• Added "THE SKALA JEWISH CEMETERY WALL IS IN A STATE OF GROSS DISREPAIR.
  Click here to read the full details on what is being done to restore it and how you can help: https://tinyurl.com/Skalacemeteryfundth"
  to the PEOPLE AND PLACES OF SKALA Around the Town of Skala section of the home page

• Added "About my family in Skala on the Zbrutz river in Galicia" by Yaffa Edelman Fingerman to the Life in Skala section of the home page

• Added Samuel Harris (Hersher?) of Skala

• Added History of the Jews of Ukraine by Yaakov Yitzchak Jay-Jay Martin to the HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF SKALA section of the home page

• Added Portion of Jacob S. Mehlman naturalization documents with description of heartbreaking events in Skala in 1920 to the Life in Skala section of the home page

• Added Skala Podol'ska Research Group on Facebook to the Research Resources section of the home page

• Added Sefer Skala, the Skala Yizkor Book at the JewishGen Yizkor Book Project to the Skala in the Holocaust section of the home page

• List of Righteous Gentiles from "Light in the Darkness: Righteous Gentiles Who Saved Skala Jews" from the Skala Yizkor Book to the Righteous Among the Nations page

• Added First 101 pages of Skala Benevolent Society recently donated documents and photographs to the The page

• Added Skala Luncheon in Manhattan, November 10, 2019 to the Skala Connections section of the home page

• Added "Nothing's Changed" Video - Michael Edelstein and His Family's 1999 Return to Skala to the Skala Connections section of the home page

• A comprehensive report by Dana Erwin on the the 3 New York area Skala Benevolent Society cemeteries and the cemetery in Skala Podolskaya with photos, names, etc. to the Skala Connections section of the home page

• Added The As Yet Unrevealed Secrets of the Skala House Number Project, Racheli Kreisberg to the Skala Connections section of the home page

  This article has been posted with the permission of the author and the journal. It originally appeared in the November 2010 issue of the Galitzianer, the quarterly research journal of Gesher Galicia. For more information on the Galitzianer, visit https://www.geshergalicia.org/the-galitzianer/.

• Added Video Testimonies of Skala-connected People and related Documents to the Research Resources section of the home page

• Added Skala Luncheon: Manhattan, NY, November 11, 2018 page

• Added Joseph and Rena Gottesfeld Schenley's Testimony in the Fortunoff Video Archive at Yale page to the Holocaust section of the home page.

• Added In Memory of Fanya Gottesfeld Heller page to the Skala Luminaries section of the home page.
• Added YIVO Inventory to The Skala Benevolent Society Collection page.

• Added Jewish Families from Skala Podolskaya at Geni.com to the Research Resources section of the home page.

• Added Surviving in the Forest and Max Mermelstein's Testimony in the Fortunoff Video Archive at Yale pages to the Holocaust section of the home page.
• Added In Memory of Max Mermelstein page to the Skala Luminaries section of the home page.

• Added the following links to The Skala Connection section of the home page:
  1. Photos of Tony Hausner's trip to Skala in 2010
  2. Gabriel Braunstein's photos from his trip in 2010
  3. 2010 luncheon to celebrate the unveiling of the new translated Skala Yizkor book

• Added GenealogyIndexer.org search box to main page.

• Corrected text and photo captions on Skala in 1920 - Under the Bolsheviks and Petlura's Troops page.

• Added 10a/Sidney Edelstein to the guests identified at the New Years Eve Party of the Skala Benevolent Association, December 31, 1941 page.

• Repaired Conversation with a Ukrainian Babushka page video
• Added Skala: April 2016 page to the Skala Today section including the "Converation in Skala" video Rachel Brill took during her April 2016 trip to Skala, of an elderly resident of the town talking to Dana Erwin about her recollections of his family.

