My great-great grandfather Mordechai Dov HURWITZ of Rokiskis, Lithuania had a brother Shmuel Yehuda HURWITZ who moved to St Petersburg c1900. While some of Shmuel Yehuda's children managed to leave th

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In connection with an investigation of a perpetrator of Holocaust crimes in the area of Raseiniai, Lithuania, the Wiesenthal Centre is seeking contact with individuals (survivors or family members) wi

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The Gilinskys that I'm looking for lived in what is now Lithunia. Their children all came to the US. The parents, who lived all their lives in what is now Lithuania died quite young. The mother, Blume

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Unfortunately Galinsky is a very common name. I have a lot of Galinsky's in my family who settled in Leeds, UK however one did emigrate to New York. David Grant

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My mother-in-law was a Galinsky from Poland. The family knows very little except her father was Nathan Galinsky from Poland who emigrated to New York (Brooklyn) in early 1900s. Barbara Cohen

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If it helps, I have some Golinsky family members on my tree, but there seem to be a lot of Galinsky people out there! I imagine Gilinsky, Golinsky and Galinsky were all the same name originally?

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Stephen, By the way, most of their children came to the US. It's not clear when, but I know that Fruma was here in 1907, because she was married in Nashua, New Hampshire. Sora Feigel died in childbirt

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Hi Barbara: I have gilinski (with i) in my family. Yishie Gilinski married Chaya Sragovicz, who was my great aunt. In my records, I have that he was born in Poluse, Ignalina, Lithuania.

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I've looked at JGFF and the LitvakSIG databases and I haven't found them. I wrote to a number of researchers in the JGFF, and they haven't come upon them either. I know that Svencionys is a good guess

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I have gone to the LitvakSIG All Lithuanian Database, and looked everywhere for their names. I have not been successful. I have looked at Svencionys through the JGFF, and I was not successful there. B

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Based on hits on the JGFF and the LItvak SIG database, I would guess Svencionys. Steve Stein

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GILINSKY was a prevalent name in Svencionys, Lithuania and there are many listings for the name In the LitvakSIG All Lithuania Database, which you can search at www.litvaksig.org Judy Baston

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The Gilinskys had 5 girls, Chaya Riva, Shayla, Sora Feigel, Yudis, and Fruma Devasha (B.1884). Gertie died when she was in her 30s and Rafuel died when he was in his 40s. Their daughter Chaya Riva rai

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They had at least five girls, Chaya Riva, Shayla, Sora Feigel, Fruma Devasha, and Yudis. Fruma Devasha was born in 1884, and Gertie Nillis died in her thirties. Rafual died in his 40s and Chaya Riva c

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Hi! I've uploaded three documents to viewmate, 85440, 86439 and 86436. These are from internal passport files that I found on Litvak Sig, for two of my great aunts, daughters of Leizer/Leyzer Meierowi

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I am researching Rabbi Myer Woolf Frankel, originally from Lthuania who died in London in 1915.Son Josef married Borovsky 1893.Daughter Ada married beitler in England. His father's name was Aron Asher

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Hello all, I found a link to this very helpful article written by Ann Rabinowitz back in 2008: https://www.litvaksig.org/information-and-tools/online-journal/jewish-household-heirlooms She called it "

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Dear JGenners, My grandpa Richard V. Gilbert born in 1902 who lived in Philadelphia remembered his uncles and other relatives sitting around the kitchen table drinking tea from samovars and arguing ra

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I have never heard of this a special ceremony , but maybe it was a special ceremony only in Julius's family . It might have been special because making these jams was labor intensive and seasonal . As

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My father did the same thing. Sometimes, he would take a sugar between his teeth instead. His family was from Krynki near Bialystok and Logishin near Pinsk.

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