Category Archives: Jewish Genealogy & Research

European Ancestors – Understanding France & Jewish Migration (33)

Posted on August 10, 2022 by Julie Goucher

This post is part of a series about genealogy in France. You can read the complete series HERE. Between 1880 and 1939 more than 110,000 Jews migrated west from central and eastern Europe. They settled, creating a thriving, yet crowded … Continue reading →

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European Ancestors – Europeans Beyond Europe – Jewish & German Migration to China

Posted on November 2, 2021 by Julie Goucher

Part of the European Ancestors Series With the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany in the early 1930’s, it was becoming a period of concern for the Jewish population. There had always been Jews in other parts of the world, … Continue reading →

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European Ancestors – Europeans Beyond Europe – The Holocaust in North Africa and Beyond

Posted on November 1, 2021 by Julie Goucher

Part of the European Ancestors Series By 1942 the Holocaust has spread from Europe to North Africa into the Middle East. There was a mixture of native Jewish rounded up within countries in North Africa and some Jewish that had … Continue reading →

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European Ancestors – Romanian Research

Posted on April 7, 2020 by Julie Goucher

At the point of the outbreak of the Second World War, in 1939, there were approximately 750,000 individuals who were of the Jewish faith. Yet fewer than half survived the war, despite the fact the Germany did not occupy the … Continue reading →

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