A Beginners Guide to German Jewish Genealogy in North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia is the largest and most populous of the 16 states of Germany and many of us with German-Jewish roots have at least one or more branches in our…
North Rhine-Westphalia is the largest and most populous of the 16 states of Germany and many of us with German-Jewish roots have at least one or more branches in our…
Beginning with the history of my maternal ancestors In Hesse, I will follow my maternal family though generations, and migrations, until my parents, Lorry Brenn and Hy Goldenberg, who lived…
My father Max KNISBACHER (Menahem Mordechai) of blessed memory, born April 7, 1913 in Berlin, passed away on June 2, 1995 in Baltimore. Amazingly he managed to keep and left…
Very little, if anything, is written about mestechko, the small towns or townlets in Eastern Europe with fewer than two thousand Jewish residents. There is almost nothing about such places…
About one year ago I had a telephone conversation with Dr. Nirit Shalev-Khalifa, who was the curator of an exhibition entitled "Jerusalem: A Medical Diagnosis" which was opened in the spring…