International Holocaust Remembrance Day Calendar of Events at United Nations Headquarters January 27, 2023
For details about the schedule of events click these links:
https://www.un.org/en/outreach-programme-holocaust/page/2023
and
https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1j/k1jjl8fwc5
From: "hal.bookbinder@ucla.edu
From: Jan Meisels Allen <janmallen@att.net>
To: IAJGS Leadership Forum <leadership@iajgs.org>
Genetic genealogist Diahan Southard will host the PBS program DNA Secrets Revealed about the science of DNA and the role genetics plays in our longevity and well-being. This will play in the U.S. and Canada.
The program will include interviews with noted biologists and researchers and explain why genealogical science is critical to understanding who we really are, and how it can help us make smarter, more informed choices about our health.
Check your local PBS station directory for times and dates as it does play more than once.
https://www.pbssocal.org/
I reside in the Los Angeles area it plays on KCET on November 26 at 10:00 AM PST, Saturday November 26 6:00 PST on PBS So Cal and Sunday November 27 8:00AM PST on PBS So Cal and many other times as listed. https://www.pbssocal.org/
Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
Please join the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami Sunday December 4, 2022, at the Jewish Federation 4200 Biscayne Blvd. 11:00 am, for the program Voices from Jewish Refugees of Islamic Lands. The program commemorates Yom Haplitim, the day designated by the Israeli Knesset in 2015 to acknowledge the expulsion of more than 850,000 Jews from the Arab world during and after the formation of the modern State of Israel and to honor the survivors.
The program will feature
audiovisual presentations, remarks from community leaders, and testimony from survivors
of the expulsion. The moderator and
keynote speaker will be Professor Henry Green, Professor of Religious Studies
at the University of Miami and founding Director of the Sephardi Voices digital
archive. Other scheduled speakers
include Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniela Cava Levine, Consul General of Israel
in Miami Maor Elbaz-Starinsky, Greater Miami Jewish Federation Foundation
Director Scott Kaplan, and survivors Michael Sabet and Elise Diaine.
This event is cosponsored by
the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami, Sephardi Voices, Miami-Dade
County, the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, the Consulate of Israel in Miami,
and Anu- the Museum of Jewish People (Israel).
Please RSVP no later than
November 30, 2022 – you may register online with JGSGM.VPProgramming @gmail.com
More information at www.jgs-miam.org
Workshop
Announcement
"Creating a Family History Book Using
MyCanvas"
With
JGSGM President-Paulette Bronstein
Dates
and location to be announced
JGSGM members only
Email Paulette Bronstein if you are interested
in joining this workshop at
You
will need a laptop or tablet, an ancestry.com account, and family photographs
saved on your computer/tablet
JGSGM Member, Sylvia Gurinsky, suggested that I post this announcement on my blog.
Sylvia is a South Florida native with a background in journalism, now working in history guiding and consulting. Specializing in tours, lectures, research, editing/fact checking, writing and other projects relating to history.
Do you enjoy reading the Weekly News Nosh? If so, please tell your friends and family that they can also receive this free E-Newsletter by simply joining the JewishGen Discussion Group (JGDG) or Jewishgen.org.
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Online Event: Genealogy 101
Wednesday, July 13
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Space is limited.
Registration is required.
The link for more information:
https://mdpls.org/event/6803945
Thank you to our JGSGM Member Sylvia Gurinsky for sending this information.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) has made Holocaust-related Ukrainian Archives available on line with special permission from the Ukrainian State Archives. This results in 10 million pages of records that will be accessible online for the first time.
The first one million pages are now searchable at https://tinyurl.com/562kfn4u
Original URL:
These archives include historical materials from before, during and after the Holocaust. They include collections topics such as:
With one of Europe’s largest pre-war Jewish populations, Ukraine was the site of critical events in Holocaust history, including the beginning of Nazi Germany’s systematic mass killings of Jews after the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. At least 1.5 million Jews were killed within Ukraine’s current borders.
To read the press release see:
Thank you to Phil Goldfarb, President, JGS Tulsa, for sharing this information with us.
Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 22:12:00 -0700
Subject: [IAJGS Leadership] Pope Orders Online Release of WWII-era Pius XII Jewish files
Pope Francis has ordered the online publication of 170 volumes of its Jewish files from the recently opened Pope Pius XII archives, the Vatican announced 23 June, 2022, amid renewed debate about the legacy of its World War II-era pope.
The documentation contains 2,700 files of requests for Vatican help from Jewish groups and families, many of them baptized Catholics, so not actually practicing Jews anymore. The files were held in the Secretariat of State’s archives and contain requests for papal intervention to avoid Nazi deportation, to obtain liberation from concentration camps or help finding family members.
The online publication of the files comes amid renewed debate about Pius’ legacy following the 2020 opening to scholars of his archives, of which the “Jews” files are but a small part. The Vatican has long defended Pius against criticism from some Jewish groups that he remained silent in the face of the Holocaust, saying he used quiet diplomacy to save lives.
The Vatican’s foreign minister Paul Gallagher said it was hoped that the digital release of the “Jews” files would help scholars with research, but also descendants of those who had requested Vatican help, to “find traces of their loved ones from any part of the world.”
