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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is on Monday. There are many gripping accounts of that tragic time contained in Yizkor books. I wanted to find an excerpt for this week that captured those memo
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day is on Monday. There are many gripping accounts of that tragic time contained in Yizkor books. I wanted to find an excerpt for this week that captured those memo
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Maiming to Avoid the Russian Draft?
In doing the weekly Yizkor book excerpts for the JewishGen Facebook page, I have come across many chapters about avoiding the Russian draft, including pretending to be crazy. In researching my own fin
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In doing the weekly Yizkor book excerpts for the JewishGen Facebook page, I have come across many chapters about avoiding the Russian draft, including pretending to be crazy. In researching my own fin
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Bruce Drake
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
Poverty was a constant in the shtetls of Europe. Many were born to it, others fell into it. The latter was the case for Reb Benyamin the Tailor, a specialist in sewing by hand who was once overloaded
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Poverty was a constant in the shtetls of Europe. Many were born to it, others fell into it. The latter was the case for Reb Benyamin the Tailor, a specialist in sewing by hand who was once overloaded
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Bruce Drake
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
“My Mother’s Reminiscences of her Shtetl,” from the Yizkor book of Yedwabne (Poland), is a remembrance by noted scholar William W. Brickman who was born on New York’s Lower East Side in 1913. This exc
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“My Mother’s Reminiscences of her Shtetl,” from the Yizkor book of Yedwabne (Poland), is a remembrance by noted scholar William W. Brickman who was born on New York’s Lower East Side in 1913. This exc
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Bruce Drake
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
If there was an “appliance” that occupied a central place in many Jewish homes, it was the samovar. “Reincarnations of a Samovar” from a chapter titled “From Kheyder--to the Cemetery” in the Yizkor bo
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If there was an “appliance” that occupied a central place in many Jewish homes, it was the samovar. “Reincarnations of a Samovar” from a chapter titled “From Kheyder--to the Cemetery” in the Yizkor bo
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Bruce Drake
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
“We Want to Live” is in the JewishGen collection of Yizkor books but it is not a Yizkor book in the sense that it is a chronicle specifically devoted to a town or region. In it, Jacob Rassen describes
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“We Want to Live” is in the JewishGen collection of Yizkor books but it is not a Yizkor book in the sense that it is a chronicle specifically devoted to a town or region. In it, Jacob Rassen describes
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Bruce Drake
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
One of the most well-known eyewitness accounts of Nazi brutality is one written by German-born Hermann Friedrich Graebe about the mass-killing that took place in Dubno in 1942. Graebe joined the Nazi
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One of the most well-known eyewitness accounts of Nazi brutality is one written by German-born Hermann Friedrich Graebe about the mass-killing that took place in Dubno in 1942. Graebe joined the Nazi
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Bruce Drake
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
Hanukkah is approaching so I thought I’d help you welcome it with three vignettes of the holiday drawn from the Yizkor books of Strzyzow and Kaluszyn in Poland, and Gorodets in Belarus. Some extracts:
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Hanukkah is approaching so I thought I’d help you welcome it with three vignettes of the holiday drawn from the Yizkor books of Strzyzow and Kaluszyn in Poland, and Gorodets in Belarus. Some extracts:
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Bruce Drake
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
“With a heavy heart I walked around the shtetl where a warm Jewish life once pulsed.” So begins “On the Vestiges of a Disappeared Jewish Life” from the Yizkor book of Czyzew-Osada, Poland. What sets t
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“With a heavy heart I walked around the shtetl where a warm Jewish life once pulsed.” So begins “On the Vestiges of a Disappeared Jewish Life” from the Yizkor book of Czyzew-Osada, Poland. What sets t
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Bruce Drake
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on JewishGen's Facebook page
“The next morning, the Brzeziner ghetto was empty of children.” This one sentence from “There Once Was a Jewish Shtetl Brzezin” from the Yizkor book of Brzeziny, Poland is one of the heart-stopping re
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“The next morning, the Brzeziner ghetto was empty of children.” This one sentence from “There Once Was a Jewish Shtetl Brzezin” from the Yizkor book of Brzeziny, Poland is one of the heart-stopping re
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Bruce Drake
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen facebook page
