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This page highlights recent developments on the JewishGen web site, in reverse chronological order.

Note that this page highlights only major new developments. JewishGen projects such as ShtetLinks and the Yizkor Book Project have new pages added nearly every day; various Regional Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and databases are expanded daily.

• Apr 15 2008 — JOWBR Milestone - One million records.  The JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry reached a milestone of one million records.  We now have records for nearly 2,000 cemeteries in 40 countries.

• Apr 1 2008 — Press Release — Susan King, Founder, To Leave JewishGen.

• Jun 24 2007 — Updates to the JewishGen Holocaust Database — Eight new datasets, including:

  • Jewish Refugees in Tashkent: Data on 152,000 Jewish refugees from the Soviet Union who were evacuated to Tashkent and other localities in Uzbekistan in 1941-1942.
  • Claims Conference Hungary and Romania: Data on 135,544 Hungarian Jews and 167,815 Romanian Jews whose names appear in records held in the Central Zionist Archives and Yad Vashem.

• Jun 12 2007 — Updates to the JewishGen USA Database — Two new datasets for Philadelphia:

  • Philadelphia Jewish Exponent Obituaries  (1887-2006, 34,000 records).
  • Rosenbaum Bank Passagenger Order Book Records  (1890-1934, 83,000 records).

• Aug 15 2006 — Introducing the JewishGen Communities Database — a master database of European Jewish communities, which links together all of JewishGen's resources.

• Feb 14 2006 — Danzig/Gdańsk SIG website and mailing list formed — concerning Jews in Danzig/Gdańsk, and its precursor communities of Alt Schottland, Langfuhr, Mattenbuden, Weinberg, and Danzig in der Breitgasse, and Tiegenhof (Nowy Dwór Gdański).

• Jan 27 2006 — New datasets in the JewishGen Lithuania Database — Introducing the Lithuania Vital Records Database - Births, Marriages, Divorces and Deaths.  The inital set of over 9,000 records, primarily from Kupiškis, Panevėžys, Pušalotas and Rokiškis.

• Jan 25 2006 — Updates to the JewishGen Hungary Database — Nearly 30,000 new records, including updates to the Births, Marriages and Deaths datasets, 1848 Census and 1869 Census.

• Oct 6 2005 — Updates to the JewishGen Holocaust Database — Added 37,000 new records, including data from Dachau, Łódż, Győr, Dés, Kisvárda, Iaşi, Kozienice, Subotica, Balta, and other localities.  New total is over one million records.

• Sep 20 2005 — Updates to the JewishGen Latvia Database — Two new datasets:

  • Riga Marriages, 1854-1921  (Livland gubernia, 9,200 records).
  • Jewish Family Lists of Rēzekne, 1898  (Vitebsk gubernia, 6,600 records).

• Sep 5 2005 — Updates to the JewishGen Hungary Database — Over 20,000 new records:

  • Completion of the 1828 Property Tax Census.
  • 16,000 additional records for the 1869 Census.
  • 4,000 additional records for the Holocaust Memorials Database.

• Sep 1 2005 — Updates to the JewishGen Romania Database — Over 80,000 new records for Bessarabia:

  • 56,000 additional records in the 1906-1907 Duma Voters Lists for Bessarabia, completing this project.
  • 25,000 additional records for the Kishinev Vital Records.

• July 12 2005 — Three new JewishGen "All Country" Databases (Germany, Ukraine, USA);  Advanced search features in the "All Country" Databases;  More data integration in the "All Country" Databases;  and new user interface features (MenuBar header).  For details, see the full Announcement.

• July 1 2005 — New version of the JewishGen ShtetlSeeker, and updates to the JewishGen Family Finder program.  Many improvements.  See the full Announcement and Release Notes.

• Oct 21 2004 — Updates to the JewishGen Holocaust Database — Added 100,000 new records, including Sharit HaPlatah (61,000 survivors), Tîrgu Mureş (Maros-Vásárhely) ghetto and deportation lists, Polish children survivors, Hungarian Civilian Labor Service (Munkaszolgálat) deaths, additional records in the Dachau database, as well as data from Transnistria, Germany, and Serbia.  New total is over 900,000 records.

