The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will be receiving the data of the International Tracing Service/Bad Arolsen archives, and it has just added a link to a special Frequently Asked Questions section. It will be regularly updated.
The FAQ offers background on what the archive contains, how the USHMM will make the information available to survivors and their families, and how the process will be organized.
For other questions not answered in the FAQ, contact Ellen Blalock, eblalock@ushmm.org. She is director of the Survivor Affairs/Speakers Bureau at the USHMM.
17 June 2007
11 June 2007
Oregon: Languages of the Jews, June 13
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Willamette Valley Oregon, in Eugene,will host veteran researcher Richard Sapon-White on "The Languages of the Jews," at 7.30 p.m. Wednesday, July 13.
The announcement included news that a member is planning to make a batch of chocolate truffles to bring to the meeting. (NOTE: This may be the answer to declining attendance at gen society meetings. How many JGSs feature a vice president of chocolate truffles on their boards?)
For location, information and programs for the next few months, click here.
The announcement included news that a member is planning to make a batch of chocolate truffles to bring to the meeting. (NOTE: This may be the answer to declining attendance at gen society meetings. How many JGSs feature a vice president of chocolate truffles on their boards?)
For location, information and programs for the next few months, click here.
Southern California Genealogy Conference
The regional Southern California Genealogy Society's Jamboree offered an opportunity to meet many old friends, those whom I've only known as email signatures and some former students.
Roots Television was busy interviewing speakers and "genealogists in the street" about their experiences: the wildest thing done in the search for information, fortuitous events which provided major breakthroughs and other topics. Watch for the upcoming videos on the website. I listened in on some as Marcy Brown filmed; viewers are in for a treat when the interviews are posted.
It was a great pleasure to talk with Megan Smolyanek Smolyanek and meet her husband.
Each time I visited the vendor room, people were lined up to speak with Family Tree DNA's Bennett Greenspan and Max Blankfeld. Bennett's talk on DNA in 2007 was very well attended.
I enjoyed meeting Colleen Fitzpatrick who speaks on forensic genealogy and works with photographs and DNA topics. Colleen makes it all sound so easy. If you have a chance to attend one of her programs, don't miss it.
Drew Smith of the Genealogy Guys podcasting team, was there as well, although George Morgan was ill and couldn't attend.
There were some new technology items as well, including GENIE.com, which will also be at the IAJGS conference. Take a look at their site.
It was wonderful to meet with former genealogy class students as well from both our past classes at MyFamily.com and the new GenClass.com venture. My genealogy cousin (Mogilev, Belarus) Hilary Henkin, former president of the JGS of Georgia, is now back in Los Angeles and we had a pleasant time reconnecting.
The technology corner featured access to major subscription databases, including Footnote.com. I found some excellent information in their holdings for my familes of interest.
Many vendors brought books of interest. This was candy for confirmed bibliophiles. The Hispanic Genealogy Society had interesting books for sale, and I wish I had brought along Felix the Cat's magic bag to take them all with me. I'm working on my wish list of items. I also told them about Pere Bonnin's book Sangre Judia, an item which their library should stock.
I'm working on my notes now and will post on several programs.
Compliments to SCGS's Paula Hinkel and her team for a well-run, interesting conference.
Roots Television was busy interviewing speakers and "genealogists in the street" about their experiences: the wildest thing done in the search for information, fortuitous events which provided major breakthroughs and other topics. Watch for the upcoming videos on the website. I listened in on some as Marcy Brown filmed; viewers are in for a treat when the interviews are posted.
It was a great pleasure to talk with Megan Smolyanek Smolyanek and meet her husband.
Each time I visited the vendor room, people were lined up to speak with Family Tree DNA's Bennett Greenspan and Max Blankfeld. Bennett's talk on DNA in 2007 was very well attended.
I enjoyed meeting Colleen Fitzpatrick who speaks on forensic genealogy and works with photographs and DNA topics. Colleen makes it all sound so easy. If you have a chance to attend one of her programs, don't miss it.
Drew Smith of the Genealogy Guys podcasting team, was there as well, although George Morgan was ill and couldn't attend.
There were some new technology items as well, including GENIE.com, which will also be at the IAJGS conference. Take a look at their site.
It was wonderful to meet with former genealogy class students as well from both our past classes at MyFamily.com and the new GenClass.com venture. My genealogy cousin (Mogilev, Belarus) Hilary Henkin, former president of the JGS of Georgia, is now back in Los Angeles and we had a pleasant time reconnecting.
The technology corner featured access to major subscription databases, including Footnote.com. I found some excellent information in their holdings for my familes of interest.
Many vendors brought books of interest. This was candy for confirmed bibliophiles. The Hispanic Genealogy Society had interesting books for sale, and I wish I had brought along Felix the Cat's magic bag to take them all with me. I'm working on my wish list of items. I also told them about Pere Bonnin's book Sangre Judia, an item which their library should stock.
I'm working on my notes now and will post on several programs.
Compliments to SCGS's Paula Hinkel and her team for a well-run, interesting conference.
