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The Opatów Ghetto was a World War II ghetto set up by Nazi Germany for the purpose of persecution and exploitation of local Jews in the town of Opatów during the German occupation of Poland. The approximate number of Jewish people confined to the ghetto was about ten thousand, including a group of expelees from the Czech Republic and Austria. Beginning in January 1942 the SS conducted mass shoo...
This project aims to collect all of the profiles of persons who were inmates of the ghetto Theresienstadt also referred to as Theresienstadt Ghetto located in what is now the Czech Republic.==Overcrowding and disease==During WWII, the ghetto Terezín (Theresienstadt) was one of the major sites of suffering and death for the Jews of the Bohemian Lands and several European countries. Out of approx...
The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest ghetto in all of Nazi occupied Europe, with over 400,000 Jews crammed into an area of 1.3 square miles (3.4 km2), or 7.2 persons per room.From there, about 254,000 Ghetto residents were sent to Treblinka extermination camp during the two months of summer 1942.The sheer death-toll among the Jewish inhabitants of the Ghetto during the Großaktion Warschau would ha...
Ghettos Krasnystaw Ghettos was not a typical Jewish community of the Lublin region. Whereas in most of the provincial towns of the Lublin voivodeship before the war, Jews formed a majority of the inhabitants, in Krasnystaw they represented a minority. Jews settled in Krasnystaw later than in other towns of the region. Until the beginning of the 19th century Krasnystaw was the residence of the ...
Oakland Cemetery was deeded to the residents of Iowa City on February 13, 1843. Over the years the cemetery has expanded to 40 acres. Supported by taxpayers, the cemetery is a non-perpetual care facility. As a public institution anyone can be buried in Oakland, but traditionally it was a Protestant cemetery; Catholics were usually buried in the nearby St. Joseph Cemetery, and Jewish Iowa Citian...
The main information and outline is from The Military History of World War II: Volume 15: European Resistance Movements, by Trevor Nevitt Dupuy, Col., U.S. Army, Ret., Franklin Watts, Inc., New York, c. 1965. Book * May 10 The Unknown War.The Land of Lidice: Czechoslovakia.They Did Not Scare Us: Poland.Caged - A Story of Jewish Resistance - David J. LandauThe Holocaust, the Jewish Tragedy - Mar...
Origin of the term == Saqaliba (aka Sakiliba ) was the Arabic term given to the Slavic people (not only to slaves) who in lived in the Islamic territories i.e. the Iberian peninsula, North Africa (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt) and the other Ottoman-held regions near the Mediterranean Sea. Occasionally, non Slav individuals were also referred to as Saqaliba .==Background==* Slavic slaves ...
35th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy>>>> Jerusalem, Ramada Hotel, 6-10 July 2015.==Conference Details* IAJGS 2015 Jerusalem * Subscribing to Discussions ==Geni Israel* Israel Projects Portal >>>------------------------------------- Please add your name to this alphabetic list with a live link if you plan to attend.==Geni Jerusalem Conference Team # Dennis Aron - USA# Yigal Bu...
Great Rabbis of Medieval Austria The history of the Jews in Austria likely originates in an exodus of Jews from the Roman occupation of Israel. Proof exists of a Jewish presence in Vienna since 1194. The first named individual was Schlom, Duke Frederick I’s Münzmeister (master of the mint). The existence of a Jewish community in the area is only known for sure after the start of the 12th centur...
The idea of this project is to include "all" refugees from the Holocaust who managed to emigrate from Europe to safe countries, and to connect these immigrants to their families in Europe.===Holocaust & Reich Refugees & Emigrés 1933-1945 List of Project Profiles ] Nazi Regime GenocideTimeline , Interactive Timeline The German Nazi persecution started with the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses i...
YUGOSLAVIA ("Land of the Southern Slavs") , a Socialist Federated Republic in S.E. Europe, in the Balkan Peninsula. The various elements of which Yugoslav Jewry was composed after 1918 (i.e. those of Serbia and the Austro-Hungarian countries) were distinct from one another in their language, culture, social structure, and character according to the six separate historical, political, and cultur...
Lost and Found Portal There are various projects where, when you find an individual, but have no where to place them in the tree yet, you can "park" them. If you have lost track of a relative , add them to the relevant Lost and Found project, and locals may be able to assist you. This system allows other users to see those profiles, and possibly attach or merge them in to the tree, once verif...
