JGS TORONTO GLOBAL HERITAGE SIG and CLASSI LECTURES As part of our continued partnership with Classi Lectures, JGS Toronto members can attend at no cost: I. The Trial series II. At the end of WWII Series https://jgstoronto.ca/registration-for-member-only-programs/ THE TRIAL SERIES, Wednesdays at 4 p.m. EDT To learn about each of the lectures, click on the links below. 8 May – The Trial of Rudolf Kasztner, Part 1 with Trudy Gold 15 May – The Trial of Rudolf Kasztner, Part 2 with Trudy Gold 22 May – The Trial of Adolf Eichmann, Part 1 with Trudy Gold 29 May – The Trial of Adolf Eichmann, Part 2 with Trudy Gold AT THE END OF WWII SERIES, Thursdays at 4 p.m. EDT 2 May - "The Last Train", an amazing and heroic story of survival with Rona Arato 9 May - "The Story of the Bricha", the Jewish Underground Railroad with Anne Dublin 16 May - The Displaced Persons Camps (DP) with Anne Dublin Note: The Zoom link will be sent to you on the morning of the lecture. Non-Members: Registration via Classi Lectures at the lecture links above. To discover how culture and learning unite through online lectures and in-person travels, please visit Classi Learning. Contact jscherer@... to receive the zoom link after Becoming a Member - Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto (jgstoronto.ca). FAQ for this program Who may register for this program? Public Is it being recorded? Yes Is the recording available to members? Yes Is the recording available to non-members? No To our guests, consider joining our membership for only $40.00 CDN per year by Clicking Here or consider a donation by Clicking Here to assist us in continuing our mission of providing a forum for the exchange of genealogical knowledge and information. (Canadians will receive a CRA tax receipt.) Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto www.jgstoronto.ca info@... 647-247-6414 Since 1985 Jerry Scherer Vice President jscherer@...

Hyde Park Jewish families vacationed on Lake Michigan in nearby Michigan and Indiana. I have posted a picture of children from about two dozen families on vacation and in fancy dress outfits on ViewMate in hopes you will have the pleasure of discovering one of your own ancestors there. I might have residence address for some of the families listed so drop me a note in this thread with your family name and I will try to find it for you. This picture is from 1905 and my address list is from about 1923. -- Emily Rosenberg Oakland, California KESNER in Amsterdam, London, Chicago STODEL in Amsterdam, London, USA KAWIN in Suwalki and Poland RUBINSKY in Suwalki and Poland

Happy Passover fellow family researchers! I'd like to find more information about the Khakhamovitch/ Hahamovici/ Chachamowicz family. Part of my wife's paternal line - who emigrated from Iasi in Romania to Montreal, Canada - are part of that family. According to Beider's surname dictionaries, the name was taken by "the great-grandson of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Askenazi" who received the title of Chacham ("wise") during his service in the Ottoman empire. My suspicion is that all people with that surname are descended from that same person and I'd love to make the connection. The Second Edition of Rosenstein's "The Unbroken Chain" has a little information about the family; the Third Edition has the name in the indexes of all of the volumes, but I don't have access to it at the moment. Beyond that I'm in the early stages of collecting information to start piecing together. Any and all pointers to anything related to Rabbi Askenazi, his great-grandson, or anyone with that surname in all of its variations are welcome. TYIA! Shawn ================================================ Shawn Weil, PhD - shawn.weil@... Melrose, MA, USA Tarnobrzeg, Poland: Wahl, Abramowitz, & Wilkenfeld Bivolari, Romania: Goldner & Feibish Khotin and Medzhibozh, Ukraine: Telefus & Birnberg Savran and Olgapol, Ukraine: Broitman, Darish, & Bershadsky ================================================

My great grandfather’s name was Silbermann or Silvermann and he was born in Palestine- Jerusalem in 1861. I have never been able to go back on the track of his parents and grandparents, with his name Silbermann. I ask if had to change of surname, why , when and where? I know he left Palestine and lived in Kherson in the years 1880-1890 then in Switzerland (la Chaux-de-Fonds) Does anyone know this issue of name changes? Thanks a lot ! Josiane Lenormand born Silbermann

