Trying to make contact with the family of Shoshana Raizi Stern who lived in Montreal and posted a Page of Testimony to Yad Vashem for her uncle Moshe Menchel Stern in 2004. They descend from the Stern

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Except for the father, Leisar Rosen, I am unable to find immigration/naturalization records for the family. They came from Russia/Poland, lived in England for several years and some of the family memb

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This is a follow up to a post from last week about Naftali Lasutra and his wife Hannah/Nekhama or Khaya who lived in Toronto between 1920's - 1960's. While in Canada, he changed his surname to Lester.

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In 1896 my great aunt Eva FINKELSTEIN (later Abremovich) (1877-1953) was the first Jew to graduate from what became the University of Manitoba. During her life she touched the lives of many people in

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Naftali Lasutra and his wife Hannah/Nekhama or Khaya were born in Pulin near Zhitomir in the 1880's. They got out of Russia in the early 1900's and eventually settled in Toronto. (It is not clear whet

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I would love to read this article, since my grandfather returned to Russia in the 1920s (but went back to the U.S. after less than a year). Does anyone have institutional access to it? Thanks. Ellen M

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Since my message yesterday folks have asked me where to find lists of immigrants assisted by Baron Hirsch. Below is a list of the Baron Hirsch archives around the world. Almost all are NOT digitized b

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Tom, There is a tree on Geni that claims this family's original surname was LANDAU (changed to LANDON.) https://www.geni.com/people/Kirk-Landon/6000000012400747403 I suppose that you can research that

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Hi, Peter, My husband, Paul S Levine, grew up in Montreal and is a cousin of the Goodmans in Montreal. Nancy Goodman Perelmuter is a cousin of my late father-in-law, Gerald (Fischel) Geffin. Nancy's m

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Hi Adam, Our cemetery project at JGS Toronto has been stalled for a few years. The late Allen Halberstadt did and amazing job of collecting data and took many photographs of most Toronto cemeteries. S

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Hi Tom, Someone forwarded me your message as it matches some of the names in my tree. My great grandmother was born Roza (Raizel) Klein, to the best of our knowledge in Dorobratavo, Czechoslovakia. Sh

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While researching my paternal forefathers I came across on FTJP a Isaac KATZOFF-KATSOF who I believe may be connected to our family. Interestingly he is listed with the same exact spelling as our fami

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Nathan Phillips, the beloved mayor of Toronto, was a Rosenblum on his mother's side. I believe his children/grandchildren still live in Toronto and they'd probably be easy to locate. I am also a Rosen

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My cousin mentioned that we are related to a GELBENDORF family which had a branch in Montreal. The ones he met many years ago would be in their early 100 y.o. so presumably they would not be live toda

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The Canada BOF/SIG will meet virtually on Wednesday, August 12, from 10:00 am - 11:00 am, U.S. Eastern time. (7:00 am - 8:00 am Pacific, 3:00 - 4:00 pm UK, 5:00 - 6:00 pm Central Europe, 6:00 - 7:00 p

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The website "British Jews in the First World war We were there too" is worth a look https://www.jewsfww.uk/ The Pattinson book is available to view online https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/

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Hi Anita Karen Which documents of Albert and Magdalena Eisenbeiss/Eisenbeisz do you already have? Did you find their passenger manifest? Did they travel alone or with some children? If they had childr

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Hi Neil: I personally know the descendants of the great Rabbi Dr. Jacob Avigdor. The eldest of his grandsons (Zvi) is a dentist and lives in New York. Then come the second grandson named Israel who li

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The JGS-Montreal created the index you see on the Library and Archives Canada web site. The index currently goes to 1946, and we are waiting for them to post the last five years (Canada stopped publis

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Dear all, I am looking at possible descendant of Mr Maurice Azoulay (7. March 1916 -- Tlemcen/Algeria) who survived WW2 after having been over several camps Resistant, he was arrested in Jan 1944 in M

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