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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 ...
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 "notab...
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...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Cluj-Napoca is also known as Kolozsvár in Hungarian, Klausenburg in German and קלויזנבורג in Yiddish. Update Nov 2021: 1000 recovered pre-Holocaust photos of Jews from Cluj / Kolosvar (identified by name) to be digitized, researched and posted. About 4000 photos taken in Cluj by Elemér Sárdi, a l...
Löffler or Loeffler is an occupational surname that means someone who makes spoons (Löffel). Löffler is also the German name for the Eurasian spoonbill. Because the surname is widespread and probably ultimately derives from the occupation, it is unwise to assume that they are related to one another without evidence. We can, however create hypothetical connections between families that seem to b...
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 ...
This project is dedicated to commemorating the once vibrant and influential Jewish community of Kozienice "Koznitz" in Poland. The goal of this project is to identify and catalogue all of the Jewish families that lived in Kozienice prior to the destruction of the Jewish community during World War II. From Wikipedia:Kozienice [k%C9%94%CA%91%C9%9B%CB%88%C9%B2it%CD%A1s%C9%9B] (Yiddish: קאזשניץ Koz...
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 Murtal District formed in Steiermark (Styria), January 1, 2012, through a merger of the former districts of Judenburg and Knittelfeld . About 200 vital records for the Jews of the Murtal district are among those of the Jewish Community of Graz, Austria. Victims of Nazi Persecution JUDENBURG Adler, Frida (? Germany - ); wife of Heinrich Adler; resident of Judenburg Adler, Heinrich...
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.
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...
Hi all,My name is Radmila, I was born and raised in Czech Republic and live currently in Munich, Germany. I speak fluent Czech, German and English, also some other languages, but rather broken :)I started this project to collect all the informations about the Mahler family, which is not only famous for some blood relatives like Gustav Mahler ( and ) but also for the Polaroid co-inventor Josef M...
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...
Końskie, Poland 51°12' N 20°25' E 77 miles South South West of Warszawa (Warsaw), Poland. Some directories place the town in the Radom collection depending on the era.Końskie [Polish], Kinsk [Yiddish], Kon'ske [Russian], Kansk, Kintsk, Konsk, Konski, KuntskMuch information about the residents and family connections of Konskie is available here: Reading: town description and many Jewish names an...
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...
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...
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...
Background Kobersdorf ( Kabold in Hungarian) is a town in Eastern Austria in the Burgenland region. Kobersdorf, like the other towns of Burgenland, belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary until 1920-21. After the end of the First World War, the western border area of Hungary was awarded to Austria by the Treaties of St. Germain and Trianon. Since 1921, the town has belonged to the newly founded ...
This project seeks to list representatives of all of the Jewish families from the Moravian town of Šafov (Schaffa) in the Czech Republic. JewishGen Safov page . CURRENT CZECH NAME: ŠAFOV FORMER NAME: SCHAFFA LOCATION The village of Šafov is located at 48.52 degree north and 15.44 degree east, a short distance to the south of the town of Znojmo on the border with Austria RECORDS The...
==The project " Trup Diaspora " is a genealogical project aimed to connect families known to be related, and, of family Trup.=====Nowadays the family exists under different names derived from Trup , such as Troop , Troup , Troupp , or Trupp , as well as under surnames people may have received via marriage or what-have-you. =====What is known (with some certainty) is:==i) The origins of the fami...
This project collects information Of Jewish Families in Gateshead, United Kingdom== Gateshead =Gateshead is a town in Tyne and Wear, England, on the southern bank of the River Tyne opposite Newcastle upon Tyne. Gateshead and Newcastle are joined by seven bridges across the Tyne, including the Gateshead Millennium Bridge. The town is known for its architecture, including the Sage Gateshead, the ...
This project seeks to document the Jewish families of Tučapy (Tábor, Bohemia, Czech Republic) using the Census and Familianten records, surviving Jewish vital records, census records, and other sources. The Jewish vital records for Tučapy are fragmentary, but the families intertwine with many others in nearby towns. Tučapy residents also seem to have formed a small colony in St. Pölten, Austria...
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...
KOJETIN (Czech Kojetín; Ger. Kojetein; Heb. גויט״ן ,גוט״ן), town in central Moravia, Czech Republic. Jews apparently lived in Kojetin from the 13th century, but their first documented mention dates from 1566, when 52 families lived in the Judengasse. The consecration of a cemetery is recorded in 1574. The synagogue, then seating 300, was renovated in 1614 (and restored again in 1718). In 1657 o...
