the following courses in May 2022. May 1 - May 21, 2022: Research Your Roots in Galicia. Details. Throughout the month of May: Crafting Stories from your Family History. Details.

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Barbara Krasner, Genealogist, writer and poet offers new class New and innovative: Express your research stories spontaneously without hesitating over style and composition Write in Class Write from p

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“Reb Shabtai the Tavern Keeper” is part of a longer chapter titled “Characters and Personalities” from the Yizkor book of Rozhnyativ (Ukraine). But it is really two stories in one. The first part is a

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