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 JANUARY 2007 


CEMETERY PROJECT:
--
The Mount Judah Cemetery searchable database is now online at www.mountjudah.com .

--Unique Surnames lists:
      --The list for Czernowitz is now complete. Listed are the unique surnames for the nine combined burial plots located in the New York metro area.
      --Lists have now been created for Kazimierz Dolny, Plonsk and Przasnysz, all located in present-day Poland.
     --
The unique surnames list for Vilnius has been increased by nearly one hundred and fifty names to now more than eight hundred.


COMING SOON:
The "Coming Soon" page of future exhibitions has been updated to reflect five new exhibitions that will appear within the museum during the next six months. These are:
   Konzentrationslager: Buchenwald
   Military Uniforms of Europe
   Photographic Studios of Europe
   After the War: The Yiddish Theater in Europe
   Education and Research Center:
        Case Studies: Steps for Achieving Success



EDUCATION AND RESEARCH CENTER:
The "Searching the Cemetery Databases" page in the "Education and Research Center" has been amended to include comments and suggestions about the Mount Judah database.


HOLOCAUST:
--Concentration Camp Records Index at the National Archives, Northeast Division (NY)

--Holocaust Memorials of Europe:
   --Belarus: David-Gorodok
and Rubel'.

--Holocaust Memorials of North America:
   --Holocaust Memorial (Miami Beach, Florida).
   --Holocaust Memorial Park (Brooklyn, New York).

--Holocaust-related Conferences/Call for Papers:
   --The Legacy of the Holocaust,
Krakow, Poland, May 2007.
   --The Holocaust in Ukraine,
Paris, France, Oct 2007.

--Links page
   --Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp
memorial site.


LINKS:
Botschafter der Erinnerung--
Austrian Holocaust victims database.
Chevra Kadisha in Israel--
State of Israel, Ashdod, Haifa, Petach Tikvah, and Safed.
Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance--
Holocaust victims database.
Dutch Jewry Research Database
(URL change).
French Lines
(passenger search for 27 trans-Atlantic crossings 1864-1936).
Kazimierz Interactive Map.
Museum of the Historic City of Krakow.
Providence Cemetery, Scranton, PA--
searchable database.
Utah Death Certificate Index 1905-1954.


MAIN TOWN INDEX:
A new main town page has been put online for Czernowitz, Ukraine.


POSTCARDS FROM HOME
:
--Drohiczyn nad Bugiem, Poland:
Children's Betar Unit.
--Lodz, Poland:
Adela and Yosel Piaskogorski; The Piaskogorski Wedding.
--Szczuczyn/Bialystok, Poland:
Levi Boginsky in Bialystok; Levi Boginsky and Sergeant   Chorohov.
--Wyszkow, Poland:
Szaja and Mala Grynberg.


THE SYNAGOGUES OF EUROPE:
--Balassagyarmat, Hungary.
--Czernowitz, Ukraine.


THE SYNAGOGUES OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE:
--The Eldridge Street Synagogue website has put online a long list of its former congregants, dating from the 1850s to the 1950s. They may also have more information on some of the congregants, such as address, occupation and position as an officer in the synagogue itself.
 

 FEBRUARY 2007



CURRENT EXHIBITIONS:
--
"The Life of Nina Finkelstein: Recollections of a Friend" (Kovno Ghetto)
--"Holocaust Memorials of Canada"


HOLOCAUST:

--Glossary of Terms used in Concentration Camp Cards
--Holocaust Memorials of Canada:
  --Poland: Ozarow.
--Holocaust Memorials of Eastern Europe:
   --Belarus: Bobr.
   --Poland: Czestochowa
, Przasnysz and Sejny.
   --Ukraine: Ruzhin.
 

HOW WE WORKED:
--Lozdzieje, Lithuania: The Hospital in Lozdzieje.
 

IMMIGRANT LISTS:
--Bialystok:
A supplemental list of more than one hundred names has been created and added to the list of those who last resided in Bialystok before their emigration.
--Ostroleka: Twenty-seven more names have been added, found by a search using the misspelling of (beginning with the letters) "Osholek." This spelling error, as found in these number of entries, is due to the combination of the letters "tr" written in script being deciphered as the letter "h."


