Hello, I have tried to find his record on the memorial book without success https://obd-memorial.ru/html/ He fought in the great Patriotic War - recruited in 1941 around Mordovsky District. His last l

Hello, My grandfather was recruited to the Polish army in 1939 fell for the Red Army and was sent to Arkhangelsk. Is there a way to find records from there regarding him? Best regards, Aviv Yahav

I have just looked at the conditions for submitting a tree to the JewishGen website.. One of the conditions is that the tree must be all the result of one's own research, or only published with the pe

My 4th-great-grandmother, Elisabeth BECKER (called Leids, Leitz, or Leize Benjamin before 1808), was born on 6 April 1776 in Niederzissen (Landkreis Ahrweiler, Rheinland-Pfalz) and died there on 10 Ju

I found this photograph of Nathan and Anna COHEN in the photos of my Ellis family from Kishinev. I would love to find its rightful family, but there are many couples with those names in 1910-1920 NYC.

On the Ukrainian archive material recently discussed I worked my way to the Berdychev 1897 census page https://uk.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D1%85%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%B8/%D0%94%D0%90%D0%9A%D0%9E/384/

Almost every Jewish community had a mikveh, where Jews went for the ritual bath to cleanse themselves of deeds from the past. Unmarried women went to the mikveh prior to their wedding, and married one

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Entry on JRI gives last name for Izrael Warschawski who died in Plock in 1863 as: LEWIN VEL WARSZAWSKI Can anyone explain what VEL means and what his relationship to LEWIN is? Thanks Relly Coleman

Does anyone know of any databases of internal passports and travel permits for Tsarist Russia? Birth records prove that my grandfather's family came from the Chernigov oblast in what is now northern U

From: Jill Anderson <ja324435@...> Subject: Harold B Krom Z"L Date: 9 October 2020 at 12:30:40 BST To: main@... The Board of LitvakSIG would like to express its sincere condolences to the family and f

My cousins would like to find the birth certificate of their mother, who was born in 1946 in the DP Camp in Benzheim. Is there a special archive for DP camp records? Do they just write to the nearest

Hello. If possible, does anyone who has access to the "Wer einmal War" book check on Elisabeth Hock, mentioned on page 1205? I am trying to find out if that is a relative. Thank you, Barbara Illner Ba

Hi all, I have posted three pages from Grodno revision lists of 1834 and 1850 on ViewMate and am looking for translation of the entries on these pages that pertain to the DZIVETETSKY or KHAZANOVITZ fa

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In celebration of the publication of May God Avenge Their Blood: A Holocaust Memoir Triptych—the memoirs of Yiddish writer and poet Rachmil Bryks, translated into English—the Museum will host the work

My grandfather Nathan (Nuchim) MOSKOWITZ (1887 - 1927) was believed to have several siblings which remain unknown to me. His parents were Isidore (Itzchak) MOSKOWITZ (possibly a Rabbi), and Nettie (Ne

My paternal great grandfather, Maier Lowin Ordewer 1853, Radziechow district of Ternopol, Austria-Hungary, was one of 12 sons. The eleven other brothers all became rabbis. I am looking for information

PLEASE SHARE THIS WITH YOUR READERS AND SOCIETY MEMBERS In 24 hours we have gotten the attention of the NYC Department of Records & Information Services (DORIS) known to us as the Municipal Archives.

I've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM86851 Please respond via t