Paula’s Footsteps

Professional Genealogist - Graduated from the National Institute of Genealogical Studies. Previous account PaulasFootsteps #Genealogy #JewishGenealogy

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My previous account mistakenly got suspended. So I am starting my new account to continue my focus on #Genealogy

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On this day in 1939, my grandfather with one of his sisters said good bye to their mom, along with other family members as they left Vienna on the #kindertransport and headed to the UK. The journey would take six days before arriving in Harwich UK
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An eleven-year-old Jewish girl lies in bed after her liberation in Bergen-Belsen.
Pictured is Helena Rabbie. She was born in Amsterdam on September 8, 1933, and died in Bergen-Belsen on April 24, 1945, eleven days after the liberation.

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Looking for some help 🙏. I recently found what I believe to be my 2x great grandfathers social insurance number. He lived in the USA and I am unable to find out when he passed away. If I reach out to the right department is that information I might be able to get?

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On this day in 1942, my family arrived at Auschwitz from Vienna. I can’t even imagine the horror that they experienced when they arrived. Or even the chaos and fear with everyone around them. Sadly their lives were cut short and perished on this day
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Perish shortly after their arrival. Now also learning that was one of the two days that Heinrich Himmler was visiting the camp.
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I love making new discoveries in my research. Today I made one. I always assumed my great-aunt, great grandmother and 2nd great grandmother perished in Auschwitz on July 17, 1942. Today I realized that was the day they were deported from Vienna. They would arrive on July 18 and

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@findmypast 1900, 1899, 1890s

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be multiple times. Although he would get released and return home he would still be transported to multiple concentration camps in Germany.
Wishing my great grandfather Moses a happy heavenly birthday
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Today would be my great grandfathers birthday. He was born on July 2, 1900. By age 19 he was married with his first daughter. When he was 35, he had six children not knowing the horrors he would face. My great grandfather was first arrested in 1938 by the gestapo, which he would

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Yesterday (June 16) would have been my 2x aunts birthday. Fanny (Feige Taube) was born June 16, 1908 to Paje and Hersch. Fanny would live in Vienna with her husband David and their three children Mary, Silvia and Judis before being deported to Maly Trostinec on Sept 14, 1942

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Included. Letters from the family and photos that without this discovery I never would have seen which included a picture of my great-uncle and I didn’t know what he looked like! That’s what I call striking gold
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I was always under the impression that my great-uncle perished in 1939 when deported to Nisko from Vienna. After 20yrs of research I discovered it was in 1943 he perished and escaped by crossing the border. With this new finding documents that were in his possession were also

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he was arrested and deported to Nisko.
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My great-grandmother was born on this day in 1899 in Zloczow Poland. Still unclear when she would arrive in Vienna Austria. She was married to Moses and together would have six children. This photo was recently discovered in my research. It was in my great-uncles possession when

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July 15, 2023 marked the 100th anniversary of my great grandparents religious wedding ceremony in Vienna. Back in April, I had the opportunity to visit the Synagogue. Unfortunately not able to do the tour, but still walked the streets they did.

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@SlavicGen @danielmloftus My apologies for not including that. From my understanding it was the early 1930s

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Does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to try and obtain Polish Military records?

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deported from, and then walked her footsteps while in Poland visiting Auschwitz. I got to walk the streets where she played and spent time with the family, to her final footsteps as I walked through the gas chamber and crematorium. What an honour that was

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It's amazing how when I am working on #Genealogy I am in my happy place. Just completely zone out and focus on discovering more about my family.

It took ten years but I walked in the footsteps of my great aunt Paula. I went to where the family lived in vienna, where she was

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While visiting Kielce, Poland to see where my grandfather, and other family members lived. I went to 7 Planty Street to visit the location of the Kielce Pogrom