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07 June 2007
Israel: Trisher Wilson, June 13
The Jewish Family Research Association Israel (JFRA Israel) will host researcher Trisher Wilson at its next Ra'anana branch meeting at 7.30 p.m. Wednesday, June 13.
She will speak on "Reuniting families of Holocaust Survivors," including her successes in tracking down and reuniting family members 60 years after WWII, demonstrate her methods using the Internet, Yad Vashem and other sources.
Additionally, a film will be shown of two cousins recently reunited by Wilson.
JFRA members, NIS 5; others, NIS 20.
The group meets at Beit Fisher, 5 Klausner St., Ra'anana. For more information, click here.
She will speak on "Reuniting families of Holocaust Survivors," including her successes in tracking down and reuniting family members 60 years after WWII, demonstrate her methods using the Internet, Yad Vashem and other sources.
Additionally, a film will be shown of two cousins recently reunited by Wilson.
JFRA members, NIS 5; others, NIS 20.
The group meets at Beit Fisher, 5 Klausner St., Ra'anana. For more information, click here.
Philadelphia: Historian and writer, June 11 and 12
The JGS of Greater Philadelphia will host Rabbi Lance Sussman, PhD, on "A Jewish historian looks at Jewish genealogy." The meeting is at 7.30 p.m. Monday, June 11, at Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park. Sussman has been the congregation's rabbi since 2001.
Sussman's expertise is both congregational and academic. Ordained in 1980 at HUC-JIR, he also has a doctorate in Jewish history. Previously serving Temple Concord in Binghamton, NY, he was an associate professor of American Jewish History at SUNY Binghamton, and has also taught at Gratz College, HUC-JIR New York and Rutgers University.
Non-members: $2.
The JGSGP's Delaware County Main Line Affiliate will host Helaine Shoag Greenberg at 7.30 p.m. Tuesday, June 12, as she speaks on her book, "Voices from Vilna."
The creative, non-fiction memoir is told from the personal perspective of a first generation child, but speaks to those who had family in Europe 1930-40. It is based on letters found in her family home, describing life and events in Vilnius, Lithuania.
The group meets at Martins Run Life Care Community in Media, Pa.
Sussman's expertise is both congregational and academic. Ordained in 1980 at HUC-JIR, he also has a doctorate in Jewish history. Previously serving Temple Concord in Binghamton, NY, he was an associate professor of American Jewish History at SUNY Binghamton, and has also taught at Gratz College, HUC-JIR New York and Rutgers University.
Non-members: $2.
The JGSGP's Delaware County Main Line Affiliate will host Helaine Shoag Greenberg at 7.30 p.m. Tuesday, June 12, as she speaks on her book, "Voices from Vilna."
The creative, non-fiction memoir is told from the personal perspective of a first generation child, but speaks to those who had family in Europe 1930-40. It is based on letters found in her family home, describing life and events in Vilnius, Lithuania.
The group meets at Martins Run Life Care Community in Media, Pa.
More Galicia in SLC: Gesher Galicia SIG
Gesher Galicia SIG (special interest group) will meet at 3.30 p.m. Monday, July 16, at the IAJGS conference.
The program, according to research coordinator Pamela Weisberger, will include:
1.Updates on Gesher Galicia's research initiatives, including the cadastral map/homeowners lists acquisition project, Galician town and region research group work, research grant program and more.
2. Brian Lenius, author of The Genealogical Gazetteer of Galicia, will provide a short primer on conducting on-site research in the Lviv Historical Archives. Mark Halpern will discuss the new Lviv archive microfilms of vital records for Galician towns recently added to the LDS catalogue.
3. JewishGen yizkor book translation project update.
4. A documentary film presentation by Will Kahane: Rimalev, the Seventh House: Of the few thousand Jews who lived there before the war, only about 80 surviving Jews made their way back to Rimalev (Grzymalow) from all the surrounding areas in 1944. Kahane, born Velvel Yisroel, was the first and last Jewish child to be born there after WWII on September 7, 1945, following liberation by the Russians.
In 1996, he joined a group of Holocaust survivors on a trip to Skalat to dedicate a memorial on a mass grave site. He journeyed to his shtetl with a local Jewish guide, to find the house where he, his father and grandfather were born.
Built by his family generations ago, his goal was to see if the place still existed and to view it once more after leaving in December 1945 for a displaced persons camp in Germany at the age of three months. He also searched for the tiny village of Ostra Magilla, where his mother, her brother and several of the Skalat survivors were hidden during the war. Although small--only 10 houses--this village rescued many Jews.
Will continued on to Lvov and met, in a hotel restaurant, a black-robed monk who was a member of the Studite order of the Ukrainian Uniate Church, and knew the story of Kahane's great-uncle, Rabbi David Kahane, author of Lvov Ghetto Diary, who was rescued by Archbishop of Lvov Andrei Sheptytski who saved many other Jews during WWII. He led Will to the monastery where the rabbi was hidden for a time during the war. The massive walls and surprising human skeletons found inside of them hinted of an unfathomable world of mystery. Will is studying for his Masters in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton College in New Jersey. He recently made two films: Auschwitz Memories and Lest We Forget.
A summary will be included in the The Galitzianer journal's summer edition, for those who cannot attend.
