Vol. 3. No. 1 Fall 1995 1. From The Editor’s Desk: 2. Germans From 3. PGS Packets 4. Memorial Ceremony In Glogow 5. Yizkor Book From Chrostkov 6. A Unique And Mysterious Find 7. Study Of Names (Resources) 8. General History of Jews in Galicia (Books) 9. Holocaust Accounts of Ancestral Galician Towns and Cities 10. Galician Trip Report 11. Suggestions for Directed Studies 12. New U.S. Holocaust Research Institute Web Site 13. Polish Home Page Offers Clues 14. Call For Papers (For Boston Genealogy Conference) 15. Eastern European Families Hold Convention 16. Ragas Will Look For You 17. Dobromil, Et. Al. 18. Let’s take A New Look at 19. Gesher Galicia Membership Report 20. New Publicity Focus For Gesher Galicia 21. Membership Information and Renewals 22. Family Finder News 23. From The Treasurer 24. Treasurer’s Report The Galitzianer Vol.3 No. 1

Vol. 3. No. 1 Fall 1995

From the Editor's Desk:

I am pleased to take over as managing editor of The Galitzianer. Like all of you, my ancestors came from Galicia. In my case they lived in Gologory and Zolochev about 30 miles east of L'viv. Also, like most of you, I know what it means to "hit the wall" when it comes to genealogical research. You know how it is; you make great strides at first, discovering relatives you never knew existed, getting all the public records that are available and finding every bit and piece that's around. Things are looking pretty good. Your tree fills up and you share what you found with others. Then, wham! It stops. Suddenly, your sources seem to dry up. Nothing is moving the way it used to move. That's when you take a breather, work on another side of your family or put it all aside for a while until something comes along that renews your interest. In many respects, that's the role of The Galitzianer. To renew your interest, to offer you that one tidbit that will break through the wall, that one new piece of information that you need to continue your research.

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This is especially true and book reviews, so we can all nowadays as formerly closed benefit. resources in and the To make our job easier please are slowly revealing themselves and submit your material by e-mail. Our more people are traveling to these second choice is disk and our third is areas to do their own family on paper - typewritten and double- research. These people return and spaced. share what they've learned with the Thanks. rest of us, and suddenly we have a -- Larry Kahaner new bureau or government office to try. Gesher Galicia Steering Committee

Most important, the age of the Suzan Wynne- Coordinator Internet is upon us. This resource is 3128 Brooklawn Terrace Chevy Chase, MD 20815 absolutely invaluable as a (301)657-3389 FAX (301)657-3638 networking tool because it links Larry Kahaner- Managing Editor millions of people in every country. Box 2732 More and more, we're finding that a Alexandria, VA 22301 (703) 548-0911 FAX (703) 548-3182 simple inquiry on JewishGen or e-mail: [email protected] elsewhere is being answered by Bill Fern - Contributing Editor someone thousands of miles away. 4 Edgewater Hillside The more people on the net, the Westport, CT 06880 (203)222-1879 FAX (203) 221- 0318 better it works. With all these changes in the Milton Goldsamt- Contributing Editor 2702 Loma Street world of genealogy, it's an exciting Silver Spring, MD 209024844 time for all of us. (301) 6494768

Inside this issue you'll find Paul Lieberman- Contributing Editor information that will help you move P.O. Box 97 Free Union, VA 22940 your research forward whether (804) 978-3790 FAX (804) 963-8805 you're new to genealogy or an e-mail: [email protected] experienced practitioner. Larry Krupnak- Distribution Let us know what you've 1711 Corwin Drive Silver Spring, MD 20910 learned so we can pass it along. Did Tel/fax:(301)5854)117 you take a trip, learn about a new, Peter Zavon- Family Finder translated Yizkor book, find a source 30 Woodline Drive for maps that nobody else knows Penfield, NY 14526-2414 (716)586-9023 about? If so, tell us. The smallest bit e-mail: [email protected] of information can make a big Sheiala Moskow- Treasurer difference to another person. 801 Cottonwood Drive This issue is thinner than I Severna Park, MD 21146 Tel/fax:(410)544-2113 would like and thinner than you deserve. Submissions have been Shelley Kellerman Pollero - Membership 549 Cypress Lane down this past quarter, and this Severna Park, MD 21146 issue reflects that deficit. (410)647-9492 FAX; (410)315-8188 (call voice phone first) This publication is yours. Send us your stories, charts, lists

