Previous page

Find your Jewish ancestors in Poland

Fr_en

03:20pm
Duration: 40 mn

16

JULY

2012

Methodology

Poland

The lecture will present the double aim of the research: transmitting a family's story in Poland to the next generations, thus safeguarding its memory; and giving back an identity to the holocaust victims so that their descendants have some knowledge about who they were. This conference will analyze the methods used in the research. It will present the investigations conducted in Poland, both in archives and on site, and in various archives in Germany, Israel, France and America. It will also show the result of these investigations: a vivid picture of the lives of those who perished, and of the daily life in the shtetlekh (the Jewish villages) of Poland before the war, along with the individual stories of those who died and those who survived.

This innovative research was awarded by the Prix Mémoire de la Shoah (Memory of the Holocaust) in 2005. The book: Un Livre du souvenir, À la recherche d'une famille juive décimée en Pologne (A Memorial Book, In Search of a Jewish family decimated in Poland) presents the family history. A website extends the book: www.unlivredusouvenir.fr. It describes the methods used to carry out the research, gives the historical context for locating individual family stories in past times, and presents hundred of documents collected during years of investigation.

Speaker Location
Françoise MILEWSKI
 Seine A

Other conferences

Same subject(s) Same speaker(s) Same day
A Methodology for Error Detection and Correction of Jewish Names in Digitized Genealogical Records
---- Genealogy societies in the age of technology
---- Research Genealogical Resources in Israel from your couch
---- My cousin the gangster: how to navigate among too many sources?
---- Mobile applications for family data sharing
---- Bringing historic family photos to life through photobooks
---- Calendar Conundrums
---- Latest trends in publishing for genealogists
---- Beginners workshop
---- Following false trails: back to first principles
---- Getting the most out of JewishGen.org
---- Genealogical significance of old photos and postcards
---- The archives of Yahad-in Unum association (Father Desbois - The Holocaust by Bullets).
---- The Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the Virtual Shtetl project as the state-of-the-art tool in contemporary genealogical research
---- Sources for genealogical research of the Jewish population in the Polish State Archives
---- Virtual database of Polish Jewish tombstone inscriptions
---- Jewish families from Krakow
---- GerSig Lunch: Audio-Visual Presentation about the former German Jewish Community in Gliwice (Poland)
---- Cadastral Maps, Landowner, School & Voter Records: New Horizons for Genealogists
---- Documenting Missing Jewish Heritage in Upper Silesia
---- Gesher Galicia SIG Lunch
---- When Leopold met Lena: marriage, divorce and deception in 1892
---- Jewish Records Indexing (JRI) - Poland breakfast: Polish Records – Getting the Most from Your Research
---- Jewish Records Indexing (JRI) - Poland; what's new
---- Yizkhor books Meeting
---- Sub-Carpathia SIG
---- Lodz, the Manchester of Poland - History and Research
---- Lodz Area Research Group ("LARG")
---- Jews of Poland in France: identities and representations under the family photographic corpus
---- Gesher Galicia (SIG)
---- Rohatyn (Ukraine) BOF
---- Jewish Genealogy in Poland: an applied science
---- New sources about the Lodz Ghetto: names of exempted and identity card applications
---- A Little Family Conversation
---- The homeless, followed by: Kurow
---- Grünschlag-Imber of Bolechow (Galicie) genealogy & Diaspora
---- A family history in Poland: investigations in archives and on site
---- A journey like no other
---- Descendants of Herszlik WIERNIK (area of Przedbórz and Radozcyce - current Pologne)
---- Po-Lin
---- Miasteczko Kroke (The Little Town of Kroke - Krakow)
---- The seven Jews of my class
---- 		A family history in Poland: investigations in archives and on site
---- 		New resources on Jewish genealogy in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia (in French)
---- Jewish cemeteries in Tunis:history and overview
---- The quest for origins by the black Jews
---- Family trees during Vichy period (WWII)
---- Israel: therapy of mixed Jewish/Christian children (in French)
---- Transgenerational transmission of Shoah trauma
---- Discontinuity in Jewish Naming Traditions
---- Abbreviations and Rashe Tevot in Hebrew Funeral Inscriptions - Deciphering and Problems