• Oct 6 2004 — Updates to the JewishGen Hungary Database — Added over 30,000 new records, including 1828 Property Tax Records, 1869 Census Records, other Census Records for 1795-1850, Birth Records, and Hungarian Holocaust Memorials.  New total is over 180,000 records.

• Jul 1 2004 — Updates to the JewishGen Romania Database — Over 40,000 new records, including:

  • 17,000 additional records for Bendery and Soroki districts in the 1906-1907 Duma Voters Lists for Bessarabia.
  • 25,000 additional records for the Kishinev Vital Records.

• May 7 2004 — Updates to the JewishGen Belarus Database — nearly 20,000 new records, including:

  • 1897 Census for Grodno Gubernia — Detailed family data for 8,000 individuals, as recorded in the "All Russia Census" of 1897.
  • Revision Lists — Over 11,000 records from Reviska Skazka, 19th century Czarist tax censuses, from Minsk, Slutsk and Vileika districts.

• Feb 17 2004 — Yizkor Book Necrology Database updated — 16,000 additional entries, from 15 Yizkor Books.

• Feb 15 2004 — The Houston Jewish Herald-Voice Database — Nearly 5,000 life-cycle event notices in this Texas newspaper, 1908-1921.

• Feb 13 2004 — Two new databases on American-Jewish immigration:

  • Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), Boston Arrivals — Records of over 24,000 Jewish immigrant arrivals via Boston, 1882-1929.
  • Blitzstein Bank Passage Order Records, Port of Philadelphia — An index of over 30,000 immigrants who had steamship tickets purchased for them at this Philadelphia bank, 1899-1930.

• Jan 12 2004 — The All U.K. Database — Over 50,000 records for England, Scotland and Wales, from a variety of sources, including: marriage and cemetery records, census records, business directories, and others.

• Dec 16 2003 — Updates to the JewishGen Hungary Database — Added over 30,000 new records, including 1869 Census Records, other Census Records for 1795-1850, and Hungarian Jewish Concentration Camp Survivors.  New total is over 125,000 records.

• Dec 3 2003 — Updates to the JewishGen Holocaust Database — Added over 15,000 new records, including Polish Martyred Physicians, North Bavarian Jews, Hungarian Jewish Concentration Camp Survivors, and additional records in the Dachau database.  New total is over half a million records.

• Nov 13 2003 — Updates to the JewishGen Romania Database — 40,000 new records, including:

  • 25,000 additional records for Bieltsy, Khotin and Orgieev districts in the 1906-1907 Duma Voters Lists for Bessarabia.
  • 5,000 additional records completing the 1942 Census of Jewish Males Born Between 1881-1892.

• Jul 30 2003 — Bialystok Region Research Group mailing list — A forum for Jewish genealogical research in northeastern Poland.

• Ju1 22 2003 — Three major new databases:

  • The All Romania Database — Over 40,000 records for Romania and Moldova (Bessarabia), from a variety of sources, including: voter lists, census records, business directories, vital records, diplomatic records, yizkor books, and others.
  • The All Poland Database — Over two million records for Poland, from a variety of sources, including: vital records, business directories, voter lists, passenger manifests, Yizkor books and other Holocaust sources.  A joint project of Jewish Records Indexing — Poland and JewishGen.
  • The JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR) — A database of over 300,000 entries from cemeteries and burial records worldwide, from the earliest records to the present.  The initial set of data contains over 600 cemeteries from 25 countries.

• Jul 21 2003 — Success! Stories of Connections — A new "JewishGen Testimonials" site, containing stories of connections made via JewishGen.

• Jul 20 2003 — Kiev Gubernia Duma Voters Lists Database — Our first major database for Ukraine. Over 32,000 Jewish men living in Kiev gubernia, eligible to vote in the Czarist State Duma elections of 1906-1907.

• Jun 25 2003 — Updates to the JewishGen Holocaust Database — Added over 70,000 new records, including lists of 62,000 survivors in Europe (Pinkas HaNitzolim I), and over 10,000 additional records in the Dachau database.

• Jun 16 2003 — 1897 "All Russia" Census Database — Update to the All Latvia Database: Records for nearly 2,000 Jews residing in the city of Riga, Latvia. From the 1897 census of the Russian Empire.

