Professor Ron Hassner's new book, Anatomy of Torture, studies how the Spanish Inquisition used torture as a tool to extract information from their prisoners. Torture was used to force victims to divul

I finally found an ancestor on JewishGen in the Belarus Marriage Database. Can I get a copy of the following marriage record online or if I can't get in online where can I send for it? I can't seem to

Can anyone out there help transliterate this handwritten postcard, received by my grandfather in 1938? My understanding is that Moses Kreppel (sp.?) was a friend or relative, and my zaidy was urging h

The entire community is invited to join us for our next free JewishGen Talks webinar: Topic: The Alex Krakovsky Project: Navigating the Wiki to Locate Town Records Date: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 Time

Dear researchers, I know it is like looking for a needle in a haystack, but my cousin and his mother and father were living in Kishinev when Operation Barbarossa started. The mother and son visited th

ב"ה Dear JewishGenners: The March 21, 2023 edition of the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza carried a legal notice from the Regional Court in Siedlce, First Civil Division, regarding a claim by one Prz

The stories of the forty families who escaped Europe and built the Ashkenazi Jewish community of Barbados in the 1930s and 40s are set out in "Peddlers All, Stories of the First Ashkenazi Jewish Settl

ב"ה Dear JewishGenners: The March 22, 2023 edition of the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza carried a legal notice from the Regional Court for Central Łódź [Sąd Rejonowy dla Łodzi-Śródmieścia], Eightee

I've posted a note with a list of items for which I need a translation. It's written on a piece of note paper from a light bulb company and I believe it was written in the 1930s. It looks like there a

Dear members I would be very grateful for your help in translating a letter from my grandfather to his superiors in the Bavarian Army during World War One. The letter is in two parts on ViewMate at th

I've submitted 5 of 9 pages from my 2x great-grandfather's probate record a researcher recently retrieved from Viennese archives and would greatly appreciate translation help in hopes of finding out m

My grandfather, Jacob Ingeroff, pictured in the attached photo, in the dark uniform, was said to be a member of the Czar's Royal Guard. I would like to know if anyone knows if the pictured uniforms ar

Need some help to find a Greenberg family member that was in the San Bernardino, CA area around 1917. It has been confirmed through DNA matches that we may have a NPE - Non-paternity event. It is also

Hi all. I've posted a page from the Włocławek book of residents (1910) showing the family of Lejb KOWALSKI, rabbi and Mizrachi leader in Poland, and also a distant relative of mine. I am looking for a

I've posted two documents in for which I need a translation from Polish. It is on ViewMate at the following addresses ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM102803 https://www.j

I am researching the RAJCHMAN or REICHMAN family of Klimontow, Poland. The parents were Yechiel (Jechiel) Alter RAJCHMAN / REICHMAN and his wife Maria Sura / Sara Miriam SALZMANN / ZALCMAN. One of the

I have posted my great, great grandparents marriage record from 1834 on ViewMate (Hochberger) in Polish. I believe it was in Łęczna, Poland. I don't need a full translation but would love to confirm t

This is page 1 of a 2-page letter written in 1930 from a Jew in Palestine to someone (possibly his cousin) in New Jersey. You can view it at https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.aspkey=VM10

Dear members I would be really grateful for your help with the following documents. I've posted 3 documents in Polish for which I need a translation. There is 1 letter handwritten from an administrati

LitvakSIG is sponsoring a series of Zoom sessions on how to power up your Litvak research. Our next session on Finding Your Shtetl will be held on Zoom on Sunday, March 26, at 12:00 noon Eastern Dayli