Hi from Paris, Dear Harris, Lodz ghetto archives have been fully preserved and are ca. 800.000 pages of documents. You can find more than 95% on line at Polish state archives : https://szukajwarchiwac

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Hi from Paris, Dear Jill, dear Dennis, Here is the link to search who had been soldier in these 3 RMVE (21eme, 22 eme & 23eme) after volunteer enrollment during 1939 fall : https://www.memoiredeshomme

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Hi from Paris, I wish to add two comments to the very good answer of David Levine. Always remember that before 1914, and from 1870, France was the sole Republic in Europe. You can understand that othe

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Hi from Paris, During interwar period in Poland (1919-1939), a process of integration started among secular Jewish youth. I speak of integration to Polish society, not assimilation : they were and rem

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Hi from Paris, Dear Lisa, I just copy what I have already replied many times on this forum : Lodz hadn't been destroyed during Shoah and WWII, so all vital records are available from 1850 (ca. establi

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Hi from Paris, Dear Peter, My GF Avrom Zysman left Lodz just after WW1 in 1919 (and just before being drafted in Polish army) and lived 4 years in Germany before immigrating to Paris in 1924. I have s

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Hi from Paris, Dear Joyce, Apart from our typical genealogy researches, you can find a lot on "your" Simon Kra and his family. Unknown from me five minutes ago, I entered "Simon Kra " to search French

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Hi from Paris, Dear Catherine, This link to our "Journal Officiel des lois de la République, (JO)" where naturalization decrees are published, is working properly : https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/c

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Hi from Paris, Dear Jorge, When we don't know the individual fate of our "Losts", we can search for the collective fate of the Jewish community of their shtetl or town. I have checked and you can acce

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Hi from Paris, Dear Paul, My GGF and GF were Galizianer, immigrating with an Austrian citizenship to France in 1925. Thus they have been submitted to these laws concerning German & Austrian citizens a

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Hi from Paris, Hello Sharon & Sharon, Searching and finding original documents concerning our Losts in Lodz' ghetto is possible with all online databases already available : an opportunity during our

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Hi from Paris, May I add the French contribution to this history. And not the least, as it's Napoleon himself who created "Duchy of Warsaw " on his way to Moscow. This Duchy was his contribution to bu

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Hi from Paris, Dear Sharon, My maternal family was from Lodz and I have been there some years ago. What I can say : Lodz hadn't been destroyed during Shoah and WWII, so all vital records are available

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Hi from Paris, I have been often in New York for my researches at : Center for Jewish History https://www.cjh.org/ Yivo https://www.yivo.org/ and I know they detain archives on Yiddish theater, in Eur

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Hi from Paris, Dear Howard, During inter-war period in Poland, business and companies had to be registered to Polish administration. I don't know for Rivne, but in Lodz, these files have been preserve

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Hi from Paris, I manage the Jewish genealogy workshop for Medem Center. One of our attendees asked same question a few weeks ago, but she had one of last documents received from BEG by her mother in 2

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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 Daniella from Paris, Military records of foreign Jews who enrolled Legion Etrangere durin WWII, but also all administrative after-war files of Jewish Deportees from France are archived by SHD (Serv

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Hi from Paris, Dear Paul, I have checked with Google to be sure (even if you surely did it), and there is no link to "Legion Etrangère Civile". My GF was enrolled in Legion Etrangere, as a lot of Bund

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Hi Ann, Hi igor, I write from Paris. Igor is perfectly right and medal is "Iron cross of WW1". Khavershaft Bernard Flam Archives & history of Medem Center - Arbeter Ring (Bund -Workmen Circle of Franc

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