---- Veele Toledot... Here are the generations. Genealogical genesis in Jewish resources
---- The Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the Virtual Shtetl project as the state-of-the-art tool in contemporary genealogical research
---- Mardochee Smaja and his family: an itinerary to emancipation (XIXth – XXth centuries)
---- Alsace and Lorraine: 10 years of genealogical researches
---- The Jewish families of Lunéville (1753-1914) - Vertical history. Horizontal history
---- On the trail of the lost tribes of Israel in Africa
---- Guided Tour: The Jewish history of OLD PARIS and LE MARAIS
---- Do the Wormser of Alsace form a single family?
---- Merchants & potentates: between North Africa & Europe
---- Jewish names in the Sahara since 2000 years
---- The Jewish refugees in Marseilles during the War
---- The participation of the Jewish organizations, HIAS/HICEM in particular, in the underground activities in France from 1940 until liberation in 1944
---- In Darkness - a film on hidden Jews of Lviv, during WWII
---- From a genealogy of a family to a genealogy of a community
---- Virtual database of Polish Jewish tombstone inscriptions
---- Jewish genealogy, Halacha and ethics
---- Economic aryanization measures in Algeria: first report
---- GerSig Lunch: Audio-Visual Presentation about the former German Jewish Community in Gliwice (Poland)
---- Using UK Newspapers for Jewish Genealogy
---- Scottish Jewish Roots and Where to Find Them
---- My Jewish ancestor died in the UK- what next?
---- Canadian SIG
---- GerSIG (German SIG): projects and activities
---- Bukovina BOF
---- Bessarabia SIG
---- North Africa - Sephardic World SIG
---- Tunisia SIG
---- Jewish Records Indexing (JRI) - Poland breakfast: Polish Records – Getting the Most from Your Research
---- Jewish Records Indexing (JRI) - Poland; what's new
---- UK SIG meeting
---- UK Lunch, with Nicholas Evans: immigration to the United Kingdom
---- Introduction to JewishGen: Computer Workshop
---- Break brick walls: use Word and Excel to mine your data
---- Making the most of Familysearch.org
---- Iberian ashkenaze DNA project (BOF)
---- Ukraine SIG lunch - Iryna Serheyeva: the Pinkasim that the Vernadsky Library holds
---- Ukraine SIG
---- It’s News to Me! Historical Newspaper Research for Genealogists
---- Novogrod-Volhynsky, Volhynnia Gubernia, Ukraine (Zvhil) BOF
---- The 1724 Rural Census of Bohemian Jewry
---- The Schlossbergs: Genealogy and Music (in French)
---- MyHeritage: the ultimate genealogy super search engine
---- Write your family history now!
---- Tell your family story online - for free!
---- Bringing historic family photos to life through photobooks
---- Latest trends in publishing for genealogists
---- Researching 17th and 18th c. families in Bohemia
---- Etymology of Jewish surnames in Bohemia and Moravia in 17th and 18th century
---- Beginners workshop
---- Following false trails: back to first principles
---- Meeting of the Presidents of European societies
---- What we can learn from tombstones: Documenting a historic Jewish cemetery in Bavarian Swabia took us through 500 years of history into the very core of Jewish eschatology
---- Midrashic filiations. The hidden genealogies of biblical characters
---- Jewish Genealogy in Poland: an applied science
---- Geographic origins of Alsatian Jews (18th c.)
---- Litvak SIG : Research your Litvak roots
---- JewishGen 2012
---- New sources about the Lodz Ghetto: names of exempted and identity card applications
---- Where is the truth? The tragedy of a Jewish student
---- Caïd Nessim, central character of the dynasty of the Scemama or Samama caïds of Tunis
---- From phone books to "cousinade" (in English)
---- Alsace and Lorraine SIG
---- Litvak SIG - General Meeting
---- The "Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine" (CDJC): mainarchives in Europe on the fate of the France Jews during Holocaust
---- Family Tree Maker 2 - MAC (beginners) "Getting Started with Family Tree Maker"
---- Ancestry 2: Getting the Most out of Ancestry.com
---- CONCERT: Shpilkes Trio
---- The de Menasce Family (Egypt)
---- At the beginning, there was a school (Alliance Israélite Universelle)
---- Ascendant Tree of Élodie and Romain BLOCH (Lorraine, Alsace, Morocco, Algeria)
---- Descendants of Hillel COHEN de LARA and Ricca DARMON (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia)
---- Descendants of Isaac COSTA and of Rahmouna SFEZ (Tunisia, France, Israel)
---- Jacob ZAFRAN family tree (Algeria)
---- Eliaou SAFAR family tree (Algeria)
---- Three interviews about Jerusalem judeo-spanish community
---- Guided Visit: LE LOUVRE
---- Guided Visit: LE LOUVRE
----