Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain Blog

The Manchester Regional Group is hosting its FIRST online mini-conference. As already announced, we have arranged a mini-conference for SUNDAY 25 JULY 2021 which will be Zoomed into the homes of attendees. The programme (a full version of which can be found on our website) will be: https://www.jgsgb.org.uk/content/manchester-regional-group-mini-conference-20212 1.30pm Welcome Leigh Dworkin (Chairman JGSGB) 1.40pm Robert Dyson - From Budapest to Switzerland via Belsen: My Hungarian grand-mother's escape 2.50pm William Pimlott - YIVO (Vilna, New York, London): An archive and its British Jewish holdings 4.00pm Anna Douglas & Errol Gross - From Vilkaviskis to Salford: The Schoolboy and The Photographer 5.15pm Closing remarks – David Jacobs (JGSGB President) 5.25pm Close There will be a small charge for registration to cover the Society’s costs. This will be £5 for members and £10 for non-members. The charge will cover all persons within a household and using the same ele...

This year's Sam Johnson Memorial Lecture will take place on 3rd December at 17.30. Dr Jean-Marc Dreyfus (University of Manchester) will be delivering the lecture on “Mischling: the contrasted destiny of 'half-Jews' in the Third Reich, between persecution and survival”. His presentation will describe the state of the research on the topic of ‘half-Jews’ in Germany and also the difficult memory of their persecution.  'Mischling' : the contrasted destiny of ‘half-Jews’ in the Third Reich, between persecution and survival Nazi policy obsessively classified people. With the Nuremburg racial laws of September 1935, the status of ‘half-blood’ Jews, whether of ‘first’ or ‘second degree’, was inscribed in the German civil code. At least 700 000 Germans fell into those categories and were submitted to severe legal restrictions. At the end of the war, many were interned in labour camps. We now know that they survived; the final decision on their fate remained pendin...

From Manchester Jewish Museum's newsletter: Manchester Jewish Museum is re-emerging and transforming.  Ahead of our reopening next Spring we present a season of treats and sneaky peeks on our brand new website . Kicking off in November is a rollicking high-camp digital drag night with Chanukah Lewinsky , followed in December by musical conversations with Klezmer musician Francesca Ter Berg and Special Guests about radical ways of thinking and living. In January our Creative Activists showcase creative responses to Mancunian Holocaust experiences. February will see audiences literally eating their way through the archives during a live in-person event with theatre chef Leo Burtin . And finally in March, another live opportunity to explore personal journeys on foot by walking back in time though Redbank and Cheetham with The Bare Project Theatre Company . Come and re-imagine our museum, reset the conversation and reconnect with the stories from our collection that are bursting...