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JGSGB EE SIG - Apr 24th 2022 2pm – with Leigh Dworkin – “The Dvorkins of Brest-Litovsk”

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 let to the discovery of two sibling families in the USA, research into which dispelled the myth that Harris was an only child cloned from his father without need of a mother. (Or so it seemed when all records available to the family showed little evidence of a mother or any brothers or sisters.)

Brick wall demolition brought to you courtesy of American SS-5 documents, the UK 1921 census with some creative use of United Synagogue marriage authorisations.


After the talk, there will be an opportunity for Q&A and discussion on the talk.

About Leigh Dworkin
Leigh Dworkin is the current Chairman of the JGSGB. He has been researching his mainly Polish family for the last 37 years, but also tries to research into Lithuania and Belarus, from where his surname originates.
He regularly presents at JGSGB Regional Groups, Special Interest Groups and Conferences.

The invitation to register is below, but please keep it to yourself!

If you have problems joining please email chairman@jgsgb.org.uk, preferably in the 15 minutes before the meeting proper starts.

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Leigh Dworkin is inviting you to register for a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: JGSGB EE SIG: “The Dvorkins of Brest-Litovsk” by Leigh Dworkin
When: Apr 24, 2022 02:00 PM London

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrcOytqj0uEtXe_nJA5OcKAW46nByTgw6z


After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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Keep well!

Leigh Dworkin
Chairman, JGSGB

 

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