34th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy Salt Lake City July 27 - Aug 1

@ Giorgio Villoresi
I would like very much to attend the Conf. but I cannot.
I have a question: I am planning to visit Lundenburg next spring. The purpose of my travel is to find documentation on Ditz and Schwoner families.
I found out recently that the Lundenburg synagogue became a City Museum.
Do you think I could find some documentation there? Is there any other place where it is possible to consult Lundenburg documentation out of Lundenburg?
Thank you very much and best regards

Giorgio Villoresi

Like many from Europe, I am sadly unable to attend. I have a small item of information about refugees from Galicia that were housed in a factory in Kolovec, Bohemia, in 1915 including reference to one child who died and was buried locally. I guess Dr Chvatal has this info but, if not, I would want to forward it to him (and also find out if he has more about that incident). Is it possible to reach him by email?
Thanks
Rob Pearman (UK)

His address is PhDr. Ing. Václav Fred Chvátal f7fred@gmail.com

Giorgio Villoresi, I do not know of any other information, but I suggest you ask Julius Müller to help you. Perhaps there is a local archive he can help find.His address is jmuller@toledot.org

Hi Giorgio,
I have just looked at the web pages of Lundenburg - Breclav. In the synagogue there is a permanent exhibition Jewish Lundenburg and also another short time exhibition (now some local modern art). The archives of the district Lundenburg are in Mikulov.
Vilem Reinohl

@ Giorgio Villoresi
Hi Vilem.
Thank you very much for the information.
I will try to find the archive in Mikulov.
Giorgio Villoresi

Hi Giorgio,
it is not so easy. They have open for public only
Mondays: 8:00 - 11:30 a 12:30 - 16:30
Wednesdays: 8:00 - 11:30 a 12:30 - 16:30.
Also it is recommended to send them what you want to study by mail, and you can have it prepared and don't wait.

It looks like Wednesday, July 30 will be the Austria-Czech SIG day at
the 34th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy in Salt Lake
City. To sign up for the conference, go to
http://conference.iajgs.org/2014/

The Austria-Czech SIG luncheon is on Wednesday July 30 at 12pm.

Vaclav Chvatal will be our guest speaker from the Czech Republic and will give two lectures at the conference
Galician Jewish Refugees 1915-1919 and Their Gravestones in Western Bohemia (Tuesday 1:45pm) http://tinyurl.com/kw97fa5
Jewish Cemetery Restoration and Documentation Work in Czech Republic (Central Europe) (Wednesday 9:00am) http://tinyurl.com/mdgr9gr

I am giving a talk on Wednesday at 3:15 on Collaborative Town Projects
on Geni, using the work that many of us are doing.
http://tinyurl.com/mk4qemm If you have not looked at the Geni town
projects for Bohemia and Moravia in a while, some of them are really
taking off, with a number of collaborators and numerous family tree
profiles attached. These projects are really the best way to connect up
our families with other families from the same town. See
http://www.geni.com/projects/Jewish-Communities-in-Bohemia-and-Mora...
for a directory. If you need help setting up a town project on Geni, just let me know.

Thanks again to Vera Finberg for once again coordinating our SIG
participation in the conference.