Genealogy
Family Tree Resources
Family Documents Available from our Archives
Since the founding of the Museum in 1997 hundreds of documents for our archives have been collected relating to the Jewish families of Rhodes. Since then, we have received requests from descendants of those families who are interested in obtaining information relating to their family history. Therefore, this page offers people copies of these [...]
Family Trees & Photos
Please send us your family photos and trees and we’ll add it to our collection. Our email address is: info@rhodesjewishmuseum.org
The following photo is from Laura Larsen: ”This photo was taken in Rhodes of Joseph Benatar (1895-1944) and Ester Tarica (1897-1944). They were killed in Auschwitz along with their only child, Baruh (1925-1944). You can put it [...]
Rhodes DNA Project
Jews of Rhodes DNA Project
Dr. Robert Rubin Mayo has launched an intriguing project which will give us a background of the original ancestry of the Jews of Rhodes (Spanish, Italian, Romaniote). Dr. Rubin is the grandson of Joseph M. Mayo, who was originally from Rhodes.
Project Background: At the start of the 1500’s, as [...]
