About IGRA - Israel Genealogy Research Association

About the Israel Genealogy Research Association

Formed by a group of long-time Israeli genealogists, the Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA) is a genealogy society that seeks to help Israelis, and people around the world who are interested in Israeli genealogy and resources uniquely available in Israel, to further their genealogy research.

Executive Council
President: Garri Regev
Secretary: Elena Bazes
Treasurer: Eyal Hollander
Member at Large: Ellen Stepak
Member at Large: Daniel Horowitz

Members at Large on the Board
Philip Trauring – Immediate Past President
Rose Feldman
Rose Lerer Cohen

Esther Rechtshafner
Ingrid Rockberger

Va’adat Bikoret
Susan Edel
Menachem Halperin
Shalom Bronstein

To follow announcements about IGRA and this web site, follow us on Twitter (twitter.com/israelgenealogy in English and twitter.com/IGRA_Hebrew in Hebrew) and Facebook (facebook.com/israelgenealogy).

February 1, 2022

Givatayim meeting

Time: 19:00 - 21:00

Location: Shazar Community Center, 30 Yavne'eli Street, Givatayim
Description:

"על מכירותפומביות של ספרי קהילות יהודיים בעלי ערך גנאלוגי ומה ניתן לעשות לגביהן"
המרצה: מתן שגב-פרנק
גם תשודר בזום
דרוש הרשמה מראש. להגיע לאולם (כניסה לפי הנחיות התו הירוק) שלח דוא"ל ל
[email protected]
להרשמה לתשדיר בזום: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcude2vqjouGdSJriL_fNyG1MR9mno9awIx
"On Auctions of Books of Jewish Communities of Genealogical Value andWhat Can Be Done About Them"
Speaker: Mattan Segev-Frank
The lecture will be in Hebrew. It will also be broadcast on Zoom. Advance registration required. For a seat at the venue (in full compliance with "Tav Yarkok regulations) send an e-mail to [email protected] To register for the Zoom broadcast: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcude2vqjouGdSJriL_fNyG1MR9mno9awIx

February 6, 2022

IGRA 2022 Webinar Series: Polish Jewish Refugees in the USSR During WWII

Time: 19:00 - 20:00

Description:

Registration required: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUocOihqTgsHtPryiaoePlB2L1YMAKkxBnz
Serafima Velkovich is our speaker. The "Ribbentrop – Molotov pact" divided Poland between the Soviet Union and Germany in 1939. The Polish territories annexed to The Soviet Union had a Jewish population of about 2 million. About 400,000 residents of these territories, many of them Jews, were deported to "special settlements" mostly in Siberia. Additionally, about 250,000—300,000 Jewish refugees from German-occupied western Poland had fled to the Soviet Union after the war broke out. This lecture will present the route and the fate of Jewish refugees from Poland, who spent the war years in the USSR, and their post war search for a new home. The lecture will include information on where documentation exists to research these individuals, both in Yad Vashem and in other institutions.

March 1, 2022

Givatayim meeting

Time: 19:00 - 21:00

Location: Shazar Community Center, 30 Yavne'eli Street, Givatayim
Description:

בלשות היסטורית –ילדים שורדי שואה מחפשים את משפחתם
המרצה: גידי פורז
גם תשודר בזום
דרוש הרשמה מראש. להגיע לאולם (כניסה לפי הנחיות התו הירוק) שלח דוא"ל ל
[email protected]
Historical Detection - Holocaust Survivor Children Search For Their Family
Speaker: Gidi Poraz
The lecture will be in Hebrew. It will also be broadcast on Zoom. Advance registration required. For a seat at the venue (in full compliance with "Tav Yarkok regulations) send an e-mail to [email protected]

March 6, 2022

IGRA 2022 Webinar Series: Evidence Analysis: Which is the Right Record?

Time: 19:00 - 20:00

Description:

Rhoda Miller is our speaker. Utilizing the Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS), this presentation will demonstrate methods of looking at your research to find gaps and solutions as well as evaluate findings, especially those with conflicting and indirect evidence.

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