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JGSGB German SIG German Interest Records What’s new?

Jeanette R Rosenberg OBE 1 March 2020

13 New books here since we last met in December 2019 Involuntary Guests - Enemy Aliens and Political Detainees on the Isle of Isle of Man Man in World war Two Feuer an dein Heiligtum gelegt : zerstörte Synagogen 1938 Nordrhein- NRW Synagogues Westfalen.

Southport Philanthropy, Consensus, & Broiges* Managing a Jewish Community They Called Us Bloody Foreigners - Jewish Refugees in Kenya 1933- Kenya 1950s Kreis Heinsberg Der Nationalsozialismus im Kreis Heinsberg Fuerth Der Neue Juedische Friedhof in Fuerth The Missing Images Eugeen van Mieghem and the Jewish Emigrants of Red Star Line Emigrants the Red Star Line

One Foot in America - Antwerp-New York: Eugeen Van Mieghem (1875- Red Star Line Emigrants 1930) and the Emigrants of the Red Star Line Antwerp New York - Eugeen Van Mieghem (1875-1930) and the Emigrants Red Star Line Emigrants of the Red Star Line East Prussia Place Name Indexes - East Prussia West Prussia Place Name Indexes - West Prussia Saxony Place Name Indexes - Saxony Brandenburg Place Name Indexes - Brandenburg

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Adressbücher – Address books 1

• Schlesien/ Silesia - http://www.rolf-freytag.de/digibib/digibib.php • Stadt Münster • http://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/hd/periodical/structure/2607629 • http://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/hd/periodical/structure/2573725 • http://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/hd/periodical/structure/2620190 • http://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/hd/periodical/structure/2629383 • Rheingau (near Wiesbaden) 1893-96 – 358 pages with 32,005 entries • http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Rheingau/Adressbuch_1893-96

Address Books 2

Breslau http://genwiki.genealogy.net/Breslau/Adressbuch_1937

Bartheln, Bischofswalde, Carlowitz, Cawallen, Cosel, Deutsch Lissa, Friedewalde, Goldschmieden, Groß Masselwitz, Groß Tschansch, Grüneiche, Hartlieb, Herrnprotsch, Hundsfeld, Klein Gandau, Klein Heidau, Klein Masselwitz, Klein Mochbern, Klein Tschansch, Krietern, Lilienthal, Mariahöfchen, Neuhaus, Neukirch, Oswi tz, Ottwitz, Pilsnitz, Pirscham, Rathen, Rosenthal, Schmiedefeld, Schott witz, Schwoitsch, Stabelwitz, Strachate, Wilhelmsruh, Zedlitz, Zimpel

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Address Books 3 • Landkreis Grafschaft Bentheim 1937 • http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Landkreis_Grafschaft_Bentheim/Adressbuch_1937

• Essen 1936 • http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Essen/Adressbuch_1936

• Remscheid 1935 • http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Remscheid/Adressbuch_1935

• http://adressbuecher.genealogy.net/?lang=en

Berlin Address Books

• Digitisation of 3 volume Greater Berlin Address Books for 1932 to 1934 • The Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin (ZLB) has now digitised three volumes of the Dietzler Auto-Adressbuch for Grosse-Berlin (Greater Berlin) for the years 1932-1934 and these are freely available to all users at

• https://digital.zlb.de/viewer/metadata/34280679/1/LOG_0000/ • http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Auto-Adressbuch_f%C3%BCr_Gross-Berlin_/Adressbuch_1932> • •

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Bentheim Address Book http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Landkreis_Grafschaft_Bentheim/Adressbuch_1937 Achterberg, Adorf, Agterhorn, Altepiccardie, Bardel, Bauernhausen, Bent heim, Berge, Bimolten, Bookholt, Brandlecht, Drievorden, Echteler, Emlic hheim, Engden, Esche, Eschebrügge, Georgsdorf, Getelo, Gildehaus, Göle nkamp, Grasdorf, Großringe, Haftenkamp, Hagelshoek, Halle, Hardingen, Heesterkante, Hesepe, Hestrup, Hilten, Höcklenkamp, Hohenkörben- N., Hohenkörben-V., Holt & Haar, Hoogstede- Bathorn, Itterbeck, Kalle, Klausheide, Kleinringe, Laar, Lage, Lemke, Neerl age, Neuenhaus, Neuringe, Nordhorn, Ohne, Osterwald, Quendorf, Same rn, Scheerhorn, Schüttorf, Sieringhoek, Suddendorf, Tinholt, Uelsen, Veld hausen, Volzel, Vorwald, Waldseite, Wengsel, Westenberg, Wielen, Wiet marschen, Wilsum

