Join Crista Cowan as she highlights two of the latest Holocaust record collections documenting the post-war registrations of Holocaust survivors and displaced persons from various camps in Germany and Europe. From lists created by Jewish aid organizations like the World Jewish Congress to government consulate records worldwide, these documents trace individuals’ journeys after liberation—revealing patterns of migration, community rebuilding, and the vital role of registration in reconnecting lives torn apart by war.

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This new presentation in the “Clued-In” series will set the record straight on the many myths about Jewish family photographs that, despite many years of presenting facts, still flourish on social media and in general genealogy groups. Participants will learn the real reason why our relatives did not smile in their photographs, why first impressions can be misleading, why guessing is not always the best way to answer a Facebook inquiry, why Jewish photographers did not take post mortem photographs, what did photographs really cost and why they were not just for the wealthy, did our ancestors borrow the clothes in their photographs and much more. This presentation aims, in a light-hearted way, to dispel the myths and the bubbe meises so that we can truly see and understand our photographs correctly as our relatives meant for us to do. **THIS PRESENTATION WILL NOT BE RECORDED **

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