• Changed Feige Rosenzweig to Feige Rosenwald on Jewish Jewish Cemetery page

• Added "Going Back (in time) to Skala", Ann (Melzer) Bergart 's story that accompanies the October 2015 photos added February 6, 2016

• Added Dana Erwin's link to the Skala section of the Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn. (Click on a picture and expand it, click on the (i) in the uppper right corner to see the name of the interred).
• Added Racheli Kreisberg's lecture at the Jewish Museum in Jewish Museum Vienna on the occasion of Simon Wiesenthal's 10th year of passing: R. Kreisberg: My Grandfather Simon Wiesenthal: A Family Story to be Told

• Added photo inventory for Dana Erwin's new (2016) and old (Dec 12, 2005-May 19, 2013) photos of the Skala section of the Mt. Hebron cemetery in New York area

• Added links to Dana Erwin's new (2016) and old (Dec 12, 2005-May 19, 2013) photos of the Skala section of the Mt. Hebron cemetery in New York area

• Added link to Skala: October 2015

• Repaired broken links on
  • Bibliography for Skala Researchers page
  • Cadastral Maps of Skala page
  • The Skala Yizkor Book page
  • Fradel Shtok - Author and Poet page
  pages and this page

• Revised and merged final two paragraphs on the HirshPinyas page

• Added A Tribute to Maurice Belgray

• Added "A Mother's Diary - Surviving The Holocaust In Ukraine 1941-1944" page

• Added new information to The Relles Family page

• Added Shoshana Eden's Artwork to main page under Folk Art

• Corrected incorrect references to Skałat on Cadastral Maps of Skala page

• Added Skala 1812 Jewish Innkeepers/Barkeepers Names

• Added "Holocaust Survival Experience of Helen (Chaya) Dub nee Grossman" by Stanley M. Dub

• Added The Relles Family

• Added 1975 Military Parade photo to Skala Today page

• Added link to October 29, 1979 New York magazine article Hizzoner's Root by Arthur Kurzweil to the HirshPinyas page

• Added link to Secrets in the Suitcase: Stories My Mother Never Told Me to the Bibliography page

• Added link to English translation of The Skala Yizkor Book to the Skala Yizkor Book page
• Moved link to Youtube video: The Secrets in the Suitcase: Stories My Mother Never Told Me to a new "The Secrets in the Suitcase: Stories My Mother Never Told Me" page now including the book cover.
• Created Cadastral Maps of Skala page

• Added link to Youtube video: The Secrets in the Suitcase: Stories My Mother Never Told Me

• Added photo of Tony Hausner presenting a copy of the Skala Yizkor Book to the Library of Congress, 2011 to the Skala Yizkor Book page

• Added surnames being researched to Skala Dinner: Washington, D.C., August 16, 2011 page and photo subpages

• Added Skala Dinner: Washington, D.C., August 16, 2011 page

• Added photo to Memorials to the Martyrs of Skala Who Perished in the Holocaust page

• Added Indentifying Skala Landsleit page

• Added link to "The most complete listing of places the book can be found in libraries" to the Skala Yizkor Book page

• Added link to "Learn about the movie: Teenage Witness: The Fanya Gottesfeld Heller Story" to the Bibliography page

• Revised Skala Yizkor Book page

• Added The Feuersteins: A Chanukah Miracle page

• Added Journal from 1946 Dinner pages

• Added Skala: March 2008 page

• Added December 1941 Party Photo page

• Added Hymie Wiesenthal to Faces of Skala Emigrés in America: 1890-1930 page

• Added To Speak for the Silenced book to Bibliography for Skala Researchers page

• Revised Fradel Shtok - Author and Poet page

• Added Skala: Summer 2007 pages

• Added Skala Schoolchildren in 1926 page

• Added A Lithograph of 19^th Century Skala page

• Added Skala's main street (1930) postcard to Skala Yesterday page

• Added Conversation with a Ukrainian Babushka page
• Added The Goluchowskis of Skala page

• Added An English Visitor to Skala in 1585 page

• Added Weidberg Relatives from Skala and the Holocaust page

• Added Skala in 1920 page

• Added The Famiy of Zalman Hausner page

• Revised Righteous Among Nations page

• Added map and photo to Skala Yesterday page

• Added The Weidberg Family page to Skala Families section
• Added The Weidberg Family During the War page to Skala in the Holocaust section

• Added and updated photos on The Testimony of Menachem Bartel page

• Added photos to Faces of Skala Emigrés in America: 1890-1920 page
• Added A Skala Native Emigrates to Great Britain: Mendel (Max) Goldschein page

