Gesher Galicia Advisors and Associates

ARCHIVAL ADVISORS

Agnieszka Franczyk-Cegła, Ossolineum, Wrocław
Magdalena Marosz, National Archives in Kraków
Kateryna Mytsan, State Archive of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (DAIFO), Ivano-Frankivsk
Fedir Polianskyi, State Archive of Ternopil Oblast (DATO), Ternopil
Sławomir Postek, Central Archives of Historical Records (AGAD), Warsaw
Igor Smolskyi, Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv (TsDIAL), Lviv

ACADEMIC ADVISORS

Michał Galas, Department of Jewish Studies, Jagellonian University, Kraków
Sergey Kravtsov, Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University
David Rechter, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Dariusz Stola, Collegium Civitas, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Wacław Wierzbieniec, Department of History and Jewish Culture, Rzeszów University

GALICIA PARTNER ASSOCIATES

Sofia Dyak, Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv
Joanna Król, POLIN Museum, Warsaw
Jakub Nowakowski, Galicia Jewish Museum, Kraków
Anna Przybyszewska-Drozd, Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw

KEY ASSOCIATES

Gesher Galicia Secretariat in Warsaw, warsaw.secretariat@geshergalicia.org
Piotr Gumola, Gesher Galicia Representative in Poland
Paweł Malinowski, Archival Inventories Manager, Assistant IT Manager

Gesher Galicia Representative in Ukraine
Mykhailo Zubar, Kiev

Editor, The Galitzianer
Jodi Benjamin, Pennsylvania

Digital Maps Manager
Jay Osborn, Lviv

IT Manager
Laura Laytham, Florida

Jewish Galician Heritage
Marla Osborn, Lviv

Chair, Pamela Weisberger Memorial Fund Committee
Michael Kaufman

Upcoming Programs

Tuesday, January 14 to Saturday, February 22 (with most events taking place between January 27 and 31). THE 12th INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAYS IN PODKARPACKIE PROVINCE, under the auspices of the Marshal of Podkarpackie voivodeship, Władysław Ortyl. On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, a wide-ranging series of events of remembrance of the Holocaust in the region is planned in 35 towns in south-eastern Poland. The towns include: Rzeszów, Dynów, Jarosław, Jasło, Leżajsk, Mielec, Pruchnik, Przemyśl, Rudnik, Sanok, Tarnobrzeg, Tyczyn, and others. The events involve talks (including by Holocaust survivors), musical performances, exhibitions, religious services, and other commemorative events. The main organizers are the Department of Jewish History and Culture at the University of Rzeszów, under Prof. Wacław Wierzbieniec. Many other institutions are also involved in the sponsorship and organization of events, including municipal councils, cultural centers, schools, museums, and local community groups.

For further information, please contact ur.dzienholokaustu2020@gmail.com at Rzeszów University, or else anna.dziama@gmail.com. English-speakers can also call for information: +48 609504192, or +48 661582989.

Wednesday, February 5, 2020, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th St. New York, NY 10011. Andrew Zalewski will present: JEWISH STUDENTS, MEDICAL GLOBETROTTERS, AND PERSEVERING WOMEN. For further details and to register, please click here.

Monday, May 4, 2020, from 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., JGS of Montreal and Jewish Public Library, Gelber Conference Centre, 5151 Côte-Ste-Catherine/1 Carré Cummings, Montreal. Andrew Zalewski will present: POPULATION SURVEYS AND MAPS OF GALICIA. The event is open to the public. For further details click here.

Wednesday, May 6, 2020, 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., JGS of Ottawa, the Soloway Jewish Community Centre. Andrew Zalewski will present: JEWISH GLOBETROTTERS AND PERSEVERING WOMEN FROM GALICIA. Further details to follow.

Sunday, June 14, 2020, from 1:00 p.m. to 1:40 p.m. and from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th St. New York, NY 10011. Meeting of the Jewish Genealogical Society of NYC. Andrew Zalewski will present: WORKSHOP: ARCHIVES, RECORDS, AND RESOURCES FOR GALICIAN GENEALOGISTS (1:00-1:40 p.m.) and SURVEYS AND MAPS OF GALICIA: VISITING TOWNS AND MEETING NEIGHBORS (2:00-4:00 p.m.). Check the links for further details on the workshop and the main talk.

Past Programs

Thursday, October 3, 2019, from 12:15 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Gratz College Reading Room, 7605 Old York Rd. Melrose Park, PA 19027. Andrew Zalewski will present: JEWISH GALICIA: LIVING TOGETHER AND APART. For further details about the topic, please click here, and for registration, register here.

Sunday, September 22, 2019, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Meeting of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Washington D.C. Location: B’nai Israel Congregation, 6301 Montrose Rd, Rockville, MD 20852. Andrew Zalewski will present: WORKSHOP: Resources for Genealogical Research (Galicia) (11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.) and MEDICAL GLOBETROTTERS AND PERSEVERING WOMEN FROM GALICIA (1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m.). For further details and registration, please click here.

Tuesday, September 10 – Thursday, September 12, 2019
SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON “JEWS IN GALICIA”
to be held in Kraków, at the Jagiellonian University and Galicia Jewish Museum. For more details of this conference, click here. Tony Kahane will present a paper at the conference on “Institutional antisemitism in the territory of the former Galicia, 1935-1939”, of which this is the abstract. Here is the final program for the conference.

Gesher Galicia is a non-profit organization carrying out Jewish genealogical and historical research on Galicia, formerly a province of Austria-Hungary and today divided between southeastern Poland and western Ukraine. The research work includes the indexing of archival vital records and census books, Holocaust-period records, Josephine and Franciscan cadastral surveys, lists of Jewish taxpayers, and records of Galician medical students and doctors - all added to our searchable online database. In addition, we reproduce regional and cadastral maps for our online Map Room. We conduct educational research and publish a quarterly research journal, the Galitzianer.

You can search our free All Galicia Database, Map Room, and archival inventories, and read about member benefits starting at $36 per year. You can also join online.

Our general contact address: info@geshergalicia.org