LINKS:
Cemetery Information/Restoration
--now separated into North America and international sites, according to the country where the cemetery is located. Also added is a site for Lunna, Belarus.
Chevra Kadisha in Israel--
State of Israel, Ashdod, Haifa, Petach Tikvah, and Safed.
Florida State Archives World War I Service Cards--searchable database, plus actual downloadable images of actual service cards.
Google's News Archives Search.
The Hamburg emigration list has now been taken over by Ancestry.de (in German only). See the Links page for the new URL.
Heritage Genealogy--nice site with info on New South Wales, Australia and beyond.
LI-RA-MA Collection--searchable database of those who immigrated to Canada from the Russian Empire 1898-1922.
Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts--50,000 names in their database.
Neve Klarsfeld searchable database of over 350,000 Jewish Hungarian deportees.
Shalom Foundation, Warszawa, Poland
Shtetl-associated Sites--Czernowitz, Ukraine.


POSTCARDS FROM HOME:
Belarus: David-Gorodok.
Germany: Cologne.
Moldova
: Chisinau (Kishinev).
Poland: Ostrow Mazowiecka.
Ukraine: Horodenka
and Pryluky.


RESEARCH GROUPS:
Special web pages has been created for researchers of Belarus, Lithuania, Poland and the Ukraine, listing links to all the material within the museum that might be of interest to them.


THE SYNAGOGUES OF EUROPE:
--Bialystok, Poland.
--Bielun, Poland.
--Ciechanow, Poland.
--Czestochowa, Poland (old and new).
--Jedwabne, Poland.
--Krasnosielc, Poland.
--Lomza, Poland.
--Nasielsk, Poland.
--Novi Sad, Serbia.
--Plonsk, Poland.
--Przasnysz, Poland.
--Pultusk, Poland.
--Stawiski, Poland.
--Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland.
 

MARCH 2007


HOW WE WORKED:
--Odessa, Ukraine:
The Tobacconists.


IMMIGRATION LISTS:
--England to Ellis Island:
An immigration list for (most) all Jews (nearly 65,000) entering the United States through Ellis Island 1892-1924. This list is not online on the museum website; however, the museum will do searches for those in need. Please indicate "England to Ellis Island lookup" in the Subject field of your e-mail request and include your given and surname and e-mail address. The list includes given and surname of the immigrant, town of last residence, approximate year of birth, and year of immigration.
 

LINKS:
--Lodz Jews.
 

MAP ROOM OF EASTERN EUROPE:
--There is a map of the area surrounding Pinsk, as well as one of the area west of Grodno in Map room 1, and perhaps other areas in Belarus, as well as the Ukraine.
--The maps in all four rooms have been better arranged by latitude.


MUSEUM NEWS:
--IAJGS Salutes:
It gives me great pleasure to announce that the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies has decided that I, as "founder" and "director" of the Museum of Family History, deserve to be recognized for the website I have created. I am deeply honored to receive such an award.

--JGSLI Talk:
I gave my very first presentation on behalf of the Museum of Family History to my local Jewish genealogical society, the Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island (JGSLI), on 25 Feb 2007. The meeting was attended by more than sixty people. I look forward to my next talk at the IAJGS Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah 15-20 Jul 2007.


POSTCARDS FROM HOME
:
--Czech Republic: Prague.
--Germany: Berlin, Bochum, Cologne
and Munich.
--Lithuania: Vilnius.
--Moldova: Chisinau (Kishinev).
--Poland: Bransk, Ciechanowiec, Czestochowa, Lodz, Nowy Sacz, Ostroleka, Piatnica, Radziejow, Szczebrzeszyn
and Tarnow.
--Ukraine: Odessa
and Skvira.
 

STORIES FROM OUR ANCESTRAL HOMES:
--Bialystok, Poland: "My Life"
by Rose Schachner, granddaughter of the Solomon Rabinovitch, the builder of the Great Synagogue of Bialystok.
 

SYNAGOGUES OF EUROPE:
--Belarus:  Brest, Lida, Minsk, Slonim and Vitebsk.
 

APRIL 2007


CEMETERY PROJECT
Holocaust Memorials of New York and New Jersey:
   --
A webpage has been added displaying a Holocaust memorial for the town of Pacanow, Poland. This memorial is located in Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, New York.