Russian-to-English translation of the birth records for May, the year 1844 in the town of Mogilev-Podolsky, Jewish community Translation of the birth records being done free of charge Comments of the author of the translation 1) this is the town of Mogilev-Podolsky, Podolsky gubernia (region); this is not Mogilev in Belarus; 2) in this message, 7 birth records of girls and 12 birth records of boys, who were born in May, 1844; 3) hopefully someone identifies a relative and finds the record joyful; 4) birth records of children, who were born in January were posted April 11; 5) birth records of children, who were born in February were posted April 12; 6) birth records of children, who were born in March were posted April 13; 7) birth records of children, who were born in April were posted April 14 8) next I translate birth records for June 1844 and post soon. ================ May, the year 1844 Nr. 54 (male) date of birth: May 1, 1844 name of child: Duvid parents: father - Gershko MILSHTEYN mother - Ester Malka, daughter of Pinkas Khaim DZIGIVSKY Nr. 46 (female) date of birth: May 2, 1844 name of child: Tsipra parents: father - Gershko, son of Tankhim, VERSTA mother - Rivka Nr. 55 (male) date of birth: May 6, 1844 name of child: Srul Iser? parents: father - Yos, son of Abram [surname illegible] mother - Ginda, daughter of Froim FEYDER Nr. 47 (female) date of birth: May 7, 1844 name of child: Khaya Gitlia parents: father - Yankel, son of Khaim, GROBMAN mother - Khantsia, daughter of Berko Nr. 56 (male) date of birth: May 9, 1844 name of child: Abram Ber parents: father - Shimon Leyvi? Moshko? KORINSNOP mother - Alta, daughter of Yankel Nr. 57 (male) date of birth: May 10, 1844 name of child: Shmul Zayvel parents: father - Meyer [name illegible], son of Elye, SPEKTOR mother - Risia, daughter of Shlioma Nr. 58 (male) date of birth: May 12, 1844 name of child: Shlioma parents: father - Itsko, son of Kelman, TREYGER mother - Etia Dvoyra, daughter of Shlioma Nr. 48 (female) date of birth: May 14, 1844 name of child: Dvoyra parents: father - Kiva, son of Mortko, SHOYKHET mother - Makhlia, daughter of Aron Nr. 49 (female) date of birth: May 15, 1844 name of child: Sura parents: father - Gershko, son of Itsko, SHAMIS mother - Khaya, daughter of Srul Gersh RIBA? Nr. 59 (male) date of birth: May 15, 1844 name of child: Khaim Yosef parents: father - Srul Leyb, son of Mortko IDELZON mother - Rivka, son of Moshko VINER Nr. 60 (male) date of birth: May 18, 1844 name of child: Mortko parents: father - Yos, son of Vol, TOKAR mother - Rode, daughter of Mortko Nr. 50 (female) date of birth: May 20, 1844 name of child: Ita parents: father - Leyb, son of Elye, SEREBRENSKY mother - Khana Nr. 61 (male) date of birth: May 23, 1844 name of child: Yosef parents: father - Mendel, son of Mortko, GITIS mother - Rivka Nr. 62 (male) date of birth: May 24, 1844 name of child: Khaim Ida parents: father - Srul, son of Yudko, ZAKMAN?/ZOKMAN? mother - Sosia Rukhlia, daughter of Bendit Nr. 51 (female) date of birth: May 28, 1844 name of child: Freyda parents: father - Leyvi Itskhok, son of Abram, SHOYKHET mother - Perlia, daughter of Abram Nr. 52 (female) date of birth: May 28, 1844 name of child: Khaya Gitlia parents: father - Yankel Volf, son of Moshko, NESHUMA?/NETUMA? mother - Ester Elka, daughter of Gershko Nr. 63 (male) date of birth: May 29, 1844 name of child: Yankel Mendel parents: father - Khaim Moshko, son of Leyba, FERMAN mother - Feyga, daughter of Yankel Nr. 64 (male) date of birth: May 29, 1844 name of child: Meyer Leybish parents: father - Khaim, son of Meyer, BRONSHTEYN mother - Pesia, daughter of Abram Leyba, KANDEL Nr. 65 (male) date of birth: May 30, 1844 name of child: Shmul parents: father - Leybish, son of Khaim Mortko, MARGULIS mother - Feyga, daughter of Itsko, LANDA ---------------- Russian to English translation of the birth records were done free of charge by me personally Vladimir Kreshchishyn vovabobarunner@... ----------------

