Arolsen Archives-International Center on Nazi Persecution

The new name of the International Tracing Service (ITS) is the 

 Arolsen Archives-International Center on Nazi Persecution.

Millions of Holocaust related documents will become available online.

To read about the announcement to to:

https://arolsen-archives.org/en/news/more-than-13-million-documents/

To seach the database go to:

https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/search/

To read a newspaper article about the new online archive go to:

https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-holocaust-documents-20190521-story.html

WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE To Return

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jan Meisels Allen <janmallen@att.net>
To: IAJGS Leadership Forum <leadership@iajgs.org>
Cc: 
Bcc: 
Date: Wed, 8 May 2019 16:04:02 -0700
Subject: [IAJGS Leadership] (US) Who Do You Think You Are To Return with 13 New Episodes on NBC

The US version of Who Do You Think You Are (WDYTYA) will return with 13 new episodes— the series is returning to its original US air home-NBC. Since 2013 WDYTYA aired on TLC cable network, but over that period of time aired fewer per season episodes.

Ancestry will once again partner with WDYTYA.

There was no announcement of which celebrities will be the focus of the Season 11 episodes.

To read more see:READ MORE

Original url:

ORIGINAL URL

Jan Meisels Allen

Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

From Jan Meisels Allen National Archives Program on America's Jewish Women:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jan Meisels Allen <janmallen@att.net>
To: IAJGS Leadership Forum <leadership@iajgs.org>
Cc: 
Bcc: 
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 10:04:39 -0700
Subject: [IAJGS Leadership] (US) National Archives Program on America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today

The National Archives is celebrating the centennial of the  19^th amendment which gave women the right to vote. As part of the National Archives "Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote" series, they are holding a book talk and signing on May 23, 2019 at 7:00PM entitled, "America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today" with Pamela Nadell, American University. This will include women form Emma Lazarus poet to labor organizer Bessie Hillman and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

For those of us not in Washington DC we can watch this live streamed on National Archives YouTube Channel at:

YOU TUBE CHANNEL

To read more about the exhibit and other programs as part of this series see: EXHIBIT

Original url:

ORIGINAL URL

And for the entire series: \ ENTIRE SERIES

Jan Meisels Allen

Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

NEWS FROM THE UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM

Subject: Jewish Twins in Auschwitz

From: "Lande" <pdlande@starpower.net>

Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 17:30:02 -0400

X-Message-Number: 2

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has added 549 names of twins at 

Auschwitz.  The collection contains lists of names and certificates for 

twins who were used in 1944 in Mengele's medical experiments at Auschwitz 

II.

You can request and immediately receive digital copies of the original 

documents in your email.

Research at 

https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/source_view.php?SourceId=48578

Peter Lande

Washington, D.C.

JGSGM MEMBER ROBBIN SMITH NORTH MIAMI FIU GENEALOGY CLASS

NEWS FROM JAN MEISELS ALLEN

Subject: (UK) Wiener Library Holocaust Explained Republished its Online Resource Life in Nazi Controlled Europe

From: "Jan Meisels Allen" <janmallen@att.net>

Date: Thu, 2 May 2019 14:36:37 -0700

X-Message-Number: 6

The United Kingdom's Wiener Library is a world-renowned Holocaust and

Genocide research library.  In 2017, they relaunched and redesigned their

The Holocaust Explained, an online educational resource developed with the

British school curriculum in mind https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/

The Wiener Library announced they republished the "Life in Nazi Controlled

Europe" section of The Holocaust Explained. The new features focus on

everyday life in Nazi Germany and occupation cases from across Europe, Nazi

economic and foreign policy and the Second World War. These are included on

the website url given above.

Jan Meisels Allen

Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee