Hi, I'm looking for Filkovsky family routes from Klenzi in Russia. My father name if Alfred and grandpa Zelik. My grandgrandpa name was Solomon. I will be glad to hear any news. Dima Filkovsky

I am looking for the family of Malka Weisberg, who was living on Sderot Weizman in Kiryat Motzkin, Israel in 1956. Malka Weisberg apparently was a second-cousin of my grandfather Lazer Katz, both desc

A relative listed on later census and other documents as Jacob seems to be the same person who was named Akiho at birth. (Akiho Abramovits) Birth record is attached. To me, the name does look like Aki

I am trying to find some ancestry information via shipping lists. However, I do not know where to start. All I know is that my grandfather’s niece and her husband moved from Bessarabia, then Romania (

Vatican News reports, “At the request of Pope Francis, the virtual reproduction of a collection preserving the requests for help addressed to Pope Pius XII by Jews from all over Europe after the begin

Hi all, I have a list of 800 people from Kolomyya (then Poland, now Ukraine) who survived WWII. It was created in Kolomyya shortly after the war ended. I have entered the names and associated data int

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Hello friends, Few months ago, I tried to help some searcher to find the e-mail add. of the population registration office in Valea Lui Mihai. It took some time, but then I lost trace of the searcher.

Which ancestor of mine is this oil painting showing? I think it is either Heimann JARISLOWSKY, born in Konigsberg in 1812 and died just short of his 100th birthday. Or is it his father, Aaron JARISLOW

Hi All, Please can you help me to contact Lewis STEIN, formerly of Boynton Beach, FL, and possibly now residing somewhere in New Jersey. He will be about 94 years old. He may have a son, Jonathan P ST

Shalom, I have been told that a story about my ancestor, Rabbi Bendet Podkover, is in volume three of the book "The Storyteller" by Rabbi Nissan Mindel. If anyone has the book, I would be most gratefu

Hello Genners, I am looking for my Grandmother, Celia Schuster (Nathan-Nechowitz) place of Birth, Posada Prersolie. Poland. Born in 1898. I have looked on a few websites, but nothing comes up. I can u

I'm hoping the collective wisdom can help clarify something I've discovered in some old family photos. I've been delving into dozens of older, unidentified photographs which have come my way over the

Good afternoon. I am assisting Holocaust survivor, Martin Baranek in researching a court case filed by his father pre-WWII in Wierzbnik (now known as Starachowice, Poland). Martin is searching for inf

To All, This is to let you know about an upcoming almost all-day event to take place in Nowy Targ, Poland, on 30 August 2022, 80 years after the annihilation of the Jewish community of Nowy Targ, Pola

European Days of Jewish Culture (EDJC) kick off September 4th, however some events are starting in August. This year’s theme is “Renewal”. See: https://jewisheritage.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Ren

I have a question about having the family surname engraved in Hebrew on the BACK of a gravestone. My grandfather did that with my grandmother’s Matzeivah in Kolbuszowa in 1930. Of course, the front wa

The largest academic (fee-based) conference on Jewish Studies takes place this week in Jerusalem Hebrew University on Mount Scopus, from Monday August 8 to Thursday August 11. Hundred of sessions on a

I've posted a WW-2 certificate in Russian concerning Mania Kozak from Kowel, Ukraine, for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/vie

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