hi, i would like to understand the history of Blotnica and the jews in the 1800s especially between 1840 and 1880. I find a Błotnica elsewhere in Poland but i expected it to be north of radom and sout

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Trying to make contact with descendants or anyone with knowledge of Murray Catin (1910-1985, son of Harry Catin/Rose Kotkin) and Martha Catin, née Wagner (1913-1985, daughter of Jacob Wagner and Emma

My mom recently died and I've been trying for the past few months to get the spellings of her parents in Hebrew for her gravestone. I have recordings of their Hebrew names, but I can't find someone wh

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I only found out now that I have a stepsister. Unfortunately I don't know a name, but maybe someone knows the woman who goes with this story. Your mother would have to be an Italian citizen. In 1945 s

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I've posted a vital record in Russian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM89760 This is the birth reco

Hi all, I'm looking for resources to find archived documents on my great grandparents from Berdychiv, Ukraine. They lived there from at least 1830 till around 1906. The surnames were Iserov and Grinbe

The World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) signed an agreement with the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg on Holocaust-era property restitution. The agreement was signed by the government of Luxembourg

I found what looks like an amazing resource - it is a collection of diaries from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, dating from the 1800s to the present. https://prozhito.org/. In theory it is searchable, b

This is the headstone of my gr grandmother: Channa Ita Gratch Levi, buried at the Mt. of Olives in Jerusalem. I need a translation from the Hebrew please. Thank you Deborah Friedman Walnut Creek, CA d

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've posted a vital record in Hebrew for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM89806 Please respond via th

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Over seven decades have elapsed, and the collective loss of the Jewish people remains inc

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A recently discovered cousin of mine survived WWII in the Russian Army and immigrated to Israel from Ukraine in the 1990s. Are there records of such immigration in Israel? Are there societies of forme