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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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