The phrase “turning back the clock” takes on a whole new meaning in this week’s chapter, “In Mezritch,” from the Yizkor book of Miedzyrzec Podlaski, Poland. Brush-making was one of the big industries
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The phrase “turning back the clock” takes on a whole new meaning in this week’s chapter, “In Mezritch,” from the Yizkor book of Miedzyrzec Podlaski, Poland. Brush-making was one of the big industries
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Bruce Drake
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
In the 1930s, Coney Island, Brighton Beach and Sea Gate in Brooklyn was home to many Yiddish speakers. (In more recent years, Brighton Beach has become more known for its large population of Russian i
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In the 1930s, Coney Island, Brighton Beach and Sea Gate in Brooklyn was home to many Yiddish speakers. (In more recent years, Brighton Beach has become more known for its large population of Russian i
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
As if suffering through the horrors of the Nazi occupation was not enough, many of those who survived grappled with sorrow and loss when they returned to their home towns and found little or nothing l
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As if suffering through the horrors of the Nazi occupation was not enough, many of those who survived grappled with sorrow and loss when they returned to their home towns and found little or nothing l
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Bruce Drake
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New records online: the New York City *Geographic* Birth Index, late 19th and early 20th century,
I appreciatge the work and new offering from Reclaim the Records as well, but I found it hard to use
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I appreciatge the work and new offering from Reclaim the Records as well, but I found it hard to use
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Bruce Drake
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
“My Shtetle Vizna,” from the Yizkor book of Slutsk in Belarus presents a vivid and wonderful slice of daily life during a week in the town — from the bustling of the market place to the celebration of
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“My Shtetle Vizna,” from the Yizkor book of Slutsk in Belarus presents a vivid and wonderful slice of daily life during a week in the town — from the bustling of the market place to the celebration of
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Bruce Drake
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
As the Nazis began to liquidate the ghettos, one of the ways Jews tried to hold on to life was to set up labor camps to do work for the Germans. One such community of Jews who did so in 1942 was Skala
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As the Nazis began to liquidate the ghettos, one of the ways Jews tried to hold on to life was to set up labor camps to do work for the Germans. One such community of Jews who did so in 1942 was Skala
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Bruce Drake
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
#YizkorBooks
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You’re living in a small shtetl in Belarus, or anywhere else in the Pale, and you get sick. Or have a toothache. Or get something in your eye. You need a doctor. A dentist. A pharmacy to duck into and
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You’re living in a small shtetl in Belarus, or anywhere else in the Pale, and you get sick. Or have a toothache. Or get something in your eye. You need a doctor. A dentist. A pharmacy to duck into and
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Bruce Drake
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Replying individually to someone who has posted a message
Barbara ... Does this work in the digests? I just clicked on your name in your reply to me and it showed nothing. The digests are the only way I see these messages as my inbox is too busy to received
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Barbara ... Does this work in the digests? I just clicked on your name in your reply to me and it showed nothing. The digests are the only way I see these messages as my inbox is too busy to received
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Bruce Drake
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Replying individually to someone who has posted a message
I'm sure the answer to this is staring me right in the face, but on the old listserv, when someone posted a message you could see his/her email address is you wanted to send a reply that might not be
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I'm sure the answer to this is staring me right in the face, but on the old listserv, when someone posted a message you could see his/her email address is you wanted to send a reply that might not be
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Bruce Drake
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Zlotnick
Odeda ... This is the first time I saw a message on this list from a Zlotnick so i couldn't resist getting in touch to see if we have any genealogical connection. Here is a short summary of my family'
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Odeda ... This is the first time I saw a message on this list from a Zlotnick so i couldn't resist getting in touch to see if we have any genealogical connection. Here is a short summary of my family'
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Bruce Drake
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