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A Book of Names

May 30, 2019September 9, 2019 Richard Baum May 2019

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.”

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It Began with a Picture

February 26, 2019May 31, 2019 Richard Baum February 2019

By Rashi Rosenzweig
“Two yellow Stars of David with the word ‘Juif ‘ are taped to the middle of Paulette’s bureau. She told me that these were patched to her clothes when she was a young girl in Nazi occupied France.”

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A Whole Other Family, Buried in Antique Russian Cursive

September 27, 2018July 16, 2020 successAdmin September 2018

“The ability to read pre-Revolutionary Russian cursive writing turned out to be the key that unlocked the entire history of my grandfather’s father’s family.”

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