event calendar
Mishpachah Festival – A Celebration of Genealogy, Heritage and Immigration
Museum of Jewish Heritage 36 Battery Place, New York, NY, United StatesWe are pleased to announce that JRI-Poland is a Partner in the Mishpachah Festival being held on May 21, 2023 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York in cooperation […]
Using Cemetery and Burial Records in the JRI-Poland Database
Cemeteries form an important link to our Jewish ancestors. Whether or not the tombstones (matzevot) still exist undisturbed, Burial Records and Cemetery Lists can be helpful in preparing for a […]
Stanley Diamond’s 90th Birthday Toast
It's hard to believe, but our beloved Stanley Diamond is turning 90 this month. Seems like the right moment to get our smiling faces online and show Stanley what he […]
Galician Vital Registers: Finding & Understanding Your Family’s Records
Join us for a 90-minute presentation led by Mark Halpern, our JRI-Poland Galicia Research Area Coordinator and long-time executive committee member. Mark is certainly an expert on how to successfully […]
Researching the Jews of Prussian Poland
Join us Sunday, November 19, 2023 for a 90 minute session about Prussian Poland. Much of today’s Poland belonged to Prussia (later the German Empire) before the two world wars. […]
Researching the Jews of Breslau (Wrocław) with JRI-Poland.org
Join us for a Members Only event presented by Stephen Falk, JRI-Poland’s Wrocław (Breslau) Area Coordinator and “town leader”, about the surviving documentation for the Jews of this important metropolis […]
Braided Challah on the Shelves: Finding Remnants of our Families Lives in Poland
In 2008, author Barbara Krasner visited her grandparents' shtetlikh in northeastern Poland. In this talk, she shares how she found physical traces of her family in shops, cemeteries, and streets, […]
Finding the Original Source Documents – A How To Guide
Join us to learn the in's and out's of how to find your document of interest on the Internet (if it is there). JRI-Poland veteran researchers, Hadassah Lipsius and Robinn […]
Finding the Original Source Documents – A How To Guide
Join us to learn the in's and out's of how to find your document of interest on the Internet (if it is there). This will be the second of two […]
Discovering & Understanding Family Registration Cards
In 1928, each Polish town was obliged by law to register all domiciles. This was done using Family Registration Cards (FRCs). These cards were later used by the Germans and […]
JRI-Poland Book Club with Daniel Mendelsohn – Author of “The Lost: A Search for Six of the Six Million”
Join JRI-Poland's new Book Club for a discussion with the author, Daniel Mendelsohn! There's still plenty of time to read "The Lost: A Search for Six of the Six Million", […]