Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain Blog

Coming next in the JGSGB Virtual Meeting Programme is a meeting from the JGSGB Chilterns Regional Group (RG) by Zoom.   Here is the information for this meeting:   Date: Tuesday 6 April 2021 Time: 19:30 London (note, 14:30 New York, 11:30 San Francisco, 21:30 Jerusalem) Title: Invisible Ink: A Family Memoir Speaker: Martha Leigh Description: Martha will talk about her Jewish family on both sides: her mother, a concert pianist, came from Czernowitz, a remote town in Austro-Hungary, and her father, the son of a Jewish immigrant from Vilnius, grew up in the East End of London. Martha has investigated a large family archive which enabled her to discover how several family members survived the war in France, Switzerland and Central Europe. Although Martha herself was not brought up as a Jew, she has come to understand more about what being Jewish means to her.   After the talk, there will be an opportunity for Q&A and discussion on the talk.   About Martha Leig...