Entwined: Sabah, JDC, and Me
To Naomi Levin, growing up as a granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor always seemed normal. Yet she soon learned that her Sabah (grandfather) and his life were not ordinary at all. Join Naomi as she...
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Issachar Ryback’s Agro-Joint Album
Issachar Ber Ryback, On The Jewish Fields of the Ukraine (Paris, 1926). JDC Archives, digitally photographed by Ardon Bar-Hama. The Russian-French painter Issachar Ryback’s illustrated album, On...
View ArticleFinding Her “Joint Family” in the Archives
Judy Adler Sheer was born in Bamberg, Germany, in a Displaced Persons (DP) Camp to Hungarian survivors of the Holocaust. After some time in Amsterdam, Judy and her family moved to the United States in...
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A Grandfather’s JDC Legacy
Members of JDC’s Overseas Unit No. 1. Rabbi Kowalsky is seated in the front row, second from the right. JDC’s Director for Poland, Boris Bogen (seated, fourth from left), led the Unit. “I need not...
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The JDC Archives Names Indexing Project: A Personal Retrospective
Archives volunteer Claus Hirsch shares personal and professional insights. Claus Hirsch at the JDC Archives. Type in the name and your family history unfolds. A genealogist’s dream. The JDC Archives...
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Cultivating Artists on Cyprus: The Rutenberg Seminar
Student of the Rutenberg Seminar, album (Cyprus, c. 1948). “Cyprus is one stop on the road of suffering on the way to the land of Israel. It means thorny barbed wire fences, forced idleness, and...
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JDC Archives Website as a Scholarly Resource in the Digital Age
Rachel Deblinger, digital humanist, discusses connection between JDC Archives, technology, and history. Rachel Deblinger As Director of the Digital Scholarship Commons at the Library of the University...
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The SS Serpa Pinto Lists: A Resource for Genealogy Research
A page from an SS Serpa Pinto passenger list of March 1944. The SS Serpa Pinto, a ship named after a Portuguese explorer and sailing under the Portuguese flag, became the leading bearer of refugees...
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Lighting the Way
Cigarette lighter, Germany, c. 1946. Silver. .5″ x 1.5″ x 2″. “While it was difficult to part with an item I so treasure, gifting it to the JDC Archives ensures it a rightful place in the story of our...
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