Dear Friends, We just returned from Poland after a highly successful JewishGen Future Scholars Fellowship program (www.JewishGen.org/fellowship) conducted in partnership with Friends of Jewish Heritag

Long-time Zambrów and area researchers will be pleased to learn that Jewish Records Indexing - Poland (jri-poland.org) as undertaken a huge new “Phase 3” project to fully extract all surviving Zambrów

We are privileged to have Rita Bogdanova- expert Latvian Archivist- speak at our IAJGS Conference meeting on 23rd August 12.30pm (ET) We hope to welcome as many of you as possible. She will speak on t

“A Double Miracle” from the Yizkor book of Szumsk (Ukraine) recounts the dangers that the town’s Jews faced in the chaotic period following the Russian revolution when the provisional government colla

The Gesher Galicia Emergency Appeal made another disbursement of aid to the Jewish Community of Ivano-Frankivsk (formerly Stanislawow). Here are pictures of the inside of a parcel with food along with

Are the names Etel and Jutte interchangeable? Ervin Spinner

I sat down on Wednesday with Professor Omer Bartov on Wednesday for a discussion on Omer's new book "Tales from the Borderlands; Making and Unmaking the Galicia Past." It was a fascinating talk that w

After 20 years of subscription, I see that Avotaynu has suspended publication. I have not been able to find out any information. Can anyone explain the circumstance? Many Thanks, Dan Friedman Seattle,

General view of the excavations on the site of the Warsaw Ghetto. Photo: Warsaw Ghetto Museum Jewish Heritage Europe reported on excavations at the site of the Warsaw Ghetto where a child’s shoe, Kitc

Five Nazi-looted pieces of art were returned to the family of Carl Heumann, according to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, also known as Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK). These include

In July 1940 My grandfather scribbled a note that was sent by telegram to my uncle in NYC. I can read a couple words for ship tickets and $300 but can anyone discern what the rest of it says? Sadly, m

Curators at Israeli’s University of Haifa’s Hecht Museum discovered three previously unknown sketches by celebrated 20th-century artist Amedeo Modigliani hiding beneath the surface of one of his paint

Hello! The link below is to a ship manifest listing Itze KAPTZIZ on line 29. Itze left Starobin, Minsk, Belarus and arrived in NYC in 1902 on the Kensington out of Antwerp. He was going to his Uncle A

A need Russian translation for 2 certificates of families. I don't need word-for-word but details such as names, dates, locations, occupations, and so on are very helpful. A birth certificate of Chaim

Hello Bessarabers, We had a good progress on Vital records last half a year, and submitted recently more than 4,000 records to JG, and they are available now. Here is what left to do: Bendery and Bend

I am trying to find a connection to the family of Jetta ROSENWALD from Dietenhofen. Family lore has it that she is related to Julius ROSENWALD - the business giant who built Sears Roebuck into the pow

Hello, We found a "strange" stone in my father's "Treasure Box". It seems like a tool he brought from one of his labor camps in Europe, where he was during WWII. Is it seems familiar to one of you? It

- JRI-Poland needs to send a 5" x 9" x 2" package with an important part to Warsaw. If you are going to Poland in the next month or so, please write to volunteer@... Your help will be appreciated and

Please help translate one or both postcards below. They are from Bialystok. Thanks. https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM99206 https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?

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=VM99202 Please respond via t