With the recent links to AMIA and CEMLA databases for Argentina, I am trying again to solve a mystery I last posted about a dozen years ago. On 3 May 1939, my cousins Schmul Hersch and Sara Horenstein

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Dear Yaron. I live in São Paulo and will try to help you regarding the Vila Formosa burial. Our Chevra is well organized and funtions very well. As this cemetery is not a Jewish one perhaps your relat

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Moishe, There is a JGS in São Paulo. I live in Rio and I called Chevra Kadisha in SP. I was told they are not allowed to take pictures of matsevót. Someone needs to personally visit the cemetery to ph

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One branch of my family is named TAMOR/TAYMOR/TAYMORE. I am not certain that it comes from the same source as TAMARA, but it is my understanding that tamar means "date" or "date tree" in Hebrew. There

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Dear Emily, Some 15 years ago, I traced a relative who arrived by ship in BA in the 1920's. Fortunately (for me), he left the ship without permission and disappeared in BA (for a romantic reason). He

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Renee, You always amaze me. Thank you so much. Can I get your opinion? This is the page of testimony my cousin (deceased) submitted to Yad Vashem: https://yvng.yadvashem.org/nameDetails.html?language=

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Dear David, I´m the director of the Jewish Museum initiative in Uruguay. Do you have her ID and birth date? Is she buried in the Jewish cemetery? Best, Shai Abend shai@...

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Ron, A search at Ancestry.com for surname BRINITZER (soundex) and town Breslau comes up with many hits. There is this marriage record found by searching The JewishGen Unified Database https://www.jewi

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Hello all, I post this picture periodically, looking for people who know anyone in the photo. It was taken in 1950 in Rio de Janeiro when my grandparents went to visit their relatives and friends from

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https://www.sefaruniversal.com/ https://www.sefaruniversal.com/genealogist-law/ mmariae2009@... A Venezuelan friend informed me about the lawyer Maria Eugenia Penalver in Venezuela (contact deta

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I am looking for living descendants of my great-grand (or great-great grand) aunt, Dobka Tevelson, in Buenos Aires. Dobka was born ca. 1853 and came from Dieveniskes, Lithuania (aka Divenishok, Jeveni

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There were Turtletaubs in Charleston, SC, including Jacob, Samuel, and Max. I don't think any are alive today.

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Dear Alejandro, Do you have any information on graves with the name Nerubay/Nerubai? Thank you, Ben Zitomer ben.zitomer@...

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You may want to search the passenger lists collection made available by FamilySearch.org. Uruguay, Passenger Lists, 1888-1980 https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2691993 Paula Irisity Monte

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I found a passenger manifest for my uncle and his wife (details below), travelling from Havana to Miami, in February 1942. He listed Agen, France as his last permanent residence. I am unable to determ

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I found a passenger manifest for my uncle and his wife, travelling from Havana to Miami, in February 1942. He listed Agen, France as his last permanent residence. I am unable to determine how they got

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See on familySearch, they have immigration from Uruguay. It is a Leize Stupaj, borned 1879 and immigration to Uruguay. Shmuel Laufer Rehovot -Israel Research: Laufer (Przasnysz, Poland); Domb (Pultusk

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Hi all, In investigating new developments on my Schechtman connections, I would be very thankful for any help in getting in direct contact with one Srul Sehtman (likely Shejtman in Spanish spelling) w

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Check here http://www.santafe.gov.ar/rcdigital. Rosario is a city in Santa Fe province, that's the link for online requests. Liliana Weintraub - Buenos Aires - Argentina

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These memoirs are a fascinating and informative account of one family's pre-WW2 life in a small village in western Germany, first hand description of how village Jews experienced Kristallnacht, and ho

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