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NEWS ALERT
Updated:
Oct 20, 2023


ANNOUNCEMENTS
(updated October 20, 2023)
Holocaust Maps -- many maps from Sir Martin Gilbert's books with accompanying text from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
Holocaust Lists added to this website -- more than 900 name lists for more than 650 separate towns. Some of these lists are searchable in the Surname Database on this website and the other name lists are possible to search via an inquiry to the repository that holds the documents.
Soviet Town Plans (maps) added to this website, in color and extremely detailed. Note: Often there are multiple maps sections for the larger towns. The maps included on this website are:
    1. Belarus - 60 maps for 25 towns
    2. Bessarabia/Moldova - 9 maps for 4 towns
    3. Lativa - 4 maps for 1 town
    4. Lithuania - 14 maps for 3 towns
    5. Poland - 75 maps for 58 towns
    6. Romania - 8 maps for 6 towns
    7. Ukraine - 204 maps for 86 towns

Joint Operations Graphic (JOG) Maps added to this website, in color and extremely detailed. The maps cover towns in Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, Lithuania, Moldova and parts of Romania.
New Surname Databases added to RTRF website and are now searchable here.
National Genealogical society (NGS) presents Miriam Weiner with Tourism Award at the annual NGS conference held this year in Richmond, VA, on June 4, 2023.
Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) presented Miriam Weiner with the Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern Humanitarian Award at the annual FGS conference held this year virtually from Austin, TX on September 2, 2020. Also click here
National Genealogical Society (NGS) presents Miriam Weiner with President's Citation Award at annual NGS conference held this year in St. Louis, on May 10 2019.
Ukraine telephone books (1970-1994) are now searchable by name at Genealogy Indexer.
New Partnership between Miriam Weiner & Routes to Roots Foundation (RTRF) and the Museum of Jewish Heritage & JewishGen, Inc.
Maps Section -- new section linking to town/region maps in Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and Lithuania
Publications -- updated and expanded
Interviews -- new section
Genealogy Columns - new section
Book Donations - new section
Archive Database - updated and expanded
New Licensing Agreement with JRI-Poland (Jewish Records Indexing)
New Partnership with JewishGen/Belarus SIG Group
New Partnership with JewishGen/Bessarabia SIG Group
Remembering Board Member, Harvey Krueger, Z"L
Center for Jewish History and Routes to Roots Foundation Expand Online Access to Family History Research
Newly added: extensive updates to surviving Jewish birth, marriage, death and divorce documents throughout Ukraine.
Newly added: extensive updates and new archive data from archives throughout Poland.
Newly added: extensive archive data from the Romanian State Archives branch in Baia Mare
Newly added: archive data for the city of Moscow, Russia
Miriam Weiner receives Lifetime Achievement Award
Fire at the Kamenets Podolskiy Archives in Ukraine!
Availability of Publications
Jewish Roots in Poland | Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova




NEW IMAGE EXHIBITION ADDED TO THE WEBSITE
(updated October 24, 2020)
A collection of images consisting of both antique postcard views and current photographs of towns and cities throughout the following countries/regions. The images are in a database searchable by town name and this database is continually being expanded from the large collection of images in the Miriam Weiner archives.
 
Belarus
Bessarabia (former)
Bukovina (former)
Galicia (former Austro-Hungarian Empire)
Lithuania
Moldova (former Bessarabia)
Poland
Ukraine
 
A unique collection of Judaic postcards (including synagogue images) have also been added to this database from the following countries:
Czechoslovakia (former)
France
Germany
Italy
Latvia
Romania
Yugoslavia
South Africa
 
NEW REPOSITORIES ADDED
TO THE DATABASE AND/OR WEBSITE

Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (Jerusalem)

Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.) / Ukraine telephone books

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, DC)

YIVO Institute fo Jewish Research (New York)

NEWLY-ADDED ARCHIVE INVENTORY INFORMATION
TO THE DATABASE

(updated October 20, 2023)
Ukraine
Belarus
Lithuania
Poland
Romania
Russia


NEW ARTICLES
(updated July 23, 2019)


General: "The Conscript" (A Jew is "invited" to join the Tsar's Army)

Ukraine: Jewish Pogroms in Ukraine, 1918-1921: Documents of Kiev
             District Commission for Relief to Victims of Pogroms

Ukraine: Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv

Ukraine: Jewish Emigration from Ukraine, 1895-1917
             Holdings of the State Archive of Kiev Oblast

Ukraine: Jewish Records in the State Archives of Odessa Region:
             Origin, Preservation and Access
Lithuania: The Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum
Lithuania: The Shtetl Household
Belarus: Archive Acknowledgments

Belarus: National Historical Archives of Belarus in Minsk

Poland: Books of Residents in Poland

Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Archives

Moldova: Archive Acknowledgments

Jewish Identities in Synagogue Architecture of Galicia and Bukovina



Ukraine: Synagogues in Ukraine, VOLHYNIA, Volume 2 Shepetivka, pp. 637-651
 

 
   



RTR Foundation home page > Archive Acknowledgements