Merane Address Book (Saxony, near Chemnitz) http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Meran/Adressbuch_1921

Aich, Algund, Aschbach und Ried, Aschl, Berg, Burgstall, Finele, Forst, Gargazon, Gfeis, Gratsch, Hafling, Hasla ch, Kompatsch, Kronsbichl, St. Peter, Kuens, Lana, Magdfeld, Marling, Marlinger Berg, Mitterlana, Mitterplars, Mitterterz, Mühlbach, Nals, Naturns, Niederlana, N örder, Oberdorf mit St. Georgen, Oberlana, Obermais, Oberplars, Ober-Tall, Ober und Unter- Walde, Obervernuer, Partschins, Pawigl, Plaus, Quadrat, Rabland, Ried, Riffian, Sc henna, Schlanders, Schweinsteg, Sonnenberg, St. Leonhard i. P., St. Martin i. P., Tabland, Tirol, Töll, Tschenn, Tscherms, Tschierland, Tschivon, Unter Tall, Unterdorf, Untermais, Untervernuer, Vellau, Verdigen, Verdins, Vöran, Walte n, Zenoburg

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Demmin Pomerania

• https://digitale-bibliothek- mv.de/viewer/toc/PPN85561082 4/1/-/ • 4 books: • 1902 • 1906 • 1910 • 1919

Netherlands Jewish genealogy

• Amoetat Akevoth closed on 1 February 2020 • Dutch Jewry - https://www.dutchjewry.org

• https://www.stenenarchief.nl – will continue as before – this is the digitization project of the Ashkenazi cemeteries in the Netherlands

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Netherlands Archives

• The Hague Archive people search • https://haagsgemeentearchief.nl/geneal ogy/personenoverzicht

• https://www.geldersarchief.nl • https://www.delpher.nl • https://www.openarch.nl • https://cbg.nl

Netherlands Passenger List of the Holland America Line 1900-1920 • Open Archives which is a Dutch genealogical website announced they have placed the passenger lists of the Holland-America Line 1900-1920 online. • https://www.openarch.nl/indexen/27/passagierslijsten-holland-amerika-lijn • Type in the name you are researching in the search box. You may not get the actual manifest but a listing of what is on the manifest. • When you click on the manifest a list of passengers names appears. • Click on the name you are searching then a new window appears with the source listed a passenger registers. • The Holland America Line (HAL) transported about one million Eastern Europeans t America from Rotterdam between 1880 and 1920. The HAL had offices in Bulgaria, Latvia and Russia where tickets could be purchased for the train to Rotterdam, the boat to America.

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Amsterdam Archives

• https://archief.amsterdam/beeldbank/?mode=gallery&view=horizont al&sort=random%7B1581179065065%7D%20asc • • The website is only in Dutch. However, if you use Chrome as your browser it will translate for you or another translation service. • If you click on Gemeente in the logo which is “City of” one of the headers is “Genealogie” or Genealogy. • Here one can learn about the indexes and a genealogy guide—which is in Dutch.

Polish State Archives- www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl • New website last June. • All contents was transferred • New functions such as creating a user account and downloading entire collections have been added. • Changed operating model • New site is still under development in places and some functions are not yet running smoothly. • Site can be switched from Polish to German, English and Russian.

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Silesia Blog (in English) & Maps • https://schaetzleingenealogy.wordpress .com/silesian-genealogy-101/ • www.myheimat.de/berlin/kultur/bloch plan-schlesische-landkarten-und- stadtplaene-d3129209.html

Schleswig Holstein • www.geschichte-s-h.de • www.geschichte-s-h.de/genealogie

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Hessen Archives - https://arcinsys.hessen.de/arcinsys/start.action

• www.lagis-hessen.de - Hessian Regional History Information System (LAGIS)

Bielefeld – 4 pages on Family history research

• www.bielefeld.de/ftp/dokumente/Familienfo rschung_Quellen_2015.pdf • www.juedische-gemeinde-bielefeld.de • - current day synagogue & community • https://www.xn--jdische-gemeinden- 22b.de/index.php/gemeinden/a-b/394- bielefeld-nordrhein-westfalen • Historic community

