The Jews of Maramaros: Exploring On-line and off-line genealogical resources
Over the past 12 years I have published on the Internet dozens of name lists, as well as
other types of information, related to the history and genealogy of the Jews of
Maramaros. The workshop explores the various sources, beginning with the 19th
century's Hungarian censuses and ending with lists of Holocaust survivors from the late
20th century. The original documents from which the on-line lists were compiled will
be publicized as well as many other sources that are not available on-line such as
personal memoirs, Rabbinical genealogical charts and archival documents.
Menachem Keren-Kratz
e-mail: [email protected]
Genealogical sources
1. Early censuses
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1818, 1830/1: the Archive of the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center:
Mahler collection: Microfilm 3BI, 3BII,5BII. Look for a couple of hand-written
pages with explanation to the collection.
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1828: Martha Remer Connor, 1828 Hungarian Land Censuses: Maramaros and
Ugocsa Counties
2. Hevra Kadisha and other registries
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The Manuscript collection of the Hebrew University (Jerusalem).
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The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem).
3. Soldiers in WWI
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Hegedus Marton, Aranyalbum: A magyar hadviselt zsidoc -az. 1914-1918 as
vilaghaboru emlekere, Budapest, 1941 (Available in the libraries of Tel Aviv
and the Hebrew Universities and in The Memorial Museum Of Hungarian
Speaking Jewry in Safed).
4. Prenumeranten

Berl Cohen, Sefer Ha-Prenomeranten, New York 1975
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Shlomo Katzav, Sefer Ha-Hatumim, Vol. 1-3, Prtach Tikva, 1986-1995.
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www.hebrewbooks.org
5. Zionist activity
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Ha-Mizrahi: Bar Ilan University (Ramat Gan, (In the central library's building)
/ Institute for the Research of the Religious Zionism.
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Ha-Mizrahi: Mossad Ha-Rav Kook (Jerusalem) / The Archive of Religious
Zionism.
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Beitar: Archives of the Jabotinsky Institute In Israel (Tel Aviv). Especially for
the northern parts of Maramaros.
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Ha-Shomer Ha-Tza'ir: Archives of Yad Ya'ary (Givat Haviva)
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Ha-Noar Ha-Zioni: Massuah Archives (Tel Yitzhak)
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Zionist movements – general: The Central Zionist Archives (Jerusalem).
6. Holocaust victims and survivors

Yad Va-Shem Archives (On-Line search of Pages of testimony and search of
the ITS/Arolsen Archive)
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Pinkas Ha-Nitzolim I-II (books) and La-Karov Ve-Larahok (weekly journal
1945-1947).

Gavriel Bar-Shaked, Nevek: A munkaszazadok vesztesegei a keleti magyar
hadmuveleti teruleteken, Vol. 1-2, Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1991-2000 (names
of Jews in the Hungarian Labor Service that were killed or wounded).

Benjamin and Vladka Meed, Registry of Jewish Holocaust survivors 2000, Vol.
1-4, Washington, D.C.: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2000
(available in Yad Va-Shem)
7. Yizkor books and relevant books

The Mararamarosh Book
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Pinkas Ha-Kehilot: Romania, Vol. 2 (Yad Vashem)
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Yosef Yitzhak Cohen, Hakhmei Transylvania
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Yizkor and personal memoirs books for specific communities (see list of 75
items in: Menachem Keren-Kratz, Maramaros-Sziget: Extreme Orthodoxy and
Secular Jewish Culture at the Foothills of the Carpathian Mountains,
Jerusalem: Dov Sadan Publishing Project - the Hebrew University, pp. 202-206.
8. Pictures and movies

Yad Vashem Picture collection
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Beit Ha-Tefutsot visual archives
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The Memorial Museum Of Hungarian Speaking Jewry (Safed)
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The Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive (Hebrew University)
9. Other Historic collections in Israel
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The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee's archive (Jerusalem)
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The Memorial Museum Of Hungarian Speaking Jewry
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Kidush Ha-Shem Archives – Holocaust in the eyes of the Haredi society (Bene
Barak)
10. On-Line resources
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www.jewishgen.org/Hungary (several databases)
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www.bogardi.com/gen (general information about Hungary)
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www.sighet.org (genealogical information about Sighet)
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www.yizkor.nypl.org (on line access to Yizkor books)
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www.bh.org.il/databases/jewish-genealogy (on-line requests for genealogical
search)
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www.loc.gov/rr/genealogy/other.html (Library of Congress/ Digital collections.
For example the 1925-1926 Romania's business directory)