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Braided Challah on the Shelves: Finding Remnants of our Families Lives in Poland

In 2008, author Barbara Krasner visited her grandparents' shtetlikh in northeastern Poland. In this talk, she shares how she found physical traces of her family in shops, cemeteries, and streets, and how you can too. Join us for this special JRI-Poland Members Only presentation! AFTER registering, you should receive an email with the word TICKET […]

Free

Researching the Jews of Breslau (Wrocław) with JRI-Poland.org

Join us for a Members Only event presented by Stephen Falk, JRI-Poland’s Wrocław (Breslau) Area Coordinator and “town leader”, about the surviving documentation for the Jews of this important metropolis which attracted residents from far and wide.  Stephen’s presentation should interest most researchers with Prussian roots.  Special focus includes valuable records, some available online, others […]

Free

Researching the Jews of Prussian Poland

Join us Sunday, November 19, 2023 for a 90 minute session about Prussian Poland. Much of today’s Poland belonged to Prussia (later the German Empire) before the two world wars. The many Jewish communities in the region once comprised 30% of Germany’s Jews before migration to Berlin and elsewhere diminished their numbers. This presentation will […]

Free