The archive contains the then-200,000-strong Jewish community’s filings as they attempted to get visas and flee Austria before World War II began. Israeli genealogy platform MyHeritage on Sunday unveiled its database of digitized records of Vienna’s Jews between the years 1938-1939 – when the robust Jewish community of the Austrian capital attempted to flee Nazi rule and persecution. …
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New Digital Archives Show Vienna Jews’ Efforts to Escape Before WWII
The archive contains the then-200,000-strong Jewish community’s filings as they attempted to get visas and flee Austria before World War II began. Israeli genealogy platform MyHeritage on Sunday unveiled its database of digitized records of Vienna’s Jews between the years 1938-1939 – when the robust Jewish community of the Austrian capital attempted to flee Nazi rule and persecution. …
DNA Analysis of Ancient Micronesians Shows New and Unexpected Results
Far out in the remote Pacific Ocean, the 2,000 islands of Micronesia were only peopled about 3,500 years ago, archaeological evidence shows. Now scientists find it didn’t happen quite as had been assumed. Micronesia is a country that consists of roughly 2,000 small islands spread over a vast region in the Pacific. Micronesia should not …