Hello! I am brand new here. I am working to find more information about my Romanian ancestors from Galati and Botosani. The SOLOMONS are from Galati. The surname was changed from LEIBOVITZ or further back might be LUPESCU. My Great Great Grandfather was William, Great Grandfather Hyman (who changed the name to SOLOMON). My Grandfather is Louis. On the Botosani side, My Great Great Grandfather was Moses MOSS (could be MOISA), Great Grandfather was Harry MOSS, Grandmother was Ida MOSS. If any of you are related and working on your trees, I would be interested in connecting with you. Thank you! -- Shoshana Labowitz Danoff Fanizza Solomon/Moss Labowitz/Shefrin

I have received some records from The Together Plan regrading my research of the KAMINSKY / KOMENKIER family, from Shereshevo, Pruzhany, Grodno (then Russia, today Sarasova, Belarus) 2 early records, Alphabetical lists of Jews of the Pruzhany Jewish Community, 1853 and 1859 listed 3 brothers: Hershko, Itsko and Izik. This record also appears in JewishGen Belarus database. As much as I know both Itsko and Izik names derive from Yitzhak, and I wonder what could be the explanation of this naming of the 2 brothers, who were both alive in 1853. Unless in Russian they are different names? Later on, in 1910 and 1913 Voters Lists and 1912 taxpayer list, appears the names Kominkerer Hershko / Hersh Hertskovich and Kominkerer Shlioma Hertzkovich. As much as I know, “ovich” means “son of”; So what can explain “Hershko Hertzkovich”? Hertzkovich here is not a patronymic surname, and it can’t be “Hershko son of Hertz” because, as much as I know, these are identical names. Could a grandchild carry his father’s patronym? Or, again, are they different names in Russian? -- Yohanan LOEFFLER Melbourne, Australia Researching (main surnames): From Austria, Slovakia: LOFFLER / LEFLER, LEDERER, SCHNEIDER, NATHAN, SEELENFRIED, ZAPPERT. From Bukowina, Galicia: MINSTER / MUNSTER, NAGEL, SCHERL, IWANIR. From Poland / Belarus: ALTMAN, KAMINSKY, KAMINKIER, LUBETKIN, SZTARK, YOSELEWICZ, KOSLOWSKI, KRAMARZ, RAUCHFELD.

Is it possible, given a specific address, ie: in Manhattan N.Y., in a particular census year, to discover the names of the residents? Neilan Stern researching: Stern, Pistrong - Radomysl Wielki, Poland; Schwarz, Black - Nesvizh, Belarus; Aronov/wsky (Kohanim) - Vilijampole, Lithuania

Dear All, It has been a while since I've posted to this group. I am looking for help (even if I have to hire someone) to find and go through any available Imperial Russia military records or journal to find some information from ca. 1898-1901. I can imagine finding someone to access this sort of information inside Russia, particularly at this point in history, may be a challenge or a risk, but I want to ask. My great-grandfather (the only one I knew, albeit barely up to the age of 3), from Lomza gubernia (now Poland), was in the Imperial Cavalry supposedly as an NCO-like leader of a Jewish regiment that was sent out to the east (Manchuria) around the time or just before the Boxer Rebellion. The family story goes that he and his group did not want to follow orders to cut the heads off everyone in a village, so they deserted, robbed a Russo-Chinese bank, and then while his crew went back home, since he was the leader he went farther east, through Japan and eventually to US via Canada. I am sure that much of this is completely true - and i know for a fact this last part is true as we have his train manifest from Montreal and his border crossing). My parents recall there was a 'wanted' poster for him in their last apartment, but it long since vanished. We would still really like to try to learn more and since he was a fugitive I'd have to think there would be some records from that period of time, if not for his 'service.' The only thing we have is a mid-1880s register of him and his brothers with the military (he was only 12 at the time). No photos, no idea of the name of the regiment, or of his official title although again he was supposed to have been their leader (he spoke many languages). A few years ago i corresponded with someone via this group who told me where i might find military journals of that era - they are all in Russian, of course, and difficult for me to penetrate (I have not checked to see if they are still online). There also used to be a Russian military website (www.regiment.ru) but it is defunct at least that address. I had pored through that and there were some candidate regiments (cavalry from that area that went to the far east) but no details or names other than the main man (they might have not listed many Jewish NCO's either). Any leads or specific suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Wayne Frankel relevant surname for this post: SOKOL relevant town for this post: JABLONKA (later, ZAMBROW), Lomza gubernia

