Sources used in selecting profiles for the Rhodes project

Some researchers have inquired as to the manner and custom of listing and choosing and adding profiles to this Rhodes project.

Main primary attribute for listing is a documented connection to the Island of Rhodes and be identified as Jewish. Birth or Death on Rhodes is not required. Holocaust death is not required.

Sources include: Yad Vashem Pages of Testimony. The 1939 Italian Census of the Jews of Rhodes. The Rhodes Jewish Museum History of the Holocaust list of Victims. Geni Profiles with indications of connection to Rhodes, i.e. born, died, child of resident, parent of resident, Find a Grave or Billion Graves listings, earlier records of the residents of Rhodes included on various Jewish sites, lists of Rabbi.

People that will possibly be missed include children born after the 1939 Census and who were killed in the Holocaust and have no family to make a statement or produce a Page of Testimony.

One of the 1400 Pages of Testimony on yad vashem by Moshe Vital may be used but his records are evidently largely based on memory and are not able to be researched to be verified or correctly read in English.

The description of the Rhodes Project here on Geni offers a large number of books, excerpts from books, videos, lists of people or Rabbis. For the most part these have rarely been used due to lack of genealogical significance or genealogical data. This is not a history project, it's a genealogy project.

Questions, please send me a message from the Jews of Rhodes Project or on my Profile on Geni. Anyone is welcome to help, make corrections, additions, etc. The current content of this project is 2620 Profiles.