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This is an umbrella project for all projects related to Jews from Georgia . The Jewish settlement in Georgia dates almost from the very foundation of the colony; and the early history of Georgia is practically the history of the growth and development of Savannah, Jewish life centering in that city. It would appear that a movement was set on foot in London to settle some Jews in the colony eve...
The purpose of this project to help myself and others whose research strays into this town in Germany by listing profiles and hopefully making connections. >>In the future I will provide a brief history of the Jews of Duisburg as well as do my best to find others researching this town. I will start by searching for profiles of people in the book Geschichte der Duisburger Juden.>>As I come up wi...
The Paul-Lazarus-Foundation in Wiesbaden has a database about Jewish families of Wiesbaden with about 16.000 entries and 3.000 family trees and a lot of pictures and documents. The Foundation is planning to publish several books about the Jewish families of Wiesbaden. The database will be online within 1 or 2 years. Data in the Commemoration Leaflets are just the tip of the iceberg. There will ...
Transnistria was a geographic freak, but a historic reality. The name was coined by the Fascists to designate a territory of about 16,000 square miles, designated for the annihilation of Jews deported from Romania. It was an area situated in south-western Ukraine, between the River Dniester to the west, the River Bug to the east, the Black Sea to the south, and a line beyond the city of Moghile...
This is an umbrella project for all projects related to Jews from Maine .
The Secret Jews of the Southwest American Jewish Archives* In search of the American Crypto-Jew Harpers Mag.* 'Crypto-Jews' In The Southwest National Public Radio
This is an umbrella project for all projects related to Jews from Florida .* Jewish Florida * History of Jews in Southern Florida Wikipedia===Notable Floridian Jews* Moses Elias Levy
A project trying to restore the names of the holocaust victims of the village Oboltsy, Orsha district, Vitebsk region, Belarus.== History ==The town of Oboltsy, Tolochinsky district, has been known since the end of the 14th century. A brief history of the ancient Obolets can be found on Wikipedia. The landowner was the landowner Zaretsky. His estate consisted of two houses. Some rooms were loca...
This project is dedicated to the 400+ Rabbis who participated in the Rabbi's March on October 6, 1943. The march was arranged by Hillel Peter Kook (real name: Hillel Kook). It started off in Union Station Washington, DC, then continued to the Capitol, where they were met by Vice-President Henry A. Wallace, 33rd Vice President of the USA . who listened to their plight, then told them that he wou...
Pioneering Jewish Settlers in Kenya * Shalom Kenya: History of Jewish Kenya * The Jewish Communities of Kenya ==Media Nowhere in Africa (2001) "Nirgendwo in Afrika" , DVD Nowhere in Africa (Zeitgeist) wins the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Directed by Caroline Link, the movie is based on a novel—a thinly veiled memoir—by Stefanie Zweig about fleeing Germany, "the land of Goethe and Schil...
by B. H. Levy & Rabbi Arnold Mark BelzerCongregation Mickve Israel was founded by 42 Jews who arrived in Savannah, in the new colony of Georgia, on July 11, 1733. Having left London, England, five months earlier, the brave band of mostly Portuguese Jews and two German Jewish families sought freedom and opportunity in the New World.The first communal act upon landing in Savannah was the initiati...
This project describes the Hannover-Ahlen work camp. This camp was an underdepartment of the Concentration camp Neuengamme, positioned in Ahlen at Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. This smaller camp was a forced labour camp for a large industrial company. Among others, the two US soldiers Vernon Tott ("The angel of Ahlem") and Henry Kissinger (later US statesman and Nobel laureate) were involved...
The Kielce Pogrom was an outbreak of violence against the Jewish community centre' gathering of refugees in the city of Kielce, Poland on 4 July 1946 in the presence of the Polish Communist armed forces (LWP, KBW) which resulted in the killing of 42 Jews. Polish Communist courts later tried and condemned nine people to death in connection with the incident. Numerous academic sources assert that...
This is an umbrella project for all projects related to Jews from Alaska .
This is an umbrella project for all projects related to Jews from New Hampshire .
This is an umbrella project for all projects related to Jews from Montana.