In 1941, prior to the invasion of the Soviet Union, the Bauleitung der Luftwaffe began to build airfields at Mokre and Labunie, near Zamosc. Jewish work camps were also established in these villages. A group of Jews from the ghetto worked in these camps, which survived the liquidation of the ghetto itself. The number of Jewish workers there was enlarged in 1942. Several dozens of the Czech Jews...
Stolpersteine - Stumbling Blocks> Stumbling Blocks ('Stolpersteine' in German) have been installed in many countries in Europe. >Please refrain from adding profiles here. Add them to the appropriate child project and, if possible, add picture, precise location, date of installation and if available, media coverage (newspapers, TV video-clips).>>>>==This is the top-level Project; here are the ch...
Famous people from Prague===From wikipedia: En , See also : Cz , De , Nl , Bs * List of Czech people ===== < BACK to Czech portal ===== Please join us! Your participation are welcome in this project. For join to this project (select ACTIONS (top right) and click Join Project) if you are or would like to become a part and participation of this project.
The Rejowiec Transit Ghetto Transit stop for the murder of Slovak JewsMap of Rejowiec in the Krasnystaw districtRejowiec in the district of Chelm, acquired municipal rights during the 16th Century and became famous thanks to Mikolaj Rej, a distinguished poet of the Polish Renaissance.At the end of the 16th Century Rejowiec was populated mostly by Jews, and by the 20th Century the Jews accounted...
Szatmár County Comitatus Szathmariensis (Latin) Szatmár vármegye (Hungarian) Komitat Sathmar (German) Comitatul Sătmar (Romanian)11th century[citation needed]–1920 After 1876 Szatmár county shared borders with the former Hungarian counties Szabolcs, Bereg, Ugocsa, Máramaros, Szolnok-Doboka, Szilágy and Bihar. It was situated south of the river Tisza. The river Szamos flowed through the county....
This project aims to collect a list of live and recently deceased eminent experts in the field of genealogy who are or were active on Geni. Please feel free to add additional names to the project. Volunteer genealogy specialists to consult with can be found at: Geni Genealogy Research Volunteers Geni Experts with knowledge or access to research materials who are available to help memb...
See also Curator list About Curators The goal of Geni has always been to create a shared World Family Tree - the definitive family tree for the entire world, that respects the privacy of living people while allowing millions of users to collaborate on their shared ancestry by constantly expanding and improving the tree. In this effort, Geni management appoints Curators to help maintain and i...
This project is attempting to link the various Bohemian and Moravian branches of the ha'Kōhănīm from Choustnik, Tábor District, South Bohemian Region, Czechia. The first registered in the books is Baruch haKohen born approximately in 1700 in Choustník Baruch Ha'Kohn He had at least two sons: Isak Stern and Samuel Kohn . Kohen (Hebrew: כֹּהֵן, kōhēn, [ko%CB%88(h)en], "priest", pl. כֹּ...
Trencsén county (in Latin: comitatus Trentsiniensis/Trenchiniensis, in Hungarian Trencsén (vár) megye, in Slovak Trenčiansky komitát/ Trenčianska stolica/ Trenčianska župa, German: Trentschiner Gespanschaft/Komitat) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in western Slovakia. Trencsén county shared borders with the Austrian lands Moravia and Gali...
én county (in Latin: comitatus Trentsiniensis/Trenchiniensis, in Hungarian Trencsén (vár) megye, in Slovak Trenčiansky komitát/ Trenčianska stolica/ Trenčianska župa, German: Trentschiner Gespanschaft/Komitat) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in western Slovakia. Trencsén county shared borders with the Austrian lands Moravia and Galicia an...
Trencsén county (in Latin: comitatus Trentsiniensis/Trenchiniensis, in Hungarian Trencsén (vár) megye, in Slovak Trenčiansky komitát/ Trenčianska stolica/ Trenčianska župa, German: Trentschiner Gespanschaft/Komitat) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in western Slovakia. Trencsén county shared borders with the Austrian lands Moravia and Gali...
This project begins with early printers and publishers -- both Jewish and Christian -- of Hebraica and Jewish liturgical and theological books; it continues to the present with contemporary publishers in the Hebrew language. It is a companion to the project "Jewish Publishers, Printers, and Book Dealers" which covers Jewish people in the book trades from all eras who worked in Hebrew and variou...
Place projects are projects on Geni that are focused of a specific geographical place or region. Places profiles are also the precursor to the upcoming Place Profiles feature. Place project portals Includes countries and kingdoms, and other top level place project. Geographical Australia Canada Europe Al-Andalus Austro-Hungarian-Empire Belarus Czech Republic-Bohemia Croatia