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Chanukah Message from the Executive Director
Dear JewishGen Community, As we light the candles of Chanukah in the coming days, we celebrate the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem and the miracle of the light. What joy the Menorah brings us!
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Dear JewishGen Community, As we light the candles of Chanukah in the coming days, we celebrate the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem and the miracle of the light. What joy the Menorah brings us!
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By Avraham Groll
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Family of Krispy Kreme and Panera Bread Makers Donates Millions of Euros to Holocaust Survivors
The German family behind Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Panera Bread and Pret A Manger Reimann, pledged 5 million Euros ($5.5 million USD) to Holocaust survivors and another 5 million Euros to an assistance
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The German family behind Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Panera Bread and Pret A Manger Reimann, pledged 5 million Euros ($5.5 million USD) to Holocaust survivors and another 5 million Euros to an assistance
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By Jan Meisels Allen
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UKRAINE RECORDS – SCANNING BY ALEX KRAKOVSKY & PRESERVATION BY JEWISHGEN 6 messages
Alex Krakovsky, a Jewish Ukrainian, is using freedom of information laws and the court system in Ukraine to force archives to allow him to scan their records, as was never before permitted. He then po
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Alex Krakovsky, a Jewish Ukrainian, is using freedom of information laws and the court system in Ukraine to force archives to allow him to scan their records, as was never before permitted. He then po
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By Phyllis Berenson
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Support for Alex Krakovsky and the Ukraine Jewish Records
I would like to support what Phyllis Berenson wrote in a recent email. As President of The San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society of California, USA, I would like to add our voice to those
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I would like to support what Phyllis Berenson wrote in a recent email. As President of The San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society of California, USA, I would like to add our voice to those
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By jeremy frankel
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Lena Rose Kaufer
-- I am searching for Sylvia Rose and or her descendants. She was daughter of my great aunt Lena Kaufer Rose and lived in Long Beach CA. Her mother and father operated the Rose Hotel there. The last i
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-- I am searching for Sylvia Rose and or her descendants. She was daughter of my great aunt Lena Kaufer Rose and lived in Long Beach CA. Her mother and father operated the Rose Hotel there. The last i
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By Stuart Kaufer
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
One of the most well-known eyewitness accounts of Nazi brutality is one written by German-born Hermann Friedrich Graebe about the mass-killing that took place in Dubno in 1942. Graebe joined the Nazi
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One of the most well-known eyewitness accounts of Nazi brutality is one written by German-born Hermann Friedrich Graebe about the mass-killing that took place in Dubno in 1942. Graebe joined the Nazi
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By Bruce Drake
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JewishGen Education offers - - Research Your Roots Using JewishGen -- January 3 to January 24 2 messages
Register Now for JewishGen Class January 3 to January 24, 2020 Research Your Roots using JewishGen is designed for researchers who want to become more efficient in using the JewishGen website. If you
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Register Now for JewishGen Class January 3 to January 24, 2020 Research Your Roots using JewishGen is designed for researchers who want to become more efficient in using the JewishGen website. If you
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By Nancy Holden
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Finishers Sick Benevolent Association
Does anyone know anything about the Finishers Sick Benevolent Association, who had a single burial plot in Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY? Is it associated somehow with a trade union? The JGSNY d
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Does anyone know anything about the Finishers Sick Benevolent Association, who had a single burial plot in Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY? Is it associated somehow with a trade union? The JGSNY d
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By Steve Stein
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Projects for Novograd-Volynsk City and Nearby Towns Baranivka; Horodnytsia; Lyubar; Nova Chortoryia; Ostropil; Polonne; Rohachiv; Romaniv; etc.
