Category: Eastern Europe
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We recently toured the “Anne Frank House” exhibit visiting the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. It was an amazing exhibit, very well curated, showing the history of the family of Otto and Edith Frank before the war. Otto was the only member of the 8 who hid in the Annex who survives…
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The first thing to know when searching for ancestors in Germany is the religious identity. Of course, when working with immigrant ancestors whose decendants live in the United States, the first step is finding the name of the hometown. That’s a different post. But for anyone who has narrowed down a German ancestor to a…