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Munich - www.muenchen.de/rathaus/Stadtverwaltung/Direktorium/Stadtarchiv/Juedi sches-Muenchen/Gedenkbuch.html

• Jewish museum • www.juedisches- museum- muenchen.de/en.html • www.jewishvirtuallibrary.o rg/munich • Historic community • www.xn--jdische- gemeinden- 22b.de/index.php/gemein den/m-o/1356- muenchen-bayern

Die Geschichte Der Juden in Mecklenburg www.juden-in-mecklenburg.de

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Thüringer Auswanderer-Datenbank (emigration database) - http://auswanderer-thueringen.de

• https://de.wikipedia.org/ wiki/J%C3%BCdische_Lan desgemeinde_Th%C3%BC ringen

• www.jlgt.org

Old German Postcards - www.heimatsammlung.de

• See also lots of other websites like e-bay !

• Towns & Cities • Architecture • Synagogues • People • Old photos generally • Transport • Military • Etc.

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Jewish BMD Registers for Tecklenburg nr. Steinfurt NRW

• http://brigittejahnke.com/juedische- familien/geburtenregister/ • http://brigittejahnke.com/juedische- familien/heirats-register-ueber-die- juden-beginnt-1822/ • http://brigittejahnke.com/juedische- familien/sterbe-register-ueber-die- juden-beginnt-1822/

(Westfalian) Picture Archive – covers more places www.lwl.org/marsLWL/de/instance/ko/STARTSEITE.xhtml?oid=42611

• Architecture • Military affairs • Art • Nature and • Community environment • Culture • Religion • Economy • Science and research • Education • Society • Health service • State and community • History • Technology • History • Traffic • Human settlements • Work and jobs

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The German Genealogy Facebook Group (not Jewish!) www.facebook.com/groups/GermanGenealogy • The group, classified as a “closed group” that users can ask to be accepted in, is a typical moderated social media thread. Those approved for the group can post relating to German genealogy— sometimes including historical photos and other times “just for fun” items they’ve found in their research. • The group, boasting more than 15,000 members, describes itself as a forum for “networking with those conducting German genealogical research, in order to provide help and resources to others researching German genealogy.”

www.deutsche-biographie.de

• Certified knowledge of more than 730,000 personalities and families from the German-speaking world • From the early Middle Ages to the present • Over 50,000 biographical articles • Links to over 230 other sources and literature etc.

• Website works in English too!

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Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland German Jewish Roof Card Collection • 31,142 names • Via Steve Morse website, will eventually go to GerSIG • https://stevemorse.org/jewishroof/jewishroof.html • Searched by family or maiden name, place of birth or death and country of emigration, e.g. 548 who managed to reach Palestine and 262 who emigrated to Argentina. Where they were murdered in the euthanasia program this is noted. • While all registrants resided in Germany at some time between 1933 and 1942, they were born all over the world, e.g. 3 in San Francisco, 10 in Moscow, 271 in Posen and 9.075 in Berlin. • Peter Landé is happy to try to answer any individual questions that may arise, please first look at the cards themselves, which may be accessed on the Bad Arolsen International Tracing Service website, since the cards often contain additional information such as street address, profession or even school records.

https://germanroots.com Resources for German Genealogy on the Internet • https://germanroots.com/germandata.html • Places to Find German Genealogy Records & Databases Online

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Destroyed German Synagogues • http://germansynagogues.com & www.facebook.com/synagogue.memorial

www.gemeindeverzeichnis.de Community Directories

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Gemeinden und Verwaltungsgliederungen im Bergischen Land www.gemeindeverzeichnis.de/bgland/bgland.htm

• How to find which place is part of what particular jurisdiction

• Then again, the tons database on JewishGen does this too!

Fachbibliographie zur Familienforschung im Kreisarchiv Gütersloh • www.kreis-guetersloh.de/unser- kreis/kreisarchiv/service/familien-und- heimatforschungforschung/0.3-archiv- bibliographie.pdf • 8 pages useful sources

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Spuren der Vergangenheit Jüdisches Leben im Landkreis Cochem-Zell - https://mosella-judaica.de/index.html • Angelika Schleindl mit Beiträgen von Karl-Heinz Klein & Hildburg-Helene Thill • Herausgegeben vom Landkreis Cochem- Zell 1996 Rhein- Mosel-Verlag • Downloadable free!

