The Teplice (Teplitz, Teplize) web pages have now been launched by JewGen Shtetlinks, thanks to the great help and encouragement from Susana Leistner Bloch, Barbara Ellman and Vince Pritchard, as well as all the family historians who shared their work with me. Teplice once had the grandest synagogue in the region, and a Jewish population of 6,500 in 1937. Within a few years, all had gone. Within 24 hours of launching the website it was "found" by one of the last Holocaust survivors of the town, who is living in Israel, trying to raise the funds to publish the memoirs of her appalling young life. She is related to about two-thirds of the people whose names appear on tombstones. In terms of a breakthrough in research, this is phenomenal. Hopefully we will gradually be able to resconstruct the history of the lost. I would encourage anyone who has connections to these lost communities to get involved in the shtetlink project. It is a good focus for our research, contextualises our own families as well as returning something to the wider community of family historians. In addition, I have found it useful to develop the courage to go and correct history in Wikipedia and other places, and to give those ancestors who should have had a place in history, some profile. http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Teplice/ Ann Jensen, Australia "The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it." ~ Benjamin Disraeli