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Grandfather Was In the Imperial GERMANS FROM GALICIA Cavalry: Using Austrian Military Records As An Aid To Writing Family If you are a descendant of History) The military packet Germans who immigrated to or from (approx.13 pages) is available for a Galicia and are interested in finding fee of $US 2.50 from PGS of information on ancestors, consider America, c/o Marcia Bergman, 926 the new organization, Galizien Oxford Street, Wilmette, IL 60091. German Descendants. I do not know if one could just Formed at the May 1994 order the article. It is also possible conference of the European Family that the article is available through Societies, the group seeks to share other sources. research findings and information gleaned from trips to Galicia, about -- Barbara Urbanska-Yeager ancestral villages, religious affiliations and family surnames. The founders are Brian MEMORIAL CEREMONY IN Lenius, Glenn Linscheid, Don GLOGOW Mueller, Evelyn Wolfer and Betty Wray. By Marian Rubin U.S. and Canadian annual dues are $12 (and overseas mailings $15). In the Bor forest of Glogow These dues may be adjusted as Mip., where many Jews from the the group becomes established. Rzeszow ghetto -- including Jews from towns such as Tyozyn, Czudec, Contact: Evelyn Wolfer, Niebylca, Glogow and Kolbuszowa 12367 SE 214th Street, Kent, WA -- were slaughtered by the Nazis in 98031-2215. 1942, a memorial ceremony was held on June 26, 1995. (See The -- from FGS Forum, Spring 1995 Galitzianer, Vol.1 No.4, "Letter From Rzeszow',) Under pouring rain, the PGS PACKETS nearly 200 people who came to remember the victims and to The Polish Genealogical dedicate a stone and tablets to their Society has a few genealogical memory walked about a third of a information packets available for mile on a muddy road into the nominal fees. The one I was woods to the memorial site. The particularly interested in is the memorial area is situated between military packet. It contains two mass graves, where, according information such as a select to Mrs. Klara Ma'ayan, president of bibliography of sources of Polish the Rzeszow Landsmanshaft in Tel military history, and a reprint of an Aviv, 5,000 Jews had been article by Steven W. Blodget about murdered. Austrian military records Great Among those gathered for the ceremony were officials and

3 The Galitzianer Vol. 3 No. 1 academics from the area and Janowski who arranged for local representatives of the Catholic funding of the project. Funds were church. Among the Jews attending also raised by the Rzeszow were thirty Israelis, the oldest of Landsmanshaft. The Polish whom had been born in Rzeszow Embassy in Israel and the Israeli and were accompanied by their Embassy in Poland were also children, and, in two cases, by involved in the planning process. grandchildren. I had made arrangements to join the tour in Marian Rubin Warsaw. My father's family had 36 Iris Ave. emigrated from Rzeszow to the San Francisco, CA 94118 U.S. in 1858, and so my connection with the town was removed from the immediate, painful connection of the others. However, as I stood at the YIZKOR BOOK FROM ceremony, I was keenly aware of CHROSTKOV something that many genealogists learn in all likelihood, relatives whose Andy Tanenbaum reports that names I have not yet learned he hired a translator in England to remained in Rzeszow more than a translate parts of a Yizkor book from century ago, and it was also for their Chrostkov/Czortkov. descendants that Kaddish was being "Hence the British English said. throughout. The translation from At that point, it seemed a mere Hebrew to English was easy detail; everyone was my family, compared to the translation from Speakers included the mayor of Word Perfect 5.1 to 'Troff' which I Rzeszow, a Catholic priest and Mrs. use (for UNIX), I'd be happy to send Klara Ma'ayan. what I have to anyone who wants it Prayers were read by Mr. Avraham (in ASCII, not in WP)." Beck who was born in Rzeszow and now lives in Israel. A Polish army Andy Tanenbaum, band played somber music, Van Nijenrodeweg 875, The memorial project was 1081 BG Amsterdam initiated by Mrs. Ma'ayan who Holland worked closely with Mr. Boguslaw Kotula, a resident of Rzeszow, who, A UNIQUE AND MYSTERIOUS with his brother Slawomir, has FIND maintained the close, warm connection with Rzeszow Jews A Hebrew book, Two Hundred established by his late father, and Fifty Letters Addressed to Franciszek Kotula, a distinguished Young People and All who Are historian. Mrs. Ma'ayan credits Attracted to the Language of the Boguslaw Kotula with overseeing the Past (title translated by Rabbi David completion of the memorial site, Rogut), printed in Vilna in 1902, has and praises the supportive efforts of been given to our Society for Rzeszow mayor Mieczyslaw possible identification of names and