Have information to share with other Galician researchers? For more information, click here and here.
The program, according to research coordinator Pamela Weisberger, will include:
1.Updates on Gesher Galicia's research initiatives, including the cadastral map/homeowners lists acquisition project, Galician town and region research group work, research grant program and more.
2. Brian Lenius, author of The Genealogical Gazetteer of Galicia, will provide a short primer on conducting on-site research in the Lviv Historical Archives. Mark Halpern will discuss the new Lviv archive microfilms of vital records for Galician towns recently added to the LDS catalogue.
3. JewishGen yizkor book translation project update.
4. A documentary film presentation by Will Kahane: Rimalev, the Seventh House: Of the few thousand Jews who lived there before the war, only about 80 surviving Jews made their way back to Rimalev (Grzymalow) from all the surrounding areas in 1944. Kahane, born Velvel Yisroel, was the first and last Jewish child to be born there after WWII on September 7, 1945, following liberation by the Russians.
In 1996, he joined a group of Holocaust survivors on a trip to Skalat to dedicate a memorial on a mass grave site. He journeyed to his shtetl with a local Jewish guide, to find the house where he, his father and grandfather were born.
Built by his family generations ago, his goal was to see if the place still existed and to view it once more after leaving in December 1945 for a displaced persons camp in Germany at the age of three months. He also searched for the tiny village of Ostra Magilla, where his mother, her brother and several of the Skalat survivors were hidden during the war. Although small--only 10 houses--this village rescued many Jews.
Will continued on to Lvov and met, in a hotel restaurant, a black-robed monk who was a member of the Studite order of the Ukrainian Uniate Church, and knew the story of Kahane's great-uncle, Rabbi David Kahane, author of Lvov Ghetto Diary, who was rescued by Archbishop of Lvov Andrei Sheptytski who saved many other Jews during WWII. He led Will to the monastery where the rabbi was hidden for a time during the war. The massive walls and surprising human skeletons found inside of them hinted of an unfathomable world of mystery. Will is studying for his Masters in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton College in New Jersey. He recently made two films: Auschwitz Memories and Lest We Forget.
A summary will be included in the The Galitzianer journal's summer edition, for those who cannot attend.
Have information to share with other Galician researchers? For more information, click here and here.
Brian Lenius at the IAJGS conference
If your roots are in Galicia, Austro-Hungary (Poland and today Ukraine), this is for you.
Brian Lenius will give two talks at the 27th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy: "Land Cadastral Records and Property Maps in the Austrian Empire" and "Jewish Registration Districts, ADs, JDs, and More: Using Historical Gazetteers to Understand Political Jurisdictions of Galicia."
Lenius' book, The Genealogical Gazetteer of Galicia (expanded data edition) for pre-WWI Austrian Crownland of Galizien (Galicia) will be available for purchase at the conference.
The 345-page book includes 14,000 place names and 22 maps and is based on 1896-1914 information including:
-6,300 communities and estates (Polish names), the Administrative and Judicial Districts, current country, Land Cadastral Community, Roman Catholic parish and diocese, Greek Catholic parish and eparchy, Evangelical Lutheran/Reformed parish, Mennonite circuit, and Jewish Registration District for each village, town, city, and estate.
-3,441 smaller places (hamlets, etc.) and alternate names.
-4,052 Ukrainian Place Names cross-referenced to Polish names of communities (villages, towns, and cities) and estates. Names are in transliterated Ukrainian and Cyrillic.
-List of German language place names including the official German names for larger towns and also the 18th-19th century German colonies.
-Map of Galicia's Administrative Districts..
-21 maps of Galicia.
-Sources for genealogical records including archive details, published articles and inventories.
If you will be at the conference, pre-order (before June 15) a copy at $40 and pick it up there. For more information, click here.
Brian Lenius will give two talks at the 27th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy: "Land Cadastral Records and Property Maps in the Austrian Empire" and "Jewish Registration Districts, ADs, JDs, and More: Using Historical Gazetteers to Understand Political Jurisdictions of Galicia."
Lenius' book, The Genealogical Gazetteer of Galicia (expanded data edition) for pre-WWI Austrian Crownland of Galizien (Galicia) will be available for purchase at the conference.
The 345-page book includes 14,000 place names and 22 maps and is based on 1896-1914 information including:
-6,300 communities and estates (Polish names), the Administrative and Judicial Districts, current country, Land Cadastral Community, Roman Catholic parish and diocese, Greek Catholic parish and eparchy, Evangelical Lutheran/Reformed parish, Mennonite circuit, and Jewish Registration District for each village, town, city, and estate.
-3,441 smaller places (hamlets, etc.) and alternate names.
-4,052 Ukrainian Place Names cross-referenced to Polish names of communities (villages, towns, and cities) and estates. Names are in transliterated Ukrainian and Cyrillic.
-List of German language place names including the official German names for larger towns and also the 18th-19th century German colonies.
-Map of Galicia's Administrative Districts..
-21 maps of Galicia.
-Sources for genealogical records including archive details, published articles and inventories.
If you will be at the conference, pre-order (before June 15) a copy at $40 and pick it up there. For more information, click here.
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