The Israel Genealogy Research Association invites you to a lecture in Hebrew "About D.N.A. - Legends and Reality An Experiential, Fun and Enriching Lecture" presented by Aviad Ben Izhak. In a fascinating, experiential lecture that includes amazing stories and findings, interwoven with humor, we will talk about the following topics: How is a DNA test performed and what are the results obtained from it? What is your level of relationship to a fly? What is your level of relationship to a Second Temple Jew? Pure Sephardim and pure Ashkenazim – truth or legend? An Israeli travels to close a deal in Australia - what will be revealed? A lawyer receives a phone call – what family secret will be revealed? What do Polish Catholics in their eighties discover? An American of Irish descent conducts a test by chance. What crazy story will be revealed? What did the lecturer discover about his family as a result of his DNA test? A fascinating, fun and humorous lecture will shed light on the subject, answer these questions and many more. Aviad Ben Yitzhak (Lt. Col. res.), former commander of the computer school (Mamr”am) in the IDF. Expert in building family trees and locating family roots. He has extensive and varied experience in building family trees that include thousands of people. Aviad is one of the few in Israel who has been certified to manage the global genealogy tree Geni. He is an experienced and knowledgeable lecturer who knows the field before and before. Shazar Community Center, 30 Yavne’eli Street, Givatayim, Israel Map: https://goo.gl/maps/zvesttigzxJT6ViQ7 To register, send an e-mail to billie@... Gathering and light refreshments from 7:00 PM. The lecture will begin at 7:30 PM. Israel Daylight Time Entrance fee NIS 20. IGRA members no charge The lecture will not be broadcasted on Zoom A recording of the lecture will be uploaded to the website and available to IGRA members Wheelchair accessible Posted by Hinda Solomon Rishon LeZion, Israel

At the end of each week, we have been featuring excerpts from Yizkor books in JewishGen's archive. You can find the archive of past Yizkor book excerpts here: https://bit.ly/3aCH1ak. If you are not familiar with the JewishGen Yizkor Book Project, please click on this link: http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/faq.html “The Miracle,” from the Yizkor book of Częstochowa (Poland) tells the story of a little boy, Awrum–Szlojmele, who was left at home unsupervised on market days when his mother had to go to work. On one such day, just before Pesach, he grew weary of being alone at home and wandered through the market in search of his mother. A peasant girl spots the young boy, with his blond hair and small upturned nose. She thinks to herself: “We must save this little soul from unclean, Jewish hands!” She takes him to a wagon, where the old peasant driving it exults in what he considers to be a great find: “In one or two years, a pious, little, Christian shepherd would grow up to tend his sheep and cattle.” But Gittele, a cousin of the boy, sees him as she shops for food among the wagons, and raises the alarm. “My auntie's little boy!” Gittele screams. “Give up that child!” A hubbub ensues between Christians and Jews. The atmosphere becomes charged, the tumult is great. The Gentiles shout “Poles! To the rescue! A Catholic soul is in danger! Żydzi want to steal a little Christian boy!” Jews begin to shutter their shops and hide their goods while mothers seize hold of their children and run home. The miracle of the story is that a wrong gets righted and violence averted. But the key to the outcome was quite simple. URL: https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/pfbid0e5oWoPCmBwpnk9H6ba1EBh1ZFEzodtFAoKJLrJwySQMfXqDNcJ5ABECuAp88rn23l -- Bruce Drake Silver Spring, MD Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK Towns: Wojnilow, Kovel

