Families: The Asher Family of Galicia

Records of the Asher family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 638 records for the surname Asher (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:

• Ester Sime OZE
  census record from Brody Jewish Census (1850-1857)
• Jechiel Chaskel OZE
  census record from Brody Jewish Census (1850-1857)
• Moses Ber HAUSER
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• [stillborn], daughter of Josel ASCHER
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Moses Mendel ASCHER
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Perl HAUSER
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Chanzie HAUSER
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Chane HAUSER
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Malke ASCHER
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Feige ASCHER
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 638 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 Asher family in Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website

There are 184 search results for the surname Asher 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.

• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 424 {y94}
  ... at work in Haifa, mother’s hair turned white and she never overcame the blow. Lushek was the pride of our family. He was gifted, was noted for his pleasant ways and gave Haim Bank / THE OESTRF.ICHER FAMILY harbingers of death cut down this prodigious family and only a small remnant managed to escape from the Nazis. The name of the Brakha family has been men-tioned. Special mention must be made of Beileh, daughter of ... Germans. The only survivors of the families men-tioned above are Reb Naftali Feit’s daughter, Haya (Helen) and the young son Moshe. Two sons of Reb Asher Doppelt, Feivel and David, were also saved. The head of this family was Reb Aaron, God rest his soul, and there were many branches in ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 479 {y94}
  ... was a Jewish man named Weiss. I asked a per- son standing nearby to give my regards to an uncle, a resident of Tarnow. My request came to the attention of a Landsman from Brzozow, Asher Adler who was accidently there. He was able to throw a few apples up to me in the automobile. To speak was impossible for after several minutes the auto-mobile departed with us. In a few minutes ... reserve officers from Brzozow. One of them was the son of the director of the health insurance office in Brzozow: I reminded him that just two months ago, he had stood together with other young gentiles in front of Jewish stores refusing entrance to the Christian customers... We had with us a number of soldiers dressed in civilian clothing, as there had been no time to con-form ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 553 {y94}
  ... tower rose from the roof of the Rathois with a long cable running from its top down into an iron pipe stuck into the ground — a lightn:ng rod to protect the area from the frequents thunder storms in the area, storms which shook the windows and filled the children’s hearts with dread. This wond-rous contraption about which many tales were told in the Heder was called a "blitz-ableitcr" and a ... stick in his hand, wearing white gloves and black and white laquered shoes he seemed, on the background of the miserable street, like one of the illustrations in the tattered magazines one saw at Yossef Asher’s, the tailor of fashion. No doubt a stranger arriving there by chance who caught a glimpse of the Tanz Meister would have thought he was an American come to seek out his poor relations. On ...
• Busk Yizkor Book (1965), image 349 {y99}
  ... Agnon for his contribution, the third chapter "a tale of a pot" from his book HACHNASAT KALA the entire proceeds of which was given to the "wagon driver" (Ba'al Agala) a Jew from Busk "KOH LEHAI". To the Poet Shimshon Meltzer, for his writing in appreciation of his friend and the last Hebrew teacher in Busk, native of our town, and its Poet Elazar Shmuel Berkun — many thanks! To my friends from New York, the brothers Asher and Israel Padwa, to Regina Kremnitz, to Shamai Zipper and to others who made possible the publication of the book, many thanks. Many thanks to all. Abraham Shayari Editor VI
• Chrzanow Yizkor Book (1989), image 521 {y114}
  ... Holander, Yehoshua-Heshel, Faigele—married Richter, Liebe-Toube—married Rosenfeld Heuberger Aaron, Frieda, Abraham Joseph, Rachel, Esther Hirschberg Israel—Laib, Sarah—bom Posner, Zeev-Wolf Hirschberg Abraham, Shayndl Hirschtal Yechezkiel, Esther—born Barber Hochberger Aharon, Fradl, Abraham-Josef, Rachel, Esther Holander Itzchak-Hakohen, Nisi, Asher, Pinchas, Rachel—born Penichl, Chana Holander Moyshe-Laib, Sheva—born Herbst, Baruch, Bayle, Abraham, Sarah, Pearl Holander Elisha, Mirl, Blima, Faigl, Mordechai, David, Faiga-Rifka—born Kuperman Horowitz Jocob, Aydl Ibersfeld Abraham, Perele, Baruch, Shayndl, Hese Ingber Moyshe, Jocob ...

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