4 The Galitzianer Vol. 3 No. 1 towns. It was found in an empty This belongs to ISRAEL NEUMAN house being renovated and originally MIELEC. GALIClA handed to the Australian Jewish BARUCH STERNGLANZ Historical Society, which passed it on DROHOBICZ. 69 km SSW of to us, The end-pages have a number Lvov of first and surnames and towns of presumably the owners of the book BARUCH STERNGLANZ KRYNlCA through the years. Those names OSIAS STERNGLANZ at Mrs Chaye have not so far been identified in Sternglanz Sydney, The author was M.M. Dalitzki and the book is wholly in OSKAR STERNGLANZ KRYNICA Hebrew, except for a few lines about OSIAS STERNGLANZ the publisher and printer which are in WOJNICZ, "near Bukovina" 62 Russian characters. The names of km E of Krakow past owners are mostly written higgledy-piggledy in Latin The last three entries are handwritten characters: as well as obviously by the same person, as remarks indicating ownership in Osias and Oskar/Oscar were the German, This use of German and same name and often from the the location of the various towns all Hebrew name Yeshayahu/ East, Southeast or Northeast of Joshua.There are also some Hebrew Krakow, according to script names, unfortunately Where Once we Walked, seems to indecipherable and also some indicate that this book was orignally attempts to practice an illegible purchased and used in Eastern signature. Galicia and that it came to Australia We would like to hear from from there. Perhaps it was passed anyone who recognizes any of those down within a family , names and places.

Please write to ALGS Names, towns and locations: P.O. Box 154, NORTHBRIDGE, SYDNEY, 2063, NEW, AUSTRALIA ABRAHAM HAMERSFELD or fax (61-2) 958 2834. TARNOW 75 km E of Krakow ESTER NEUWAN -- from The Kosher Koala, June, MIELEC, GALICIA, 107 km ENE 1995 of Krakow

RESOURCES To Dr. HIRSCHWOHLD CHAIM ROTSACHS MIELEC Compiled by Bill Fern Mrs CHAYA STERNGLANZ "for son OSIAS," KRYNICA, 107 KMS ESE Study of Names of Krakow Jewish and Hebrew Onomastics: A Bibliography by Robert Singerman, Garland Publishing, 1977,

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Bibliographic checklist of studies of The Jewish Tavern-Keeper and his first and family names by historical Tavern In Nineteen-Century Polish period. Appendix: List of 300 family Literature by Magdalena Opalski, names with bibliographic references 1986. Paperback. The Zalman to newspaper articles explaining their Shazar Center, Center for Research meaning and origin. on history and Culture of Polish Jews, P.O. Box 4179, Jerusalem, 91041, Israel. Includes Galicia. Of A Historical Bibliography of Polish interest to those with tavern-keeper Towns, Villages, and Regions ancestors. (except Warsaw and Krakow). 1990 by Edward Peckwas. Polish Genealogical Society, 984 North Jews in the Habsburg Armed Forces Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, Illinois J78&-191& by Erwin A. Schmidl, 60622. Paperback. Bibliographical 1989. Osterreichisches Judisches checklist by city, including Galicia. Museum in Eisenstadt, A-7O()() Appendix: Form letter in Polish (with Eisenstadt, Unterbergstr. 6, . English translation) to use in Paperback. German text, pp 19-91. requesting books from Polish English translation, pp. 93-1 89. booksellers. Photographs.

