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) James S. Allen(7) Allan Franklin(7) Otto Kofoed-Hansen(4) P. A. Flinn(4) Leon Lidofsky(4) Richard L. Garwin(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) V–A theory(8) synchrotron radiation(8) conference/meeting(7)
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