The Center for Jewish History (Robert Jacobvitz Presentations)

Robert Jacobvitz at the Greater Miami Jewish Federation

On Sunday, September 15th at the Temple Beth Am Sunday Salon and on Sunday, September 22nd at the Greater Miami Jewish Federation JGSGM meeting Robert Jacobvitz gave presentations about The Center for Jewish History (15 West 16th Street, New York, NY). The CJH (https://www.cjh.org/) is one of the largest and most comprehensive archives of modern Jewish experience.  It's partners are the  American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS), the American Sephardi Federation (ASF), the Leo BaecK Institute (LBI), Yeshiva University Museum  (YU Museum), and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO). You must register and create an account to use their archives.  You can register at this link:

http://libraryservices.cjh.org/aeon

Military Burial for Harold Rose AKA Rosenstone

The Greater Miami Jewish Federation recommended our Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami to a granddaughter who was desperate to find military records so that her grandfather could be buried with military honors.  The VA could not find any records because her family changed their last name after World War II.  I am happy to report that we were able to find the necessary information to enable the family to have a military burial.  A full report will be featured in the next issue of our JGSGM newsletter, BRANCHES.

Paulette Bronstein

President

Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami

Phyllis Kramer z"l from Ann Rabinowitz

Successful in her professional life, Phyllis Kramer, came to be known all over the Jewish genealogy world for her contributions to genealogy education. 

As one of JewishGen’s well-known volunteers and board members, she went out of her way to use her professionally-gained skills to construct an educational component that Jewish genealogy newbies as well as more advanced students could easily access and use on-line to further their knowledge.

She was a special person and as she worked tirelessly over the years to build this education component, she also took it upon herself to speak to Jewish Genealogy Societies and other groups and assisted in IAJGS educational courses at Conferences. 

She was a forthright educator who could use simple terminology and explanations to enable the newest genealogy enthusiast to understand what was being taught.  In addition, she was happy to answer inquiries and make suggestions for further research which made her a popular speaker.

Her participation in bringing knowledge in innovative ways to the JGSGM membership was much appreciated.   She will certainly be remembered fondly by the many Jewish genealogy researchers around the world for her contributions to Jewish genealogy.

May her soul rest in peace and her family be comforted by their sweet memories of her.

Ann Rabinowitz

Jan Meisels Allen - Genealogy Online

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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 17:01:22 -0700
Subject: [IAJGS Leadership] (Belgium- Netherlands) Genealogy Online Provides Jewish Monument of WW2 Victims

Genealogy Online has information on Belgian and Dutch Archives. They are commemorating the end of World War ll by marking the World War ll victims in their publication While their website has a list of over 5,500 marked World War ll victims, one of the items is the War Graves Foundation of the Jewish Monument with over 104,000 people who were persecuted in the Netherlands and did not survive the Holocaust.

Within the online monument, visitors, editors, family members and historians work together to collect stories and memories.

Go to this website to see the Jewish monument. Some have family trees as part of their story:

https://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/wo2slachtoffers/filtered/index.php?filter=jdsm&pagina=1

To see all of the databases go to:

https://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/wo2slachtoffers/

The website is offered four languages:

Nederland, English, German and French. The word “taal” is language and you may change to any of the four languages.

Jan Meisels Allen

Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

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MyHeritage is holding its LIVE Amsterday program 6-8 September.  For those who are unable to attend in person

they will live stream the genealogy and DNA tracks.  It is available for free at  https://live2019.myheritage.com/

It will start at 9:00 a.m. Amsterdan time on September 7.

To see the schedule go to: https://tinyurl.com/y4cqfsgw

Thank you Jan Meisels Allen for sharing this message.