The Jews in Poland and Russia: Bibliographical Essays by Gershon A History of Modern Jewry 1780- David Hundert and Gershon C. 1815 by Raphael Mahler. Schocken Bacon. Indiana University Press, Books, 1971. Galician Jews, 1984. Bibliographical essays by pp. 314-340, historical period and by aspects of life referenced to bibliographic checklist, Galicia integrated within A History of Habsburg Jews, 1670- sections on Poland. 1918 by William 0. McCagg Jr. Indiana University Press, 1989. From Alexandrovsk to Zyrardow, A Galician Jews, pp. 105-122, 181- Guide to YIVO's Landsmanshaftn 226. Archive, by Rosaline Schwartz and Susan Milled. YIVO Institute for East European Jews in Two Worlds, Jewish Research, 1986, Paperback. Studies from the YIVO Annual, Many Galician cities included. edited by Deborah Dash Moore. Northwestern University Press and General History of Jews in Galicia the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 1990. Paperback. The Jews of East Central Europe Includes: economic background Between the World Wars by Ezra of Jewish emigrations from Galicia to Mendelsohn. Indiana University US; Swislocz; Tyszawce. Press, 1983. Chapter on Poland, including Galicia, pp. 11-83.

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Ukrainian-Jewish Relations in Press, 1993. How two young women Historical Perspective, edited by from Kolomyja survived the Nazis by Peter J. Potichnyi and Howard Aster. masquerading as gentiles in Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Kolomyja, Lwow, Warsaw and Studies, University of Alberta, 1990. Germany. Includes: Pre-Ashkenazic Jews in eastern Europe, Jewish Out of the Ashes: The Story of settlement in Ukraine in 16th and a Survivor. 1961. Leon Thorne. 17th centuries, Ukrainian-Jewish Bloch Publishing Company, New antagonism in Galicia in 19th York. Survival in Schodnica, century, Jewish-Ukrainian relations Sambor, Lwow, Drohobycz, in during the Beskiden and Janover and Hyrawka Holocaust. camps.

Shtetl Jews under Soviet Rule.' Holocaust accounts of ancestral Eastern Poland on the Eve of the Galician towns and cities Holocaust by Ben-Cion Pinchuk. (ed. David Sorkin). Basil Blackwell, Of Human Agony by Irene and Cambridge, MA, 1990. Conditions in Carl Horowitz, Shengold Publishers, Lwow and all of eastern Galicia (18 West 45th St., New York, under Soviets from 1939-1941. NY 10036). 1992. Survival under the Nazis in Boryslaw and Lvov Ghetto Diary by David Lvov. Kahane. University of Massachusetts Press, 1990. Holocaust Revisited by Irene and Carl Horowitz et al. Shengold GALICIAN TRIP REPORT Publishers, 1994. Includes chapters on survival under Nazis in Boryslaw By Phyllis (Peninah) and Allan and Drohobycz. (Eliyahu Mallenbaum The 1995 Gesher Galicia trip to Entombed by Bernard Mayer, Polish Galicia has entered the 1994. True story of how author as history books. teenager and 14 other Jews built Participants ranged from tourists and ultimately 47 survived in a with little genealogical experience, bunker under a house in center of to advanced "near professionals" Drohobycz. Photographs and who had visited the areas on more diagrams. Obtainable from the than one occasion. About half of author for $5.00 plus postage. the group also visited Western Bernard Mayer, 2100 NE 207 St., Ukraine Galicia during the preceding North Miami Beach, FL 33179. week, under the separate sponsorship of the Family Research Foundation, a subsidiary of Rosa To Tell At Last: Survival under Robota Foundation. False Identity, 194J45 by Blanca It is difficult to quantify the thrill Rosenberg. University of Illinois of walking through your dimly

