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Detectives Welcome on Historic Quest to Rediscover the Lost Library of Books

Wiener Library teams up with Leo Baeck Institute to search for collection of 60,000 precious books looted by Nazis from The Higher Institute for Jewish Studies in Berlin A new exhibition has launched at London’s Wiener Holocaust Library. Produced by the Leo Baeck Institute, The Library of Lost Books runs until 10th July. The first …

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Registration for SLIG 2025 and Spring Virtual 2025 Begins on June 22, 2024

The following is a press release written by the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy: Registration for SLIG 2025 will open on June 22, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. MDT. Registration for SLIG Spring Virtual 2025 will open on June 22, 2024, at 2:00 p.m. MDT.   If you don’t already have an account with our registration system, please create one BEFORE registration …

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A Jewish Woman Adopted as a Baby After World War II Lost Hope of Finding Her Father. This Year She Gained a Whole New Family

There is a very interesting human interest story on the CNN web site at: https://bit.ly/3yQ0LFU: When Elana Milman published an autobiography last year about her lifelong quest to find her birth parents, she had accepted she would never know the identity of her father. But thanks to a DNA test and some serious “genealogical detective …

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