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 Vashem records 154 people who were born in Swarzedz who peris...
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, t...
=Background== Kolomea (or Kolomyya; Pol., Kołomyja; Ger., Kolomea, Colomea), city on the Prut River in Ukraine. Jews first settled in Kołomea, then part of Poland, at about the turn of the sixteenth century. Although many were murdered and the community was destroyed during the Khmel’nyts’kyi massacres of 1648–1649, the Jewish population quickly reestablished itself and numbered more than 1,000...
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...
Galicia or Galizia : * Ukrainian: Галичина (Halychyna)* German: Galizien* Russian: Галиция (Galitsiya)* Yiddish: גאליציע (Galitsie)* Czech: Halič* Hungarian: Halics / Gácsország) Is a historical region in Eastern Europe, currently divided between Poland and Ukraine, named after the medieval city of Halych, currently the village of Krylos near the modern city of Halych (Ukraine); first mentioned...
The Soesan family is a Jewish family, of which the geographical roots are very obscure. The oldest ancestor, David Schuschan (1660?-1724), who settled in Amsterdam, is said to have come from the city of Shush in Persia (= the biblical/historical Susa). However, these claims lack sources to support them. The Persian origin story seems even more unlikely, when considering the fact that there is a...
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 .
Background==The area of Nowy Wiśnicz was a monastic village that had existed since the 8th century. The first Jews settled down in this village in 1606. After being banished from Bochnia, they were offered assistance by the village owners called Lubomirscy. In 1613, Nowy Wiśnicz became the property of Stanisław Lubomirski, who was the governor of the Cracow Province. In 1616, he established the...
Bochnia is located in southern Poland, in the Malopolskie Province (Lesser Poland). Since the first partition of Poland, Bochnia was under the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. According to the administrative division from 1918-1939, Bochnia was the seat of the Bochnia County which was part of Kraków Province. ==History== Bochnia is one of the oldest towns in Poland and was first mentioned i...
1793 Census 31. Nahoschitz Nahoschitz [Naho%C5%A1ice] Esther Fuchsin, 40, Witwe (1) Nahoschitz in Nahoschitz ein eigenes Häusel mit kleinen Schnitt; warenhandel und Lederhandel; mit Kinder: Moises Levit, erstgeborener, 20 Jakob, zweitgeborener, 18 Stiefkinder (stepchildren): Sara, 25 Isak, drittgeborener, 20 ist seit 6 Jahren abwesend und unwissend wo David Ekstein, dritt...
Jews in Finland====Finland has a Jewish community of about 1200 individuals although the number is somewhat larger than that because not all the secular Jews are registered in Jewish communities. A majority of the Jews in Finland live in the Helsinki metropolitan area and a substantial number of them are bilingual having Swedish as their first language.======There are two synagogues in Finland,...
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...
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...
The page lists all of the Curators on Geni who have expertise with Jewish genealogy. Feel free to contact any of these curators if you have questions or need assistance with Jewish genealogy on Geni. For information about Jewish genealogy projects on Geni, see the Jewish Genealogy Portal . Geni is now accepting self-nominations for potential curators. See . To learn about curators and what t...
This is an umbrella project for all of the projects related to the Jews of Belarus, plus some links to closely related discussions. "Belarus was once a major center of European Jews, with 10% of the population being Jewish. But since the mid-20th century, the number of Jews has been reduced by the Holocaust, deportation, and emigration, so that today it is a very small minority of less than one...
This project site provides a place for information and discussion about all Jewish families with the surname Lifshitz, Lipschitz, Lipshitz, Lifschitz, Lipschutz and their variations.The challenges of genealogy for these families are great. Lifshitz-Lipschitz-Lipshitz-Lifschitz-Lipschutz and their variants are relatively common Jewish surnames. The surnames' origin or origins are not clear, and...
Oakwood Cemetery resides in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. Also known as Historic Oakwood Cemetery, the earliest burials date from the 1780s and continue through the present. Oakwood is an active cemetery. "Oakwood Cemetery was established in 1869 and is Raleigh's oldest, private, non-profit cemetery. It is a short walk from the North Carolina Capitol and Governor's Mansion. Historic Oa...
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...