7 The Galitzianer Vol. 3 No. 1 remembered grandparents' home, computer and mapping techniques, or the excitement of learning your it would have been impossible. As great grandmother's maiden name the group moved from one "hub" city from grandma's archival birth record, to another by bus, small groups of 1, or the mixed emotions hearing a 2. or 3 participants were sent out to peasant explain how your uncle's each requested locality by limousine his childhood friend - and your entire or taxi. Those who had no nearby family were gunned down by the family sites to visit went on guided Nazis in this very ravine, or visiting sightseeing tours. Each participant the ohel (covered grave) of an had a choice of activities every day ancestor five generations removed. during the "all-inclusive" trip so that Imagine speaking with the 83 year no one felt that he or she was old village priest who helped save "wasting time" while waiting for you and your family, and listening to others to do their on-site research. him quote conversations tions with Our travel agent, Nachman your father as if It were yesterday. Elbaum, owner of Ideal Tours in And try to imagine the emotions New York City, accepted our when he thanked you for your offer demanding schedule as a personal of a gift but said that he only wanted challenge. He obtained the services to be listed among the Righteous of Waclaw (pronounced Vahis Gentiles at Yad VaShem! `wahv) arguably the most Our fifteen intrepid voyagers knowledgeable, experienced, and experienced all this - and much qualified guide to Jewish sites in all more. of Poland. He instructed the two of Every participant visited at least us, as group leaders, to spare no two relevant archives, some as expense (which he covered) in many as 12 but the group average hiring additional vehicles and was about 5 archive visits by each translators whenever the need person. The number of Family arose. He wanted to ensure that documents actually retrieved ranged every tour group member was given from more then 30 to none, and every means to succeed in his we estimate the average for each personal quests. participant to have been about 6 One of the objectives of our documents. As expected, success in travelers was to locate and contact retrieving family documents was living relatives, or surviving family closely correlated to advance friends and eyewitnesses. Although preparations. Even the least not everyone was able to prepared traveller was able to visit at accomplish this minor miracle, one of least 2 towns of family significance, our members made 14 personal while 7 or more towns was the and/or family contacts, and the range for those who had done their majority of our travelers made at homework. least two personal/family contacts. The logistics of so many individual The least productive areas of trips to so many varied locations exploration were the cemeteries. was awesome. If we had not Only about half of our participants developed some innovative

8 The Galitzianer Vol. 3 No. 1 had any success in this type of chemistry with the requester. Some research. Some who did succeed archivists went out of their way to even scaled the stone walls of a help. Others did not. cemetery when the keys could not Possibly the single highlight Of the be obtained! But that's another story entire trip was the private altogether. Those who wish to presentation to our group by Yale consider further research in Western Reiser, director of research at Poland, especially in cemetery Warsaw's Jewish Historical Institute. records (some of which have He showed what has already been survived but are in very poor accomplished, and demonstrated condition) and archives in the what still must be done to preserve Krakow area, contact Allan. He has decaying records which we will all made arrangements with an English- need in years to come. He also speaking academician, an active answered individual requests for member of the Krakow Jewish assistance and direction in Polish Community, who has developed genealogical research. many personal contacts which As a result of numerous requests should permit him to access material from those unable to join this trip, that would be impossible to locate in and from others who heard about it a brief visit - if at all. after we returned, Go GALICIA 1996! Although we couldn't actually tally is being planned in three sections - all of the documents and December-January, Early Summer, documentary data uncovered by and Late Summer. each of the tour members, we have Please contact us if you're conservatively estimated that interested in joining one of these between 100 and 200 family voyages of discovery. documents were located by the group collectively. Some documents For information contact: were not immediately available Go Galicia! during our brief visits. so it is very Family Research Foundation likely that at least some of the P.O. Box 24, promised material will be mailed to Plainview, NY 11803-0024. our travelers by some of the cooperating archivists. SUGGESTIONS FOR DIRECTED The most common question asked STUDIES since out return is "How did you fare in the archives?" There was a wide At the summer JGS meeting, range of differing responses to our the Gesher Galicia steering requests. The translator's skill and committee brainstormed about aggressiveness was at times directed studies. partially responsible for the These projects might involve archivists' responses. Advance groups of people independently correspondence was very often pooling their money and hiring important - but sometimes not. someone in Ukraine and Poland to In the end, success often was look for specific documents or based on the archivists' personal handle special research.

