Today we arrived in Vienna after taking an overnight train from Frankfurt.  The train ride was uneventful, though for some reason we were...

Today we took the train to Essen to find the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish history at the University of...

Today we arrived in Frankfurt and spent the day wandering around the city.  The first thing we did was a Hop On Hop Off tour which took...

Today my mother and I went to the largest Jewish cemetery which is located in Muiderburg.  The cemetery is connected to Amsterdam,...

Today we went to the Joods Historich Museum which is actually comprised of four old synagogues all in the same area.  While the...

Today we went to the Anne Frank museum.  Afterwards we went to Haarlem and onto Zandvoort an Zee.  The Anne Frank museum was interesting,...

Today my mom, aunt and cousin went to this big flower show down by Leiden, so I went to the Amsterdam archives to look up whatever...

Today was our last day in Tilburg as well as the last day we would spend with Adah, Alfred, Yair, and Ronit.  Since my mother and I...

Forewarning to those reading this post – it is going to be edited and some information may change, however I wanted to get this out a...

Yesterday we (myself, my mother and my grandmother) left Pittsburgh for the Netherlands by way of Boston and Iceland.  In planning for...

In November of 2005 the United Nations marked today International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is the day that Auschwitz was...

In August I created an account on JoodsMonument.nl in an attempt to update entries about various family members who both perished and...

Today for Hanukkah my father gave me the gift on a trip to Europe.  It will be after Passover and we will be in Tilburg, Holland for the...

(This post is back dated) My interest in family history begins with my father, Michael Louis Jaron. For as long as I can remember he has...