#records
#volhynia
#YizkorBooks
#Ukraine
There are so many genealogy projects going on for the city and administrative district of Novograd Volynsk! #1) Significant progress has been made on translating the Novograd Volynsk Yizkor Book since
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There are so many genealogy projects going on for the city and administrative district of Novograd Volynsk! #1) Significant progress has been made on translating the Novograd Volynsk Yizkor Book since
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By Ellen Shindelman Kowitt
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Jewish Exponent (Philadelphia) Article about Miriam Weiner
The Jewish Genealogical and Archival Society of Greater Philadelphia held its sixth annual Steve Schecter Memorial Lecture last Sunday. Miriam Weiner was the keynote speaker. Miriam's career as a brea
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The Jewish Genealogical and Archival Society of Greater Philadelphia held its sixth annual Steve Schecter Memorial Lecture last Sunday. Miriam Weiner was the keynote speaker. Miriam's career as a brea
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By Mark Halpern
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New book
This new book may be of interest to those researching Istanbul, Saloniki or Izmir. I have no connection to this book or its publisher. https://www.zerobooksonline.com/en/protestant-missionaries-to-the
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This new book may be of interest to those researching Istanbul, Saloniki or Izmir. I have no connection to this book or its publisher. https://www.zerobooksonline.com/en/protestant-missionaries-to-the
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By Sam Wolff
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Shorskey, Russia - Any idea of a current name? 3 messages
This town was listed on naturalization papers of a person in my husband's tree. I used the Town Finder on JewishGen and got no hits. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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This town was listed on naturalization papers of a person in my husband's tree. I used the Town Finder on JewishGen and got no hits. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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By Janice Brockman
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ViewMate translation request – Russian from Zamosc, Poland – AJLBAUM 2 messages
#Poland
#Translations
I would appreciate an English translation of the Russian text of the 1891 Zamosc, Poland birth record for Gerszon Genoch AJLBAUM, Akta 167. I would like a translation of all the genealogically signifi
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I would appreciate an English translation of the Russian text of the 1891 Zamosc, Poland birth record for Gerszon Genoch AJLBAUM, Akta 167. I would like a translation of all the genealogically signifi
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By Sinai (Sonny) PUTTER
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Gepner and Prywes
#warsaw
Dear Friends, I am searching for the relatives of two merchants of metal and alloys from Warszawa (Warsaw) in Poland: Gepner (Abraham?) and Prywes. It was suggested that during the WWII their establis
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Dear Friends, I am searching for the relatives of two merchants of metal and alloys from Warszawa (Warsaw) in Poland: Gepner (Abraham?) and Prywes. It was suggested that during the WWII their establis
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By p.tomaszewski@...
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IGRA Meeting January 2nd Ra'anana, Israel-““They Enable Us to See: Non-Jewish Rescue of Jewish Memory in Poland”.
Join us for the next IGRA meeting in Ra’anana on Thursday, January 2, 2020. Our guest speaker is Leora Tec who will speak on “They Enable Us to See: Non-Jewish Rescue of Jewish Memory in Poland”. Her
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Join us for the next IGRA meeting in Ra’anana on Thursday, January 2, 2020. Our guest speaker is Leora Tec who will speak on “They Enable Us to See: Non-Jewish Rescue of Jewish Memory in Poland”. Her
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By Elena Bazes
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Yiddish Diary from Lodz 1942 Translation needed VM76289
I posted a double page of a hidden diary written in the Ghetto of Lodz in 1942 (Viewmate VM76289). It is in yiddish with some sentences or words in polish. It seems that the author of this diary, Leo
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I posted a double page of a hidden diary written in the Ghetto of Lodz in 1942 (Viewmate VM76289). It is in yiddish with some sentences or words in polish. It seems that the author of this diary, Leo
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Stolpersteine in Polish Silesia 4 messages
Has anyone had experience of installing Stolpersteine in Polish Silesia ? My paternal grandparents, Adolf and Frieda (nee MASUR) STEIN lived in a small town, Kanth, now Katy Wroclawski, along the rail
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Has anyone had experience of installing Stolpersteine in Polish Silesia ? My paternal grandparents, Adolf and Frieda (nee MASUR) STEIN lived in a small town, Kanth, now Katy Wroclawski, along the rail
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By margaret.lev@...
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New file of 21,202 lines just added to the Vilnius District Research Group of LitvakSIG
#Lithuania
LitvakSIG is proud to announce that a new file has just been added to the Vilnius District Research Group. It's the Vilnius births index,1915-1938 and it consists of 21,202 lines. This file is only av
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LitvakSIG is proud to announce that a new file has just been added to the Vilnius District Research Group. It's the Vilnius births index,1915-1938 and it consists of 21,202 lines. This file is only av
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By Anderson Jill
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BialyGen: Bialystok Region #Bialystok #Poland Lucy Lisowska - caretaker of Jewish Bialystok
#bialystok
#Poland
Lucy Lisowska lives in Bialystok, Poland and takes care of the Jewish memory of our ancestral towns in the region. Lucy is currently dealing with a number of difficult medical issues. Now, we need to
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Lucy Lisowska lives in Bialystok, Poland and takes care of the Jewish memory of our ancestral towns in the region. Lucy is currently dealing with a number of difficult medical issues. Now, we need to
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By Mark Halpern
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania New file of 21,202 lines added to the Vilnius District Research Group
#Lithuania
LitvakSIG is proud to announce that a new file has just been added to the Vilnius District Research Group. It's the Vilnius births index,1915-1938 and it consists of 21,202 lines. This file is only av
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LitvakSIG is proud to announce that a new file has just been added to the Vilnius District Research Group. It's the Vilnius births index,1915-1938 and it consists of 21,202 lines. This file is only av
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