Hello, I am looking for any Polish survivors who may be willing to contact me for an interview. I am a recent college graduate with a special interest in Polish Jewish relations. If anyone is willing

My g.grandmother Fanny Lamm was buried in Surany slovakia 1926.I have read that a Tomas Salzman photographed many of the gravestones in this Jewish cemetary and I would like to contact him.Any other w

Friends, Please translate the Hebrew on my great grandfather's gravestone. It looks like a poem with the first letter of each line spelling his name in Hebrew at: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/vi

Hello, I have written to this group before for help, with success, and am hoping to find some additional resources. My search for my biological paternal grandfather (name unknown at the time - found t

The MyHelritage records database has 2,414 records from Berlin, Seedorf, Segeberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, among them 1768 for France, Naturalization. Berlin, Seedorf is a hamlet of 500 inhabitan

I would greatly appreciate any translation assistance that anyone can offer for some vital records in Russian. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewm

Jewish Genealogical Society NY Meeting, via Zoom Sunday, January 23 at 1:00 PM Eastern Time Letters to Jozef Tiso, President of the Slovak State 1939-1945 Speaker: Madeline Vadkerty In connection with

I've posted a vital record in Cyrillic for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM96849 Please respond via

I've posted a portion of a Yad Vashem Page of Testimony in Russian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?ke

Exploring Ancestral Towns: A Discussion of the film Mamaliga Blues On Sunday, January 23, 2022, from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM Central Time, the Minnesota Jewish Genealogical Society (MNJGS) will host produc

I am excited to report that I have completed indexing the FamilySearch film of Ashkenazi birth, marriage and death records recorded in Altona from the 1820s until 1874. While there are some years miss

Hi, I'm having trouble transcribing the town in Russia Hannah Rachel (my grear-grandmother) and Lena Markus were from. It reads Wakena, or Ulekena on Lena's, and Veana on Rachel's (not helped by they

Hello and thank you in advance Requesting any help in translating relevant information for exploring family history from the below two images. A full translation is nice, but would be happy with any k

In case you missed it, you may now view the recording of our most recent episode of Genealogy Coffee Break at https://fb.watch/axBdwzjCZp. For those whose ancestors lived in NYC, you'll learn how to f

My great grandparents were from somewhere in Russia and moved to Denver Colorado in the early 1890's. My G Grandfather Michael's last name was Saliman. His wife's name was Bessie or (Pelte). I have be

Hello, I am looking for information about the painter J. Majzels, probably from Zamość, at the turn of 1924. Thank you very much in advance. Kamil Szczepkowicz

The JewishGen website might be hard to use but JewishGen Education makes it easy for you. Do you want to learn how to use the JewishGen website and databases to research your family? Have you tried to

Recently I discovered a second cousin named Urszula Einhorn who lives in Sweden. Her grandfather Abram Badower married my grandmother's sister Pessa Wajcman. We have been collecting information about

Person #1 Samuel ROSANSKY born September 3, 1893 father Abram died September 22, 1943 buried in Mt. Hebron cemetery Person # 2 Samuel ROSANSKY born May 15, 1892 father Abram died September 22, 1943 bu

If you are in or plan to visit Ireland, you might want to visit The Objects of Love Exhibition by Oliver Sears which tells the fate of individual lives torn apart in Nazi-occupied Poland is showing in