International Holocaust Remembrance Day is commemorated on January 27th. January 27, 2021 is the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration, the ending of World War ll and

May I please request translation from Russian of the attached Page of Testimony of Icek KAMINSKY - just of paragraphs 7. 10. 11. 12. and the relation of the submitter. Thanks, Yohanan LOEFFLER Melbour

Hello! I've posted the marriage record of my great-grandparents and would appreciate any help translating the document. It is on ViewMate at the following address: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/v

I've posted two vital records in Polish for which I need a translation. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM89412 https://www.jew

I am in need of any information I can find regarding the Spanish part of the life of Akiva the Elder of Salonika, who according to GENI was born in Spain ca1360 and died in Salonika ca1400 (note: this

Many of us are familiar that the BRCA-2 gene mutation may cause breast cancer in women, but many do not also realize that it could also cause breast cancer and/or prostate cancer in men and also breas

Jewish Genealogical Society NY Meeting Sunday January 24, 2020 at 2 p.m. Zoom Webinar Out of the Whirlwind: Finding the Family You Lost in the Holocaust Speaker: Deborah H. Long The daughter of two Ho

I am trying to learn about my paternal great grandparents and other family who lived in the Russian Empire, now Ukraine. According to papers they were from Elizabetgrad and the name was Portiansky or

I wish to announce that the complete translation of the book, Akkerman and the Towns of its District; Memorial Book has been uploaded to JewishGen incase you missed Lance Ackerfeld’s announcement. You

My paternal great-grandmother, Rachael Weinstein (née Jacob) was reported to have been born in "Kunar, Poland, Russia" in the 1891 UK census. I've checked in JG Townfinder but it doesn't appear to exi

This is a photograph of my grandmother's brother and his family. She was Shayna Bers (Berz Beres) born 1881 I think in Rokiskis Russian Empire. She immigrated to South Africa where she married Israel

The Jewish Genealogical and Archival Society of Greater Philadelphia Zoom Meeting Sunday, January 17, 2021 1:00 pm Check-in, Chat, and Schmooze. 1:30 Official meeting start time Guest Speaker: Sharon

Does anyone have a good source (especially online) for obtaining records from Ufa, Russia in the 1941-1949 timeframe? I'm looking for information on siblings of my great-grandmother Gussie Squire/Scvi

Krakow Address Book 1932 is online. Enables OCR search. The section of surnames starts on scan 375. Happy hunting.. http://www.mtg-malopolska.org.pl/.../ksiegaadresowa1932... Jacob Rosen Jerusalem

The Krakow telephone for the years 1934, 1935,1935 are scanned and can be viewed on this link http://www.mtg-malopolska.org.pl/images/skany/telefon_1934/telefon_1934.pdf They are in poor quality but r

My grandmother, Bertha Hoff, had brothers who immigrated to South Africa from Latvia (late 1890’s - early 1900’s?). I know she married Philip Cohen (also from Latvia) in Baltimore in 1908 but I have n

I am looking for one Mordechai Shekhtman who submitted a couple of Yad Vashem testimonial pages. It is not clear if all the testimonials I looked at were submitted by the same individual (they are all

Hi, Whilst searching through LitvakSIG I came across this attached record. Can someone please explain what is the information in the column on the right? In particular: 2nd uchastok Thanks and regards

I believe this is a photograph of my grandmothers brother and his family. She was Shayneh Bers (Berz Beares) born in Rokiskis 1881. Her father was Yisrael Eedel. She moved to South Africa and married

Stanley Diamond to present update on JRI-Poland on Jan. 24, 2021: Jewish Records Indexing-Poland’s founder and executive director, Stanley Diamond, will present “JRI-Poland Update and More” for the Su