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"Every house in Novozlotopol had a picture of Baron de Hirsch who supported the establishment of Jewish Colonies in the Ukraine..." -Memoirs of Bill Comisarow"

Hirsch, Maurice, baron de

"(mrs´ bärôN´ d hrsh) (KEY) , 1831–96, German Jewish financier and philanthropist. The benefactor of numerous organizations and causes, his most ambitious project was the Jewish Colonization Association (1891), an organization designed to facilitate the emigration of Jews from Russia to colonies in North and South America. He formulated this colonization plan after the Russian government had refused his offer of $10 million for the establishment of proper educational conditions for Jews in that country. "

Geographical Links

	United States Memorial Holocaust Museum
	Library and Archives Catalog Search
	Library catalog of Yiskor Books
	Ukraine Maps and place names
	Towns in Moldova
	Encyclopedia Judaica on-line
	Pale of Settlement
	Ukraine with distances marked
	Ukrainian Road Map-clickable
	Ukraine and Bessarabia
	Rom-Sig Searchable Database: Towns in Moldova, Ukraine and Romania
	Ukraine Oblasts
	Basavilbaso - Lucienville, Argentina

Historical Links

	The Levanda Index: A Legal Resource on Jewish Life in the Pale
	History of Jews in Russia (Touring Exhibit)
	The Agricultural Colonies and History of the Makhnovist Movement
	Birobidzhan Stalin's forgotten Zion
	Pogroms in Russia May 6, 1881; From the Jewish Chronicle-Elizabetgrad, Kherson Province
	AJHS Baron de Hirsch Fund
	Sketches of Jewish Life in Russia
	The Jewish Farmers in Belarus During the 1920s
	Stalin's Forgotten Zion

Links to Archives

	Fond 252: Odessa Office for Foreign Settlers in Southern Russia (1806, 1807, 1814-1834, 1843, 1850)
	Joint Distribution Committee Archives - An index to the holdings of the American Joint Distribution Committee archives is now online at . An exciting aspect is that it often includes the source document. The "Joint" is an international relief and rescue organization established in 1914 that focuses on Jews who are in trouble. Its archives contain more than 500,000 names and 100,000 photographs.
	The German-Russian Colonies

The Remmick-Hubert Home site

Searchable Databases

Lists of Latvia residents who settled in the Colonies

FAST Genealogy Service

Russian-Japanese War of 1904-1905

Database of Russian Army Jewish soldiers injured, killed or missing in action

Records Sorted by Province(Guberniya)-Town/Surna

The Levanda Index: A Legal Resource on Jewish Life in the Pale

Russian-Japanese War of 1904-1905

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