Dan's 2018 research trip to Berlin and Gdansk

Discovery Notebook
Video: Scant remains - my bittersweet visit to Starogard Gdanski
  • Sep 07, 2018

Enjoy this video of my findings and thoughts after visiting the old Jewish cemetery in the…

Video: At Weissensee, graves in the overgrowth
  • Aug 31, 2018

Enjoy this video blog of my visit to Weißensee Cemetery in Berlin. 
Video: A surprise on the Woelckpromenade
  • Aug 30, 2018

See what I discovered when I visited my grandparents' first apartment together.
Urban archaeology in Gdansk
  • Aug 23, 2018

If you like maps, fire up your favorite geolocation tool and follow along as Isaak…

Post-travels blog reboot
  • Aug 23, 2018

Despite my best efforts, I was unable to resume daily posts during the three days remaining in…

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Traces of memory exhibit at Galicia Jewish Museum
IAJGS: Scars on the landscape—what is to be done?
  • Aug 12, 2018

A couple of days ago I wrote that echoes of the Holocaust pervade the present, and then I…

IAJGS: Borders and culture in Jewish genealogy
  • Aug 09, 2018

One of the challenges in researching family history in Poland and Eastern Europe is…

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Antony Polonsky
IAJGS: Echoes of the Holocaust
  • Aug 09, 2018

We’re going to have to talk about it. The Holocaust. It happened here 75 years ago and it still…

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Logan Kleinwaks
IAJGS: My take on three SIG meetings
  • Aug 09, 2018

One of the best things about these Jewish genealogy conferences are the special interest group (…

IAJGS: We are all from Chelm
  • Aug 09, 2018

The 38th annual meeting of the International Society of Jewish Genealogy Societies kicked off…

Shifting gears
  • Aug 05, 2018

Now that I am in Warsaw and the conference has opened, I will not be posting long daily posts. I…

Day 9: Last day in Berlin
  • Aug 05, 2018

I got an early start on Friday so I could write up and post my Thursday report and still make an…

Translation of Hilda’s restitution affidavit
  • Aug 03, 2018

The full English translation of an affidavit by Hilda Wohlgemuth Leibman in her 1958 restitution…

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Page 2 of Hilda's restitution affadavit
Day 8: Jackpot!
  • Aug 03, 2018

The Landesarchiv had two precious tranches of family history--files about our relatives'…
Day 7: Landesarchiv-Berlin
  • Aug 02, 2018

I arrived about noon at the Landesarchiv-Berlin in the north of the city, which I thought would…

Day 6: Berlin topograpies
  • Aug 01, 2018

One of the books I read before leaving on this trip was a slim but satisfying, recently…

Day 5: The cemetery records
  • Jul 31, 2018

I  had kind of a down day on Monday. The heat was back and I was feeling pretty wiped out from…

Day 4: Biking in Berlin
  • Jul 30, 2018

After last night’s rain, Sunday offered more pleasant conditions for touring some of the city on…

Day 3: Judische Museum
  • Jul 29, 2018

Judging from several private responses to my last post, it seems that the prospect or reality of…

Day 2: Soundless in Weißensee
  • Jul 28, 2018

I went for most of the day to Wießensee, the suburban district in Pankow, a northern section of…

Day 1: Getting oriented
  • Jul 27, 2018

There s a heat wave in Europe, and man was it brutal in Berlin on the first day of my trip. I…

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Ringel citizenship chapter
Setting the scene: Everything we know so far
  • Jul 23, 2018

To set the scene for the blog items that will follow for the next three weeks, I present here an…

Upcoming trip to Berlin, Warsaw and Gdansk
  • Jul 10, 2018

I’m getting ready for a journey of discovery to Germany and Poland coming up in a few weeks.…

Citations

Authors
Stanley L. Ruby(21) Chien-Shiung Wu(18) Emil Jan Konopinski(9) Brice M. Rustad(8) Allan Franklin(7) James S. Allen(7) Harry J. Lipkin(4) E. Ambler(4) R. P. Hudson(4) R. E. Marshak(4)
Subjects
beta decay theory(21) angular correlation(21) Rustad-Ruby experiment(17) mössbauer effect(17) beta spectrum experiment(14) Mössbauer spectroscopy(12) parity nonconservation(12) synchrotron radiation(8) V–A theory(8) weak-force unification(7)
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