Records of the Alter family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 534 records for the surname Alter (including soundalike names and spelling variants) in the All Galicia Database (the AGD), Gesher Galicia's free searchable collection of genealogical and historical records from the former Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia, which is now eastern Poland and western Ukraine. Here is a sampling of some of the results you can find there:

  • Pessie ALTER
    death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
  • Chaia ALTER
    death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
  • Scheindel ALTER
    death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
  • [infant] ALTER
    death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
  • Sara ALTER
    death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
  • Aron ALTER
    death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
  • Dawid ALTER
    death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
  • Chaskel ALTER
    death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
  • Chana SILBER-ALTER, grandchild of , , ,
    Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
  • Chana SILBER-ALTER, grandchild of , , ,
    Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)

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Records of the Alter family in Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website

There are 162 search results for the surname Alter at Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website, a few of which are listed below. Note that results listed below are limited to purely Galician sources, such as telephone and business directories from Galician cities, or school records, but they do not include the many other sources available on his website that span all of pre-war Poland. You may need the free .DjVu web browser plugin to view these files.

  • Baligrod Yizkor Book (1964), image 392 {y24}
    ... ) װעלכער איז אװעקנענוסען געװארן פון אונדז פלוצלוננ און פריצ״טיק, ז׳ טכוז תש״י (דעם 27פטן דעצעמכער 1949) אין עלטער פץ 44 י*«ד. ער איז געבארן אין סואװאלק. גאר יונג געקומען קיץ אמעריקע׳ אמ געלעבט אץ דעטרוים במשד פח 29 יאר. געװען א שטילער בעשיידענער מענטש. פארמאגט אן א״דעלן כאראקטער׳ געסאן פיל נוטעס און דערפאר זוכר. געװען לשם טוב. שײנדל או! אנעט גלאדסטאן In blessed memory of our dear Husband and Father LEO GLADSTONE sadly missed by his WIFE and DAUGHTER N MEMORY O F ALTER GLADSTONE JUDITH GLADSTONE LEE GLADSTONE IRVING GLADSTONE ABE GLADSTONE MEYER GLADSTEIN FAY GLADSTEIN YETTA (GLADSTEIN) SMITH JACOB SMITH MRS. LEE GLADSTEIN Detroit, Mich.
  • Biecz Yizkor Book (1959), image 373 {y69}
    ... Hirschfeld, Morris Jacoby, Joel Judd, Abraham Judkowitz, Albert Kalb, Charles Katz, Rose Kenigstein,Mrs. Regina (F) Klein, Charles Klein, Morris Klein, Sidney Klotz, Arthur Klotz, Isidore Klotz, Leo Klotz, Marvin Klotz, Paul Klotz, Paul N. Klotz, Philip Klotz, Philip A. Klotz, Samuel Klotz, Mrs. Viola Komfeld, Leon Korzenik, Abraham Krieger, Jacob Kurz, Abraham Lembeck, Charles Alter, Jerome Banner, Abraham Beck, Benjamin Beck, Mrs. Pearl Beller, Sidney Berg, Mrs. Malvina Berger, Irving Berkowitz, Irving Bernstein, Louis Bleichfeld, Kalman Blumenkranz, Sadie Briskman, Saul Brandus, Mrs. Phyllis Chananau, Alexander Chananau, Harold Chananau, Louis Citron, Mrs. Beckie Citron, Bernard Citron, Stephen B. Cohen, Lawrence Corn, Alfred J. Dickstein, Mrs. Leah Davidson, Morris Eder, Nathan Eichhom ...
  • Bielsko-Biala Yizkor Book (1973), image 167 {y76}
    ... ", es wurden Kurse über jüdische Geschichte vorgetragen und es warte nicht lange, als aus der jüdischen Verbindung eine zionistische wurde. Nach dem Muster der deutschen Verbindungen wurde jeder neu eint re-tende zuerst Hospitant, dann Fuchs und nach erfolgter Ablegung einer Prüfung in jüdischer Geschichte und Palästinageografie Bursch und nach der Matura "Alter Herr" der Verbindung. Fast gleichzeitig mit der Gründung der "Chewrussa" entstand eine zweite jüdische Verbindung, die "Hasmonäa", deren Mitglieder sich aus Schülern des deutschen Gymnasiums und der deutschen Realschule zusammensetzten. In Einzelfällen wurden auch Gymnasiasten in die "Chewrussa" aufgenommen. Die Ziele der "Chewrussa" waren aufrichtige und gegenseitige Freundschaft zu pflegen und die Menschen zu aufrechten ...
  • Bobrka Yizkor Book (1964), image 224 {y80}
    ... . Sister CRAEBEL FROYIM. Nephew GRAEBEL BERNARD, Nephew MKSSING-SOPOLSKY GITKL commemorates MESSING EFROYIM. Father MESSING DORA. Step mother and children MESSER MARCUS. Relative MESSER JACOB. Relative and children MESSER ISAK. Relative and children HELFER ELK IE, Relative and entire family MOKIL MILTON commemorates MOHL FAMILY ERDEN FAMILY KARTEN ALTER. Son KARTEN SARAH. LE1BEL KARTEN ABRAHAM. Cousin and entire family KARTEN ISIDORE KARTEN-GROSSBERG JULIA commemorates GROSSBERG MO IS HE. Father GROSSBERG BIN A. Mother GROSSBERG ROIZE. Sister REICHBACH REISELE. Aunt and 6 children SCOWRON FRIDA. Aunt and 2 children LICHTER MAITE, Aunt and her husband LICHTER AVRUM. Cousin LICHTER LI PE. Cousin LICHTER ITCHE. Cousin KARTKN ...
  • Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 543 {y94}
    ... flowed out of him. The oldsters of the former generation had a long account with the Church and always tried to bypass it when in the neighbourhood, turning their heads away so as not to see it. As we grew older and our horizons, as we then considered it, became wider, we were repelled by their attitude to a House of Prayer venerated by the people. But, as in many cases where the young tend to deride the old-fashioned ideas ... We were well aware that such a slow process of sinking, even if it actually took place, was most in-significant. Even if one grew to a fabulous old age, like that of "der alter Hersh Meilich", it was doubtful if one would live to see the Church actually buried in the ground. At the very most it might become difficult to force its iron portals open for those ...

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