Families: The Ames Family of Galicia

Records of the Ames family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 1247 records for the surname Ames (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:

• Leib AMES, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Salomon AMES, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Salomon AMES, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Chane HAMER, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Feiga HAMER, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Josef HAMER, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Bernard HAMMER, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Malka HAMMER, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Grzegorz AMI
  1787 property record from Stanisławów Josephine Survey (1787)
• Grzegorz AMI
  1787 property record from Stanisławów Josephine Survey (1787)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 1247 records. The AGD is updated with new records every few months, so check back often to see the latest results.

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

There are 190 search results for the surname Ames 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.

• Baranow Yizkor Book (1964), image 241 {y32}
  ... " A very interesting institution in Baranow was that of "Kinian Sefarim" (The purchase and maintenance of the religious books in the Bes Midrosh.) This institution was unique in that it was administered entirely by boys be-twecn the ages of 12 and 18. Somehow, by common consent of the boys who learned in the Bes Midrosh ... books strewn on the tables and place them in their respective shelves. The money collected was turned opcr to a treasurer, usually a merchant of good repu-tation. The money was withdrawn only when needed to buy new books or mend the old ones. The purchase of new books was a matter that required serious contempla-tion. For there were always more "necessary" books to buy than there was money with which to buy them. The Gabai and the older boys with whom he consulted in ...
• Baranow Yizkor Book (1964), image 251 {y32}
  ... or when, due to some mechanical malfunction, the pumps would fail to operate, a board was lifted up and the bucket dropped directly into the well and thus the water was drawn. Rising above the rows of single storied homes in the Marck were two taller structures each having two stories: one in the west, and one in the north. Both ow־ners used the lower floors as saloons and the upper ones for living quarters. The one in the north served also as a sort of hotel when cir-cumstances imposed detention on an infrequent visitor. All roads led to or emanated from the "Marck." Southward was the heavily cobbled road leading to the railroad depot some seven miles off. Midway to the depot was the Jcw־i$h cemetery. The road to the west was tree lined. On its right was the stately school-house with well ...
• Berezhany Yizkor Book (1978), image 479 {y48}
  ... lived in one section, far from the ghetto and from those people and places where we dwelt during the rule of the Nazis. We had a strong desire to get away from the local population, a great majority of whom, gave a helping hand to the murder of the Jews. We were look-ing forward to the day when we would be able to leave that terrifying place, where our lives and the lives of our dear ones were brought to a premature end. Our situation after the liberation, by the Soviets became more difficult than before the Nazi occupation. The non-Jewish population, as well as the Soviet government could not forgive the fact that we remained alive. They saw in us an unwanted remnant. They, as well as we. were waiting for the day when we could leave the place forever. Finally that day arrived. According ...
• Berezhany Yizkor Book (1978), image 483 {y48}
  ... the German labor-offices, these camps turned into a sort of business. The German ofifcials were interested to bring into the camps not merely hundreds or thousands of Jews, but tens of thousands of Jewish slave laborers. To materialize this purpose, they used their energy to destroy and exter-minate. ■by every possible means, the Jwish laborers who were already in the camps, and bring new ones in their place. .With every new group of workers, they received a large sum of money from the Judenrat, besides robbing the workers of their belongings. The Nazi labor and concentration camps constitute one of the saddest, depressing and most painful chapters in the history of human brutality. It left "mark of Cain", on every one. who had something to do with them, "labor camp" these two words spell ...
• Brzezany Yizkor Book (1978), image 479 {y91}
  ... lived in one section, far from the ghetto and from those people and places where we dwelt during the rule of the Nazis. We had a strong desire to get away from the local population, a great majority of whom, gave a helping hand to the murder of the Jews. We were look-ing forward to the day when we would be able to leave that terrifying place, where our lives and the lives of our dear ones were brought to a premature end. Our situation after the liberation, by the Soviets became more difficult than before the Nazi occupation. The non-Jewish population, as well as the Soviet government could not forgive the fact that we remained alive. They saw in us an unwanted remnant. They, as well as we. were waiting for the day when we could leave the place forever. Finally that day arrived. According ...

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