Westerwald Juden https://argewe.lima-city.de/englisch/index-e.htm

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Gelsenkirchen www.gelsenkirchen.de/de/bildung/ausserschulisc he_bildung/institut_fuer_stadtgeschichte

• Stadtgeschichte • Stadtname und Stadtwappen • Politische Entwicklung • Strukturwandel • Zuwanderung • Stadtbild und Baugeschichte • Erinnerungsorte • Gelsenkirchener Persönlichkeiten • Geschichtsarbeit • Institut für Stadtgeschichte • Stadtarchiv • Dokumentationsstätte Gelsenkirchen im Nationalsozialismus

Weimar Studies Network - https://weimarstudies.wordpress.com/resources/online-periodicals

• An international platform for researchers and academics working on the history of the Weimar Republic. • Offers information on recent publications, up-coming events and on- going research projects on the politics, culture and society of the interwar years in Germany. • WSN is open to anybody with an interest in the history of Weimar Germany • Website has access to: • Research on the history, culture and society of the Weimar Republic • Digitized Periodicals, Newspapers, Magazines, Journals

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Standesamt Berlin & Former German Eastern Territories • Landesarchiv Berlin • http://landesarchiv-berlin.de/familienforschung-im-landesarchiv-berlin

• Standesämter of Former German Eastern Territories • http://landesarchiv-berlin.de/standesaemter-der-ehemaligen-deutschen-ostgebiete-neu

• Births 1874 - 1906 • Marriages 1874 - 1936 • Deaths 1874 - 1986

Wuppertal NRW

• www.wuppertal.de/Einfuehrung_Familienforschung_Wuppertal.pdf • 6 page handout for family historians

• Marriage register 1810-1938 von Ronsdorf (Wuppertal) is online. • PDF file with 633 pages in alphabetical and chronological order. • Births from 1810-1908 & deaths from 1810-1989 will follow next year. • There are 10,521 marriages with 21,042 people. • www.bvff.de/?Veroeffentlichungen___Register_Ronsdorf

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Troisdorf NRW

• Troisdorf, Germany, Births, 1811- 1908; indexed database with images • www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61 769 • Troisdorf, Germany, Marriages, 1858- 1937; indexed database with images • www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61 770 • Troisdorf, Germany, Deaths, 1811-1968; indexed database with images • www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61 771/

Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V. • www.volksbund.de/en/volksbund.html • Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V. is a humanitarian organisation charged by the government of the Federal Republic of Germany with recording, maintaining and caring for the graves of German war casualties abroad. • Looks after WW1 and WW2 German War Graves in over 800 cemeteries. • Online Search Facility - www.volksbund.de/en/graebersuche.html

• Website also works in English!

• A bit like the German equivalent of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission!

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MyHeritage Colourising Photos - www.myheritage.com/incolor • you don’t need to be a subscriber, but you must register. • There is also a limit on the number of photos you can colorize. • If you are not a subscriber, there will be a water mark on the photo. • The quality of the this is dependent on the quality of the original photo. • Over 1 Million photos colourised in the first week!

• BUT – you need to take care of copyright of images and can’t just take everyone’s B&W photo that you find online to colour it! • There may be legal small print giving MyHeritage some legal rights over things that their new facility colourises.

MyHeritage Adds Two Record Collections from Hessen, Germany • Hessen Birth Index (1874–1911) & Hessen Marriage Index (1849–1931). • The collections contain 8.5 million historical records. • www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10816/germany-hesse-birth- index-1874-1911 • www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10817/germany-hesse- marriage-index-1849-1931 • Searching these indexes is free but a subscription to MyHeritage data is needed to view the full records, save them to your family tree, and fully access Record Matches.