• Jun 5 2003 — Jewish Names in Selected U.S. State Department Files — Nearly 10,000 entries from U.S. Department of State, Record Group 59, pertaining to the "Protection of Interest", 1910-1929, primarily from Palestine, Romania & Austria.

• Jun 1 2003 — Two new databases for Romania / Moldova:
  • Bessarabia Duma Voters Lists, 1906-1907 — Over 5,000 men of Bessarabia Gubernia (today, Moldova), eligible to vote in the Russian parliamentary elections of 1906 and 1907.
  • 1942 Census of Jewish Males Born Between 1881-1892 — Census of 3,200 "Older Jewish Males" in 1942.

• May 27 2003 — Yizkor Book Necrology Database updated — 15,000 additional entries, from 8 Yizkor Books.

• May 7 2003 — Updates to the JewishGen Holocaust Database — Added over 30,000 new records, including six new datasets and 8,000 additional records in the Dachau database.

• Mar 16 2003 — The All Hungary Database — Over 40,000 records from many different sources: births records, property tax records, census records, etc., for current and former areas of Hungary, including Slovakia and Croatia.

• Feb 24 2003 — 1897 Lithuania Census Database — Names of 13,465 Jews residing in Kovna and Vilna Gubernya, from the 1897 census of the Russian Empire.

• Feb 11 2003 — Jewish Communities and Records — United Kingdom (JCR-UK) website launched.

• Feb 10 2003 — Yizkor Book Necrology Database updated — Over 11,000 additional entries, from 10 Yizkor Books.

• Feb 10 2003 — Questions & Answers About JewishGen's new relationship with the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.

• Jan 22 2003 — Updates to the JewishGen Holocaust Database — Added over 90,000 new records, including a list of 57,000 survivors in Poland (Pinkas HaNitzolim II), and 33,000 additional records in the Dachau database.

• Jan 13 2003 — Two new databases:
  • Jews in Würzburg, 1900-1945 — A collective biographical dictionary of over 13,000 Jews living in Würzburg, Lower Franconia, Germany
  • The Connecticut Jewish Ledger Obituary Database — Nearly 5,000 obituary notices in this New Haven newspaper, 1975-2002.
  Five updated databases:
  • 1891 New York Immigrants from Austria, Poland and Galicia — Formerly covering just 1890, we've now added all of 1891 — 52,647 additional records.
  • Hungary 1828 Property Tax Census — Added 8,000 records.
  • Boston Jewish Advocate Obituary Database — Added 2,000 obits for 2001 and 2002.
  • Boston Jewish Advocate Wedding Announcements Database — Added 7,000 announcements for 1905-1938 and 2001-2002.
  • Cleveland Jewish News Obituary Database — Added 500 obits for 2002.

• Dec 31 2002 — JewishGen to join Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.  Effective January 1, 2003, JewishGen will become a division of the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City.

• Nov 7 2002 — Scandinavia SIG website and mailing list formed — an expansion of the former JewishGen Denmark SIG, to encompass Norway, Finland, Sweden, and former Danish colonies and protectorates.

• Oct 20 2002 — Ellis Island Foundation Database — One-Step Search Tools — enhanced search capabilities for easier access to data on www.ellisisland.org.

• Sep 29 2002 — Manifest Markings - A Guide to Interpreting U.S. Passenger List Annotations. A comprehensive InfoFile, by historian Marian L. Smith.

• Sep 27 2002 — 1828 Hungarian Property Tax Census Database.  Our first major database of data from Hungary.

• May 1 2002 — Three new databases:
  • Warszawa Gubernia Duma Voters Lists, 1907 — Over 10,000 Jewish men living in Warszawa Gubernia (Warsaw province, of the Russian Kingdom of Poland), eligible to vote for the Czarist State Duma.
  • The Rabbi Samuel Langer Database — Over 5,000 entries from personal notebooks — births, Bar/Bas Mitzvahs, marriages, funerals/unveilings, etc. Eastern USA, 1930s-1960s.
  • U.S. Consular Post, Bucharest, Romania — Emergency Passport Applications and other records. Our first standalone database for Romania — nearly 1,000 records from the U.S. State Department, 1860-1941.

• Apr 17 2002 — Yizkor Book Necrology Database updated — Over 12,000 additional entries, from 11 Yizkor Books.

