The Galitzianer May 2001 The Galitzianer A Publication of Gesher Galicia Vol. 8, Nos. 2 & 3 (Double Issue) May 2001 Th eGG M atGters ali tziaJneRI-Poland r 2 Coordinator’s Column A Pub8l icaThteio Gnreaot fGaGliceiasnh InedrexGinag lRicaciea Is On Shelley Kellerman Pollero Mark Halpern JRI-Poland’s newest initiative 3 From the Editors’ Desks Edward Goldstein and Eva Rosenn 10 Przemysl Archives More changes Roberta Cohen Jainchill 3 London2001 JRI-Poland progress 4 2001 GG Family Finder Feature Articles Errata; announcement of update 11 JewishGen’s Yizkor Book Project: History 4 Contributors to Gesher Galicia and Accomplishments 40 Gesher Galicia Steering Committee Joyce Field Names, addresses, telephone numbers 13 Girls Enrolled in Tarnow Trivium School in 1854 Town Updates A list of Jewish girls 5 Buchach 14 Martyred Przemysl Physicians Norbert Porile Leon Gold 5 Gorodenka List of Physicians who perished in the Shoah Norman Berman 15 The Jews of Galicia under Austrian-Polish 5 Ivano-Frankovsk Rule, 1867-1918: Part I Denise Azbill Professor Piotr Wróbel 6 Kolomyya Part I of a scholarly article Alan Weiser 24 The Children Below 6 Mielec Stanley Ostern, MD Dr. Howard I.A. Lieb During WW II, one of our members spent two years in a sealed bunker in Stryj 7 Lancut Peter Jassem 25 Names from the Skalat Yizkor Book 7 Tarnobrzeg Yvette Scharf Gayle Schlissel Riley Names and descriptions 7 Radomysl Wielki 29 Portrait of a Landsmannschaft Ben Weinstock Ada Greenblatt List of members of the Nadworner 7 Rzeszow Landsmannschaft Marian Rubin The Galitzianer May 2001 Coordinator’s Column Having located our ancestral town, a next step is to visit the town. Travel to Galicia has become more Shelley Kellerman Pollero [email protected] s r feasible for many, and several of our members e t As the seasons shift once again, we are filled with t (perhaps you) will travel there this year “in search a renewed energy and thoughts of new experiences and M of…” Remember to take along a video camera and, G new opportunities. We intensify our networking and when you return, contact Sam Eneman G connect with relatives, collect new data, organize the <[email protected]>, to find out how to old, and seek new horizons to discover or rediscover. include some of your video footage in the Galicia The long awaited, newly available Ellis Island video he is preparing for the 2003 Gala. Records for passengers arriving in New York from Some members will have the opportunity to 1892 to 194_ are a magnet, drawing many of us again attend the IAJGS Summer Conference in London this into our ongoing search for our forefathers (and year. A Galicia SIG meeting is planned for Monday “mothers”) who emigrated from Galicia to America. evening. Although I will be unable to attend this Some of us have already experienced the excitement year’s conference, a few members of the GGSC and of discovery in these records, spawning a desire to the Galicia Group of the JGS of Great Britain will co- share our new information with family and others. host the annual SIG meeting. The tentative agenda This season, some of us will reconnect with includes an orientation to Galicia and networking family at reunions. While at a reunion, ask someone opportunities with other Galitzianers. Plan to attend! for a copy of a favorite traditional recipe handed Whether networking, meeting, doing archival down from your Galitzianer “grandmother.” Take a research on site or online, or traveling, remember to few notes about the people, places, events, and/or share what you have learned and experienced. We all memories associated with the recipe and plan to benefit from each other’s successes (and failures). Let submit an entry into the Gesher Galicia (GG) us collaborate, cooperate, and share the results! cookbook planned for the 2003 Gesher Galicia Tenth I’d like to take a moment to thank the members of Anniversary Gala in D.C. Tell us about your the GGSC for their dedicated support and fine efforts upcoming reunions so we might publicize them in in providing focus and direction to our growing The Galitzianer, perhaps leading to the discovery of a membership and in handling GG’s administrative new cousin or branch of the family details. Thanks to Leon Gold, who deftly keeps track Another way to connect and network with others of the membership, to Edward Goldstein and the includes updating or submitting your name, e-mail Editorial Team (Eva Rosenn, Peter Jassem, and address, surnames, and towns to the JewishGen Peter Zavon) for a wonderful Summer/Fall edition of Family Finder. Also try contacting other GG The Galitzianer, to Peter Zavon for the very well- members listed in the GG Family Finder who are also received, newly expanded Gesher Galicia Family researching your surnames and/or towns. Finder, to Mark Heckman, Webmaster of our As technology