I have recently come across two interesting chapters in Jewish history from World War II. The Jewish Quarterly has a story about Finnish Jewish soldiers who fought alongside Nazis against the Russians. Marshal Mannerheim, the commander of the Finnish army, worked with the Germans to further Finnish aims but protected Jews in his army and elsewhere.
A file recently discovered at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee documents 260 Jews who were given permission by the British government to escape Europe and stay in Jamaica during the war. After the war the refugee camp was dismantled and the residents scattered around the world. Now the man who discovered the file wants to know if any of those residents are still alive and is looking for more testimonials about life at the camp.
Genealogy is like a jigsaw puzzle, but you don't have the box top, so you don't know what the picture is supposed to look like. As you start putting the puzzle together, you realize some pieces are missing, and eventually you figure out that some of the pieces you started with don't actually belong to this puzzle. I'll help you discover the right pieces for your puzzle and assemble them into a picture of your family.
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Saturday, October 22, 2011
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