Unique Surnames Lists:
  --
I am more than seventy percent finished databasing the burials from the Minsk, Belarus-associated society plots that are located in the New York-New Jersey metro area. Two such plots, one at Montefiore Cemetery in Springfield Gardens, New York and the other at Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, New York, has over 1,500 burials each (a record, for my work at least)! The Minsk list to this point has unique surnames for twenty-four of thirty-eight extant Minsk plots in the New York-New Jersey metro area.


EDUCATION AND RESEARCH CENTER:
--Guide to Pronunciation:
Hungarian (Magyar):
This is the first in a new series of pronunciation guides, created to help those who might travel to the countries where these languages are spoken by those native to these countries. In this first guide, more than two dozen names of towns and cities in Hungary are listed. Each name is clearly spoken by someone who is Hungarian-born, then repeated a couple of seconds later. This gives the interested party the opportunity to learn how to pronounce the Magyar language so when they might visit there, they have a better chance of pronouncing their words in Magyar more correctly. Included too is a table of how to pronounce their consonants and vowels. Other language guides will be coming in the future, also with names of towns and cities pronounced by the native speaker.

Lithuanian: A second pronunciation guide has been added for about three dozen towns and cities in today's Lithuania, as spoken by a native Lithuanian. This will give you a flavor for the Lithuanian language and will help you better pronounce words more easily if you happen to go to Lithuania for a visit. A table describing how to pronounce Lithuanian consonants, vowels and diphthongs is also included.
 

FORUMS:
--A new feature of the museum is the discussion forum. The number of these forums will be very limited. The first one is for Zambrow, Poland. Please submit any questions or comments relating to Zambrow or your family from Zambrow to the museum at postmaster@museumoffamilyhistory.com .


THE HOLOCAUST:
--Links: The Holocaust Chronicle and ShoahConnect.
 

LINKS:
--Service records from World War I for Australian Army from National Archives of Australia.


MUSEUM NEWS:
--IAJGS Salutes:
It gives me great pleasure to announce that the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies has decided that I, as "founder" and "director" of the Museum of Family History, deserve to be recognized for the website I have created. I am deeply honored to receive such an award.

--JGSLI Talk:
I gave my very first presentation on behalf of the Museum of Family History to my local Jewish genealogical society, the Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island (JGSLI), on 25 Feb 2007. The meeting was attended by more than sixty people. I look forward to my next talk at the IAJGS Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah 15-20 Jul 2007.


POSTCARDS FROM HOME
:

--Germany: Chemnitz
and Dresden.
--Moldova: Chisinau (Kishinev).
--Poland: Kalisz, Lodz (see Dresden), Lomza, Siemiatycze, Zambrow
and Zawiercie.
--Ukraine: Lubny, Novohrad-Volyns'kyy
and Tarnopol.
--Slovakia:
A Slovakia page has been added to the exhibition. Family photographs from Bratislava, Dlhá nad Váhom, and Nové Mesto nad Váhom are now on display.

 

MAY 2007


CEMETERY PROJECT
Society Gates:
A page filled with photos of the gates of the seven Grodno, Belarus society burial plots in New York are now on display, along with some information about the location of these plots, the dates the society was established and when the gate was actually erected. Also listed are the names of society officers and some members.

Unique Surnames Lists:
  --
I have finished databasing the burials from the thirty-eight Minsk, Belarus-associated society plots that are located in the New York-New Jersey metro area. You can now look up your names of interest on the Minsk unique surnames list, located within the Museum's Cemetery Project. There are more than 3,400 unique surnames and more than 12,000 burials within these thirty-eight plots. The museum has photographs of nearly all the gravestones within these plots, so please send your requests to the museum at postmaster@museumoffamilyhistory.com . Please enter the words "Minsk lookup" in the Subject field of your e-mail and keep your requests succinct. Unique surname lists are now available for the combined Grodno and Pinsk, Belarus plots.
The Museum's Cemetery Project now contains photographs for more than 100,000 burials (!) in the New York-New Jersey metro area.

  --Thanks to Rabbi Edward Cohen, the Museum now has burial data from many Jewish cemeteries in Connecticut, Massachusetts (especially the western part) and Rhode Island. Unique surname lists have now been created according to the state, i.e. there are four unique surname lists for Connecticut burials, and one each for Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Feel free to contact the museum for information on a burial in any of these three states, but only if you happen to find the surname on the state list.
 