advances, we find new ways to excellent GG web site, to Melody Katz, Research share information and learn about the places where Chair and productive Projects Coordinator, to Peter our families once lived. We learn about the many Jassem, our knowledgeable, capable, and generous types of districts in Galicia and how the boundaries Liaison to JRI-Poland, to Nelson Pollack, who keeps shifted over the years, causing us to relearn some track of our finances, to Roni Seibel Liebowitz for lessons in geography. We try to make sense out of all her excellent insights, to Barb Khait for her this and seek information and guidance. feedback, and especially to Joyce Field for her The 2001 edition of the Gesher Galicia Family ongoing support and indefatigable efforts on behalf of Finder provides some help in explaining the Galicia GG and JewishGen. I’d also like to thank Beverly districts. Peter Zavon has included a new section Shulster for her dedicated work as Moderator of the (MAPS) in which he has published two maps, the Galicia SIG Online Discussion Group, which has newer one showing the principal towns and juridical almost 800 subscribers, and to Edward Rosenbaum (court) districts of Galicia, as they existed in 1878. for managing the very useful Galicia Surname Index Although not Jewish districts, the map and the on our web site. These are the volunteers who make accompanying list of the Districts of Galicia and Gesher Galicia possible for all of us. Thank you so Bukowina (circa 1878) help with geographic much! references and enable us to see approximately where our towns were located at that point in time. 2 The Galitzianer May 2001 From the Editors’ Desks London2001: 8-13 July, 2001 Edward Goldstein Shelley Kellerman Pollero Eva Rosenn Speakers on a wide variety of topics are scheduled for As you can see, we are still experimenting with the the LONDON2001 Conference, including the major layout of our newsletter. We have narrowed the countries of Europe and other regions in Africa, Asia, margins and the space between columns and have Australia, Jamaica, the Americas, and the Middle reduced line spacing from 14 points to 13 points. East. A list of themes promises many additional Three reasons: (1) to improve the appearance of the choices for Conference attendees. There will be a pages, (2) to use space more efficiently, and (3) to wide selection of sessions ranging from Archives to reduce the unsightly problem with long email Yizkor Books, including sessions for beginners and addresses and URLs you may have noticed in the last on computing, crime, databases, family histories, issue. genealogy concepts, Holocaust, genetics and We hope that you have also noticed a significant genealogy, migration, miscellaneous, onomastics, and improvement in print quality for both text and Sephardi. In addition, mini-courses in Yiddish and in graphics. This has come about because we made some understanding documents in Hebrew will be offered. technological changes in our production. For the Several sessions may be of interest to Galicia techies among you, here’s the difference. In the researchers. Speakers marked with an asterisk (*) are previous issue, we used Word 98 to prepare a file of Gesher Galicia members: the entire issue on a Macintosh computer. We then printed it on a laser printer and hand-carried the paper Sessions of interest to Galicia researchers: copy to a convenient CopyCop, which then photo- Galicia 1900 Wales 2000 – Holocaust History: copied the almost 1,000 copies we needed. For this the next generation – Mike Joseph* issue, on the other hand, we did not print the file out Reading Between the Lines of Grandfather’s at home, but transferred it to CopyCop via a part of Letters from Galicia & Poland – Mike Joseph* the Internet called File Transfer Protocal or FTP. At The Destruction of Galician Jewry and the the CopyCop location, another Macintosh computer Deportations to Belzec – Robin O’Neil prepared the file for direct electronic input to a high- The Changing Maps of Eastern Europe – Hal resolution Xerox printing system called DocuTech, Bookbinder which then printed the copies. I hope you enjoy the Waves of Immigration to Australia – Sophie difference. Caplan* We have been fortunate in having available for The Censuses of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom publication what I hope you will agree is a wealth of including Belarus & Ukraine – Jeffrey Cymbler* interesting material. To make room for as much of it Jewish Records Indexing – Poland Project – as possible, we have gone to a 40-page double issue Stanley Diamond and chosen to publish one of the articles in JewishGen’s Research Projects for the New installments. Millenium – Joyce Field* We want your opinions on how we can improve Burial Societies in the NY Metro Area – Ada The Galitzianer.