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This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the Island of Rhodes. Introductory information by Leon Taranto. See his complete article on Avotaynu 2009: "From the Ottoman Turkish conquest of Rhodes in 1522 until the Holocaust, a vibrant Judeo-Spanish community flourished on this Mediterranean isle. In antiquity, a Romaniote Jewish community lived there. By the 1700s, Rhodes ...
The Jews of Carinthia belonged to the Jewish Community of Graz prior to 1923, when Klagenfurt established its own Jewish community. Since 1955, the Jews of Carinthia have again been part of the reestablished Jewish Community of Graz. "In 1783 Jews were permitted to attend fairs in Carinthian towns. Those Jews who had acquired civic rights when part of Carinthia was included in the "province of...
George Platt Waller Jr. American diplomat and the United States Chargé d'Affaires in Luxembourg during World War II.This project seeks to identify Jewish survivors of Nazi Germany who were issued an American visa by the American Consulate in Luxembourg during the years 1940-1941 in order to have George Platt Waller ll officially recognized as a Righteous among the Nations by Yad Vashem. If you ...