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This project is the second sub-project in the Ellis Island series. Please add profiles for this time period.==afterwards we will work on a master project or portal; collaborators needed!====Summary==* Immigration timeline The experience for Asian immigrants in this period was quite different. In 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, severely restricting immigration from China. Since ...
Dunera Boys / Internees===The hired Military Transport Dunera was a British passenger ship built as a troop transport in the late 1930s.As the storm clouds of war gathered in the late 1930s, thousands of German refugees - either Jewish or politically opposed to the Nazis - fled to Britain for sanctuary. Little did many of them know they would soon be deported to Australia in one of the more not...
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...
Židovi u Hrvatskoj / Croatian Jews list from wikipedia A Vladoje Aksmanović (Viktor Axmann) Moša Albahari Alfred Albini Srećko Albini Alexander family from wikipedia Oskar Aleksander Samuel David Aleksander
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum tells the story of one survivor of the Einsatzgruppen in Piryatin, Ukraine, when they killed 1,600 Jews on April 6, 1942, the second day of Passover:>>I saw them do the killing. At 5:00 p.m. they gave the command, "Fill in the pits." Screams and groans were coming from the pits. Suddenly I saw my neighbor Ruderman rise from under the soil … His eyes w...
The purpose of this project is to document the Jewish families who lived in North America in the Colonial period (before 1789). Scope of Project The first Jew to set foot on American soil was Solomon Franco , a merchant who arrived in Boston in 1649; subsequently he was given a stipend from the Puritans there, on condition he leave on the next passage back to Holland. In September of 1654, s...
This project is to research and find out more about the DeLisser / De Lisser and other related families from Jamaica, West Indies, but originating in western Europe.==What can you do here?==*Ask questions.*Collaborate on your research.*Share knowledge you have gained as you've done your own research in a specific area.*Problem finding an ancestors, open a discussion here and we all try to help*...
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...
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
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...
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 Historical Jewish community of Newport, Rhode Island traces its origins to 1658 when Mordecai Campanal and Moses Pacheco arrived from Barbados.>>= George Washington 1790 When George Washington visited Newport, R.I., in August 1790 , the President found not just one Jewish family, but a Hebrew congregation with its own synagogue. They offered him a warm welcome to their community through a l...
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...
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