Lisa Kudrow, researchers and producers of NBC’s “Who Do You Think You Are?” will speak at the Jewish Genealogical Society of Los Angeles’ meeting on Tuesday, September 28. The program begins at 7.30pm, at the Magnin Auditorium,... 

Tracing the Tribe readers may remember several posts concerning a cluster of “Ashkenazi” breast cancer among Hispanic women in Colorado’s San Luis Valley a few years ago. Later genealogical research showed the women were descendants... 

Gaby Laws of CemeteryScribes.com has informed Tracing the Tribe about a project to create a memorial book for young Dutch Holocaust victims. Athough CemeteryScribes.com focuses on photographing headstones and recording inscriptions, this request touched... 

Take me out to the ballgame. Buy me some peanuts and crackerjacks. Throw the first pitch for the New York Mets vs St. Louis Cardinals game on Wednesday, July 28. The US Holocaust Museum’s New York Next Generation Board thought up a great fundraiser.... 

Pointing to his experiences in the Holocaust as a caution against allowing human suffering to go unchecked in the world, 88-year-old Sam Spritzer told a group of young Jewish professionals in Houston, Texas, that his unlikely survival offered hope for... 

Pointing to his experiences in the Holocaust as a caution against allowing human suffering to go unchecked in the world, 88-year-old Sam Spritzer told a group of young Jewish professionals in Houston, Texas, that his unlikely survival offered hope for... 

Heads of state across Europe commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day as people throughout the continent resolved to never let the nightmares of World War II happen again. More here:  World Marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day  Read More →

In his historic address before the Hungarian Parliament, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel told lawmakers and foreign dignitaries that the Jewish community must be allowed to thrive. Read the rest here: Elie Wiesel Focuses... 

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman toured Chabad-Lubavitch educational institutions in Kiev before wrapping up his pre-Chanukah state visit to Ukraine. Go here to see the original:  Israeli Foreign Minister Tours Kiev School  Read More →

Near the end of an historic two-day return to his native Hungary, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel embraced the brother of two individuals mentioned in his semi-autobiographical memoir of life in the concentration camps. Here...