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other, but came with essential
information I would have never
found elsewhere. This included
family history, addresses in
Vienna and Rome neighbor-
hoods where my family stayed
while awaiting permission to
immigrate to the U.S. and, to
my surprise, even extensive
medical information.
The Vienna and Rome
addresses, in particular, were
a joy for me, as I was able to
look them up on Google Maps
and place a visual alongside the
many stories my parents told
me about their time in these
two cities as teenagers, hopeful
for a better future.
With my mother’s address
in Ladispoli, a neighborhood
outside of Rome where she
lived in 1981 for six months
while in transit, I managed to
track down a beloved candy
store that she visited every day,
where a kind owner always
gave sweets to young Soviet
Jews. To my surprise, it’s still
in existence more than four
decades later.
I was also able to learn that
my grandfather managed a
circus at one point, which
explained the numerous circus
photos I had found earlier in
our old photo albums.
MILES’ WORTH OF
DOCUMENTS
“While the forms vary, one
important feature is found in
each file: the registration ques-
tionnaire,
” Mitsel says. “
A fam-
ily researcher can draw various
information from this material.
”
This includes education,
occupation, when and where
people were born, if they were
Holocaust survivors, if they had
relatives in the U.S. and if they
still had family members who
remained in the USSR.
Luckily, it’s been more than
35 years since my family immi-
grated to the U.S., so I was able
to access these files, but Lester
explains that there is otherwise
a 35-year waiting period before
case files can be accessed.
So, for example, if your fam-
ily immigrated in 1991, you’ll
need to wait until 2026.
Overall, the JDC archives
have 3-to-4 miles’ worth
of documents, Lester says,
with more than 150,000
photographs from the organi-
zation’s founding date in 1914
to the present. In addition, the
archives hold more than 1,000
videos and 1,000 artifacts.
Whether you’re an avid
family researcher like me or
you’re simply interested in
learning more about your
family’s story, I highly encour-
age all Soviet Jewish immi-
grants and their children or
grandchildren to check the
public JDC archives database
for photos. And, if you’re truly
looking for a treasure trove of
information, to request the case
files as well.
A page from the
Zlatopolsky case file
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