We are pleased to announce a new addition to the JewishGen Hungarian Collection: Proof of Citizenship Records Košice County, 1924-1928. This set of data contains 1,741 Jewish names, taken from 3 volumes of archival documents ÒEvidencia vydaných osvedčen’ o št‡tnom občianstveÓ (Evidence of Issued Proofs of Citizenship). In total, there are now more nearly 1.3 […]
In 2013, we posted to our Success! Stories webpage Rachel Lev-Leshem’s story, My Great-Grandparents’ Mezuzah, about her visit to her ancestral town of Érmihályfalva, a little border-town in northern Romania, Transylvania, a few miles from the Hungarian border. “…While standing next to the old Érmihályfalva synagogue, a man on his bicycle approached us and asked […]
JewishGen is pleased to report that 25,021 new records from our colleagues and partners at LitvakSIG are now searchable via the JewishGen Lithuania Collection. The new records include: 1942 census of ghettos in Golshany, Krevo, Oshmiany, Smorgon, Soly and Zhuprany, all in the Oshmiany district but including some individuals originating elsewhere (5,145 records). City of […]
Note: We are pleased to introduce a new column, Focus on Sephardim & Ashkenazim by Joel Davidi Weisberger, which will be devoted to exploring the encounter between Sephard & Ashkenaz in Southeastern Europe, particularly Transylvania. Joel Davidi Weisberger is a historian specializing in the history of worldwide Medieval Jewry as well as the Jews of Europe […]
Gesher Galicia and JewishGen are separate organizations, in a strategic partnership to achieve shared goals. We are pleased to include their announcements in our Discussion Groups and Weekly Updates. Gesher Galicia is launching an extensive long-term project to identify 573 Jewish record books of unknown origin housed in the Przemysl State Archive in Poland. Involved […]
We are pleased to announce a major update to the JewishGen Belarus Collection, with the addition of 45,895 new records (see the bottom of this message for a detailed list). This new update was made possible by the hard work and dedication of many volunteers who translated, transcribed and validated the records. Specifically, we would […]
We are pleased to announce a major update to the Bessarabia Revision List project, with the addition of 10,088 new records from 2,791 families. In total, there are now more than 203,000 records from Reviska Skazka — 19th century Czarist tax censuses – for more than 100 towns and shtetl and colonies, including: Akkerman (Cetatea […]
The following is from Yefim Kogan and Inna Vayner, Directors of Bessarabia Research: (1) Jewish Cemeteries – Updates: Completed the photographing and indexing of Valea-lui-Vlad Jewish Cemetery (former Jewish Agricultural colony) and sent to JOWBR 44 burial records with 44 images. Most of the inscriptions are not readable. See information at the Bessarabia SIG website, […]
In 2013, we posted Andrew Lenard’s moving story, Romance in F Major: Searching for Rózsi, about his boyhood musical partner. He wrote: …At the very end of 1943—on the eve of the Hungarian holocaust—Rózsi and I began practicing another wonderful Beethoven piece, the Romance in F-major. … Preceding deportation, ten-thousand people were herded together in […]
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