Families: The Birenbaum Family of Galicia

Records of the Birenbaum family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 1115 records for the surname Birenbaum (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:

• Sura BIRNBAUM
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Jankel BIRNBAUM
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Moses Mechel BIRNBAUM
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Abraham BIRNBAUM, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Fania BIRNBAUM, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Fania BIRNBAUM, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Jakub BIRNBAUM, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Maurycy BIRNBAUM, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Maurycy BIRNBAUM, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Rosa BIRNBAUM, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 1115 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 Birenbaum family in Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website

There are 182 search results for the surname Birenbaum 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.

• Galicia Yizkor Book (1945), image 644 {y168}
  Zungman Zirlinger Isaac Zimmer Jose Zang Moises Zimerman Zigmund Ziman Simon Zang David Abcloff Dora Altschiler Lofm Vogelfenger Marila Birenbaum Elsa Altman Fan! Low Bruche Metzger Margarita Winter Segal Hilda Thumin Anna Winkel Anna Urman L. Aptovitzer Rosa Probst Rosa Huss Ester Pomerantz Teresa Finkel Rosa Plotzkinds Berta Krawietz Elsa Bass Jaime Schnaider Sarah Averbach Sarah Weitzman Seidler Clara Askenazy Fanny Grinberg Clara Falik Perla Honig Martha Glaser Sarah Fuer Josefina Segal de Klein Zucker Nechemias Zlatkes Herman Zolkever Israel Zukcrberg Eugenio Zweifler Leon Zion Jacobo Zinkman Zimmerman Emilia Frenkel Clara Berenholtz ...
• Kolbuszowa Yizkor Book (1971), image 825 {y239}
  ... BOOK 74 most respected citizens of the ghetto to his office and told them that the tyrant Twardon demanded that they shave off their beards. Disobedience meant instant death. They were: my father Itsche Saleschutz; Yossef-Hayyim Anfang; Hersch Kleinman; Osher Dershowitz; Hendl Ginsberg; Moshe-Yossef Berle; Israel Hofferc; Yaakov Kirshenbaum; Hirch-Yaakov Silber; Moshe Fenichel; Kalman Birenbaum; Shulcm Sher; Kiva Schmidt; Kiva Auch- hisiger and Hersch Kinstlich. Shaving their beards was for these pious men a "taste of death itself". A few days later Paszek again had to inform them that Twardon demanded 5 kilo of gold. The Judenrat began to collect the gold. Quarrels erupted, for the few who had a little gold left were hoarding it for the worst emergency. When, however, only 3V2 kilo ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 435 {y94}
  ... for a Jewish person to travel at that time in Poland. I now asked the daughter if she had any of the things which could serve as mementos. She crossed her heart and with tears in her eyes replied that nothing was left from her mother... When we began talking she told me that after the liquidation of the Jews from Brzozow, two sisters and a brother from the Birnbaum family, the Chey-der teacher Josef Aaron Birnbaum was their father, lived in a ruined house in Borkowka. According to the daughter’s story, Mrs. Bargiel would throw a loaf of bread into the hiding place, until they were discovered one day and as the result of a Polish informant taken by the Gestapo. It was very difficult for me to decide whether or not to enter the apartment in which I had lived. As I mentioned earlier ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 530 {y94}
  ... "kinig* lach", from the word "king", and in Polish "krolicki". When the fair is over these young men bring the skins to some merchants who collect them in quantity then "export" them. Anything sent outside the shtetl’s borders is called "export". One of the dealers in these royal "kiniglach" is Leibush Horovitz, a young Yeshiva student, blonde and short-bearded and active in the "Mizrachi". Mendel Birnbaum, his friend in the party, jokingly called him, "Melech Malchei Hamlachim" — der kinig iber alle kiniglach" (the King of Kings). One of the shtetl’s fools hanging around the market was one day attracted by the noise and bustle of buying and selling and, like everybody else, bought himself a "kinigel" fur which he paid for with the coins begged from the kind-hearted village women ...
• Chrzanow Yizkor Book (1989), image 389 {y114}
  ... to Berish Kleber, a Jewish night watchman, I managed to get the two comrades out of jail. Among the shining Jewish luminaries which Chrzanow often heard was Dr. Yits-khok Shifer, who was very fond of Chrzanow and closely connected with the city. When Dr. Shmuel Cyfer was inducted into the Austrian army during World War I, Dr. Yitskhok Shifer took over his practice, and lived in Chrzanow for a while. Berl Loker, too, was always happy to come to Chrzanow. The magnificent Dr. Natan Birnbaum always related that as a young man, when he passed through town on his way to Vienna, he always stopped in Chrzanow for a couple of hours. Once, on Purim, he laughed loudly on seeing a Jew in costume, wearing a silk coat and a shtreimel, riding a horse and carrying an etrog and a lulav. Dr. Natan ...

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