Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. 65 years ago today, the Soviet Army liberated the Jewish prisoners who remained at Auschwitz-Berkenau which combined were the largest of the Holocaust death camps. A CBS news story gives details of the elderly survivors who revisited the camps today. That story said “By the end of World War […]
This press release just arrived from the U.S. National Archives. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 29, 2009 National Archives and Footnote.com Announce New Digital Holocaust Collection Collection includes Holocaust-related photos and records available online for first time Washington DC and Lindon, UT -September 29, 2009 The National Archives and Records Administration and Footnote.com today announced the […]
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A colleague of mine, Barbara Mathews from Massachusetts granted me permission to post the following comment. She had posted this on a online discussion list and I thought it was an excellent follow-up to the revelations in this morning’s Boston Globe story. Barbara is a descendant of a Belgium nationalist family. Thank you for this […]
Early this morning I received an email from a friend, Sharon Sergeant, who lives in Massachusetts. I met Sharon eight years ago at an NGS conference in Providence, Rhode Island, through her cousin, my friend Eileen Polakoff, who lives in Manhattan. Both are fellow professional genealogists. Sharon always seems to be working on interesting projects. […]