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Our next Sunday meeting in our Virtual Meeting Programme is from the JGSGB South & West London Regional Group (SWL RG) by Zoom, on a Holocaust theme. Date: Sunday 30 January 2022 • Time 14:30 London, 09.30 New York, 16:30 Jerusalem 15:30 Switzerland • Title: "Four out of six million: my search for my mother’s family in the Holocaust" • Speaker: Simon Fowler • Description: Growing up Simon Fowler knew that his mother had arrived as a penniless 18-year-old schoolgirl in the days before war broke out in 1939. She was always reluctant to talk about her experiences, but since her death Simon has uncovered the fate of her immediate family. Their history is, of course, unique, but at the same time similar to that of millions of other victims. The talk will reveal what he has found, look at the sources used, and discuss some ethical issues that arose from the research. About Simon Fowler Simon Fowler worked at The National Archives for nearly thirty years. For ten years he was a

Message from Raymond Montanjees:   Many of you dear Members may be interested in the following come the time, what with the DNA subject being quite popular these days. DETAILS : PBS AMERICA. FREESERVE 84. (Channel number may differ in other regions) Thursday 27th January. 6.30-8.55pm for the first two episodes ' Secrets in our DNA ' and ' The Lost DNA '. Part 2 of the latter, will be shown on Friday 28th at 7.30-8.35pm. Regards, Raymond Montanjees.

Coming soon in the JGSGB Virtual Meeting Programme is a Zoom meeting from the JGSGB Eastern European Special Interest Group (EE SIG) on a Ukrainian theme.    • Date: Sunday 16 Jan 2022 • Time: 14:00 London; 09:00 New York; 16:00 Jerusalem; 15:00 Switzerland • Title: “Zev’s Children – An International Jewish Family” • Speaker: Kenneth Collins • Description: Kenneth Collins, the leading chronicler of Scotland’s Jews, and a medical historian, tells the story of his family from its origins in Ukraine in the first half of the eighteenth century. He follows the descendants of his great-grandfather Zev Kagarlitsky in Russia, America, Argentina, France, Israel, England and Scotland. Zev was born in a village near Kiev in 1854 and died in Tel Aviv in 1931. There is a cast of colourful characters including Marxists in Russia, a Holocaust survivor in France, an unexpected death of a Soviet commercial agent in London, early Zionist pioneers and businessmen in Scotland and America. After the talk,