by Binny Lewis Dear JewishGen Community, The JewishGen Yizkor Book Team has been very active in the past two months. Here are some highlights of what we have accomplished and are continuing to work on. At JewishGen.org, among our biggest priorities is the translation of Yizkor Books, which were written to perpetuate the legacy of […]
by Arlene BeareCo-Director of Latvian Research JewishGen Latvia Research Division has great news – the addition of a new database to Jewishgen. The Passport Issuance Books 1919-1941 have been placed online by Family Search and I have extracted the Jewish entries for Jekabpils formerly Jakobstadt. These were Internal Passports issued whenever a person wanted to […]
by Nolan Altman, Holocaust Database Coordinator JewishGen is pleased to announce that a new dataset has been added to the Holocaust Database: https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Holocaust/ In April 1945, just before the end of the war, about 1,000 Jewish men and women, mostly Polish forced laborers, were brought to Gardalegen, Germany, an obscure town in central Germany. The […]
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