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
--Jewish Ideological Movements: The Betarim.
--Walk in my Shoes: Collected Memories of the Holocaust
 --
Six
more select chapters for you  from Joe Rosenblum's book, "The Fifty-Dollar Break," "Healing by Butter Knife," "A Happy Delivery Man," "Mengele Saves a Life," "Death and a Job Switch," and "On the Ramp." A good deal of insight into life in Birkenau from the eyes of a survivor, Mengele, and the fate of Chaim Rumkowski and the Lodz policemen. A must read.
The story of the "Last Minutes of Chaim Rumkowski" can also be found through the main Lodz town index page, or at www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/rumkowski-chaim.htm .


EDUCATION AND RESEARCH CENTER
--Guide to Pronunciation: A guide has been established for Magyar (Hungarian) and Lithuanian, and soon their will be one for Poland and Romanian.
 

FORUMS
--A new feature of the museum is the discussion forum. The number of these forums will be very limited. The first one is for Zambrow, Poland. Please submit any questions or comments relating to Zambrow or your family from Zambrow to the museum at postmaster@museumoffamilyhistory.com .
 

HOLOCAUST MEMORIALS OF CANADA
--Photographs have been added for the Ostrovtzer (Ostrowiece, Poland), Chmielniker (Chmielnik, Poland) and Lagover (Lagov, Poland) society plots located in Lambton Mills Cemetery in Toronto, Ontario Canada.
 

LINKS
--Lithuania White Pages.
--Links to a number of cemetery databases and burial information throughout the United States.


POSTCARDS FROM HOME
--Belaurs: Grodno.
--Poland: Bielsk Podlaski, Makow Mazowiecki, Warszawa
and Zawiercie.
--Slovakia: Cadca
and Ganovce.
--Ukraine: Volkovysk.


PRESERVING JEWISH HERITAGE
--Photos and commentary from the sixtieth year anniversary of the liquidation of the Lodz Ghetto.
--Cemetery rededication ceremony in 2006 at Wachock, Poland.
 

THE SCREENING ROOM
--I hope to introduce you who are fans of thoughtful and meaningful Jewish documentaries to many of them through this section of my museum.  I do this for your pleasure and also to support all those filmmakers who have spent their time and money and imagination to preserve Jewish history. I will be showing short film clips/previews of each one and, when possible, insights from the filmmakers about what motivated them to make their film, what their vision was, etc. I hope that you enjoy this aspect of the Museum of Family History. The video clip is designed to play in whatever media player you might have on your computer. The first film to be introduced is entitled "Secret Courage: The Walter Suskind Story." You can find the link to the film clip under "The Yiddish World."

Also see the video clip for "Saved by Deportation: An Unknown Odyssey of Polish Jews," which deals with the deportation of many Polish Jews into Russia by Stalin.


TOWNSITES
--
A new feature of the museum that strives to list all independent Jewish genealogical websites at one site. Links to websites will be added over time so check the TownSites page from time to time to see what's been added. If you are aware of other independent websites that deal specifically with a town with a Jewish population that would be of interest to the Jewish genealogical researcher, please send the URLs and town names to the museum.
 

 JUN-JUL 2007


CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

--Walk in my Shoes: Collected Memories of the Holocaust
 --
Six
more select chapters for you  from Joe Rosenblum's book, "The Fifty-Dollar Break," "Healing by Butter Knife," "A Happy Delivery Man," "Mengele Saves a Life," "Death and a Job Switch," and "On the Ramp." A good deal of insight into life in Birkenau from the eyes of a survivor, Mengele, and the fate of Chaim Rumkowski and the Lodz policemen. A must read.
The story of the "Last Minutes of Chaim Rumkowski" can also be found through the main Lodz town index page, or at www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/rumkowski-chaim.htm .


EDUCATION AND RESEARCH CENTER
--Guide to Pronunciation: A third and fourth guide has just been added for the Romanian and Polish languages. You can hear more than than two dozen town names from Romania and Moldova pronounced here by a native of Romania, as well as a general pronunciation table for the Romanian language consonants, vowels, diphthongs and tryphthongs. The Polish guide makes available pronunciations of over two hundred town names from Poland!
 

HOLOCAUST MEMORIALS OF CANADA
--Memorial photos have been added for the Ozarow and Independent Worker's Circle (Arbeiter Ring) societies in Mt. Sinai Memorial Park in Toronto.