• Apr 9 2002 — JewishGen Family Finder FAQ - in Russian.

• Feb 13 2002 — New JewishGen documentation:
  • JewishGen Support Center — Help with using JewishGen services
  • Family Tree of the Jewish People — FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions about the FTJP
  • JewishGen Family Finder FAQ - in Spanish — Our first documentation en Español

• Feb 9 2002 — The All Latvia Database updated with 16,000 additional records — from Riga internal passports, and the 1897 Census.

• Jan 30 2002 — The JewishGen Holocaust Database — A new multi-source database, containing 37 datasets. Over 140,000 entries regarding Holocaust victims and survivors.

• Jan 15 2002 — 1929 Polish Business Directory — Town Index — An index to more than 34,000 locations in inter-war Poland, with links to directory pages for each city, town and village. From JRI-Poland.

• Dec 1 2001 — December 2001 Proclaimed Bernard Israelite Kouchel Month on JewishGen.

• Nov 26 2001 — Updates to Locality Index to Lithuanian Jewish Vital Records Microfilms.

• Nov 9 2001 — Yizkor Book Necrology Database updated — Over 10,000 additional entries, from 17 Yizkor Books.

• Nov 7 2001 — Vilna Gubernia Conscripts Photographs Database — Names and photographs of 1,222 Jewish conscripts from Vilna gubernia into the Russian army, 1900-1914.

• Jun 17 2001 — Three new databases:
  • Aufbau Holocaust Survivors Lists — Names of over 33,000 Holocaust survivors, published in the German-language newspaper Aufbau, New York, 1944-1946.
  • Warszawa Homeowners Lists — Data on over 9,000 homeowners in Warszawa (Warsaw) and Praga, 1852, 1869, 1870.
  • Belarus Names Database — Indices to over 43,000 names that appear on 76 different web pages of the Belarus SIG. An integral part of the "All Belarus Database".

• May 14 2001 — Rabbinic Genealogy SIG — A forum for those interested in Rabbinic genealogy or researching rabbinic ancestry in any geographic area or time period.

• Apr 5 2001 — Yizkor Book Necrology Database updated — Over 15,000 additional entries, from 12 Yizkor Books.

• Apr 4 2001 — French SIG mailing list — A forum for Jewish genealogical research in France and former French colonies, as well as other French-speaking areas such as Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland.

• Apr 3 2001 — Minsk Yizkor Book Index Database — Over 3,000 names from the index of the two-volume Minsk Yizkor Book Minsk, Ir va-em.

• Mar 25 2001 — Sephardic SIG web pages — A place where all researchers of Sephardic genealogy and history are welcome to learn and share.

• Mar 6 2001 — Oshpitsin Yizkor Database - Information on over 5,000 residents of the town of Oshpitsin (Oswiecim).

• Feb 22 2001 — Jewish Records at the Family History Library database — An inventory of the Jewish-specific microfilms, microfiche and books at the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City.

• Feb 19 2001 — The "All Latvia" Database updated with an additional 25,000 records from a variety of fascinating sources: Czarist government newspapers, Kurlander landsmanshaft, merchant and military recruit lists, Soviet Extraordinary Commission reports.

• Dec 28 2000 — The JewishGen Yizkor Book Necrology Database — An index of over 90,000 entries for Holocaust martyrs listed in the necrologies of Yizkor Books.

• Nov 30 2000 — Vsia Rossiia Database — Updated with over 3,600 entries from Vitebsk gubernia, 1911. (The area that was Vitebsk gubernia in 1911 is today in southeastern Latvia, northeastern Belarus, with some northeastern parts now in Russia).

• Nov 2 2000 — ViewMate — A facility for posting genealogy-related graphics. Here you can post photos for identification of people, buildings, artifacts, etc.; and letters and documents for analysis or translation.

• Sep 12 2000 — Ukraine SIG mailing list — A forum for researchers with family origins in the former Russian Empire gubernias now in the Ukraine; Podolia, Volhynia, Kiev, Poltava, Chernigov, Kharkov, Kherson, Taurida and Ekaterinoslav.

• Aug 9 2000 — Early American SIG and mailing list — A forum for those researching Jewish immigrants to the United States before 1880.

• Aug 8 2000 — Announcing the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Register (JOWBR), a project to index Jewish burial information worldwide.