BURGENLAND is one of the federal states of Austria, on the Hungarian border. Located in Burgenland were the "Seven Communities" ( Sheva Kehillot or Sieben Gemeinden ), noted for their outstanding yeshivot and eminent rabbis: * Eisenstadt (Hung. Kismarton; Heb. א״ש) * Mattersburg/ Mattersdorf (Hung. Nagymarton) * Deutschkreutz (Hung. Sopronkeresztúr, Németkeresztúr; Hebr. צעלם, צלם)* Frauenkirch...
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
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Sobědruhy (Soborten) in Northern Bohemia, Czech Republic. (now known as Teplice-Sobědruhy and a district of the city of Teplice). it is worth noting that many Jewish families and individuals from Soborten moved to Teplice and/or had businesses or family in Teplice so the two projects here on Geni are really inter-connecte...
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...
Please Join Us as we Trace Our Jewish Ancestors' Odyssey to Establish Contemporary Israeli & Diaspora Communities >>>>>> Spanish Jewish Odyssey YouTube =- A -* African Jewry, A Microcosm of the Jewish Diaspora * Al Andalus - The Golden Age of Jews in Sepharad * Mokum Wondrous Jewish Amsterdam * Aleppo's Venerable Jewish Community
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...
The Jewish vital records for Silesia are fragmentary and for many towns no longer exist. For this reason researching families for this region requires some creative searching. Prague Conscriptions (1850 - 1914) - Applications for Residence Permit of Prague Police Ernest Lanzer (1887 Teschen), lediger Reisender Vienna Heinrich Lanzer (1837 Karvina - 1899 Vienna) Heinrich Lanze...
GeneralGuxhagen is a community in Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse, Germany. See And in German Guxhagen In German Wikipedia There was a small community of Jews Death people of WW1 :# Baruch Katz , # Moritz Katz , # Hermann Lichtenstein,# Daniel Speyer 1842: inhabitants 1081, 10 % JewishBy the time when Paul Arnsberg wrote his book about the Jewish communities in Hesse, the leader of the ...
This project focuses on all the Sephardic Marache / Marrache / Maratchi / Maradji / Marachi / Marratche / Marashe / Marash families. At the current moment there are five main sections of the family tree; Gibraltarian Marrache family, Peruvian Marrache family, the Tetuan Marrache/Maratchi family, the Tangiers Marrache family, and the Rabat Marrache family. One of the main goals of this project i...
BACKGROUND DEUTSCHKREUTZ (also Hung. Keresztur or Nemetkeresztur, Sopronkeresztur; Heb. צלם, צעלם), is a town in Eastern Austria. Deutschkreutz was one of the "Seven Communities" (Sheva Kehillot in the Burgenland region. The Jewish community of Deutschkreutz was known in the Jewish world by the name Zelem (or Tzelem) which was chosen to avoid the word "kreutz" (cross in German) which is par...
The towns of Turov (Turau, Turaw, Тураў) and Zhitkovichi (Zhitkovich, Zhytkavichy, Zytkowicze) are on either side of the Pripyat River, in the southern Polesia region, now in Belarus.The two towns are genealogically connected because some families had members in both, or even moved back and forth between the the two. Turov is one of the oldest cities in the area, is situated right on the south ...
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...
This is an umbrella project for all of the Jewish communities in Romania. Here you'll find a brief historical summary, then some sections of links: Geni projects organized by geography, projects for Romania in general, and links to related outside resources. The information included and its organization are primarily oriented toward what will be most helpful to genealogy researchers while stayi...
The Jewish community in Trenton, NJ in the early decades of the 20th Century, was a small tight-knit community with several thriving synagogues and seemingly lots of intra-Trenton Jewish marriages.In my wife's case (Barbara Melmed nee Goldstein), I see many Trenton-based surnames appearing over and over (Kohn, Goldstein, Azarchi, Cohen, Sutnick, Urken, Lefkowitz, Troll, Koslow, Habas, Siegel. a...
Elmlawn Cemetery is located in Tonawanda, Erie, New York. The cemetery is also known as Elmlawn Memorial Park. The site contains a mausoleum and a crematorium as well as burial plots. Several sections within Elmlawn Memorial Park are dedicated to U.S. Veterans. Memorials have been placed for Veterans of World War I, World War II, Korean War and the Vietnam War. The Path of the Cenotaphs is de...
