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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