“The requests would arrive at the Secretariat of State, where diplomatic channels would try to provide all the help possible, taking into account the complexity of the political situation in the global context,” Gallagher wrote.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Kertzer, suggests that the people the Vatican was most concerned about saving were Jews who had converted to Catholicism, the offspring of Catholic-Jewish mixed marriages or otherwise related to Catholics.
To read more see: https://tinyurl.com/bd9fkhax
original URL:
The Vatican’s Apostolic Archives are located at: https://www.
To access the previous postings about the Vatican Archives including Pope Pius Xll see the IAJGS Records Access Alert archives at: http://lists.iajgs.org/
Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
The local conference chair is Fred Blum, past-president of the JGASGP. He can be reached at local-chair@iajgs2022.org
Click on this link to register for the meeting:
https://898a.blackbaudhosting.com/898a/JewishGen-Talks-Stories-of-Escape
In commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the entire JewishGen community is invited to join us for our next free JewishGen Talks webinar:
THE JEWISHGEN.ORG BLOG LINK:
https://www.jewishgen.org/blog/?p=expanded-access-to-holocaust-research
11 January 2022
The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust and its affiliate JewishGen have announced a new partnership with Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, whereby researchers will be able to access Yad Vashem’s Pages of Testimony data as part of a genealogical search on the JewishGen website – the largest online Jewish genealogy resource of its kind, which includes a Holocaust collection of nearly 3.8 million records.
Museum of Jewish Heritage President and CEO Jack Kliger says:
“By making available these precious records via JewishGen, the broader Jewish community can more easily research names of family and friends who were murdered during the Holocaust. The agreement facilitates access to the resources of our Museum and Yad Vashem, two of the most prestigious Holocaust memorial institutions in the world.”
Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan states:
"Yad Vashem's Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names brings the millions of faceless victims into the light and returns to them their identity, so the world can remember. This is part of Yad Vashem's mission to gather all forms of documentation from the Holocaust, including the collection of names of our brethren who were murdered during the Shoah. We owe it to them to know that they lived, what they looked like, what they dreamed about and at the very least – what their name was."
Since the 1950s, Yad Vashem has collected "Pages of Testimony," in which members of the public memorialize family members and friends who were murdered during the Holocaust. In many cases, these Pages – that comprise the names, biographical details and if possible, photographs – might contain the only evidence of what happened to their loved ones.
Dr. Alexander Avram, Director of Yad Vashem’s Hall of Names observes:
"More than one million Holocaust victims have yet to be memorialized at Yad Vashem. It is our expectation that by widening the exposure of our endeavor through JewishGen, the genealogical community will be able to play an important role in helping us add a large number of Pages of Testimony in the years to come.”
JewishGen Executive Director Avraham Groll notes:
“Researchers will now be able to retrieve Pages of Testimony data through a direct search within JewishGen. This common access to data from both institutions will directly benefit researchers by increasing the likelihood that they will find useful information. Without this new agreement, many Jewish genealogists may otherwise not have been aware of this vital resource.”
Yad Vashem has been running their Names Collection endeavor for over six decades, with the aim of restoring the personal identities and recording the brief life stories of the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis and their accomplices. The names documented in Yad Vashem’s Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names are sourced from many different sources, including Pages of Testimony. To date Yad Vashem has gathered some 2,700,000 Pages of Testimony. The Names Database currently commemorates over 4,800,000 Jewish men, women and children who were murdered in the Holocaust.
This collection can be searched via the JewishGen Holocaust Database (https://www.jewishgen.org/
Thanks to our JGSGM member Marian Wertalka for sharing this topic with me.
The YIVO institute for Jewish Research (YIVO) has completed the digitisation of its prewar library and archival collections.
The New York-based institute announced on Monday that it had completed the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections Project (EBYVOC), a 7-year initiative that cost 7 million US dollars (6.18 million euros).
The aim of the project was to process, conserve and digitise YIVO’s divided prewar library and archival collections. The materials were digitally assembled in one place, on a dedicated website, becoming accessible to a worldwide audience for the first time, the institute said in a press release.
“This unparalleled collection sheds new light on the prewar Jewish history and culture across Eastern Europe and Russia, it will benefit scholars, students and the global public for generations to come,” the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture said in a press release.
The collections gives a glimpse into how Eastern European Jews lived, where they came from, how they raised and educated their families, how they created art, literature, music, and language.
The documents also describe relations between Jews and their non-Jewish neighbours, how they understood their place in the world both politically and socially and how they dealt with the turmoil and promises of modernity.
The project involved digitising approximately 4.1 million pages of books, artefacts, records, manuscripts, and documents stored in New York and Vilnius.
YIVO was founded in Vilnius in 1925. It collected Jewish folklore, memoirs, books and publications, Jewish community documents.
In 1941, the Nazis ransacked the YIVO Institute in Vilnius. Many documents were destroyed and a group of Vilnius ghetto workers were forced to sort through the collections and select materials to be shipped to Frankfurt, for use in the Nazi Institute for the Study of the Jewish Question.
In 1946, the US military recovered these documents and sent them to YIVO in New York.
Parts of the materials were hidden in Vilnius, in the Church of St. George, converted by the Soviets into the Lithuanian Book Chamber, until they were discovered in 1989.
Moreover, approximately 170,000 additional documents were discovered in the National Library of Lithuania in 2017, including rare and unpublished works.
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