Welcome to the portal / project of Židovska zajednica u Hrvatskoj/Jewish Network in Croatia on the Geni Please join us! Your participation are welcome on this portal / project. For join to this portal / project (select ACTIONS (top right) and click Join Project) if you are or would like to become a part and participation of this project/portal. For instructions on how to use Geni, refer to the...
Har Nebo Cemetery is one of the oldest, Jewish cemeteries in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In great disrepair, restoration efforts for this large, historic cemetery, began in late 2021.
This project is meant to gather the profiles of Jewish children from Belgium who lost their parents in the Holocaust. This includes orphaned Holocaust survivors from Belgium, but also Jewish children who were living in Belgian orphanages during the war, who were arrested in the orphanage and then deported to, and murdered in, Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Reichbart Family from Lodz, Poland >> See extensive family tree chart under Project Document's liink upper right. The Reichbart s originated in the shtetls surrounding Lodz, Poland.My wife, Barbara Melmed nee Goldstein (formerly Nathan) is descended from a Reichbart (Barbara's mother's mother's mother was Mary Reichbart).As far as I can determine, all Reichbarts are related, although there are ...
A gathering point for the Jewish Haar families of Tarnobrzeg (Dzhikov), Poland, assumed to be one family.
Zolkiewka is located in the Krasnystaw District in in the Province of Lublin, Poland.This project seeks to connect the Jewish families that lived in the shetl of Zolkiewka. Please feel free to add to this project.* Kehila Link- Zolkiewka on Jewishgen.org * Zolkiewka Synagogue on YIVO.org * Zolkiewka on Virtual Shtetl * Remember Jewish Krasnystaw Surname Tree Tops in the Project (note that an "*...
The purpose of this project is to identify and connect all of the Jewish families of the small town of Chorostkow. Chorostkow, now called Khorostkiv is located between Husiatyn and Kopyczynce, on the banks of the River Taina in the Ternopil Oblast of the Ukraine in what was once Galician Podolia. The village was granted the rights of a small town by local magnate named Siamianski who invited Je...
=Websites:= Town and County *Satu Mare - County Archives (Romanian): Mare - City Hall: Mare - Library (Romanian): Mare - County Museum (Romanian): ár-Bereg County Archives (Hungary): *The Towns of Szatmár County (Hungarian): Genealogy *Jewish Community of Satu Mare: ári Mementó - Memorial Website of Satu Mare: *Orthodox Jewish Cemetery: Jewish Cemetery:
This project is for all Jewish families that originate from Zheimel (Zeimelis) in Lithuania. Alternate names: Žeimelis [Lith], Zheĭmeli [Rus], Zheimel [Yid], Žeimele [Latv], Żejmele [Pol], Scheimeln [Ger], Zheymelis, Zheyme, Žeimys, Žeimelio, Zheiml, ZemelLocation: latitude: 56° 17´ longitude: 24° 00´ 121.9 miles NNW of Vilnius very close to the Latvian border.Zheimel (Zeimelis) Zheimel (Zeimel...
The Jewish family name Nekrich originates from the village Nekrashi next to Slutsk, Belarus. I invite the progeny to research the roots and establish connections. The Israeli branch changed their last name into “Shalev“, taking the phonological meaning of “Nekrich” as “not shouting”.I have started a family tree of Abram son of Itzka Nekrich, born in 1776 in Slutzk. It is based on revision lists...
You are welcome to add all Iraqi jewish people that were born, lived or died in Iraq. Don't add people who were just born to Iraqi parents. ==History of the Jews in Iraq=== Wikipedia==== Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center website האתר של המרכז למורשת יהדות בבל==The history of the Jews in Iraq (Hebrew: יְהוּדִים בָּבְלִים, Babylonian Jews, Yehudim Bavlim, Arabic: اليهود العراقيون al-Yahūd al-ʿIr...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Tovste, Ukraine, also known as Tolstoye, Tłuste, Toist, Tlusta, Tłuste Miasto, Tłuste Myasto, Toyst, Tolstoya. Gesher Galicia - Tovste Urban Type Settlement Jewish History ===Overview=== Tovste (Ukrainian: Товсте) is an urban-type settlement in the Zalischyky Raion (district) of Ternopil Oblast (province) in western Ukrai...
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...
Background === Berga an der Elster , a subdivision of Buchenwald, was a Nazi slave labor camp that held and tortured 350 American Prisoners of War (POW) after their capture at the Battle of the Bulge on December 16, 1944. While thousands of POWs were captured on that ill-fated day, the Nazis held a subset of 350 American soldiers at Berga beginning February 13, 1945. The American POWs were iden...