• Aug 3 2000 — Pinsk Ghetto Database — Information on over 18,000 Jews in the Pinsk Ghetto in 1942.   Part of the "All Belarus Database".

• Aug 2 2000 — JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF) hits 200,000 entries.

• Jul 12 2000 — JewishGen and Yad Vashem sign a Data Sharing Agreement.

• Jul 11 2000 — 1999 Annual Report.

• Jul 3 2000 — The "All Latvia" Database — Nearly 25,000 records for Courland and Livland gubernias, from many different sources: voter lists, tax records, newspaper notices, residency permits, military records, etc.

• Jun 22 2000 — Kraków Ghetto Database — Names of over 18,000 Jews in the Ghetto of Kraków Poland in 1940.

• Jun 17 2000 — Vsia Rossiia Database — Updated with over 6,000 entries from the city of Odessa, 1895-1911.

• May 11 2000 — Genealogy By Genetics — DNA testing.

• Apr 18 2000 — The "All Belarus" Database — Over 75,000 records from many different sources: vital records, voter lists, business directories, ghetto records.

• Apr 16 2000 — 1890 New York Immigrants from Poland, Austria and Galicia — An index to over 44,000 passenger arrivals.

• Mar 31 2000 — Two new databases:
  • West Prussia 1812 Citizenship — Names of 2,400 Jews in 50 towns in West Prussia who were granted Prussian citizenship in 1812.
  • Nikolsburg Graveyard Register — Over 4,500 persons buried in the Jewish cemetery of Nikolsburg (now Mikulov, Czech Republic).

• Mar 8 2000 — Volhynia website — Covering the former Russian Empire gubernia of Volhynia, which was in eastern Poland between the world wars, now in northwestern Ukraine.

• March 1 2000 — The Forgotten Camps — The history of Nazi Concentration Camps, Work Camps, Police Camps, and Transit Camps.

• Feb 15 2000 — Given Names Presentation — A slide-show and lecture on Jewish first names, with over 90 illustrations.

• Jan 29 2000 — Vsia Rossiia Database — Over 18,000 entries from Russian Empire business directories, 1895-1911.

• Dec 26 1999 — 1929 Polish Business Directory — Nowogrodek Province — Over 15,000 entries from an inter-war Polish business directory.  This area was in Grodno, Vilna and Minsk gubernias of the Russian Empire before WWI, and is now in Belarus.

• Dec 13 1999 — South Africa Jewish Yearbook Database — Index of "Who's Who" biographies from a 1929 directory.

• Dec 3 1999 — Lvov Ghetto Database — Names of over 10,000 Jews in the Ghetto of Lwów Poland, 1942-1945.


• Dec 1 1999 — Genealogy Forum on AOL selects JewishGen as the Best Site Pick for the month of December 1999, for "its comprehensive nature in providing a resource for people searching their Jewish heritage. JewishGen also needs to be commended for realizing the effects of working as a team not only among their 200+ volunteers but with numerous other Jewish interest groups as well."

• Nov 11 1999 — New InfoFiles on Passenger List microfilms. Complete list of U.S. National Archives (NARA) microfilms of U.S. Passenger Arrival Manifests, with microfilm numbers for ordering via LDS Family History Centers.

• Nov 10 1999 — Bohemia-Moravia SIG website.

• Sep 30 1999 — Bohemia-Moravia SIG mailing list.

• Sep 14 1999 — Denmark SIG website and mailing list.

• Sep 13 1999 — Database of German Jews at Stutthof Concentration Camp — Information on over 2,750 German Jews at this concentration camp near Gdansk.

• Sep 7 1999 — Jewish Holiday Calendar — displays all Jewish holidays for any Gregorian or Jewish year.

• Aug 12 1999 — Infoseek Search Engine — a full-text search engine, which can find any word on any page on the JewishGen website.

• Aug 10 1999 — 1998 Annual Report.

• Aug 2 1999 — Southern Africa SIG web site.

• Jul 30 1999 — The 1906 Rechitsa Uezd Duma Voters List — Nearly 3,000 names from Minsk Gubernia (Belarus).

• Jul 15 1999 — JewishGen and Yad Vashem join to record names of Holocaust victims.

