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LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS DAY

NATIONAL TODAY - LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS DAY - HISTORY

The League of Women Voters was created on February 14, 1920, through a merger of two organizations: The National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and the National Council of Wome Voters (N.C.W.V.).  In 1909, the women popularly known as 'the mother of women's suffrage" Emma Smith DeVoe, proposed that a separate organization be created from NAWSA to educate women on the election process and create awareness about women's issues.  Her proposal was ignored, and in 1911, she created the National Council of Women Voters.

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Image from Free Vintage Art

Taking us back to the time of the soda jerk and fantasies of a first kiss.

Have you asked your relatives who are married how they first met?

 

COMMITTEE FOR YIDDISH A GALLERY OF MISSING HUSBANDS : "A Gallery of Missing Husbands," with Michael Morgenstern

Committee for Yiddish YouTube Channel : A Gallery of Missing Husbands 

On this video Jewish Community newspapers from the Great Immigration period of American history hold ads in which abandoned wives seek their husbands. Men overwhelmed with the realities of recent immigrant life sometimes disappeared out of shame or because they could not live up to the responsibilities of marriage and children.  Wives desperate for reunion sought them publicly in ads.  Sometimes this effort would later be used to prove they had tried when divorce - and remarriage - was the only answer.

Again, Committee for Yiddish is an excellent YouTube channel and if you go to the link you'll find lots else that is educational.

COMMITTEE FOR YIDDISH - AN EXCELLENT YOUTUBE CHANNEL : How Ashkenazic Jews Got Their Names and the Troubles They Have Caused Them, with Kalman Weiser

 Committee is an excellent channel for learning about the Yiddish language and culture.

Loved this video... 

JEWISH ASHKENAZIM GENEALOGY : NAME CHANGES and OTHER UNIQUE CHALLENGES

Jews have come to America since Colonial Times but in general most of those from Europe came during the Industrial Revolution from Central and Eastern Europe, that Great Immigration period from about 1880 - 1920.  So for American Jews, the genealogy research starts with American records as it would for any other American.

Because of intermarriage between Jews and Christians there are Americans today who might not identify as Jewish or who acknowledge a Jewish ancestor - with many rumors of Jewishness as well - who do Holocaust Genealogy.

There are some special considerations in Jewish genealogy that make it a bit more difficult and that is dealing with Hebrew alphabet and translation, Yiddish language,  naming conventions, and informal name changes.

I've stated it elsewhere on this blog but that officials at Ellis Island changed the names of immigrants coming through is a myth. They had no authority to do that and were also dealing with hundreds of incoming every time a steamship came into the port in New York. It's likely that sometimes an immigrant's name was written down phonetically but that's not the same as an authority changing a person's name.

However Jewish immigrants DID sometimes change their names, sometimes to a German version from a Polish or Russian one - since German Jews had an easier time of assimilation, sometimes to an English or American name, sometimes to make the name easier to spell or pronounce. These name changes were rarely done formally and legally.  In many cases people were known by their Hebrew or Polish or other ethnic surname as well as their new name.

My suggestion is to do the usual genealogy research and perhaps on a marriage or a draft registration or other document the name change will be revealed.  Find the marriage record kept at the temple, not just the civil one. Have tombstones translated and get the cemetery record as well as the death record. Remember that if something comes right up on a database that's a blessing but books, microfilms, newspapers, and writing to archives may still be necessary. 

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YIZKOR BOOKS : NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

YIDDISH BOOK CENTER - LINKS TO YIZKOR (MEMORY) BOOKS - HOLOCAUST 

The New York Public Library - Yiddish Book Center Yizkor Book Collection includes 650 digitized Yizkor books from the collections of the two institutions.

You can search this online collection by title and by the name of the towns they commemorate, or browse the list on this website by country and community name.  You can browse both the New York Public Library and Yiddish Book Center digital collections, along with links to ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS on the New York Public Library's Guide to Yizkor Books.

INTERNATIONAL DAY IN MEMORY OF THE VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST - REGISTER A SURVIVOR

UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM

USHMM DATABASES - SURVIVORS - VICTIMS and MORE

A collection of 600 ID cards

Violets from Free Vintage Illustrations

HOLOCAUST FORGOTTEN : DEDICATED TO THE FIVE MILLION MURDERED IN THE HOLOCAUST WHO WERE NOT JEWISH

HOLOCAUST FORGOTTEN  

'While there is no argument that Hitler abhorred the Jews and caused almost six million to be ruthlessly killed, often non-Jewish victims are tragically forgotten from Holocaust remembrances.  Eleven million precious human lives were lost during the Holocaust.  Five million of these were non-Jewish.  Three million were Polish Christians and Catholics.  It would be very sad to forget even one precious life extinguished so ruthlessly  It wold be a tragedy to forget five million. 

WHY REMEMBERING NON-JEWISH VICTIMS IS IMPORTANT TO US ALL.

Excerpt:  We are familiar with the statistics : nearly 10,000 Jehovah Witnesses imprisoned and at least 2,000 admitted to Nazi concentration camps of which at least half were murdered, over 250 by beheading.    What we do not know as well is the day-to-day existence of this extraordinary group of committed men, women, and children under the rule of National Socialist terror.

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This is not a database site but there's some excellent information on it. 

CHILDRENS MEMORIAL YAD VASHEM

UNITED STATES MEMORIAL HOLOCAUST MUSEUM : JEWISH PEOPLE - ROMANI (GYPSY) - JEHOVAH WITNESSES

Excerpt from Genocide of European Romani  page:  Roman were anong the groups that the Nazi regine (1933-1945) and its partner regimes singled our for persecution and murder before and during World War II. Roman are pejoratively referred to as Zigeuner in German and as Gypsies" in English.

(Just a note here. I'm not so sure the word gypsy is a pejorative, rather a misnomer, however people do understand when you use the word gypsy and less so when you use the word Roma or Romani.  In my genealogy research I've found there are slang terms for these people in other languages and slang terms for many an ethnic group.)   Drawing support from many non-Nazi Germans who harbored social prejudice towards Roman, the Nazis judged Roma to be "racially inferior."  Under the Nazi regime, German authorities subjected Roman to arbitrary internment, sterilization, forced labor in concentration camps, denotation, and mass murder.  German authorities murdered tens of thousands of Roman in the German occupied territories of the Soviet Union and Serbia and thousands more in the killing centers....

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