I am trying to better understand how my grandmother was able to transport a large, heavy Russian made samovar when she immigrated with my mother and uncle from Poland to the United States in 1923. The

Yad Vashem announced it would be inaugurating a new installation entitled “The Book of Names” in UN headquarters on 26 January 2023 for 2023 International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims

Dear Researchers, I have recently come across a website in Ukrainian listing known victims of Holodomor in 1932-1933. The website is https://victimsholodomor.org.ua/ . My question is whether the peopl

Hello, my parents were born in Vienna in the late 30’s. I am going to be visiting Vienna in a few months. I would like to hire a genealogist who specializes in the Vienna area who can research and hop

Does anyone know the Yiddish or Jewish name for Elias???? My great grandfather's tombstone reads Elias son of Dov. There is nobody alive in the family who remembers his Yiddish/Jewish name. The family

The Northeast Indiana Jewish Genealogy Society is excited to welcome Dr. Nicholas J. Evans, a Senior Lecturer in diaspora history at the University of Hull, for a series of free virtual programs on Tu

The fantastic work of Alex Krakovsky is known to many Ukraine family researchers. Usually, the records scanned and made available by Alex do not cover the regions of Galicia. However, I've found one s

dź Dear JewishGenners: The January 20, 2023 edition of the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza carried a legal notice from the Regional Court of Central Łódź [Sąd Rejonowy dla Łodzi-Śródmieścia], Eightee

Hello, I was wondering if anyone would have access to the book "Jewish Religious Personnel in the Russian Empire, 1853-1854" ("Sinagogi, Molitvenne Doma i Sostoyashchie pri nikh Dolzhnostne Litsa v Ch

In the years that preceded the end of World War II the photograph served a very important function, not only for families who were living in Europe at the time, but also for those who decided to emigr

I'm trying to identify the shul/synagogue from a relative's marriage certificate. The marriage took place in NY in 1895 and the Rabbi was a Dr. Louis A. Alexander. It's hard to make out from the marri

I appreciate any help in solving the mystery of the identity of two, and the fate of four of the ALTMAN siblings from Przytyk, Poland who perished in the Holocaust. Abraham Chaim Altman (born 1885 in

In review of events, my mother may she live to 120 and I determined the Jewish rescuers who led her and her remaining family to safety through the Tatra Mountains perished there, alone. We have establ

I recently made phone contact with a second cousin I've never met. Our grandmothers were sisters, and came to the US together from around Kiev in 1912. The "new cousin" sent me a scan of a postcard sh

I am trying to reach the granddaughter of Mr Joseph Mandel who lived in Michalovce near the schoolhouse,.who was taken with his wife to Novaky and whose two little children escaped and survived. I don

Dear friends, My name is Sergio Gomez, and I've just joined the group. I have been doing genealogy research for a little time, less than a few months. I'm just a beginner in my Polish Jewish Genealogy

ב"ה Dear JewishGenners: The January 19, 2023 edition of the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita carried a legal notice from the Regional Court of Central Łódź [Sąd Rejonowy dla Łodzi-Śródmieścia], Third C

I would like help translating the phrase on the bottom left on this marriage record. It begins "az elsö példányban... I would appreciate the meaning of the whole phrase and also each Hungarian word in

Hello All, According to my GG Uncle's Declaration of Intention, he left Rotterdam Holland, on the Ship "Fornisa," and arrived at the port of New York around May 17th, 1903. I'm trying to obtain a copy

I've posted a Yiddish article from an old Forward Newspaper which, hopefully, is about my great, grandfather, Meir Leib from Noroditchi, Ukraine. I believe he was a Talmud scholar and the article may