A treaty for cooperation has been signed between Amoetat Akevoth-Dutch Jewish Genealogical Data Base and our Netherlands Society for Jewish Genealogy at the beginning of July 2007, for the very reason that the objectives of both associations fit in and complement each other (see our objectives and those of Akevoth). This cooperation will involve that both associations will try to strive for the best possible coordination of their communication to their members and third parties. This relates to the communication of our announcements, the NKvJG’s magazine “Misjpoge”, the mutual digital discussion groups, forum questions and the internet sites from both associations. These sites are now linked via the logos on the home pages however will gradually be geared to one another as part of their own objectives. Members of both associations have, in addition to this, entrance to all activities and events of the other association, including general meetings (although with limited voting rights, where one association will only have one vote in the general meeting of the other association).
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Lecture of Mr. S. Italiaander, Chairman of the Dutch Jewish Genealogical Society, for the Australian Jewish Genealogical Society.
DUTCH RESEARCH and the Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands.
On Sunday, 15 January, 2006 the Chairman of the Dutch
Jewish Genealogical Society, Simon Italiaander, and his wife Annette
were welcomed again to a well-attended gathering of our members.
Simon gave a presentation of the updated website, Digital Monument to
the Jewish Community in the Netherlands, an internet monument
dedicated to the memories of all men, women and children who were
persecuted under the Nazi occupation for being Jewish and did not
survive the Shoah. It is funded by the Association of Insurance
Companies.
To access this website at
www.joodsmonument.nl, scan across to the far right of the main
page to change to the English version and to find the Search page.
Each tiny coloured block on the main page represents a family where
one or more members died.
By searching on Surnames on the Search page, the first names, birth
dates and places, places of residence of the family groups are listed
and, where available, other detailed information. (Note the importance
of trying different spellings, e.g. there were no entries for the name
Doodeward but there were some for Doodewaard.)
This project is currently a valuable research resource that is being
continually improved and expanded.
The meeting was also an opportunity for researchers with Dutch
interests to access our newly acquired Dutch resources (see Kosher
Koala Vol 12 No 4, Dec. 2005 for the list).
While in Sydney, Simon happened to follow up on one of his own research families, NASSANOWICZ from the Polish town of PABIANICE. He was amazed to find that the JRI-Poland Shtetl CO-OP Cordinator for the town, Alan Glixman, lived in Sydney. After contacting Alan, Simon accessed the LDS microfilms for Pabianice at the Parramatta Family History Centre and found family records that have clarified a persistent puzzle. It’s nice to know that someone can come half way round the world from Europe and find information here about their European research.
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is online.
This monument is a database with the names of tens of thousands of
Jews who were killed during the Shoa. Not only the names are mentioned
but also the family relations, their address, occupation and sometimes
a picture.
One of the goals of the project is to keep alive the memory of people
who died during the Shoa and to enable all living Jews to find their
roots. If you remember persons included in the Monument, or if you
have photographs, letters or other documents about people in the
Monument and would like to add them, or if you notice mistakes, you
can give a reaction. On each family, person and address page, you will
find a link marked ‘add’. Clicking on that link will retrieve an
electronic form for entering your data and mailing them to the
Monument web master.
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