HOLOCAUST MEMORIALS OF EUROPE
--The first memorials from Russia have been added to this exhibition. This one is from the town of Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia and marks a mass grave.


POSTCARDS FROM HOME
--Poland: Bedzin, Sandomierz, Sosnowiec, and Wieliczka.
--Ukraine: Kharkiv.

 

THE SCREENING ROOM
--I hope to introduce you who are fans of thoughtful and meaningful Jewish documentaries to many of them through this section of my museum.  I do this for your pleasure and also to support all those filmmakers who have spent their time and money and imagination to preserve Jewish history. I will be showing short film clips/previews of each one and, when possible, insights from the filmmakers about what motivated them to make their film, what their vision was, etc. Of course, this is done with the permission and full cooperation of the filmmakers themselves. I hope that you enjoy this aspect of the Museum of Family History. The video clip is designed to play in whatever media player you might have on your computer. There are at present video clips to nine Jewish documentaries available for viewing.

CEMETERY PROJECT:
--Unique surname lists are now in the process of being updated and created due to the inclusion of much of the Bayside Cemetery data. The first lists that have been updated are the combined Grajewo/Szczuczyn, Poland list and the one for Suwalki, Poland. Since I have not personally seen most of these gravestones, I cannot attest to the correct spelling of any given or surname, but at least I have created the best list possible of unique surnames for you.

--Society Gates: A major page of all the society gates that front all the Minsk plots in New York and New Jersey is now online. Unfortunately, only twenty-two of thirty-eight gates yield any useful information, but these twenty-two still result in a substantial amount of new material for those of you whose families were once part of any of these Minsker plots. The gates for Grodno are already online, but the Pinsker gates will not be put online until someone can go to the two New Jersey cemeteries, photograph all the Pinsker matzevot, send the society gate photos to me, etc. If you can do this, please contact me at steve@museumoffamilyhistory.com.
 

HOLOCAUST MEMORIALS OF EUROPE:
--Moldova: A new page has been created for Moldova, now featuring several photos of the Kishinev (Chisinau) memorials to the ghetto victims, as well as to the victims of the pogroms.
 

LINKS:
--Museum Podlaskie in Bialystok
(in Polish only.)
--Degob: Many testimonies from the Holocaust in Hungary.
 

POSTCARDS FROM HOME:
--Hungary: Budapest.
 

SYNAGOGUES OF EUROPE:
--Vishki, Latvia.
 

TOWNSITES:
--All links to the ShtetLinks town web pages are now being added in order that you are able to view the  most complete list of links to Jewish community websites as possible.
 

AUG-SEP 2007
 

CEMETERY PROJECT:
--Unique surnames have been added to the Pinsk, Belarus list, and a page has been put online that displays all Pinsker society gates in the New York-New Jersey metro area.
--New unique surname lists have been placed within the Cemetery Project for Miechow, Poddebice, Stary Sacz, Szczawne/Kulaszne and Wlodawa, all located in today's Poland. Also a list has been created for a combined Goniadz, Poland and Khomsk, Belarus plot. You can also peruse a unique surnames list for the town of Tiraspol, which is located in today's Moldova.
--More society gates:
  --Moldova: Tiraspol.
  --Poland: Miechow, Poddebice, Stary Sacz, Szczawne/Kulaszne, and Wlodawa.


EXHIBITIONS:
--"Photographic Studios of Europe": A six-part exhibition, two new parts are now available for viewing. In addition to the previously published "A Photographer's Life...,"  you can now read about Vilnius-based photographer Itzik Chonovitz, as well as read about the Baroness and Barons Groedel, who lived in Budapest, Hungary, and who were photographed by Prof. K. Koller of Budapest. Further parts of the exhibition will deal with the "fathers" of photography, the evolution of the studio portrait, as well as the lithography associated with studio photos, e.g. the imprints that mention and advertise the photographic studios and their services.

POSTCARDS FROM HOME:
--
family photographs from pre-World War II Europe

  --Belarus: Baryslaw (Borisow)
and Dolginovo.
  --Hungary: Budapest, Dunamocz, Mátészalka, Niregyhaza
and Ujpest.
 
---Italy: Merano.
 
--Lithuania: Ukmerge (Vilkomir).
 