• Jun 1 1999 — The 1891 Galician Business Directory database — Over 12,000 names from over 1,000 towns throughout Galicia.

• May 28 1999 — The Yizkor Book Project's Translation Project uploaded its 100th translation.

• May 24 1999 — Boston Jewish Advocate Wedding Announcements Database — Index to thousands of notices from this Massachusetts newspaper.

• May 6 1999 — Mogilev Birth Index of boys, 1864-1894. Index of over 9,800 male births in Mogilev, listed by father's given name.

• Apr 28 1999 — Boston Marriages Database. Index to nearly 1,000 marriages performed by Rabbi Aaron Gorovitz of Boston, 1910 to 1956.

• Mar 30 1999 — The American Jewish Historical Society Manuscript Database. Full descriptions of over 1100 manuscript collections held by the AJHS.

• Feb 22 1999 — 1903 Vsia Rossiia Database for Minsk Gubernia. Jewish names from a Russian business directory.

• Feb 22 1999 — Index to The Last Eyewitness: Children of the Holocaust Speak.

• Feb 10 1999 — Email discussion groups for the Galicia SIG and Romania SIG.

• Feb 1 1999 — Revised edition of the Eastern Europe FAQ.

• Jan 26 1999 — New online version of the Family Tree of the Jewish People (FTJP). New software system.

• Jan 7 1999 — Minsk Surnames Database online. An index of surnames appearing in the LDS microfilms of the Jewish vital records of the city of Minsk.

• Oct 11 1998 — JewishGen now hosts the Missing Identity website, which helps child survivors of the Holocaust find their identity.

• Oct 9 1998 — German SIG web pages.

• Oct 6 1998 — The Yizkor Book Project's Translation Project is now one year old.   Translated portions of over 50 Yizkor Books are now online.

• Oct 1 1998 — The JewishGen SIG Mailing Lists Message Archive is now online. Search messages posted to the JewishGen SIG mailing lists.

• Aug 28 1998 — Belarus SIG web pages.

• July 31 1998 — JewishGen ShtetlSchleppers^SM — Visit your ancestral shtetl and share in preserving history for future generations.

• July 16 1998 — 1997 Annual Report.

• July 15 1998 — Family Tree of the Jewish People (FTJP) goes live.

• July 6 1998 — Newly redesigned Yizkor Book Project HomePage and Database.

• July 2 1998 — Chicago Marriages — Sinai Congregation — Index to over 500 Chicago marriages, 1861-1905.

• June 24 1998 — French Deportations Database — Index to Germans, Swiss and Austrians deported from France, 1942-1944.

• May 25 1998 — Hungarian SIG Web pages

• May 24 1998 — U.S. Consular Post Records Database — Index to over 9,000 records of U.S. Consulates in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Haifa, 1857-1935.

• May 10 1998 — Grodno Gubernia 1912 Voters Database — Names of over 26,000 men eligible to voter in the Russian parliamentary elections of 1912.

• May 3 1998 — From a Ruined Garden — Chapters of book of Polish Jewry — Indiana University Press - Press Release.

• May 1 1998 — JewishGen announces the online version of the Family Tree of the Jewish People - Press Release.

• Mar 18 1998 — New re-designed Home Page.

• Mar 10 1998 — Three new databases:
  • Keidan Cemeteries — Tombstone inscriptions from seven cemeteries: in Lithuania, New York, Chicago.
  • Bristol Cemeteries - Indexes of three cemeteries in Bristol, England, with tombstone photographs.
  • Boston Jewish Advocate Obituaries — Index to thousands of obituary notices from this Massachusetts newspaper.

• Feb 24 1998 — New JGFF options:
  • A new "list" option, to easily view your own entries.
  • A new country filter for searches.

• Jan 26 1998 — Project Phoenix — A database of 12,000 residents of the Brest ghetto, Soviet victims of the Nazis.   Press Release.

• Jan 18 1998 — Kelmė Database — Over 2,000 records about residents of this Lithuanian town, 1816-1944.

• Dec 28 1997 — Press Release — JGFF hits 60,000 entries.

• Nov 11 1997 — JewishGen Holocaust Global Registry introduced.   Press Release.   LeMonde article.

• Jan 1 1996 — JewishGen 1995 Review, by Susan King.

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