Vol. 3. No. 1 Fall 1995 1. From The Editor’s Desk: 2. Germans From Galicia 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 Bukovina 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. 2 The Galitzianer Vol. 3 No. 1 This is especially true and book reviews, so we can all nowadays as formerly closed benefit. resources in Poland and the Ukraine 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. Milton Goldsamt- Contributing Editor With all these changes in the 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. 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(410)647-9492 FAX; (410)315-8188 (call voice phone first) This publication is yours. Send us your stories, charts, lists 2 The Galitzianer Vol. 3 No. 1 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.