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For example, those with interment lists held by cemetery ancestors in a certain town might offices. hire someone to look up all their family records. The concept is that NEW U.S. HOLOCAUST enough people directing resources at RESEARCH INSTITUTE WEB SITE a focused area would get some strong results. This on-line archive contains Other projects might require approximately 1050 catalog domestic researching of files that records describing manuscript have never been compiled. The job collections and approximately 60 may require money, volunteers or finding aids to microfilm both. collections including records from the The SIG might also decide to Main Commission for the take some of its treasury money and Investigation of Crimes Against the use it for other projects that would Polish Nation, Warsaw, and various benefit large numbers of members. archives in the former Soviet Union. We'd like to hear some of your There's a query form to use to suggestions. If enough people are search for all records containing a interested in a project, it could yield user-specified word. Currently, the large benefits. only "Data Source" listed is "Archives Following are some Holding Catalog", but it looks like suggestions by Bill Fern. there might be another source or two Are they any others out there? in the future. Should you have questions - Directories organized by Galician about the on-line or collections city of origin: currently active described in the catalog, you may Galitzianer landsmanschaften contact the Archives staff at: in U.S., Canada, South Africa, [email protected]. England, Israel, etc., their officers The web site is: and addresses. Send our Family (http://www.ushmm.org/ushmm_ia.ht Finder to their organizations to ml) attract new members. - Howard Gershen - Directory of defunct Galitzianer on JewishGen. landsmanschaften and current location of their minutes and other POLISH HOME PAGE OFFERS records. CLUES

- Index by Galician city of origin of There's a new and unusual cemeteries of burial societies as place on the WWW for information appendix added to listed in cemetery on the Holocaust. It is on the project currently underway. Government of Poland's Home Page. They have a section on - Compilation of names of persons history. buried in cemeteries of Galitzianer About a month ago, there was burial societies using existing an article about the history of

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Auschwitz, as of today there is a new The Federation of East article dealing with the Warsaw European Family History Societies Ghetto. (FEEFHS) will hold its third annual Check it often as material international convention in changes. Minneapolis on June 9-12, 1996. FEEFHS, which now has over The WWW address is: 100 organizational members, http://info.fuw.edu.pl:80/pl/ includes Central, East Central, PolandHome.html Southeastern and Eastern Europe within its flexible scope of -- from JewishGen interest. The 1996 convention will CALL FOR PAPERS include five simultaneous presentations (or a total of about 70- 75) at the Best Western Seville In the past, talks at the Plaza Motel and Conference Centre, International Seminars on Jewish 8151 Bridge Road beginning on Genealogy have all been given by Sunday afternoon and lasting all day invited speakers. While the greatest on Monday and Tuesday. Out-of- number of talks at the 15th Summer state speakers from New York to Seminar on Jewish Genealogy in California have already volunteered Boston Seminar will be "invited," to give 15 presentations. organizers are sending out a Call for Wednesday will be set aside Papers to contact those people who for individuals or small groups of might not be in communication with genealogists to visit one or more the organizers but have important Twin Cities genealogical resource research to report. centers. Expert assistance will be arranged for those who wish to If you have any questions, please browse or do serious research. contact: By the way, FEEFHS has a web page: Edmund Cohler http://dcn.davis.ca.us/~feefhs/. 85 Bloomfield St. Check it out. Lexington, MA 02173-5534 617-862-1219 For information contact: ecohler@cspi~com Ed Brandt 13-27th Ave. SE This is a great opportunity for Minneapolis, MN 55414-3101 those involved in Galician research to share their information and also make contacts with those not in the RAGAS WILL LOOK FOR YOU SIG. The Russian-American EASTERN EUROPEAN FAMILIES Genealogical Archival Service will HOLD CONVENTION search for a single archival record or certificate (birth certificate, marriage