The UK Dunera Interest Group are hosting an online event in conjunction with the AJR on 20th May 2024 at 8pm (BST). Dr Barbara Warnock of the Wiener Holocaust Library will be talking about holdings in the archives related to the Dunera. The Wiener Library is one of the world’s leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust. The attached flyer gives further details and has a link to reserve a free ticket to the event. For those unable to attend the talk it will be available on YouTube in due course. NB The infamous Dunera was the ship which deported over 2,000 refugees, who had been interned by the UK Government in summer 1940. The destination was Australia. The treatment on board the Ship was appalling and on arrival the mostly Jewish refugees were interned in various camps in the Australian outback but where their treatment improved. There is quite a literature on the subject but if you go to the Dunera Interest Group website: https://dunera.org.uk/ you will find more information. You can also subscribe for free membership. Diana (Mohr) Gomes da Costa, Kent UK - formerly from London - Researcher number: 166938 email: dianadacosta@... Researches include ARNSTEIN, BACH, BASS, BERLIN, COHN, DITTMANN, FLACHFELD, GUETERMANN, HAHN, HELLMANN, HIRSCHMANN, KOHN, KRAILSHEIMER, KUGLER, LOEWI, MANES, MARX, MENDEL, MORGENTHAU, MOHR, ROSENFELD, ROSENWALD, UHLMANN, WEIKERSHEIMER and ZIRNDORFER - all originally from Bavaria, mainly Furth, Nurnberg and Bamberg as listed in the JGFF database. -- Diana (Mohr) Gomes da Costa, Kent UK - formerly from London - Researcher number: 166938 email: dianadacosta@... Researches include ARNSTEIN, BACH, BASS, BERLIN, COHN, DITTMANN, FLACHFELD, GUETERMANN, HAHN, HELLMANN, HIRSCHMANN, KOHN, KRAILSHEIMER, KUGLER, LOEWI, MANES, MARX, MENDEL, MORGENTHAU, MOHR, ROSENFELD, ROSENWALD, UHLMANN, WEIKERSHEIMER and ZIRNDORFER - all originally from Bavaria, mainly Furth, Nurnberg and Bamberg as listed in the JGFF database.

Hi, We know that Ludwig Carl Mysa, born 1887 in Vienna escaped to England in 1939 and sailed on the Dunera for Australia in July 1940 where he died in 1942.He is recorded on the 1939 Register living in Stepney. We are interested in leaning more about how he entered England, possibly with the help of Quakers and any other locations he may have stayed at. -- Peter Heilbrunn Amersham, England

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Oregon invites the entire community to: The Jews Who Left Spain and Their Genealogy, Daniel Horowitz Sunday, 7 July 2024, 10:30 a.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free The history of Jews who left Spain is complex, partly because they moved and lived in a wide range of geographical locations throughout history. In this lecture, Daniel will explore the origins of the Sephardic Jewish communities and their genealogy. Dedicated to genealogy since 1986, Daniel was the teacher and the study guide editor of the family history project "Searching for My Roots" in Venezuela for 15 years. He is a past board member of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies, is involved in several crowdsourced digitization and transcription projects, and holds a board-level position at the Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA). Since 2006 Daniel has been working at MyHeritage liaising with genealogy societies, bloggers, and media, as well as lecturing and attending conferences around the world. We are pleased to welcome Daniel, but it should be noted that JGSO is not endorsing MyHeritage over any other product or service. Register in advance for this meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsc-6upjgoGtDCpXpWzH8HmQ_EhhIk83rk#/registration After registering, you will receive a confirmation message containing information about how to join the meeting. All of our programs for 2024 are currently planned for Zoom and will include closed captions. Please check your Zoom program to make sure it is up-to-date. Upcoming programs are listed on our Events page: https://jgsoregon.wixsite.com/home/events Linda Wolfe Kelley JGSO Secretary Portland, OR, USA

Hello everybody, There are about 80 cemeteries where Jews were buried in Bessarabia/Moldova. https://www.jewishgen.org/bessarabia/files/cemetery/Inventory202311-November.htm We have photographed and indexed remaining tombstones at the most of the cemeteries. Recently, our people from Ukraine went to Ocnitsa (Ocniţa), Moldova to photograph the stones. Unfortunately, the cemetery does not exist anymore. According to my information from 1990s the cemetery was located on a 1.9ha, and there were about 200 graves there. Not any more. This is going to be not the first cemetery destroyed, but already #12. You can see information about other destroyed cemeteries in Bessarabia/Moldova at https://www.jewishgen.org/bessarabia/files/cemetery/_destroyedCemeteries/DemolishedJewishCemeteries.pdf Our group decided to find information about such cemeteries and possible names of Jews buried there, and sent to JOWBR. We already have several such cemeteries worked on. I am now working on Jewish cemetery in Kaushany, and already know about 50 Jews buried there. Now I am trying to find Jews who were buried in Ocnitsa. Actually, the town is not far from Sokiryany (now in Ukraine). I hope there are some people might know where there relatives who were buried in Ocnitsa. Please send me these names. All the best, Yefim Kogan Bessarabia Cemetery Project Leader