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Postcards from Pinsk
A Viewmate Success Story

September 9, 2019January 23, 2020 Richard Baum September 2019

By Linda Ewall Krocker

“Years later I learned that my cousin Renee had her father’s correspondence from 1939-1945 from our Fiszelow and Steinberg family members who remained behind… postcards from a beautiful set of gilded Jewish New Year’s cards…until they apparently ran out.”

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The Nisman Family from Parichi Connecting Through JewishGen’s Family Finder

February 23, 2019May 31, 2019 Richard Baum February 2019

By Jessica Feinstein
“I have been told that all the family letters and photos they had received were torn up during the period of repression, because they were very afraid that somebody would find them.”

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A Genealogical Trifecta

June 18, 2017May 10, 2019 successAdmin June 2017

By Jerry Touger
On their ship’s manifest, both of them indicated they were going to a Samuel or Salman Gellmann in Passaic. Here already were two perplexing questions. Why Passaic? And who on earth was Samuel Gellmann?

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