I have posted several photographs of gravestones from the cemetery in Potok Zloty (now Zolotyi Potik-Ukraine). They can be found at the following addresses in ViewMate: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewm

The Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project (JDCRP) plans to provide a comprehensive registry of all Jewish collections looted by the Nazi., They are beginning with a pilot project on Old Masters sei

My ancestors lived on Tompkins Ave. right around the corner from the Brooklyn Roumanian-American Congregation First Beth Tphilah synagogue. They emigrated in 1916 and were Romanian Jews. I suspect tha

Speaker: Dr. Julie Lieber Culture and Jewish Identity in Freud's Vienna Tuesday, December 8, 2020 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM Program / Mountain Time On Zoom • No charge Turn of the Century Vienna was a place

Dear researchers My grandmother was born in 1894 in Teofipol. She emigrated to the United States in 1909. She told my mother who was born in 1920 that her uncle was Mayor of her town. Would it be poss

Ancestry includes many U.S. school yearbooks in their database. On December 1, 2020 in California, my home state, a lawsuit was filed in San Francisco – a proposed class action lawsuit, alleging Ances

I am trying to find the naturalization petition and records for my grandfather Max Glasser. From Ancestry, I have found an index card (#4982428) indicating that it is petition number 291649 from the U

I was able to retrieve the Ghetto Theresienstadt Card File for my GGF Hermann GRONNER from the Arolsen Archives online search, with the original available from the Jewish Communities archive in Prague

Searching for any family members of BENNO ZEIGER son of Leopold Zeiger, and sibling of Ludwig, Lotte and Walter. Born in Vienna, Austria and possibly moving to Israel during WWII. Lynn Weisberg Baltim

I was told this was the name of my great grandmother. Born and died in Russia, possible Stepan. I would like to know if there might be an English equivalent. Thank you, Lowell NIGOFF

I am still trying to find out what happened to Malvin Weisz/Weiss born Malvina Paneth in 1913 in Onod. It looks like she may have been in a DP camp in Homberg in 1946. She was in Venusberg from Januar

"My Heart is in the East..." Financial support for Eretz Israel from the farthest West Support for the Jewish community in 'Terra Santa' was one of the earliest obligations that the Amsterdam and Lond

Hello everybody, I got a question from our member if there is a any connection between Balti and Balta... is it the same place, or what, and I replied, but also decided to send my reply to the whole g

Dear researchers, Here is an update for the Bessarabia Research Division projects for the month of November 2020. See also at What's New at Bessarabia website. Bessarabian Databases. Updates in Decemb

Hello! I would like to ask you some several questions about my grandma’s past - The Farhi family lived in Rhodes until 1939. With the beginning of World War II, Italy ruled an aggressive antisemitic a

Join the Jewish Genealogy Society of Cleveland for its Annual Meeting followed by a Musical Program on Wednesday, December 9, 2020 starting at 7:00 pm Violinist Steven Greenman, Presenting "Music for

I have location information on two burials from 2005 and 2011 at Yarkon Cemetery, Tel-Aviv-Yafo for which I would appreciate photos of gravestones. Please reply privately if you are able to help. This

Hey. I am looking for information about my grandfather Yakov Semenovich Nedobeyko. According to him, he was born in Yekaterinoslav in 1906. His mother's name is Berta Ruvilovna Becker. He studied at a

I cannot find information about father’s family before they arrived in the US — from Wreschen, my ggf, Abraham I. JACOBS (b 1837; arr. 1855?), ggm Rachel SEIFFER (b. 1838); from Sawin, ggf Pinchus TRE

The following is a page from the Passport of Sima Weinstock and her three children who left Lithuania in 1905, sailing from Liverpool to New York. Upon arrival, Sima was hospitalized and subsequently