Families: The April Family of Galicia

Records of the April family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 31 records for the surname April (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:

• Pepi APRIL, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Haie APRIL
  1848 death record from Tyczyn Jewish Deaths (1792-1876)
• Moses APRIL, son of Meilech APRIL and Frimet
  1850 birth record from Rzeszów Jewish Births (1842-1866)
• Sara APRIL, daughter of Isac APRIL and Rachel NISSBAUER
  1850 birth record from Rzeszów Jewish Births (1842-1866)
• Israel APRIL, son of Abrahm APRIL and Rachl NUSBAUM
  1852 birth record from Rzeszów Jewish Births (1842-1866)
• Lazar APRIL, son of Abr. Isac APRIL and Rochel NIESSENBAUM
  1855 birth record from Rzeszów Jewish Births (1842-1866)
• Marzell APRILL
  1872 birth record from Kraków Jewish Births (index book) (1872-1873)
• Pinkas APRIL
  1879 death record from Lwów Jewish Deaths (1805-1880)
• Józef KANARENSTEIN (from 22 April 1896, BARDACH)
  1897 school record from Jagiellonian University Jewish Medical Students/Doctors (1851-1918)
• Lea, daughter of Leizor BRUCHHEIM recte JABLONER and Brucha APRIL
  1905 birth record from Radymno Jewish Births (1905-1913)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 31 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 April family in Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website

There are 182 search results for the surname April 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.

• Berezhany Yizkor Book (1978), image 502 {y48}
  ... all those who helptmeand supported my work and assisted in the materialization of this task - first and formost Dr. Eliezer Szaklai-Wagszal my thanks and appreciation. May this book serve as a memorial to the Jewish people and to the community of Brzezany, which fell victim to forces of darkness of Nazi Germany. May this book also serve as an eternal memory to the coming generation - a light to our youth which is renewing our existence as a free people in our home-land, and a warning to those of our people dispersed in the diaspora, who have not yet drawn the obvious conclusion from our tragic past. Editor - Menachem Katz Haifa, April 1978 7
• Bielsko-Biala Yizkor Book (1973), image 182 {y76}
  ... der obenerwähnten allerhöchsten Bewilligung "ein Bet-haus ganz neu und massiv im gerichtlich erhobenen Schätzwerte von 6838 fl. Cmze. erbaut worden ist". Laut einer Vorgefundenen Originaleingabe vom 14. Juli 1843 haben die hiesigen (Bielitzer) Israeliten "ein Bittgesuch an Se. M. Kaiser Ferdinand I. überreicht und darin um die aller-gnädigste Erlaubnis eine Orgel in ihrem höchstenorts privile-gierten Bethause zu Bielitz aufstellen zu dürfen" gebeten. Die sog. Emanzipation der Juden erfolgte erst im Jahre 1848, als das Verfassungspatent vom 25. April 1848 die Gleich-heit der Staatsbürger vor dem Gesetze aussprach und die freie
• Bielsko-Biala Yizkor Book (1973), image 183 {y76}
  ... von dem samstätigen Wochenmarkt nach ihren Religionsgesetzen keinen Vorteil für sich gewinnen kann -, so sieht sich also gefertigter Magistrat veranlasst, diese Angelegenheit nach seiner Pflicht zu unterstützen. Bielitz, den 6. August 1817. DIE ISRAELITISCHE KULTUSGEMEINDE IN BIELITZ 1865-1905 In Schlesien war den Juden nach den sog. Toleranzpatenten für Herzogtum Ober- und Niederschlesien vom 17. April 1752 und vom 15. Dezember 1781, sowie dem Hofdekrete vom. 1. Mai 1794 der Aufentahlt unter der damals üblichen Beschränkung auf einen bestimmten Status von Familien (Familienstellen) zwar gestattet; die Errichtung einer Synagoge, Anstellung eines eigenen Rabbiners und die Wahl von Vorstehern war an besondere Bedingungen geknüpft. Es war ihnen bloss das Ausüben ihrer Religion ...
• Bobrka Yizkor Book (1964), image 27 {y80}
  ... אהיו מל מלמל- ביים ניניד על יײ יבייים- Verfauung dcr iiracliutchen Rcligion^gctclhchaft, Re. -«» gicrung vcrordcnunggtblait 1800, Nr. 57. 0ל- א ל-מאײ: ־מנילי עילם* חלק ג־, לבוב 2»«ו, עס׳ קנ־ו־ יל- -Vcrordnung dc* Miniitcriuim fiir Cultur und Unlcr ricbt, 2 April 1891. LCB42 9 I (Fe*t»tellung und Abgreiigreniuni{ dcr Cullurgemcindc rcgcl). 1ל 5 94 I Abichr.itt בל- עלה ארנה עם אמתי- מניהס נפםדו בארץ ינקנרו נירוסלים. 4ל- אניי וקני מל הנייר אריה אליוייל, ת־א, ימראל- Kalcndcr dcr Juaclitcn. Hcrau'Scgcbcn ...
• Bobrka Yizkor Book (1964), image 231 {y80}
  ... added to the Free Loan Fund in Israel.) Abe Fischer draw1 a check for S350.00. With this I was repaid the major amount of the loan which I advanced, and the balance of SIOO.OO was repaid to me from the collection on the Yahr-zcit day of March 25. 1962. We actually collected SI.060.00 that day. but when I reached Israel to my grandsons Bar Mitzvah I handed to the committee in Israel in the middle of April 1962, S960.00. With this act, the loan of S450. which I made to the committee on July 7. 1961. was fully repaid to me. Poland; he. too. was permitted to return, and eventually he was helped by the Jewish Agency for Israel to emigrate to the Slate of Israel. There, two of our townsmen helped him acquire a horse and wagon, enabling him to make a living by peddling. But when his horse fell ...

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