About Us
Our team
We are a team of researchers specializing in Jewish genealogy in the territory of Ukraine and the former imperial administrative entities. For us, this is not only a profession, but a responsible attitude to the memory of families whose stories were interrupted by wars, deportations, Soviet repressions and emigration.
We combine an academic approach, hands-on archival practice and respect for every family we work with. For us, every project is not “just another report”, but an opportunity to give a voice back to people whose names remained in documents yet slipped out of living memory.
Our team includes historians, archivists, specialists in Jewish studies, and researchers who are proficient in Hebrew, Yiddish and the languages of historical documents (pre-reform Russian, Polish, German, Romanian).
We work without intermediaries or machine translation: we read original records, understand the specifics of rabbinic formulations, communal books, vital records and documents of communal institutions. This allows us to avoid mistaken conclusions and inaccurate reconstructions.
How we operate
We combine local expertise with international resources: archives of Ukraine and neighboring countries, specialized Jewish databases, memorial books, maps, cemeteries, community materials and testimonies.
At every stage, we explain what exactly we are doing, which sources we are checking, where the limits of what is possible lie, and why we consider certain conclusions to be well-founded.
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