Susana Leistner Bloch, a Canadian, was born in Brazil and has lived in Israel, England and South Africa. She is a JewishGen VP, KehilaLinks and JewishGen International Desk Manager.
On a personal level, she coordinates two regional research groups with over 1100 members: Kolbuszowa Region Research Group and Suchostaw Region Research Group, producing two extensive websites of 280 webpages that serve as memorials to the destroyed Jewish communities and as current and future research tools.
Her published articles appear in several genealogical publications including The Galitzianer (Gesher Galicia), East European Genealogist (East European Genealogical Society), Dorot (JGSNY), Roots-Key (JGSLA) and Chronicles (JGS Greater Philadelphia)
“Virtual Yizkor / Memorials Books – Creating Webpages Dedicated To Jewish Communities (Kehilot)” (Mon-106), 3:00-4:15 P.M.
Memorializing Jewish communities and learning about residents’ lives and places where they lived is the key to understanding our past.
A webpage dedicated to a Kehila /Jewish community becomes a repository of all the information we can gather about it. It is accessible throughout the world, provides a link from the past to the future and serves as a valuable resource for a community’s descendants.
This presentation applies to any place where there was a Jewish community, including Ashkenazic and Sephardic communities in Europe, Africa, and Asia, and New Immigrant neighbourhoods, Moshavim and Kibbutzim.
Potential resources and content will be discussed, including: geography, history, family biographies, Holocaust, landsmanshaftn and outreach. Advantages for personal research are described.
The PowerPoint presentation gives detailed examples of design; lay out, suitable material, sources of information. Examples of webpages will be shown. The presentation ends with Power Point images and music designed to “inspire” attendees to create webpages.
Category: Beginning genealogists
Topics: Ashkenazic research, Jewish history and culture, Mizrachi research, Organization and preservation, Sephardic research