Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain Blog

Due to the bank holiday, there is no JGSGB meeting on Sunday 1st May, but our next weekday meeting in the JGSGB Virtual Meeting Programme is a specialist talk from the Chilterns Regional Group by Zoom on an Oriental theme. Please note the earlier start. Date: Tuesday 3rd May 2022 Time: 19.00 London, 14:00 New York, 11:00 San Francisco, 21:00 Jerusalem  Title: From Tashkent to Paris - the story of a Bukharian Jewish family’s triumph over adversity  Speaker: Eve Weinberg  Description: A true story about Revolution, occupation and survival. This memoir about Aron and Adina Abramoff, the author’s maternal grandparents, depicts their tranquil life in the early 1900s in Kokand and Tashkent, Central Asia; their escape from Stalin’s Russia in the 1930s and their miraculous survival from Nazi persecution in France during WWII. Eve feels privileged to be able to give you a glimpse into their turbulent lives, and although the book makes poignant reading, it is also life-affirmi...

Our next meeting in the JGSGB Virtual Meeting Programme is from the JGSGB Eastern European Special Interest Group (EE SIG) by Zoom and in person at the Jewish Museum, Camden, London.  Here is the information for the meeting: • Date: Sunday Apr 24th 2022 • Time: 14:00 London (note; 09:00 New York, 16:00 Jerusalem, 07:00 Salt Lake City) • Title: “The Dvorkins of Brest-Litovsk” • Speaker: Leigh Dworkin • Venue: Zoom details below, and/or in-person at the Jewish Museum London, Albert Street, London, NW1 7NB • Essential: To attend in person please email programme@jgsgb.org.uk to avoid paying Museum entrance. • Description: The speaker finally gets around to researching his own surname! Instead of his usual Polish research, attempts to crack the tricky archives of Belarus were met with frustration, a rapidly emptying wallet and many brick walls. This is the story of Harris (Tzvi Hirsch) Dworkin who fled the pogroms to come to the UK. Learn how chance findings in the Bialystok archives l...

Our next meeting in the JGSGB Virtual Meeting Programme is a Specialist Talk by Zoom or in person at the Jewish Museum in Camden, London – our first Hybrid meeting. Date: Sunday 10 April 2022 Time 14:00 London; 09:00 New York; 16:00 Jerusalem; 07:00 Salt Lake City Title: Thoroughly Modernising Millie - What the Dickens? Speaker: Bernard Miller Venue: Zoom or Jewish Museum London, Albert Street, London, NW1 7NB Essential: To attend in person please book at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/296370450997 on Eventbrite to avoid paying Museum entrance. Description: Bernard will speak about his mother, one-time Mayor of Camden and MP, Millie Miller and her many interesting relatives. From the 1950s to the '70s the name Millie Miller was widely known in London, particularly in local government and Parliament. To mark the beginning of what would have been her 100th year, 45 years after her death, her son, JGSGB member Bernard Miller has been researching Millie’s genealogical connections, ...