My partner and I recently returned from 4 weeks touring Jewish heritage sites in Poland. Our blog is at https://polandjewishtour2022.blogspot.com/ Topics: Why Are We Here in Poland Memory and Resistan

Dear Genners, Who Was Dr. H Peretz, President of the Royal Medical Society of Egypt in the 1930s-1940s? Except for his surname and initial I do not know anything else except for the fact that he was t

My father married his second wife in VA but lived with her in NYC. They divorced fairly soon after being married. Any assistance in where to find documentation of their divorce? VA or NYC? I am on Anc

ב"ה Dear JewishGenners: I offer the following on the off-chance that someone is related to these people. Despite popular assumptions, not all Polish Jews perished in the Holocaust and those who surviv

Do you per chance recognize this story? Do you think it may be possible to identify this group of Italian survivors of World Was 2? We have no names - and only an approximate date when they will have

Hello, Here lies or here is buried (2-letter abbreviation within the star of David on top) Our dear father David son of Ye’hoshua Ha’levi Weiss Passed 3 Tevet 5677 Shabbat shalom, Malka Chosnek

At the end of each week, we have been featuring excerpts from Yizkor books in JewishGen's archive. You can find the archive of past Yizkor book excerpts here: https://bit.ly/3aCH1ak. If you are not fa

The entire community is invited to join us for our next free JewishGen Talks webinar: Topic: Enemy, Alien, Declarant...Grief: Learning from Missteps in the Naturalization Process Date: Wednesday, Nove

Could someone please translat this Headstone of my Great Grandfather Davi Weiss -- George Weiss

On his passenger ship manifest, Yankel Disenhaus and his family members (line 8-11) last residence is shown as "Katannaslaw". I have searched Jewishgen for this place but can't find anything even clos

Shalom friends, Could anyone tell me anything about our surname, KUTSCHKE? I have read it is related to / is a Germanized form of the Polish “KUCZKA,” which denotes Succot. In addition, is there any r

Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte on Tuesday introduced a draft bill to expand a compensation plan for Jewish property seized by the Nazis and Soviets. Proposed is that the country whose Jewi

Seeking Descendants: Sam Lean arrived in Cleveland with his son Jack in 1910. Esther arrived in 1923 with daughters, Alice, Anna, and Ida. Surnames include Wollman, Shames, Litchen, and Mintz. -Bill R

I have posted the following three vital record requests two in French and one (i think) in German to ViewMate. They are as follows: 1. The marriage record, in French, of my 4x great grand Uncle Moyse

I've posted two images of tombstones that I'd like translated. I found the photographs of the tombstones among the papers of my cousin, a Holocaust survivor who died in 2019. He lived in Kovno and Gar

I would really appreciate a translation of this letter into English. I believe that it is written in Hungarian. Thanks so much! -- Robin August, Ph.D.

Hi, I was wondering if there exists pictures of graves from the Beirut Jewish cemetery. There is an inventory of more than 3,000 graves from the cemetery on Sephardicgen.com but it does not contain pi

Good morning, Here lies or here is buried (2-letter abbreviation on top) My husband and our dear father A’haron Zvi Me’ir Passed 6 (?) Cheshvan 5678 May his soul be gathered in eternal life (last line

ב"ה Dear JewishGenners: The November 16, 2022 edition of the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita carried a notice from the Mayor of Warsaw indicating that the city is seeking heirs to a property located i

ב"ה Dear JewishGenners: The November 16, 2022 edition of the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita carried a notice from the Warsaw Mayor's office, Department of Bierut Decree Affairs, indicating that the c