11 The Galitzianer Vol. 3 No. 1 record or death certificate) for a non- Press. IBSN 0-914382-01-2. Library refundable US$22.00 fee. of Congress Catalog Card Number You must use their form which 80-81470. is very detailed. The more Unfortunately, the book does information you fill in, the better are not have an index or table of your chances for success. contents. The contains a brief For information and to receive history of Dobromil, a list of a form, contact RAGAS at PO Box occupations, the culture and holidays 236, Glen Echo, MD 20812. in the shtetl, and the personal history Enclose a self-addressed, of the author. For stamped envelope. someone researching Dobromil, this is a book you should read. DOBROMIL, ET. AL.

from David Fox Let's Take a New Look at Bukovina I recently had the good fortune to meet a private Judaic book A decision was made during collector who is in the process of the formation of the Galicia Sig not to liquidating his collection. After include the area that formally was spending three hours going through known as Bukovina during the period thousands of books in a small hot of Austro-Hungarian Empire. The storage locker, I picked out a number Rumanian SIG was supposed to of books for my personal library and cover this area. Because portions of put aside another group of books for Eastern Galicia and Bukovina are the Jewish Genealogy Society of now in the Ukraine, it makes a lot Greater Washington library. more sense that both of these areas Among the books I kept, was be in the same SIG. Many of the "Anuario Conmemorativo Umero former residents of Galicia were Uno Editorial Galitzia. married to residents of Bukovina. In This book was published in some cases members of the same Buenos Aires in 1962. The book is families resided on both sides or the entirely in Yiddish and has 306+ former borders. I believe that pages with photos. The book dealer Bukovina should be in this SIG and I told me this is a Galicia Yizkor book. wonder if there are others out there Unfortunately, I can not read Yiddish. that agree? Does anyone know if this book has been translated into English yet? David Fox Another book that I purchase [email protected] is called "Dobromil - Life in a 969 Placid Court Galician Shtetl 1890-1907", by Saul Arnold, MD 21012 Miller. This hard cover book is written in both English (83 pages) and Yiddish (50 pages). It was GESHER GALICIA MEMBERSHIP published in 1980 by Loewenthal REPORT

12 The Galitzianer Vol. 3 No. 1 by Shelley Kellerman Pollero, Membership As of September 22, 1995, Chairman there are 201 members who have paid dues for the 1995-96 program L'shanah tovah to all year. There are still quite a few members of Gesher Galicia! We members who at this time have not hope that the new year will bring you yet renewed for 95-96. I would like joy and happiness and much to clarify the membership procedure, success in your genealogical which has been misunderstood by research. We are happy to welcome some members: 89 new members who have joined the SIG since the JGS Summer 1.DUES INCREASE: Seminar in Washington, D.C. At the D.C. Seminar, the membership dues were increased to NEW PUBLICITY FOCUS FOR $20US for U.S. and Canada, $27 US GESHER GALICIA for other countries (air mail). The program (fiscal) year is from In order to reach current and September 1 to August 31. prospective members, I have submitted a GGalicia SIG InfoFile to 2.SEPTEMBER 22 CUTOFF DATE: the JewishGen on-line discussion All members whose renewals group. Included in the InfoFile is a or new membership forms were description of our SIG, membership received prior to the September (22) information, a membership form, and cutoff date will be included in the Fall a list of several members of the 1995 Family Finder and receive the Steering Committee and their roles newsletters and Finder updates to be in the SIG (their e-mail addresses published 95-96. and/or FAX numbers). All this information may be read, 3.NEW OR REACTIVATED downloaded, and printed out by any MEMBERS who join between JewishGen list subscriber. September 1 and July 31 will receive I also will periodically post all the publications issued during that membership information on program year, and will renew JewishGen, especially prior to a membership for the next program deadline for renewals and inclusion year at the same time as all other into the Gesher Galicia Family renewing members (in August). Finder. This information will be received by all subscribers to 4.ATTENTION ALL MEMBERS JewishGen. I have already received WHO HAVE NOT YET RENEWED many inquiries and we have many FOR 1995-96!! new SIG members as a result of As a courtesy, due to the these posted messages. Thanks to reorganization of the SIG, your listing JewishGen for posting our and the information that appeared in membership information! last year's Finder have been included in the Fall Family Finder, MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION and you will receive the fall AND RENEWALS newsletter, The Galitzianer.

