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Holocaust Victims who United States citizens or born in the United States.For those who were American Prisoners of War in the Buchenwald subcamp, Berga an der Elster, see Berga an der Elster .
The purpose of this project is to keep track of Bukharian Jewish WW II veterans who returned alive. Just add the profiles to this project. Directory of all Bukharian Soldiers who fought in the war:
The objective of this project is to build family trees for all Jewish families with members who resided in, were born, married or died in Graz, Austria, or other portions of Austria recorded in the vital records of the Graz Jewish community and Graz population register. These include Jews living in other parts of Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola (Krain). Subprojects of this project will include ...
Rabbis Geni Rabbis List Rabbis are Judaism's scholars, teachers, and religious leaders. Please add Geni profiles of those employed as rabbis to this occupation project. In addition, you may wish to add them to one of the related history oriented projects -- or start your own sub project. Please also list and add a bolded hyperlink to Geni profiles of rabbis considered especially "notable" ...
This project seeks to reconstruct the Jewish population of Prague in the late 18th and 19th centuries. In the public tree on Geni, it is possible to link up all of the major Prague families. You can find a list of Prague Jewish surnames from Alexander Beider's work . See also the Jewish Prague FTDNA Project . You will notice that many of the Prague surnames are rather uncommon today, but very ...
The goal of this project is to pinpoint profiles on Geni where the "Jewish" tree intersects with others . (N.B. "Jewish exogamy" is the politically correct variant of "intermarriage.") Profiles must be set to "public." Collaborators, please feel free to update, adding resource links, images, documents -- and inviting more collaborators. And let's use "discussions" to share personal stories, b...
The Iraqi Jewish Families Project Led by the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center The Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center was founded in 1973 as a non-profit institution. It was assigned in purpose of collecting, preserving and commemorating the heritage of Babylonian Jewry. The BJHC perpetuates through research, Museum exhibitions, guidance, lectures and seminars, a library and digital repositories,...
General Mittelsinn and Burgsinn are communities in the Main-Spessart district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany and members of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft (Administrative Community) of Burgsinn.No later than the 19th century, there were Jewish families living there who formed their own community and built a synagogue. This was destroyed on Kristallnac...
The area around the city of Chernivtsi/Czernowitz in Bukovina, now in Ukraine, included many Jewish communities linked by history, commerce, and family. The major nearby communities were Storojinet in the southwest, and Sahdhora to the north, and several smaller Jewish communities were also nearby. This project seeks to help bring together the families with roots in the Czernowitz-Sadhora-Storo...
Coordinates : 50°00'N 26°38'E Modern Region: Khmelnytski (Khmel’nyts’ka Oblast’) Country: Ukraine Town History * Early 1600s: Jews in small numbers were present. Belogorodka then in the Kingdom of Poland. * 1747: Blood Libel court case in Zaszlav regarding a murder that took place at the Zachaliska Inn, located on the main road between Belogorodka and Mishnow (now Mykhniz). One of the defen...
Warsaw was built on the banks of the Vistula River. The city has been capital of various reorganizations of Poland's territory since the 16th century, when Zygmunt III, commemorated in the famous Zymunt Column, moved the capital of Poland from Krakow. The history of Warsaw spans over 1400 years. In that time, the city evolved from a cluster of villages to the capital of a major European power,...
CASABLANCA (Spanish), or BET AL ABYAD (Arabic):By: Gotthard Deutsch, M. Franco Port of Morocco, Africa, on the Atlantic ocean. The Jewish community, numbering 6,000, in a total population of 20,000 inhabitants, is of recent date. The majority of its members are engaged in commerce in grain, spices, etc.; there are also a few tinsmiths. The community is governed by a council of administration, w...
This project is here to give us a greater insight into the lives of our ancestors from across the empire and to help us work together to find our common roots. List of Austro-Hungarian Jews Wikipedia>===Famous People Sigmund Freud : Father of Psychoanalysis. Theodor Herzl : Father of Zionism. Stefan Zweig : Novelist, playwright, journalist, biographer. Franz Kafka : Novelist.
First published in 1960, and revised through 1991, Malcolm Stern 's First American Jewish Families was a groundbreaking work of genealogy, detailing the trees of 600 early Jewish-American families from 1645-1988. Stern's work is viewable online at the American Jewish Archives . Many of the families in Stern's book are also on Geni. Below is a list of the families with links to the Geni profile...
Bohemian and Czech Jews in American History Miloslav Rechcígl, Jr. Jews have lived on the territory of the historic Czech Lands for some 1,000 years. They have played an important role in the social, economic and cultural development of the country since the times of the Duchy and the subsequent Kingdom of Bohemia, through the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia, and the Successor State...
Birthdays of famous Jews throughout history. The project also includes people with Jewish ancestry (usually at least one Jewish grandparent). Generally, the project includes people with a Wikipedia page or an entry in the Jewish Encyclopedia or Jewish Women's Archive . Bold names are already on Geni and connected to the World Family Tree . Italicized names are on Geni but not yet connected to t...
This is meant to connect Jewish families with known roots in Gneson (Gneizo) Prussia, AKA modern day Poland.
Jewish Families from Swarzędz (formerly Schwersenz, Posen) Swarzedz is located at 52°25' N 17°05' E 166 mi W of Warszawa. It is a small town about 13 km from Poznan. Jewish settlers were living there for many years. A web site at offers some insight into the present day town. The Jewish population in the 1800's was limited, with many people moving to the larger cities by the early 1900's. Yad ...
The Jews of Leoben officially belonged to the Jewish community of Graz and the Graz community maintained the birth, marriage, and death records. Leoben had an autonomous Jewish community starting in 1894, but it continued to legally belong to Graz. This project also includes the Jews of Donawitz, Göss, Judendorf, and Leitendorf. Leoben's Jewish cemetery was completely destroyed the night of No...
This project seeks to identify and collect Jewish persons with a connection to the Town of Prossnitz=Prostéjov, Czech Republic. Prostějov (German pronunciation: Proßnitz, Yiddish: פראסטיץ Prostitz) is a city in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic, in the historical region of Moravia. Today the city is known for its fashion industry and AČR special forces unit 601 based there. The historic...
This is an umbrella project, listing all of the sub-projects on Jews from towns in Bohemia and Moravia in the Czech Republic. Please do not add profiles to this project. Please add them to the appropriate town or community where they lived. Our goal is to set up a project page for each of the towns or communities, and include links to families from those communities on the particular proje...
The camp is now under the Graz Airport. Some of the burials were moved to the Graz Jewish Cemetery. When complete, this project will become part of the Graz project.
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from Bucuresti, Romania. of Romania. The first written reference to Bucharest (Rom., Bucureşti) is in a document dated September 1459, issued by Prince Vlad Țepeş (known as Vlad the Impaler) and referring to the “citadel of Bucureşti.” Situated in the south of Romania, Bucharest became, with occasional interruptions, the capital of Walach...
This project aims to assemble all of the Jewish families from the city of Łódź. We welcome collaborators. There are a lot of families to find and enter. Feel free to join, not just Follow, the project and enter the names of families who lived in Łódź. Go to ACTIONS (top right of the profile) click on ADD TO PROJECT. Select the project name that appears from the responsive check box and then DO...