By Shirley Ginzburg
“We left empty-handed and demoralized. We needed a miracle. Recently, that miracle landed on my computer screen with a truly uninspiring title: ‘Polonnoye Area Document Project Results’ …a project of JewishGen’s Ukraine SIG.”
By Marilyn Goldenberg Gelber
“My father’s mother, Taube (Tillie) Wolfson Goldenberg, was probably 11 years old in 1904, when she came by herself to America … Tillie thought her uncle was supposed to meet her at the dock, but he wasn’t there when she got off the ship. She stood on the dock, alone, not speaking any English, and holding a piece of paper with her uncle’s address.”
by Colin Mathias Justin
“On June 28, 1808, my great-great-great-great-grandfather, Moshe Hanne Katz, went to the courthouse in the city of Istha, Westphalia, to change his family’s surname forever.”
