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Gil Carl AlRoy/Schmatnik Interview on Arab/Jew Conflict (1975)
RADIO Behind the Middle East conflict: Interview with Gil Carl Alroy; interviewed by Abraham Aig in 1975 Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Continue reading
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Bershad Ghetto Economy
Odesa Oblast Archives The State Archives of Odesa Oblast are located at Zhukovs’koho str. 18, Odessa Ukraine. In 1920, the archives were founded as the Odesa Historical Archives. The earliest documents are dated as early as 1572. A collection specifically covering… Continue reading
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Shoah and related Podcasts
YIVO Sound Archives LINK Historical interviews and lectures focused on Yiddish world. In Yiddish language. Includes episode on”Importance of the Czernowitz Conference to Jewish History” First Person (USHMM) LINK Episode 39: Erika Eckstut: A Young Girl’s Experience in the Czernowitz… Continue reading
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Samuel Schmatnik Israeli Passport
The State of Israel has begun the process of publishing its collection online. You can visit the site at http://www.archives.gov.il. This is no small task, as the archive houses more than 400 million documents, video and audio clips, many of them… Continue reading
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Chernivtsi Jewish Cemetery
The Jewish Cemetery on Gorechi Hill, Zelena Street in Chernivtsi originated in 1866 and more than sixty thousand are buried there. An old Orthodox and a Jewish cemetery were united in one historical reserve. In the book “Ghosts of Home” by… Continue reading
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Galanterie Schmatnik
In 1936, at General Zadik #4 in Cernauti stood Galanterie Schmatnik, a dry goods store and haberdashery. The proprietor in 1936 was Joel Schmatnik, my great-grandfather. Continue reading
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January 11, 1945
As I’m plowing through the list databases housed on JewishGen taking note of any mention of family names, I’ve found a number of new name spellings to search. Not only is my family’s original name Schmatnic also spelled Schmatnick and Smatnic, it’s apparently… Continue reading
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Regina Blei Honigsberg
Regina was born in 1900 or 1899 in Sadagora, and in 1921 married Filip Hoenigsberg. הויניגסברג She had three children with Filip: According to Yad Vashem, Carl was the son of Filip and Regina, born a year before they married. Regina… Continue reading
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Samuel Schmatnik to Samuel AlRoy
Early Life Samuel was born in Sadagora (then in Austria) on 30 May, 1897. His parents’ names were Joel ben Schmuel Schmatnik and Rosa (Gittel) Engler. His siblings were Rifka, Sabine, Sigmund, Jenny, Judah, and Mordechai Aron. Samuel married Etel/Esther Blei/Bley… Continue reading
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Paper: The Involvement of Peasants in Internal Wars (1976)
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/tr/ADA318697 Continue reading
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Condolence letter at Gil’s death
http://collection1.libraries.psu.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/transaction/id/146559/rec/5 Continue reading
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Books by Gil Carl AlRoy on Amazon
The Middle East Uncovered, the way it really is/ Amazon The Kissinger Experience-American Policy in the Near East/ Amazon The involvement of peasants in internal wars/ Amazon The peasantry in the Cuban revolution/ Amazon Behind the Middle East conflict: The… Continue reading
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