Families: The Bauer Family of Galicia

Records of the Bauer family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 1197 records for the surname Bauer (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:

• Rifke BEER
  census record from Brody Jewish Census (1850-1857)
• Jacob BEER
  census record from Brody Jewish Census (1850-1857)
• Chaim Wolf BEER
  census record from Brody Jewish Census (1850-1857)
• Naftali Mendel BEER
  census record from Brody Jewish Census (1850-1857)
• Israel BEER
  census record from Brody Jewish Census (1850-1857)
• Meschel BAUER
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Simon BEER
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Sara BAUER
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Czarne BEER
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Hersch BEER
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 1197 records. The AGD is updated with new records every few months, so check back often to see the latest results.

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There are 39 entries listed in the Gesher Galicia Family Finder for this surname.

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

There are 195 search results for the surname Bauer 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 491 {y48}
  ... person, who wished to leave for Israel, had to give up "Aliyah" because of lack of finances. "Esih in Brzezany THE HEBREW SCHOOL /n important chapter in the history of the Jews of our town, was the founding of a Hebrew-School by the organization "Safa-Brura". (clear language) in May 1903. The actual founders were Mordechai Wolf Mai-blum. Yehudah Zarvintzer, Zalman Zaper, Josef Finkelstein and Jacob Bauer. The teaching staff included: Abuhav, Cohen. Rachovski. Zigel. Dlugach and Zvi Scharf-stein. Adolf Horn was elected president of the school. A club called "Ivriyah". 18 with a library and a reading hall were established at the same time.
• Brzezany Yizkor Book (1978), image 491 {y91}
  ... , had to give up "Aliyah" because of lack of finances. Brzezany THE HEBREW SCHOOL n important chapter in the history of the Jews of our town, was the founding of a Hebrew-School by the organization "Safa-Brura". (clear language) in May 1903. The actual founders were Mordechai Wolf Mai-blum, Yehudah Zarvintzer, Zalman Zaper. Josef Finkelstein and Jacob Bauer. The teaching staff included: Abuhav, Cohen. Rachovski, Zigel, Dlugach and Zvi Scharf-stein. Adolf Horn was elected president of the school. A club called "Ivriyah", with a library and a reading hall were established at the same time. "Ezrah" 18
• Baranow Yizkor Book (1964), image 248 {y32}
  ... of voices of boys poring over the Talmud, was becoming silent part of the day. The midday hours were now devoted to reading newspapers or books of secular content. The mail brought in daily ten Yiddish (Haint), three Polish (Novy Dziennik) and two Hebrew (Hatzfirah) newspapers. These were all Zionist oriented newspapers. Later there was also a subscription for "The Yid" a Yiddish paper of the Agudas Yisroel. The Zionist Organization "The Farein" fas it was popularly called) in addition to subscribing to a scries of period-icals, maintained an extensive library—a library whose books were studied voraciously, and made available to the youth at a minimal fee. The "Farein" whose membership was of both sexes and whose library contained books whose contents were at variance with the accepted ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 384 {y94}
  ... pipe which never left his mouth. These two, the stick and the pipe, were his "trade marks". He was a strictly observant Jew and insisted on his children and grandchildren’s observing the tenets of "Honor thy father and thy mother' down to the last detail. In his last years Reb Shimeleh transferred his haber-dashery shop to his son, Xaftali Hersch, God rest his soul, father of Moshe, keeping one corner of it for himself, to sell paper goods for writing, packaging and decorating purposes. It is no wonder, therefore, that I was well-aquainted with Reb Naftali Hersch’s sons, especially Moshe. Later our similar life styles brought us to-gether. The family belonged to the Bobov Hassidim and when the sons grew up they were sent to study at the Yeshivot. While still a child Moshe was known ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 422 {y94}
  ... suffered a great tragedy in his family — his wife and son died of blood poisoning within a few days of each other. After this catastrophe Reb Hirsh left Brzozow for Sanok. Reb Ben-Zion and his family remained in Brzo-zow, where he had a baked-brick factory as well as the monopoly for selling brandy wholesale. Reb Ben-Zion’s wife, Rechtshe, was known for her wisdom and kindness. She kept an open house — every pauper and unfortunate who came in hungry left replete, with additional supplies for the road and some money as well. Reb Ben-Zion, besides his business dealings, was also active in public works and served as the Chair-

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