Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain Blog

Our Sunday after next meeting in the JGSGB Programme is an outside visit in person (!). • Date: Sunday April 3rd 2022 • Time: 15:00 London • Venue: Imperial War Museum (IWM), Holocaust Galleries • Address: Lambeth Road, London, SE1 6HZ • How to get there: IWM London is a short walk from Lambeth North (7 minutes), Elephant & Castle (10 minutes) Underground stations or Waterloo National Rail stations (14 minutes), and is served by the 344 and 360 bus routes, as well as the 59 and 159. The C6 Cycleway runs past the museum from Elephant & Castle. At present there is limited parking around the museum. • Description: The Holocaust Galleries at IWM London offer an account of the events that came to be known as the Holocaust and tell the personal stories of some of the six million Jewish people who were murdered. How did persecution turn to mass extermination? Drawing on a rich collection of objects, from a teddy bear taken on the Kindertransport, through to the typewriter used to type...

Our next Sunday meeting in the JGSGB Virtual Meeting Programme is a specialist talk on a digital theme by Zoom. • Date: Sunday 27 March 2021 • Time: 14:00 London; 09:00 New York; 16:00 Jerusalem; 15:00 Switzerland • Title: "Digitising Your Archives" • Speaker: Harry Sassoon • Description: Harry will be speaking on the importance of digitising your archives, including topics such as sharing, security and the age-old question - where do I begin? In this discussion, we will be talking about different forms of archives, such as documents, photos, tapes and more, the processes for digitising and organising them, best practices as well as how to keep everything safe and future-proof. About Harry Sassoon Harry Sassoon lives in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, is 28 years old; a cybersecurity professional, co-founder of The Scannery and a self-proclaimed advanced amateur genealogist since 2016. After the talk, there will be an opportunity for Q&A on the talk. The invitation to register...

After our Education Webinar on Visiting Archives on17th Mar at 7.30pm, our next weekday meeting in the JGSGB Virtual Meeting Programme is a specialist talk from the Chilterns Regional Group by Zoom on an haute couture theme.   • Date: Tuesday 22nd March 2022 • Time: 19.30 London, 15:30 New York, 12:30 San Francisco, 21:30 Jerusalem • Title: "The Clothes on our backs: how refugees from Nazism revitalised the British fashion trade". • Speaker: Anna Nyburg • Description: Jews had long been active in the clothing trade in Europe, excelling in design and production. However, in the UK, clothes production was mostly conservative and design was not a concept. After 1933, many Jews found asylum in Britain and British companies started to recognise what the refugees could offer including Pringle of Scotland who hired an Austrian refugee designer, who thought up the twinset which became a huge commercial success and Kangol, who made berets for the British Army. The refugees brought new...

Our next meeting in the JGSGB Virtual Meeting Programme is a speaker meeting from the JGSGB Anglo-Jewish Special Interest Group (Anglo SIG) by Zoom. Here is the information for this meeting: • Date: Sunday 13 Mar 2022 • Time: 14:30 London (note, 09:30 New York, 16:30 Jerusalem, 15:30 Switzerland) • Title: Unfortunate Incidents in the History of the Southport Jewish Community: Broiges & Consensus • Speaker: John Cowell • Description: The talk will cover details on the individuals involved from his book on the Southport Jewish Community, Philanthropy, Consensus and Broiges , and some of the many disputes that arose between them. After the talk, there will be an opportunity for Q&A and discussion on the talk. Following a quick tea break, we will return for a workshop where we will offer help for any genealogical problems and listen to your genealogical successes. Beginners always welcome.  About John Cowell John Cowell is a retired librarian. Born in Blackpool, he attended the...

Our next meeting in the JGSGB Virtual Meeting Programme is a German Special Interest Group Meeting by Zoom. • Date 6 Mar 2022 • Time 14:00 London • Title: “New developments and recent discoveries in German-Jewish genealogy” • Speaker: Jeanette Rosenberg OBE • Description: We will discuss new developments and recent discoveries in German-Jewish genealogy. As ever, the presentation from the meeting will be made available after the meeting. If you have questions about your research that you would have asked in person at the meeting, you will still be able to ask them, but for this meeting, you will need to email them in advance to jeanette.r.rosenberg@googlemail.com and hopefully either I or others attending our virtual meeting will be able to help you and answer them. For 2022 the future meeting dates are Sundays 12 June, 4 September and 4 December. Please add them to your forward calendar. Jeanette R Rosenberg OBE Convenor of German SIG The invitation to register is below, but please k...