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Old German Newspapers in NRW • 160 page downloadable book: • https://afz.lvr.de/media/archive_im_rheinland/pub likationen/archivhefte/LVR_Archivheft25.pdf • Academic articles about the NRW extensive newspaper collection

Finding information on German soldiers from World War I and World War II • www.many-roads.com/libraries/prussia-histories/locating-german-ww1- ww2-war-casualties-prisoners

• Website of Mark and Becky Rabideau – aka Many Roads • www.many-roads.com • Located in Franktown Colorado USA • Does lots of things of German Jewish Genealogy Interest

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Interactive Map of Jewish Communities in Westphalia and Lippe (Arnsberg, Detmold and Münster) • www.uni- muenster.de/Staedtegeschichte/juedischegemeinschafte ndigital/index.html • The interactive map is dynamic in spatial and temporal structure. • Various map bases and administrative limits can be shown and hidden via layers. • The various phases of Jewish life - from before 1500 to 2016/2017 - can also be selected. • Pop-up elements provide information about the number of Jews at certain times in comparison to the total population and about preserved cultural sites (cemeteries, synagogues and mikvot).

European Holocaust Research Institute www.ehri-project.eu

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The Persecution and Murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany, 1933–1945. • www.ifz-muenchen.de/edition- judenverfolgung/the-english-edition-pmj • 16-volume collection, which has been updated and adapted for an English-speaking readership. • Presents an extensive selection of primary sources on the persecution and murder of the European Jews under the German National Socialist regime. • The documents illustrate the political and social background and developments that brought about this unprecedented mass crime in Germany and throughout Europe.

Stadt Herne NRW, BMD Registers online www.herne.de/Stadt-und- Leben/Stadtgeschichte/Stadtarchiv/Stadtarchiv-digital

• Herne • Sodingen • Baukau • Wanne • Eickel • Röhlinghausen

• Also war time registers & Foreign citizens

Büsdorf, Glessen, Fliesteden, Kenten, Niederaussem, Oberaussem, Paffendorf , Quadrath, Ichendorf und Zieverich. • Genealogy of the Jewish Families and residents in the former Jewish communities of Büsdorf, Glessen, Fliesteden, Kenten, Niederaussem, Oberaussem, Paffendorf , Quadrath, Ichendorf und Zieverich. • Memorial Book for the area of the mayoral district of Bergheim, Paffendorf und Hüchelhoven. • 124 page book by the late Gerd Fried, free to download • www.bergheimer- geschichtsverein.de/downloads/Heinz%20Gerd%20Friedt,%20Genealogisch e%20Betrachtungen%20%C3%BCber%20die%20j%C3%BCdische%20Familie n%20in%20und%20um%20Bergheim-Erft.pdf

Langenfeld NRW (betw. Duesseldorf and Koeln)

• https://rp- online.de/nrw/staedte/langenfeld/15- stolpersteine-erinnern-in-langenfeld-an- holocaust-opfer_aid-47143223

• www.xn--jdische-gemeinden- 22b.de/index.php/gemeinden/k-l/1153- langenfeld-nordrhein-westfalen

• https://rp- online.de/nrw/staedte/langenfeld/langen feld-historiker-berichtet-ueber- stolpersteine-und-im-holocaust- getoetete-juden_aid-33731011

In the footsteps of the Jews of Upper Silesia

• Auf den Spuren der Juden Oberschlesiens • By Beata und Paweł Pomykalscy • Gleiwitz 2019 • 400 Sides • ca 180 pictures • 16 x 15,5 cm • Available from: • www.schlesische-schatztruhe.de

More NRW Death Records Online www.archive.nrw.de/lav/abteilungen/ostwestfalen _lippe/service_familienforschung/index.php

• P 6 / 11 Standesamt Stadt Iserlohn • P 6 / 18 Standesamt Stadt Siegen • P6 /17 Standesämter Landkreis Olpe • 148 volumes of records with 55,750 images.

• Still working on P6/11 and P6/18 • www.archive.nrw.de/lav/abteilungen/ostwestfalen_lippe/BilderKartenLogo sDateien/Dateien/LAV-Brosch-Genealogie2015.pdf • www.familienbuch-euregio.de – can help access the right records with ease!

Historic Portal Essen

• https://historischesportal.essen. de/startseite_7/historisches_por tal_startseite.de.jsp • www.essen.de/rathaus/aemter/ ordner_62/KartenHistorische.de. html • www.essen.de/leben/planen__b auen_und_wohnen/denkmalsch utz/stadtarchaeologie___bericht e_aus_der_denkmalpflege_6.de. html

Rheinland death registers from 1876 to 1938 from Aachen to Menden online – Ref PA3103 • Still work in progress! (Alphabet after Menden!) • www.archive.nrw.de/lav/abteilungen/rheinland/bestaende_duesseld orf/index.php • Filmed by FamilySearch but images not on their website. • Microfilm copies from Brühl of documents from before 1875 remain inaccessible to users in Europe. (Not sure why – JR) • Dezennaltabellen have not been filmed. (Big shame about that!! – JR)

