Sunday, July 12, 1pm Pacific
Speaker: Garri Regev
Dive into Israeli Genealogy
Description: Get your Israeli genealogy questions ready as we dive into Israeli genealogy. This lecture focuses on navigating Ottoman-era (pre-1917), British Mandate (1922-1948), and modern state records, with the Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA) being a primary resource. Key topics include using databases like IGRA, Israel State Archives, Central Zionist Archives and Anu – The Museum of the Jewish People.
Garri Regev will explore Montefiore census, voter lists, marriage certificates, naturalization records, old newspapers, cemeteries and name changes, especially from the Mandate Period. After an overview of Israeli genealogy resources, Garri will give us live examples.
About Garri Regev
Garri Regev has lived in Israel since 1978 and has been doing genealogical research for over 25 years. She has taught seminars, webinars and courses in Genealogy to a variety of adult and teen groups. In addition, she has spoken at eleven IAJGS Conferences and was involved in programming and running the 2015 IAJGS Conference in Jerusalem. Garri is a founding member and immediate past-president of IGRA (Israel Genealogy Research Association). She was a Director and Vice-President on the Board of LitvakSIG. Garri volunteers at the Genealogy Center at the National
Library of Israel and the Central Zionist Archives.
Non-members pay $5.00 Zoom link will be sent the week of the event. Members automatically receive a Zoom link.
Sunday, August 2, 11am Pacific
Speaker: Speaker: Serafima Velkovich, PhD
The Baby Boom in Displaced Persons Camps After the Holocaust
Description: After World War II, the Allies established Displaced Persons (DP camps in the Allied-occupied zones of Germany, Austria, and Italy to temporarily house the millions of Europeans who were displaced by the war. As more than 700,000 Jews, including many concentration camp survivors, flooded into these camps, they were quick to get married and, within less than a year, the birth rate of the Jewish population in Europe’s DP camps was the highest of any group in the world at the time. In this lecture Dr. Serafima Velkovich will discuss the history of this unique phenomenon and explain how you can search for information on the former DP babies in your family.
About Serafima VelkovichSerafima Velkovich holds a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2024. Her research focuses on the microhistory of Holocaust survivors’ families in Displaced Persons camps, the DP baby boom, Holocaust memory, and the formation of personal and collective identities among those born in DP camps. Her current project at New York University’s Center for the Study of Antisemitism, where she is a Visiting Scholar, extends her research on DP baby boomers, with a particular emphasis on the United States context, Jewish identity formation, and encounters with antisemitism.
Dr. Velkovich is Head of the Family Roots Research Section in Yad Vashem Archives, where she has been working for more than 20 years. She is on the board of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies. She has presented at several IAJGS conferences as well as those at Yad Vashem and Bad Arolsen. She has held fellowships from Yad Vashem, the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, and European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw.
Non-members pay $5.00 Zoom link will be sent the week of the event. Members automatically receive a Zoom link.