I completely agree with Stephen Katz, that to question the good work of the people responsible for Kindertranport is ungrateful and inappropriate. You must be aware how many families still send their

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Reading between the lines, it seems to me that these may have been suicides. The doctors reporting the deaths are careful not to give n opinion, but booth deaths occurred while no-one ese was present.

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The study does say "education worked for them in the past", just the sort of conditions that influence evolution. Maybe Jewish dna does have an effect, however unpopular that view currently is.

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It's in pre-war German records that I've found Leiser changed to Lazarus. So by changing jurisdictions twice, a Leiser might well end up with Lewis, as Jil Whitehead found.

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Isn't Leiser the Yiddish version of the biblical Lazarus?

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My own belief is that the name Wolfbear was actually spelled Wolfbert, an regular German name, and the final t got lost in oral tradition, That would account for the long 'bear' sound.

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There were no formal qualifications to be a midwife before the middle of the 20th century, any more than there was a qualification for say, a shoemaker. I've found the name of the midwife on birth cer

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My mother trained as a chemical laboratory assistant in Germany in1918. Sh ekept a series of testimonial letters from the companies she worked for in the period until she married in 1932. Mostly she f

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In the period between WW1 and WW2, keeping house was far more time-consuming than it is today because so many labour-saving devices we have now just didn't exist.. So few married women in Western Euro

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Carol Mills-Nichol's book Louisiana's Jewish Immigrants from the Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France l Janaway Publishing, California, 2014 gives lists by family name and forename with details of the immigrants'

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The amount of dna you share with a first cousin is not a fixed number. It varies according to a number different factors. There is a likely range of amounts shared, within which 23andme predict the ty

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Jekhel could well be a nickname for Jakob, with a hard 'K', while in Jachiel the 'K' sound is soft before the 'i'.

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Unfortunately there was no standard form for vital records in Germany which could be used a a template , probably because there was no all-powerful central government until 1933 . I suspect they were

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On page 272 of my German edition of Arnold Taezer' s Geschichte der Judn in Jebehausen und Goeppingen,, thee eldest daughter of Samuel Daniel Rosenthaler is called Bassie with (Bas Zion) in brackets.

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I have read the diary of Anton Lehman, who made a journey in the opposite direction as a young man, and much earlier than 1906. What came across was that at each stop there was always help from the lo

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If Sohail Husain wants a clear undetailed map he could find a suitable one that covered the area in an second-hand Atlas, as I did to plot my ancestor's journey from Cologne to St Louis. I scanned it

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The London Gazette changed its name to The Gazette, without changing its essential function in, I believe, 2012. Eva Lawrence t Albans, UK.

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The London Gazette acts as a sort of official notice board of the British Civil Service and the legal profession here. It publishes reports of Court cases, naturalisations, diplomatic appointments, ro

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It's possible that the aunt she was referring to just lived in Konigberg (umlaut on the o) , and that it was not her surname at all. Eva Lawrence St Albans, UK.

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To identify the source of a photo of a group of Zionist women, following on from the suggestion that other annotated copies exist, perhaps an Israeli archive would be a good place to look. I would sug

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