--Poland: Krakow, Lodz, Lomza, Ostroleka, Radom, Rozan, Rzeszow, Sosnowiec, Wielun, Zakopane, Zakroczym, Zambrow
and Zglobien.
  --Romania: Botosani, Bucharest, Poienile de Sub Munte
and Sighet.

--"Walk in My Shoes: Collected Memories of the Holocaust"
   --Jean Frank
(nee Jadzia or Jadwiga Lipszyc) of Kalisz, Poland, tells us, in a chapter from her book, how she managed to escape from Warszawa and join her family in Czestochowa.
 

HOLOCAUST MEMORIALS OF EASTERN EUROPE:
--Poland: Kutno.
--Russia: Pushkin (
outside of St. Petersburg).


LANDSMANSHAFTN SOCIETIES:
--
The Pultusker Progressive Society Tenth Anniversary Jubilee.


LIVING IN AMERICA:
--"A Family Portrait: A Childhood of Memories," by Steven Lasky--a recollection of memories from his youth about his parents and grandparents...
 

MAP ROOM:
--Pre-World War II topographical maps have been now placed online for the areas surrounding Vilnius, Lithuania and Minsk and Pinsk, Belarus.
 

STORIES FROM OUR ANCESTRAL TOWNS:
--"Adventure and Tribulation of a One Day Substitute Letter Carrier" by Samuel Abbey Harrison of Vishki, Latvia.


TOWNSITES:

--All links to the ShtetLinks town web pages are now being added in order that you are able to view the  most complete list of links to Jewish community websites as possible.
 

THE YIDDISH WORLD:
--The Vilna Troupe and actress Luba Kadsion.


OCT-NOV 2007



CEMETERY PROJECT:
--A complete listing of burials in the nine extant Czernowitz, Ukraine-associated society plots in New York is now available. Listed are the names of the deceased, their date of death, and the names of the cemetery and society plot into which they were buried.
 

EXHIBITIONS:
--"Photographic Studios of Eastern Europe": This exhibition was created in order to acquaint those interested in photography with its early history, technically as well as commercially. A brief history of photography will be presented, as will a discussion of various aspects of  the photographic studio and family portrait. The exhibition will refer to, for the most part, the photographic studios that were once located within the former Russian Empire. Also, the lives and careers of two photographers are presented through a series of descriptive, pictorial displays and historical perspective.

--"Letters from Szczuczyn": This exhibition is comprised of a series of twenty insightful and impactful letters written by Zev Kayman, a devoted father who remained in the town of Szczuczyn, Poland along with other family members, sent to his son Eliezer who had emigrated from Szczuczyn to a small rural town in southeast Australia in 1937.
 

THE HOLOCAUST:
--The Concentration Camps: "Konzentrationslager: Buchenwald": When Jews and others first arrived at Buchenwald, they were registered in both a ledger and on individual cards. The records that survived the war give us valuable information about who these prisoners were, about where they came from, their families, their occupations, etc. The ledgers themselves tell us when they were born, when they arrived at Buchenwald and, if they perished during their captivity, when and where this occurred.

Also after the war, prisoners and others were questioned by the military in order to determine what should become of them. Read what kind of questions were asked of those interviewed during this time.

--Holocaust Memorials of Europe:
  --Lodz, Plonsk and Stawiski, Poland.

--Holocaust Memorials of North America:
   --Zhovka, Ukraine (formerly Zolkiew, Poland), as found in Mount Moriah Cemetery in Fairview, New Jersey.
   --A Holocaust memorial dedicated in 1977 in a park in New Haven, Connecticut.
 

LANDSMANSHAFTN IN AMERICA:
--Photographs are now available for viewing of landsmanshaftn meetings in New York and Toronto. Societies that originated in Zambrow, Ozarow, Pultusk and Radom, Poland are represented. Often these photos were taken at an anniversary jubilee dinner. I hope to add more such photos if sent to the museum by others, whether these photos be from North America, Israel, or other parts of the world.
 

LINKS:
--All Latvia Jewish Cemetery Lists.
--Georgia Death Certificates 1919-1927.
--Registration list of aliens living in Antwerp, Belgium, 1840 to 1930.
--
The Jewish Community of Krakow-has a Polish and an English version.
--Index of Inhabitants of Warszawa and its Suburbs 1854.