Information from the official website of the city Želetava : Township Želetava lies in the Moravian part of the highlands in Trebic district. A larger city near the Moravian Budejovice e, which is located 15 km southeast of Želetava. To the east is the county town of Trebic 20 km away. To the west of Želetava is the nearest major center of Telč (20 km). The county town of Jihlava is north of Že...
Holocaust slachtoffers Rotterdam -Namenlijst J tot en met L== Dit project is sub-project van het project Holocaust slachtoffers Rotterdam ENG : This project is a sub project of Holocaust Victims Rotterdam ==Slachtoffers/ Victim lists==(alphabetical sub-projects with names)* Namen/Names A -C * Namen/ Names D - F * Namen/Names G - I
WELCOME...===This project is made to brings together all families who have ancestors with the GROSS surname , who lived in what is now CZECH or CZECHIA. This work will also tie in any families who are connected to the GROSSes by marriage.Do you want to get notified when there are new discussion forum postings? Then click the "+Follow" button toward the upper right of this page. If you are relat...
The camp is now under the Graz Airport. Some of the burials were moved to the Graz Jewish Cemetery.
Please Note: The "IAJGS International Conference 2013- Boston" Project is a volunteer initiative of the hundreds of avid genealogists participating in the development of the Jewish Genealogy Portal at Geni.com. It is not officially related to the IAJGS or the Conference, which speak for themselves on the web pages whose links are provided below. Now that we have the disclaimer out of the way, h...
This project seeks to document all of the Jewish families from Chotiměř, Blížejov, Domažlice, Plzeňský kraj, Czechia (formerly Chotiemierz, Gut Chotiemierz, Klattau, Böhmen) Early Marriages Chotiemierz, Klattau (now Chotiměř) Kniha svatebních konsensů 1717-1783 HBMa Fond 291 Folio 25 .* Schmule Isaak mit Mam?ele v. ? (23. Juni 1774)* Samuel Moises mit Güttel (23. Juni 1774)* Joachim Isaak mit R...
It’s not exactly a Huge Secret that the Jews Began and to this day still Dominate Hollywood….…it just happens to be a fact!!!Jews seem to have dominated many of the other arts also …The World of Music particularly Tin Pan Alley, The most famous Comedians are/were Jews, The most Famous Magicians were/are Jews.The immigrant’s from the Eastern Europe of the 1890’s while searching for "Der goldene ...
The "Old" Jewish cemetery of Prostějov was in use from 1801 until 1908. There was an even older cemetery, but it was completely demolished in the 19th century. Most of the town's Jewish population perished in the Holocaust, with most the approximately 200 survivors leaving the country after World War II. All of the 1,924 tombstones were desecrated circa 1943 and disappeared following World War ...
This project seeks to bring together all the Dworkis families of Ukraine, and related families, including those of Moldova/Bessarabia. Many of the Dworkis ancestors who emigrated in the early 20th century cited "Russia" as their birth country, since Ukraine was part of the Russian Empire at that time, so Dworkis families from Russia must also be considered as potential relatives of the rest. Th...
This project is designed to collect Research Information, Discussions, Queries etc on the Barnato family.=Core profiles=* Barney Barnato *=Overview of Family History / Progenitor DetailTo be filled in= Queries & Discussion =* QUERY 1: What evidence is there that Phoebe Carlow was Barney's wife? According to Stanley Jackson, a Barney Barnato biographer, Solly married Nellie Ridley around 1889. W...
Lost and found in Iraq (Jewish)This project is designed to re-unite families to lost individuals on the tree.How many of us had that "Uncle" or "Best Mate of Dads" that did not seem to have any family? How many times in your research do you find someone, who, is a mystery, you want to add him to the tree, but, have no idea where he/she belongs. Can also be used for families with the same surnam...
Coordinates : 49°36' N, 26°31' E Modern Region: Khmelnytski (Khmel’nyts’ka Oblast’) Country: Ukraine Kupel (aka Kupil, Kippel) – Shtetl (village) located in Wolyn province of western Ukraine, 187 miles W/SW of Kiev. Population 4,333 in 1897 (2,727 Jews = 63%); app. 2,200 in 2012. Known to have had Hebrew publications as far back as 1796. “Many of the Jews in Kupel made their living by buying...