Leo Baeck Jerusalem Archive goes online • Beginning the digitisation of the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem’s historical archive. • Over the next two years the complete collection will be uploaded to the online catalog DigiBaeck of the Leo Baeck Institute New York. • Will then be able to provide free access to their diverse archival materials on German-Jewish History as well as the early history of the state of Israel to scientists, academic and educational institutions, the general public, and users all over the world. • Stay tuned! (it’s early days yet – JR) • www.facebook.com/Leobeackjerusalemeng/photos /rpp.1918746551508042/2627979847251372

Arolsen Archives https://arolsen-archives.org • More records & New tools. • Additional documents on 1.7 million individuals dating from the period after liberation.

• Search for Names: https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/search • Record Group Description: https://collections.arolsen- archives.org/en/archive/3-1-1-1 • Finding aid - https://arolsen-archives.org/en/search- explore/additional-ressources

Early Holocaust Testimony https://early-testimony.ehri-project.eu

https://sktranslations.com

• Katherine Schober. • https://content.churchofjesuschrist • SK Translations. .org/bc/content/rootstech/lanyon- sessions/RT7743_RT7743_Schober • She can teach you to read old _German_Vital_Records_Finding_t German. he_Clues_You_Need_1.pdf • 4 page helpful handout from her talk this week at Rootstech in SLC. • Occupations: • Recommends www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Ger • https://sktranslations.com/living- man_Genealogical_Word_List ancestor-common-occupations- german-genealogy

Germany-South Africa Resources

• www.safrika.org/index_de.html • Emigration to South Africa • Passenger lists of Germans who emigrated from Hamburg to South Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries: www.safrika.org/schiff_de.html

Pasewalk

• Stammbäume jüdischer Familien in Pasewalk by Dr Egon Krueger • Available from www.schibri.de/978-3- 86863-208-8/stammbaeume-juedischer- familien-in-pasewalk?c=14 • ISBN: 978-3-86863-208-8 • 348 Sides, published 2020 • Pasewalk is a town in the Vorpommern- Greifswald district, in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany.

www.ongen.de

• Robert Krebber Internet: www.ongen.de • Special database for the Lower-Rhine region on German and Dutch side • Region: the quadrangle Düsseldorf, Borken, Roermond, Nijmegen. • Family trees - parish registers (baptism, marriage, burial) - family books - civil registration • 11 page free guide to his holdings. • Caveat emptor!

Touring Exhibition: Leave to Land: The Kitchener Camp Rescue 1939

• The Wiener Holocaust Library is hosting a touring exhibition Leave to Land: The Kitchener Camp Rescue, 1939 from Wednesday 25 March-Wednesday 6 May 2020. • The Wiener Library is now the custodian of the Kitchener Camp Project, an online resource of archival records and family treasures. • In 1939 the Kitchener Camp was a derelict army base on the Kent coast in which 4,000 Jewish German and Austrian men were saved from the Holocaust. See: www.kitchenercamp.co.uk/

International Conference on Internment • 16-18 March 2020 • Tickets from www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/approaching- the-history-of-internment- reconsiderations-of-wartime-britain- tickets-88515210377 • At Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London. Gower Street London WC1E 6BT. • Ticket Sales end on 14 Mar 2020 • e: [email protected]

Remembering & Rethinking: the international forum on the Second Generation • 21 & 22 April 2020 at Chelsea Football Club, London • Sessions will explore a range of different issues around what it means to be Second Generation and the future of Holocaust remembrance. • Topics will include psychology, identity, genealogy, legacy and memorialisation. • It willbe of interest to members of the Second Generation and their families, educators, academics and anyone with an interest in educating about and commemorating the Holocaust. • Tickets /Registration from: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/remembering- rethinking-the-international-forum-on-the-second-generation-tickets- 94647843247

Missed Rootstech & want the handouts?

• https://www.rootstech.org

• Syllabus – most sessions have downloadable handouts • https://www.rootstech.org/salt-lake-schedule

• You can also watch the 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 presentation recordings from Salt Lake City and London (2019 only).

Conference 2020 in San Diego, California

9-14 August 2020

The End • Thank you.

• Any questions?

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