Thousands of Lost Jewish Records are Discovered in a Basement

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Family History Daily recently posted this interesting story: https://familyhistorydaily.com/family-history-research-stories/jewish-documents-vilna-discovery/.

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That's super news Amy!  

Documents go missing for all sorts of reasons, and we all find it frustrating to hit a brick wall, but to me, this is entirely different. When missing documents are a legacy of discrimination it seems to me that every drop in the bucket is important.

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That's excellent! And I also just heard that the British Library is making available numerous Jewish documents that have been digitized and are now viewable and searchable online in Hebrew and English (bilingual). 

“We presently have 17 articles and 39 collection items on the English platform and 11 articles and 30 collection items on the Hebrew platform. We are in the process of translating into Hebrew the outstanding articles and collection items,

Here's the link to read more about this wonderful new research resource, and how to access it online:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/british-library-publishes-treasure-trove-of-hebrew-manuscripts/