A good source for records in Austria, especially Vienna, is the free Genteam.at. There are categories for Jewish resignations 1868-1945, Jewish converts, Jewish divorces 1870-1942, Waring cemetery, ot

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This article shone an interesting light on some mysteries in my wife’s family history We have often wondered how my wife's aunt Gerda Neurath escaped from Austria to a position as a maid for Miss Cohe

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The Jewish BMD registers for all Jewish Kehilot in Austria are kept at the V ienna Kenilllah. See: http://www.archiv-ikg-wien.at/archives/matriken/?tab=1661&topic=1669Genteam has Indices from Jewish b

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Elizabeth Horen-Cotter wrote: > Armed with this historical snippet, you, like me, will understand why the Jewish records from approximately 94 synagogues > (amount of synagogues in 1938) are hard to f

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Dear Mr. Fraser, Having visited Vienna recently, I found your question very interesting. During my visit, I learned that only one of the 94 synagogues survived the November 1938 pogroms. It was the St

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Critically, Borgers father was one such advertised cold. Very moving piece. Hazel Dakers, London UK

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If, in fact, the marriage took place in the synagogue, you may safely assume that the bride converted. Liberal European rabbis did not--generally, still don't--officiate at marriages unless both partn

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Julian Borger, World Affairs Editor for The Guardian, wrote a very interesting article about Viennese Jews who escaped to the United Kingdom in 1938 and 1939 via classified ads placed in the Mancheste

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Hi Robert, You are right, this synagogue in the Siebenbrunnengasse does not exist anymore. By chance, a friend of mine, of Jewish descent, lives in the house which was built instead on this ground. He

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Hi Friends - I recently discovered, from different sources, that a great-uncle was married in Vienna in 1921 in a synagogue in the Fifth bezirk/district; Margareten. The only synagogue I can discover

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Looking for Moritz Raab and his connection with the Raab Family Just connected with a potential family member - we are both related to the Raab family but don't know which branch. She shared with me t

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Catherine, Probably: https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-543820 Alternate names: Dobruška [Cz], Gutenfeld [Ger], Dobruschka Try searching for old records at: the JewishGen Austr

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Is the attached death record of your ancestor, Jacob Gans ? It gives birthplace as "Hungary" . Dobruska in Czechia does not seem to fit with Hungary. You wrote "East Dobruska", but on a quick search c

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I am researching the GANS family who lived in East Dobruska in what is now Czechia. So far, I have only been able to trace my family once they crossed the Atlantic to the US in the 1880s. Here are the

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I am trying to discover how my (wife's) family (men, women and children) got from the village/small town of Kolovec to the larger town of Klatovy in 1942, where they remained for at least one night be

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I would appreciate some help in identifying the town of origin of my son-in-law's BRADY family. According to family records, his third great-grandmother, Betty BRADY de BEER, was born in Ritzebüttel,

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Tony Hausner has asked me to pass on a message about Kojetin to Richard Nohel. Can you pls help? Tony is part of a Kojetin group. I don’t seem to be able to reply to posts. Daniela Torsh Sydney

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I added the marriage record to his Geni profile. https://www.geni.com/people/Heinrich-Goldner/6000000014548406203 Randy Schoenberg Los Angeles, CA

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The Militärseelsorge is the military chaplain. It would appear from Andreas Schwab's post that they were married by a Jewish military chaplain. Stephen Katz Researching: KATZ (Novograd-Volinskiy, Ukra

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I've posted two birth records in Polish, for which I need complete translations, including every word explaining the name change, in the right-hand page of both records. They are on ViewMate at the fo

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