Photograph: Tomasz M. Jankowski, postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Eastern European Jewish History at Vilnius University, Lithuania
Image of scanned census page: List of Jews living in Gdańsk in 1796. Source: Geheimes Staatsarchiv Berlin, II. HA, Abt. 9, Tit. LXVII, Sekt. 1, Nr. 11.
For our Href blog series "Hätte ich das mal eher gewusst …" we spoke with Thomas Jankowski about his digital research using 19th-century Eastern European census records to study family life & family patterns in the region's Jewish communities. Link: href.hypotheses.org/5041 #NFDI4memory