In early November, 2006, my husband and I visited Lviv, Zbaraz, Skalat, and Chernivitsi - in western Ukraine. They are not very far from your ancestral towns. We began in Lviv, where tour guide, Alex

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Kerzter has written many excellent books. I recommend The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, (1998) about a 6-year old Jewish boy in Bologna Italy in 1858 who was taken away from his family because (it wa

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For some of us (including me) in the late '40's and 1950's, camp was the only place I was exposed to Judaism. Sure, I knew I was Jewish, and my grandmother cooked Jewish dishes, but our home was not k

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Thanks for this, Carol. My brother and I went to brother-sister camps Barrington for boys and Rhoda for girls, in the Berkshires, in the 1950's and early 1960's. My mother and two aunts went to Camp S

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Thank you, everyone, for contacting me about "dalya d." I will reach out to her in a few days (after the Seders). Specifically, I am looking for Elliot/Elliott/Eliot (?) Lambert or Lempert, probably b

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When searching findagrave.com for relatives named "Lempert" and/or "Lambert" in NJ/NY cemeteries, I found that photos of the headstones were all taken by "dalya d." Does anyone have any contact inform

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As many Genners know, in recent weeks, Alex Dunai, an excellent tour guide and genealogy researcher in Lviv, has sent updates about horrifying, current conditions in Lviv. My husband and I met him the

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Thank you for this - all communications from Ukraine are important. Please tell us - what is the location of this photo? Susan Gordon New York

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Thank you for this. As I mentioned here, the other day, in 2006 Alex guided my husband and I through ancestral towns in Western Ukraine, including Chernivitsi (previously Czernowitz). I talk about Ale

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Thank you, Steven, for this news. My husband and I are glad to hear from everyone, especially Alex Dunai who was our excellent tour guide in 2006. Susan J Gordon Zbarzah, Skalat, Tarnopol

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I suggest that you try looking through the book, Schindler's Legacy, by Elinor J Brecher, (pub 1994), which contains chapters/stories about 30+ survivors, but Jakob Kornblau is not listed on the conte

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https://www.jtsa.edu/ I suggest that you contact the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City, New York. Recently, they accepted a 300 year old siddur that my cousin donated. Above

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When i last visited Sicily, I saw a large map in the town hall of Taormina, which depicts all the towns in which Jews lived before 1492. "They were all over Sicily!" Rabbi Barbara Aiello told me, at a

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I found this anthology in my local library, read it and decided to buy a copy too. Published in 1993 by Franklin Watts, it's a collection of stories written by adults who were child survivors of the H

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When I was researching Skalat - one of my ancestral towns - I read about "Moni Lempert" in the Skalat Yizkor book of testimony. My great-grandparents were Lemperts, as were their children, who all emi

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FWIW - Rabbi Mark S. Golub is the founding president, CEO and Executive producer of The Jewish Broadcasting Service (JBS) - a cable television station which is based in New Jersey and airs throughout

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My brass candlesticks are almost identical to Rick's and Jay's but the bases are flat - no little legs on the bottom. Like Rick's. they are slightly less than 10" tall, and one leans slightly, and is

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Holohory is a town also known as Golygori, in the Lviv oblast, Ukraine. Susan Gordon - New York BIALAZURKER - Zbaraz LEMPERT - Skalat, Lvov SCHONHAUT - Skalat

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Mazel Tov - yes! to Joel and Vivian for their endless and amazing contributions to JewishGen and to all of us. Their achievements will outlast allll of us! Susan Gordon BIALAZURKER - Zbaraz, Budapest

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A few days ago, Barbara Sloan suggested a new book - Eternal, a novel by Lisa Scottoline (sp?), about Italy and Jews during WWII. I also have a good recommendation from 2003 - The Battle for Rome: The

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