Jean-Pierre Stroweis is a software engineer born in Paris, France. He made aliyah in 1981 and lives in Jerusalem.

A past president of the Israel Genealogical Society, he co-chaired the 2004 IAJGS conference in Jerusalem.

He is a member of the academic committee of the International Institute for Jewish Genealogy, Staszów town leader for JRI-Poland and a member of the Israel Genealogical Research Association.

He regularly gives lectures and training classes in Israel and at IAJGS conferences on a variety of genealogical topics. He wrote a few articles for Avotaynu and Sharsheret HaDorot.

“The Holocaust in France: A Resource Guide” (Thurs-134), 1:30 – 2:45 P.M.

In his Memorial de la Deportation des Juifs de France (1978), Serge Klarsfeld first published a list of some 80,000 Jews shot in or deported from France, filling a gaping void of silence that prevailed so far. Since then, many initiatives, from individuals or organizations, have traced and documented their fate.

Beyond Yad Vashem, US Holocaust Memorial Museum and the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, this presentation reviews the major French resources, including archives and web sites. Sources differ in scope, viewpoint, accuracy, availability and level of detail. Sources may focus on children, on the Resistance underground, on an internment camp, on a specific deportation transport, on a given region and even on one Paris arrondissement. Careful comparison between the sources is very instructive. Surprisingly they are not always consistent and we’ll find out why.

The presentation is illustrated with examples, some taken from the author’s family.

Category: Beginning genealogists

Topics: Ashkenazic research, Holocaust research, Repositories, Sephardic research, Specific countries or geographic areas