• Added Maps of Skala and Surrounding Areas page

• Added Map of Skala page

• Added A Selection of Gravestones from Skala's Jewish Cemetery pages

• Added Skala: September 2006 pages

• Added Photos of Berezhanka page

• Added Righteous Among the Nations

• Added The Testimony of Menachem Bartel

• Added photo to Faces of Skala Emigrés in America: 1890-1920

• Added photo to and redesigned Faces of Skala Emigrés in America: 1890-1920

• Added Love, Skala Style page to People and Places of Skala section

• Added Skala and the Shoah Foundation and A Family Survives pages to Skala in the Holocaust section, photos to Faces of Skala Emigrés in America: 1890-1920 and Faces In Skala

• Added Skala and the International Zionist Movement page to Skala Zionists and Aliyah section and Wartime Relief for Skala Residents to Skala in the Holocaust section

• Added The Family of Shimon Wiesenthal and Chanzie Silberroth page to Skala Families section

• Updated The Rosenblum Family page and moved to Skala Families section

• Added grave collage photo to Skala Cemetery Today page

• Added The Herschers of Berezhanka page

• Added photo to Skala Today page

• Added Skala Luncheon: New York, August 16, 2006 page

• Added photos to Skala Today (Faces in Skala after World War II) page and added another page to Skala Today

• Added photo to Skala Jewish Cemetery Photos and Skala Today (Faces in Skala after World War II) pages

• Added second page to Skala Yesterday page

• Added Skala and JRI-Poland page and Skala Entries in Poland and Danzig Business Directories page

• Added photos to Skala Cemetery Today page and split into two pages

• Added photo to Skala Yesterday page

• Added photo to Memorials to the Martyrs of Skala Who Perished in the Holocaust page

• Added photos to Skala Today page and split into three pages

• Added photo to Skala Yesterday page

• Added The "Shkola" and Father's Shtreiml page

• Added Hirsh Pinyas: A Skala Gangster page
• Added The Drimmers: Skala's Rabbinic Dynasty page

• Made several corrections to 1929 Taxpayer Lists

• Added death date to Zvi Zimmerman page

• Added Vignettes of Religious Life in Skala page

• Added endnotes to 1929 Taxpayer Lists

• Added Skala Yesterday page

• Reorganized Opening page

• Added The Early History of the Skala Benevolent Society page
• Added Photo Page: The Skala Benevolent Society page
• Added Our Ancestors were Relatives and Friends page

• Added Memorials to the Martyrs of Skala Who Perished in the Holocaust page

• Added A Plea to Help Relatives Make Aliyah from Skala to Palestine (1938) page

• Added Zvi Zimmerman - Anti-Nazi Partisan, Deputy Speaker of the Knesset and Philipp Menczel - Journalist and Zionist pages

• Reorganized Opening page
• Added Chone Gottesfeld - Author and Humorist and Fradel Shtok - Author and Poet pages

• Added photos to Skala Pioneers and Emigrés in Palestine and Faces of Skala Emigrés in America:1890-1920 pages

• Added A Needlework Tapestry by Chana Wiesenthal Herzog page

• Added Faces of Skala Emigrés in America:1890-1920 page

• Added Biblography for Skala Researchers page
• Added Skala Zionists and Aliyah page
• Added Skala Pioneers and Emigrés in Palestine page
• Added A Skala Native Emigrates to New York page
• Added new photographs to the Skala Today page

• Added Skala and Its Changing Name through the Ages page

• Added Other Relevant Internet Sites page
• Added photos to Faces in Skala page and separated on numerous pages

• Added Moishe Froyim Wiesenthal and the Orphan Boys of Skala pages

• Added Skala Researchers page

• Added photos to The Rosenblum Family of Skala page
• Reoganized Journey to America page
• Replaced photo caption on Relatives from Skala who Perished in the Holocaust page
• Added photos to Faces in Skala page

• Added Relatives from Skala who Perished in the Holocaust page

• Added caption and name to Faces in Skala and Frieda Zwirnbaum Weidenfeld pages

• Added The Rosenblum Family of Skala

• Added links and web pages for:
• What's New
• Faces in Skala
• Journey to America
• Reorganized:
• Main Skala page
• 1929 Taxpayer Lists

27 Dec 2005

• Added photos from the Skala Cemetery
• Added Skala Today page from photos from Lancy Spalter's 2002 trip
• Created link back from Landsmanshaftn page back to Skala Kehilalinks page