יום עיון גנאלוגי בנושא מקורות לחקר היסטוריה משפחתית בתקופת מלחמת העולם הראשונה: "שורשים בחזית" "Roots at the Front": First World War resources for family history, a Genealogy conference.

1. Prof. Yitzchak Kerem, Heritage House for
Sephardic and Eastern Jewish Communities,
Jerusalem

2. Monastir Jews in Temuco Chile

3. A CHANGING SALONIKA
1) First decade: Industrialization, tram
Jewish apathy to Greek national struggle, Greek boycott of
Salonikan Jewish port and commerce, Jewish role in 1908 Young
Turk Revolution, Emergence of Jewish Socialist and Zionist
movements. Jews increase to over 80,000 out of total population of
120,000
2) Greek Rule – 1912
3) 1917 Fire. 55,000 of 72,000 homeless refugees are Jewish.
4) Separate electoral college for Jews and Muslims 1920-1933
5) 1922-3 100,000 Greek-Orthodox Asia Minor refugees brought to
Salonika in Greek-Turkish population exchange. Jews dwindle from
majority of city to quarter of population

4. Jews lose control of the port after
the beginning of Greek rule in 1912

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7. Further Decline and Annihilation of
Salonikan Jewry
4) Separate electoral college for Jews and Muslims 1920-1933
5) 1922-3 100,000 Greek-Orthodox Asia Minor refugees brought to Salonika in Greek-Turkish
population exchange. Jews dwindle from majority of city to quarter of population
6) Legislation in Salonika and Greece prohibiting work on Sunday and prompting Jewish
desecration of the Sabbath and migration. 1924-1925
7) Jewish Campbell neighborhood destroyed by Asia Minor and Pont refugees, and EEE
university student youth movement affiliated with ruling Republican party of Greek Prime
Minister Eleftherios Venizelos. 1931
8) Migration of 15,000 Salonikan Jews to France and 15,000-18,000 Jews to Haifa and southern
Tel Aviv (1932-1938)
9) Metaxas dictatorship 1936-1941. Jewish culture is prohibited, but Metaxas supports Zionism
and Jewish illegal immigration to Palestine. 1939 – Metaxas inscribed in Jewish National Fund
Golden Book. Jews prohibited from participated in EON – Greek Fascist Youth Movement.
Greece is European center for illegal immigration activities to Eretz-Israel, 1934-1939.
10) Jews active as fighting soldiers and officers in Albanian Campaign against invading Italian
army.
Over 12,000 Jews drafted and suffered a fourth of the casualties. Oct. 28, 1940-April 6, 1941.
Jewish colonel Mordechai Frizis, co-architect of national counterattack, killed from the air as
leading battalion in battle against the Italians on Dec. 5, 1940.
11) 1941-1943. German occupation of Salonika. March 15, 1943 – first deportation to Birkenau.
August 2, 1943. Last deportation of Salonikan Jewry. 54,000 Jews deported. Only 2,000 of
56,000 Salonikan Jews survive Holocaust.

8. Sephardic Jews in Sarajevo in 1917

9. WWI in Eretz-Israel
 Drought
 Famine
 Expulsions of enemy nationals of the ruling Ottoman
Turks; mainly affects Russian Jews
 Internal expulsions of all residents in battle areas
 Bombings and shootings between the Ottoman Turks
and the British and Australians
 Ottoman Jews drafted in Ottoman army. Starvation,
neglect, taken prisoners of war, deaths, and
disappearance.

10. Expulsions
 January 1914. Foreign subjects deported from Jaffa to Alexandria,
Egypt.
 Mid-December 1914. 698 Jewish exiles arrive in Alexandria.
 Mid-December 1914 – January 1915. U.S. battleships bring 7,475
refugees to Egypt.
 End of 1915. 12,277 Jewish exiles in Egypt.
 March 28, 1917. Expulsion from Jaffa. 10,000 Jews forced to leave.
Internal movement to Petach Tikva and Kfar Saba, and then
further expulsions to Samaria and primarily to the Galilee.
 October – December 1917. 2,000 Jewish expulsees find refuge in
Damascus. Also Ottoman Jews from Yehuda, Rishon Letzion,
Rehovot, Petach Tikva, Kfar Saba, and jerusalem arrested by
Ottomans as draft dogers.

11. United States

14. Judeo-Spanish Newspapers
 La Epoca
 El Avenir
 El Tiempo (Istanbul)
 El Mesaret
 La Vara (New York and Cairo)
 La America (New York)

15. Family Associations
 Shirizli
 Israel
 Shaltiel
 Amar
 Mizrahi
 Mallah
 Farhi
 Abravanel

16. Cuba

17. Argentina

18. Brazil

19. Mexico

20. France

21. Tracing Past Migration Paths
 Salonika to Istanbul, Cairo, Naples, New York, New Jersey, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro,
Mexico City, London, Marseilles, Lyons, Paris, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv
 Castoria to New York, Rio de Janeiro
 Ioannina to New York, Alexandria, Jerusalem
 Chios – New York, Atlanta
 Florina – New York, Rio de Janeiro
 Rhodes to New York, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Montgomery, Rio de
Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Rhodesia, Belgian Congo, Brussels, Capetown, Hebron, Haifa,
Jerusalem, Hebron
 Corfu to Manchester, Trieste, Alexandria, Tel Aviv
 Istanbul/Izmir to New York, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Paris, Brussels, Jerusalem, Tel
Aviv
 Monastir to Jerusalem, Temuco (Chile), New York, Rochester (NY), Indianapolis, Cincinnati,
 Alexandria/Cairo to Milan, Paris, Sao Paulo, Tel Aviv, Haifa
 Dardanelles – Seattle, New York, Buenos Aires, Istanbul
 Edirne – Demotica, Sofia, Istanbul, Tel Aviv
 Sofia – Paris, New York, Tel Aviv
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