Prominent Jewish Philadelphians (and a few non-Philadelphians) whose portraits appear in====Fifty years' work of the Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia: 1848-1898====published by the Society, 1899. From the preface:===>The first meeting for the formation of a society whose purpose was the education of Jewish youth in the city of Philadelphia was held on March 7 1847. On June 4 1848, a Con...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Bircza, Poland, also known as Berch, Bircha, Birtch. Bircza Online! Virtual Shtetl Gesher Galicia - Bircza JewishGen - Bircza == Background ==Bircza [%CB%88birt%CD%A1%CA%82a] (Ukrainian: Бірча) is a village in Przemyśl County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative ...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Assenheim, Germany. JewishGen-Assenheim History of the Community Jewish residents of Assenheim are first mentioned in 1277. At the time, Assenheim served as an administrative and financial center and had coinage. The Jewish community of Assenheim disappeared in the middle of the 14th century, almost certainly as a result ...
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 .# Rabbi Elias Solomon Levinger, Chief Rabbi of Gailingen (Daughter Saphira married Samuel Lemuel Binswanger)The rest of...
Purpose: To highlight lesser known Jewish historical sites and projects in the Czech Republic. Mountain Synagogue in Hartmanice : Since 1883, it has been a house of prayer for more than 200 citizens of Jewish faith, later a carpenter’s workshop, and even a warehouse for used truck tires... Now, after almost 70 years without dignity, the Hartmanice Memorial Association has reopened the synagogue...
Joods Kinder-monument Rotterdam==Wie waren de kinderen die in de jaren 1942-1943 vanuit Rotterdam vertrokken en nooit zijn teruggekeerd? Vanaf de verzamelplaats Loods 24 aan de Rotterdamse Spoorweghaven, ter hoogte van het Poortgebouw aan de Stieltjesstraat, zijn 686 Rotterdamse Joodse kinderen in de leeftijd van één maand tot en met twaalf jaar gedeporteerd naar Westerbork. Door de namen van d...
Jewish orphanage and shelter Machseh Lajesoumim - Leiden 'In memory of the children and the staff of the Jewish orphanage in Leiden, Netherlands. 'The Central Jewish orphans and Passage House 'Machseh Lajesoumim' is the eighth and last Jewish orphanage founded in our country. In the night of 5 to March 6, 1943, the first raid in Leiden took place. The raid was part of an "Evacuation The Hague, ...
Summary==But a little known fact is that, aside from notorious pirates such as Captain Hook, Jack Sparrow and Long John Silver, many of the original ones to walk the plank were actually Jewish. In a fascinating new book entitled Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean, Ed Kritzler delves into a sensational area of Jewish history which will no doubt delight pirate fans and non-fans alike. Kritzler, who ...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Baranów Sandomierski, Poland. KehilaLinks Gesher Galicia JewishGen Yizkor Book Virtual Shtetl ==History==Baranów Sandomierski [ba%CB%88ranuf sandɔˈmʲɛrskʲi] is a small town in southern Poland, in the Subcarpathian Voivodship, Tarnobrzeg County on the Vistula River, with 1,440 inhabitants (02.06.2009). It belongs to the hi...
In the project entitled "Let's build up the Jewish Genealogy Portal" Let's build up the Jewish Genealogy Portal , we have been discussing the possibility of adding Jewish profiles, in mass, by using US census data. There are a number of issues that may have to be overcome to utilize this data in the most efficient way.Since this is a general problem, not at all restricted to Jewish folks, I've ...
This is an umbrella project for all projects related to Jews from Delaware .Although Jewish fur traders were in the territory that became Delaware as early as 1655, only a handful of Jews, including Jacob Fiana, Abraham Judah, and Jacob and Daniel Solis, settled in the area before the middle of the 19th century when Jewish retailers from families in Philadelphia and Baltimore began opening stor...
With this project we intend to find the earliest possible origin of the Steinfeld family name. Some of the starting family members of this project were born in Latvia, others in Ukraine etc. and their children generations later on moved to European countries like Norway, Sweden or Germany. Thus the search requires state and church register researches within these countries. Please feel free to ...
We Deaf Jews do believe in Jesus the Messiah and still Jewish. Second, we are Deaf and use America Sign Language to communicate each other.
Looking for information on the Addis family, originally from Russia or Poland, who settled in Chicago in the late 1800s/early 1900s.
An attempt to piece together the family tree of Jewish Niedermayers who originated in Chernovitsi.