POSTCARDS FROM HOME:
--
family photographs from pre-World War II Europe

 
--Belarus: Brest-Litovsk, Minsk
and Nesvizh.
 
--Italy: Merano.
 
--Poland: Bialystok, Legnica, Lomza, Mlawa, Stawiski, Szczuczyn
and Warszawa.
  --Slovakia: Kosice.
  --Ukraine: Mogilev-Podolsk
and Sukhostav.
  --Uzbekistan: Samarkand.
 

PRESERVING JEWISH HERITAGE:
--
A B'nai B'rith lodge has been opened up in Warszawa, Poland, the first such lodge since the Polish Government. There had been ten such B'nai B'rith lodges in Poland until they were all shut  down in 1938.

--The Restoration of the Jewish cemetery in Losice, Poland.
 

THE SCREENING ROOM:
--Dan Katzir has put together a wonderful tribute to the Yiddish theatre. Please watch the two-minute trailer for his newest documentary, "Yiddish Theater: A Love Story."

--Michele Ohayon has created an intriguing story about the power of love and the ability of humankind to rise above unimaginable suffering" with her film "Steal a Pencil for Me."

--David Weintraub has put together a very interesting and enjoyable tribute to the sixty-year history of the Yiddish culture of Miami Beach. The film is entitled "Where Neon Goes to Die."
 

STORIES FROM OUR ANCESTRAL TOWNS:
--Plissa, Belarus: "The Pliskin Family."


TOWN INDEXES:
--Stawiski, Poland: Installation Night invitation, given by the Stavisker Young Men's Benevolent Association, New York City.
 

THE YIDDISH WORLD:
--The Yiddish Theatre of Europe:
You can see more photographs now of both amateur and professional productions in the Yiddish theatre of pre-war Europe. Represented are photos from Yiddish productions in today's Belarus, i.e. Derechin, Grodno, Kurenets, Lebedevo, Minsk, Pinsk, Smorgon and Volozhin; Dvinsk in Latvia; Krakow and Nowy Sacz in Poland; and Rokiskis and Siauliai in Lithuania.
 

DEC 2007
 

EDUCATION AND RESEARCH CENTER:
--You can now see a list of over four hundred and fifty synagogues and societies whose members met and worshipped at one time on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Included are the addresses of the buildings in which they met, as well as the name of the society/synagogue and, if applicable, the town and country that the group was associated with.
 

EXHIBITIONS:
--"Max Weber: Reflections of Jewish Memory in Modern American Art": The Museum has initiated a "Great Artists Series," hoping to feature biographical exhibitions on those Jews who made great artistic contributions to the world. The first to be featured is Max Weber, one of the finest cubist and expressionist artists of the twentieth century. A native of Bialystok, Poland who was raised in an Orthodox home, he and his family immigrated to the United States in 1891. Though not considered primarily to be a religious artist, Weber was deeply affected by the plight of the Jews in his native Europe both before and during World War II. These works represent an important and thoughtful phase in his career.

For the first time, the Museum, in its effort to make its presentations available and easily accessible to all, has provided audio versions of each page of the Weber exhibition. At the bottom of each page's text is an earphones icon and the phrase "Listen to it." By turning on your speakers and left-clicking on either the icon or the phrase "Listen to it," you will have the option to hear, rather than read, the main exhibition text. This has been done in the hope that those with acute vision problems, such as macular degeneration, advanced cataracts or glaucoma, will now have the opportunity to enjoy what has been created for them. The Museum recognizes that many of its visitors are elderly, and would like to make all due efforts possible to make the presented material more accessible to them.
 

FORUMS:
--Zambrow, Poland: The trip of Morris Spector, 1992.

 

LINKS:
--International Tracing Service.


POSTCARDS FROM HOME:
--
family photographs from pre-World War II Europe.
  --Nowy
Dwór, Stawiski and Zambrow, Poland.
  --Czernowitz, Ukraine.
 

TOWNSITES:
--
Merle Kastner has placed online her Wielun, Poland ShtetLinks page.
--Helen Kenvin has placed online her  Calarasi, Moldova (Kalarash, Bessarabia) ShtetLinks page.
--Links to websites that have information about Porozovo (Porozow) and Zelva, both in today's Belarus, are now online.


THE YIDDISH WORLD:
--William Siegel
(Yiddish playwright) and Vera Gordon (actress).
 


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