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Abandoned by mom? JHI Genealogy asks for help
December 1, 1934, Warsaw, Summer Theater in the Saski (Saxon) Garden. Black baby stroller without guardians. In it, a child, a girl, about 1 month old. Dark hair, and blue eyes, she was wearing a white dress, a white diaper wrapped in a pink blanket, and a green checkered scarf.
Does anyone know the Chamaides family from Lviv? JHI Genealogy asks for help
Who killed Józefa Witkowska?
Does anyone know the Wulkan family from Oświęcim? JHI Genealogy asks for help
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Irenka Kwiatkowska from Warsaw. Maybe someone will recognize her smile? JHI Genealogy asks for help
Simple DNA tests can bring unexpected results that lead to finding a family, identity lost during the war, regaining their first name, fragments of life that seemed to be lost. But not in this case. The research only confirmed that Irenka was a Jewish child. She was adopted by a beautiful family who adopted her and looked after her in later life.
BROTHERS REUNITED AFTER MORE THAN 70 YEARS
Szmaja and his wife. Does anyone recognize any of the women?
DO YOU RECOGNIZE THIS BOY?
Discovering family secrets
Genealogy Department at the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute.
Alfa — The Wajdenfeld Brothers’ Chocolate Factory
In our office we have the pleasure to meet incredible people and hear many wonderful stories from the past. Moreover, we have a chance to see beautiful photos.
Does anyone know these sisters?
Can you recognize anyone in these photos? no. 2
In the collections of the Documentation Department there are many unidentified photographs from the post World War II period. Documentation Department is inviting all to participate in a new project. These photographs are mainly of Jewish children, who survived the war and were placed in Central Committee of Jews in Poland orphanages. They were taken in years 1945–1949. Unfortunately, we do not know their names, or anything about them, also — in most cases — we don’t know the place, where the ph
Can you recognize anyone in these photos? no. 3
In the collections of the Documentation Department there are many unidentified photographs from the post World War II period. Documentation Department is inviting all to participate in a new project. These photographs are mainly of Jewish children, who survived the war and were placed in Central Committee of Jews in Poland orphanages. They were taken in years 1945–1949.
Can you recognize anyone in these photos? no. 4
Can you recognize anyone in these photos? In the collections of the Documentation Department there are many unidentified photographs from the post World War II period. Documentation Department is inviting all to participate in a new project. These photographs are mainly of Jewish children, who survived the war and were placed in Central Committee of Jews in Poland orphanages. They were taken in years 1945–1949.
Can you recognize anyone in these photos? no. 5
In the collections of the Documentation Department there are many unidentified photographs from the post World War II period. Documentation Department is inviting all to participate in a new project. These photographs are mainly of Jewish children, who survived the war and were placed in Central Committee of Jews in Poland orphanages. They were taken in years 1945–1949.
Saving 42 Jews of the Żmudź area
Mr Marcin Andrusieczko came to our office with a history of his uncle and his grandfather. They helped a group of 42 Jews to survive the war in bunkers in „Uroczysko Haliczańskie“ forests near Żmudź and Pobołowice. Read carefully these post-war memoirs of Mr Zbysław Raczkiewicz, son of Wojciech. Please, contact us if there’s anything you could add to this story.
Do you recognize this place?
Josef Feingold was born in Warsaw, to a merchant family who lived in Kacza st. He survived the war and camps, and immigrated to Israel. In the 60s he returned to Poland — to see his family graves, and came home with these pictures.
Machonbaum/Gurewicz
Aron Majer, born in 1907 in Warsaw, son of Chaskiel Machenbaum and Zysla born Gurewicz. When he was 16, two years after his mother’s death (she died on the 22nd of April 1921, buried at the Okopowa Cemetery in Warsaw), he went to Switzerland to the family of her sister, her aunt married name — Horowitz. He never again mentioned his family, he never told his son, who was born already in Switzerland, what forced him to leave even though he had a family in Warsaw…
Can you recognize anyone in these photos?
Can you recognize anyone in these photos? no. 1
In the collections of the Documentation Department there are many unidentified photographs from the post World War II period. Those photos are all in the ŻIH Facebook album (link below).
History of family names
Grandma’s name was Rosenberg. Am I Jewish? We hear questions like that rather often. Someone encounters a name with a Germanic sound to it and jumps to the conclusion that the name is Yiddish. Other “non-standard” Polish names are taken, due to their “exotic” nature, to be Hebrew — by individuals with no knowledge of Hebrew.
They called me their „Yiddishe papa”
„These were the happiest years of her life. She was saving shivering little beings, looking in their sad eyes, she was putting them to sleep“ – writes Jadwiga, a granddaughter of a Righteous Gentile, asking: what happened to them?
Letter from Vilnius
“I would like to ask whether it is possible to identify the names of the families which are in the photographs, as well as to establish what happened to them, whether anyone survived and if they have descendents or relatives. I would be very grateful for your help.”
Quizzes from Milejczyce
In 2010 during the renovation of the pre-war school building 70 history quizzes from 1940 were found when replacing the windows. They were once written by Jewish, Polish and Russian children, all attending the same school. In 1940 they were answering questions regarding Pharaoh Ramses the Second and his war with the Hittites.
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