Learn how genealogical researchers can retrieve details about what happened to relatives or communities lost in the period of state sponsored executions known as the Holocaust by Bullets.
The Holocaust by Bullets is both the name of a book authored by the French Catholic priest, Fr. Patrick Desbois, and the terminology that has come to describe executions in the former Soviet territories and parts of eastern Europe that left millions of civilians, mostly Jewish, murdered and buried in unmarked graves.
Ellen Kowitt will share her family story during this pivotal time of rising antisemitism and continued genocide, as a generation of survivors and eyewitnesses is passing away. She will review documentation from many sources, including “Yahad-In Unum” eyewitness videos, the USC Shoah Foundation and other recorded survivor testimonies, Yizkor books, Yad Vashem, USHMM, local community resources, and Russian Extraordinary Commission files.
Ellen Shindelman Kowitt is the founder of Sole Searching Genealogy & Historical Research and member of the Association of Professional Genealogists, and lectures at local and national conferences. Her articles appear in Family Tree Magazine. She currently serves as Director of JewishGen’s USA Research Division.
This program will be recorded. A link to the recording will be shared with those who register.
This program is sponsored by the Friends of Memorial Hall Library.