In the spring of 1955, while stationed with the U. S. Air Force in Japan, i was invited to attend a Passover seder being held at the Jewish Community Center in Tokyo, Japan! I was fortunate to have a

#ukraine

My father, who was born in Krynki, Poland in 1898, was one of identical twins but his twin died of (probably) typhus within his first year of life but there are no other twins in our extended family i

#general

My maternal grandfather was employed by Czar Nickolas as a beaurocrat in his village of Yurovichi in Belarus with responsibilities including postmaster and director of official documents and his famil

#russia

My mother, who was born and brought up to the age of 16 in the western edge of what is now Belarus, along the Pripit River, told us about watching Cossacks riding through their village on horseback an

#russia

If it is an expression used only by one family, it brings back the Yiddish phrase used toward the very elderly at the dining table, " Ess, boubele" or "eat, grandmother" kindly cajoling an elderly gra

#russia

I just started reading about the "Former Residents of Krinki in Israel" and will comment later.

#poland

i would be interested in joining a Krinki "group". Our family's soul seems to have been derived from the Krinki experience, good or bad. i have some experiences i would be willing to share relating to

#poland

My father's family were also tanners from Krinki. here's a letter i sent to another person who responded to my inquiry. Hi there, My return mail will take some time as i just had surgery to two damage

#poland

i sent you an email, a copy of one i sent to another responder to my inquiry about family connections to the town named Krinki. I hope to hear back from you.

#poland

Survivors from Krinki/Krynki, Poland near Lithuanian border c. 1914?

#poland

Shepsie: Possibly the diminutive of the name: Shepsel. My first cousin, born near Bialystok, emigrated to Montreal in 1939 and never changed his Yiddish name up to when he took his own life. I heard h

#names #lithuania

Rivka may also be spelled as Rifka.

#names #hungary

In the pale, he wouldn't have earned much but by emigrating to America, he could earn enough to make a living as did my maternal grandfather. We was a Tzarist beurocrat in his village(Yurovichi in Bel

#galicia