The Yizkor-Books-In-Print Project of JewishGen is proud to announce the publication of its103rd title, 'The Jews of Kaiserstrasse", The Jews who lived on Mainz's Park Avenue, by Michael Stowell Philli

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I am pretty new to the Yad Vashem names database. The problems people are reporting sound like the problems that would come with any crowdsourced clearinghouse of information. I do understand the conc

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Hello, I want to help honor a righteous gentile who hid my family from the Nazis in 1939. I met her in Vienna in about 1980 and she was close to 100 years old. She lived at 12 Tandelmarktgasse and had

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No one in the family could find my father-in-law or his brother on EllisIsland.org. A cousin claimed a fire had destroyed the files. A visit to the National Archives in Southern California yielded an

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We invite you to attend another free presentation in our series of JewishGen Talks webinars, with our speaker, Dr. Alexander Beider. Roots of Jews from Eastern Europe: Names, Language, and History Wed

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I am a bit puzzled by the concern expressed over incompletely researched names submitted to Yad vaShem. Far more harm is done by the often near-mythical lineages appearing on Geni. -Ari Dale, Vered Je

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Heirs of several Nazi-era Jewish art dealers have tried to regain possession of art treasure, specifically the Guelph Treasure, a collection of Christian relics. During the Nazi-era under pressure by

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Hi Aline, Perhaps it says Ostobreni or Ostrobeni. There are two populated places, with that name, in Romania. https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/gazetteer/gazetteer.php

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I have known Yuri Dorn for 25+ years and have done several major projects with him. There is no learning curve with Yuri. He know what records are available (or not) for which places in Belarus. Schel

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Hello All: I am trying to track down where my maternal great grandmother, Gitl Grinberg Vigderovici was born. I have the marriage certificate of one of my grandmother's sisters. It mentions their moth

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I am also using this group. They will do an initial search for less than $200, then tell you the probability of success from a Phase 2 search before giving you a cost. You can decide whether to go on

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Hello All; I am wondering if anyone can help me figure out the name of a town in Romania. It is mentioned in the marriage certificate of my great uncle and his first wife, my grandmother's sister in 1

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The Greater Houston Jewish Genealogical Society will be offering two hands-on web based classes taught by noted genealogist Michael Moritz. The class will feature two parts. Part 1 is US Research It w

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There is a gravestone indicating that Raisa, the daughter of Shneur Katz, died in 1780 and is now buried in Potok Zloty cemetery. Please let me know if this is your family. I will share the gravestone

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The Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Orlando is hosting a Zoom meeting entitled “Missing Manifests – Tips for finding those elusive passenger lists” on December 8, 2020, at 7:00 pm ET, with Risa

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Hi, I’ve been told by the Ukrainian embassy in New York the same, that communication is Ukrainian only. If you don’t want to wait to find someone, the classic answer is to try Google Chrome / translat

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Hi from Paris, Dear Catherine, I have started to check as I have names of our "Bundists" living in Paris before WWII and I found already some names. So you can add "Bundists" in your list of suspiciou

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Hi Emma, Try this link https://bhiweb.wordpress.com/about/hirek/ At the bottom of the screen you'll find the five issues. Every page in each issue is downloadable as a pdf file. Valentin Lupu ISRAEL

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"Over A Glass Of Tea With Nikita Khrushchev." How is that for an attention-grabber among titles of Yizkor book chapters? This one is from the book of Rokitno-Wolyn and Surroundings in Ukraine. Khrushc

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Stephen, According to a webinar I attended yesterday (hosted by the Center for Jewish History), Yad Vashem's online databases contain "7.5 million records related to 4.8 million Jews murdered and to h

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