A descendant family in the USA has made an interesting suggestion and I wonder if we can ask people to consider following it up in a similar way:
“I just sent this letter out to the president of my community’s Jewish organization. You may want to recommend other Kitchenerites to promote the site within their Jewish groups”
The family have then gone on to write a piece about the purpose of the Kitchener project, with a little bit on their personal involvement with it, and then asked if the information could be disseminated to help “get out the word” that we are trying to reach Kitchener descendants globally
This kind of action is incredibly kind and helpful, and a number of our descendants have said they are doing similar things
People only recently finding the site may not realise this, but we’ve only been going about six weeks, so do please keep telling others about it. It’s really appreciated
We do have some digital information all ready to go if anyone has somewhere appropriate they’d like to send it. Just ask and I can send you a copy. It has a couple of my family pictures on it, and information about the project
………………..
On that note, we wish to emphasise that all materials on the site are under copyright
This is made clear elsewhere on the site, but as our first concern is our families, we are emphasising this matter again here, and drawing attention to the terms of use of the website
To be clear, we have granted no permission to anyone for use of images and materials on this website, and neither will we do so in future. Such permission may only be granted by the families who own the images. All other materials are the property of the website, unless otherwise indicated
To descendants who are kindly publicising our project together, this means you must only use your own images, if asked for one
For those who may have seen materials I’ve sent out, you’ll note, for example, that I only use my father’s photographs and other materials. We don’t use other people’s items in this way, and neither should other descendants
Not least, it’s against the law, but it’s also very bad form!
Let’s look after each other
……………………
It’s been good to realise that we’ve had a lot of success reaching a first wave of descendants, and we will need to think of ways to make a second wave of ‘get out the word’ successful in the new year. If you have any thoughts on this, as usual, do please get in touch
We always appreciate your thoughts and ideas
……………………
Our big missing piece of the Kitchener jigsaw is Latin America – so anyone with contacts there, especially, please do think about how you could help us out
We also need a lot more ‘get out the word’ work in Australia. Because of the horrific experience of the Dunera, and other deportations and later emigrations of our refugee families – there is clearly quite a large contingent of Australian Kitchener descendants to be contacted. And to a level I’d not realised when we set out to coordinate this project. It’s proving to be a steep learning curve, as they say.