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AUG 2008
Please use the 2008 Updates archives link above to read
about any late July additions to the Museum.
CEMETERY PROJECT:
--A map has been added for the Jewish sections at Rosemont Park
Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois.
--Society Gates: Czernowitz society plot, Wellwood
Cemetery, Pinelawn, New York.
--Unique Surnames Lists: New lists are being added for various
society plots at Bayside Cemetery in Ozone Park, New York. Many
of these plots are associated with towns in Europe, others are
associated with other types of organizations. Other landsmanshaftn
lists are being updated. New town lists include:
Belarus: Lyubcha; Lithuania: Kalvarija, Kraziai, Marijampole,
Salant and Veisiejai; Poland: Biezun, Gniezno, Golub-Dobrzyn,
Konin, Pyzdry and Wloclawek. Lists will be updated for the
following towns: Poland: Ciechanow, Grajewo, Kalisz, Krakow, Kutno,
Makow Mazowiecki, Mlawa, Nasielsk, Plock, Przasnysz, Sierpc, Stawiski,
Suwalki, Szczuczyn and Trzcianne.
Q & A:
A very interesting
feature. The Museum will conduct a number of interviews with people of
interest. The first Q & A is called "Interview with a Cemetery
Manager," and is an in-depth discussion with the manager of
Mount Judah Cemetery, a Jewish cemetery located in Ridgewood,
Queens, New York. Some of the topics of discussion have to do with the
ins-and-outs of running a cemetery, what occurs from the time a
funeral director calls the cemetery in order arrange for a funeral, to
the time a funeral is concluded. Also, what kind of information on the
deceased does a cemetery actually have? Many questions were asked and
answered, so reading this interview should be a learning experience
for many. The interview should be especially interesting and pertinent
to Jewish genealogists.
POSTCARDS FROM HOME:
--Latvia: Riga.
SCREENING ROOM:
--"The Litvak Connection": The fifteenth film
preview to be featured at the Museum. This 2008
documentary depicts the role of Nazi collaborators during the Shoah
who were complicit in the liquidation of Latvian and Lithuanian Jewry,
i.e. the Litvak population, as well as their connection to present day
war crimes issues.
TOWNSITES:
--Links to the following ShtetLinks pages have been added:
--Belarus: Braslav and Vishnewo.
--Lithuania: Leipalingis and
Židikai.
--Ukraine:
Chabanivka and Zolotyy Potik (Potok Zloty).
WORLD HOLOCAUST MEMORIALS:
--Holocaust Memorials of Canada: At Bathurst Lawn Cemetery
in Toronto, Canada, in a Minsker Farband/Adath Sholom
Synagogue society plot.
--Holocaust Memorials of New York and New Jersey: A memorial
erected at Beth Abraham Cemetery in New Jersey by New Lubliner Society
and Vicinity, representing Lublin, Poland.
THE YIDDISH
WORLD:
--Chapters 24 to 27 in the only biography written about Yiddish
acting great Maurice Schwartz. The book is called "Once a
Kingdom," and is presented exclusively to visitors to the Museum of
Family History in a serialized form in a four-chapter monthly sequence (ending
January 2009.)
--Jung Vilne ("Young Vilnius"):
Between the two world wars, a number of young writers and
artists of Vilne (Vilnius) came together and formed what was to become
an important Yiddish literary group called "Jung Vilne."
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