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However, in order to receive updated information to Peter Zavon, future 95-96 newsletters and Finder 30 Woodline Drive, Penfield, NY updates, you must send in your dues 14526-2414, or by e-mail to: for $20 or $27. Send your check ([email protected]). along with any Please print your e-mail address/phone/FAX/e-mail changes, address legibly and EXACTLY as it additions and/or corrections to your should be used to reach you. We surname/place name listings to will try to verify your e-mail address Shelley Pollero, 549 Cypress Lane, as it comes in to us from this point Severna Park, MD 21146 USA. on. We must receive a confirmation Your changes will be included in the message back from you in order to next Finder update. include your e-mail address in the Finder. (We have received several incomplete e-mail addresses which MANY THANKS .... could not be used.) ... to Marian Rubin and Carol Please let me know if you Silverman Jones for their very kind choose not to include in the Finder notes of support and appreciation for certain pieces of membership our volunteer time and effort on information that you have provided. behalf of Gesher Galicia. A reminder to all to please check available resources to verify ...to the following members for that the towns you submit for their generous contributions above publication in the Finder are located and beyond the basic membership in the former AUSTRIAN-ruled dues: Asher Bar-Zev, Arye Barkai, province of Galicia. Former James J. Becker, Elliot Bernstein, Russian-held areas of present-day George and Harriet Bodner, Melinda Poland (Lublin, Warsaw, etc.) were Bronte, Linda Cantor, Maida Dacher, NOT in Galicia; in addition, not all Martin Erdheim, Carol Glick parts of Ukraine were in Galicia. Feinberg, Eva Floersheim, Rosalind Suzan Wynne will continue to edit K. Frey, Eli C. Hecht, Leon Hirsh, town listings, but it is a very time- Irma Katz, Gerald Klafter, Jill consuming job, especially if there are Marmorek, Jim Ostroff, Nelson quite a few towns to check. You can Pollack, Leon and Eve Segal, Joel help by finding out as much as you Shield, M.D., Fred and Estelle can before you submit the town Steiger, Edan G. Unterman, and names. Thanks. David S. Zubatsky. THANK YOU SO MUCH!! FROM THE TREASURER FAMILY FINDER NEWS by Sheiala Moskow

from Peter Zavon, Family Finder Editor PERSONAL CHECKS DRAWN ON INTERNATIONAL BANKS We are now publishing the Two methods of sending following in the Finder: home and personal checks have been work phone numbers, FAX numbers; satisfactory: either your personal e-mail addresses. Send your check (or a bank check) from your

14 The Galitzianer Vol. 3 No. 1 bank in $$US OR your personal check in your own currency 3783.36 Dues (equivalent to $20 US for Canada, or 276.00 Contributions $27 US for most other major 32.00 Sale of Publications countries). 7.33 Interest earned However, members in Israel 2.00 Other and Poland must send $$US because, at this time, we have no $7230.77 Total. way of cashing checks made out in Israeli or Polish currency. ------You still have the option of ------sending cash in $$US (not cash in GESHER GALICIA your currency because it's difficult MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL 1995-96 and expensive for us to deal with). If you have any questions, send an e-mail message to Sheiala Moskow Please complete the via Shelley Pollero at membership form and send it with ([email protected]). your payment to:

TREASURER'S REPORT Shelley K. Pollero, 549 Cypress We have opened an interest- Lane, Severna Park, Maryland bearing, non-profit money market 21146 USA account in the name of Gesher Galicia at the First National Bank of Maryland. As of September 20,1995, the balance is $7230.77. This includes: $ 3130.08 Balance transferred from the former SIG account PHONE (Home): MEMBERSHIP FORM (Office, if desired)

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U.S. and Canada:$20 Other:$27 US (or equivalent in your currency) for air mail rates Please send your dues ASAP so that you will continue to receive the SIG newsletters and Family Finder updates.

Mail to: Shelley K. Pollero, 549 Cypress Lane, Severna Park, Maryland 21146 USA

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