Projects |
Here are the projects made by the volunteers. Click on the arrow next to the name to view all the details.
Kol haKavod to all the volunteers!!! A really, really great job!!!
Documentation of the Jewish Cemeteries in South AfricaIf you have any project you want to propos send it to us by e-mail with all the details.
Documentation
of the Jewish Cemeteries in South Africa (See also http://www.bh.org.il/Genealogy/sajc.aspx)
The Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center at Beth Hatefutsoth in collaboration
with Rabbi Moshe Silberhalft, CEO and Spiritual Leader - African Jewish Congress,
and a team of dedicated volunteers from JFRA (Jewish Family Research Association)
in Israel has undertaken a project of documentation of the Jewish Cemeteries
in South Africa and other countries in Southern Africa.
The project aims to create a searchable database of the inscriptions – Hebrew, English, other languages - along with all available photographs of those gravestones. This new information will complete the data already available at SA Jewish Rootsbank. The database will be eventually published over the Internet.
Yad Vashem Names
Recovery Project (See also http://tinyurl.com/36bf8y)
Anyone who wants to fill in a Page of Testimony for family or friends who were
killed in the Shoah, should contact one of the members of the Committee. We
will provide forms and give instructions to help you get started. If you want
additional copies to give to family or acquaintances, we will provide them.
We are now making a list of institutions, Senior Citizen homes, etc. which
we hope to visit with our volunteers.
We have to coordinate this with Yad vaShem to avoid duplication, so they know
what we are doing and where we are going.
Please suggest suitable places to visit, every idea is welcome!
If you want to be a volunteer, give us your name, email and telephone number.
We will get back to you shortly to arrange a meeting
where you will receive training in how to help others fill in the Page of Testimony
form.
We would also welcome any of your friends who are not on the JFRA list, to be
volunteers.
Contact:
Ingrid, Trisherin or Freda in Raanana; Susan in Petach Tikva; Hinda in Tel Aviv;
Linda in Rehovot; Micha in Hod HaSharon
The shtetls
of Lithuania
Joe Woolf of Moshav Ilaniya visited Lithuania in the 1990s and had made some
180 pictures on two trips. He gave these to JFRA in the hope that some people
might like to have a picture of their shtetl. See the pictures here.
You will find pictures from: Anyksiai, Babtiai & Vandziogala, Basagola,
Joniskis, Kaunas, Keidan, Krekenava, Kurshan, Plunge, Ponar, Ramygala, Seta,
Siauliai, Surviliskis, Telsiai, Ukmerge, Vitebsk and Zagare
Joe Woolf has also been translating information from Volume IV and
parts of Volume III of 'Yahudut Lita' (The Jews of Lithuania) to English
about what happened to the Jews during the war and about the shtetls
before the war. The typewritten and handwritten pages were transcribed
by a group of great volunteers from the JFRA list:
Carol Hoffman (who did a great job proofreading and checking, and scanning
180 pictures!), Len Charney (who scanned all the pages to be transcribed,
what a job!), Naomi Barnett, Angie Elfassi, Rose Richter, Ethel Brody,
Sylvia Kaye, Steve Millman, Linda Glazer (who also worked on the pictures)
and Meir Smullen. Supervised by Freda Lanesman and myself.
The shtetl descriptions are now being sent to Joyce Field to be published on JewishGen.org very soon! The shtetl descriptions are from: Akmene, Anturke, Anyks, Dusetos, Joniskel, Keidan, Kretinga, Linkuva, Pasvaly, Pasvitinys, Pokroy, Pumpian, Rietuva, Seredzius, Shaduva, Siad, Vilkomir, Zasliai, Zeimel and Zeimiai
