Families: The Blei Family of Galicia

Records of the Blei family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 2508 records for the surname Blei (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:

• Chaia BLAU
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Abraham BLAU
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Chaskel BLECH
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Pessie BLEICH
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• [infant], son of Schulim BLEICH
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Itzig BLECH, son of Asriel BLECH
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Meier BLEICH
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Chune BELLER, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Blima BILLER, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Ludwik BILLER, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 2508 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 Blei family in Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website

There are 199 search results for the surname Blei 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.

• Bobrka Yizkor Book (1964), image 233 {y80}
  ... who had charge of issuing the visas. His name was The day of December 25th 1946. after the Congress closed I was on my way to Marseilles in order to board a ship for Haifa. Since we had to wail from December the 25th to January 1st. we remained in Nice. There I began to look for Boibcrkcr landslcit and the Gabbi of the local Shul called out after the services whether there are any Boibcrkcr landslcit. He gave them ... the women folks, befriended him to the extent that at one lime they pul him up as a candidate opposing the one time Prime Minister Leon Blum. When Hitler invaded France this young man had to flee and was hidden near Nice, where he caught rheumatism which could be seen on one of his hands, lie asked me for S25.00 which I gave him and he promised that lie would send me the ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 395 {y94}
  ... Yankel (Yaakov) Israel Hersh (Henry) and Meyer. The year 1914, at the outbreak of World War I, was severely tragic and painful for Reb. Chaim Leib. He lost his wife and his son Yankel was mobilized as a soldier in the Austrian army. Left a widower with two young children, he remarried a Brezover woman from the Estreicher family and she bore him five children. The vagaries of the war compelled many people to flee, with the result that their stores were plun-dered. When the war ended Reb. Chaim Leib was forced to start all over again. Once again he sue-ceeded and found the energy to rebuild the business. This did not last too long because in 1918, after Poland became an independent nation, the anti-Semitic wave generated by 44pogroms" resulted in the devastation of Jewish existence ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 473 {y94}
  ... bar-racks, etc. The leader of the Jewish Council was M. Knebelbart. .All 01 the Jewish shops were requisitioned, but we were lucky because our bakery was necessary to feed the German army and we were recognized as the "official" Jewish bakery from whom the Jews in Brzozow could buy one loaf of bread per family a week for a coupon. A curfew was imposed on all the Jews and we had to wear white armbands with a blue Magen David on our right arms all the time. In the beginning of 1940, I was ordered to go to Dynow, a nearby town, along with several other men, '0 dispose of the corpses of Jews murdered in that town a few months pro-viously. We had to rebury them in a mass grave in the Jewish cemetery in Dynow. There were many Jews shot by Germans at that time, for no apparent reason ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 476 {y94}
  ... no one ran away. Whoever could not work any longer was shot and buried on the spot, and the work went on. One day while carrying a railroad switch with a wooden con-traption, I slipped and broke my left shoulder. After a short time of staying in the barracks with a little doctor’s care, I returned to work. Twice during the concentration camp period I was beaten for no reason by the watchdogs, so that my whole body was black and blue and I was unable to sit. From Plaszow we went to Skarzysko where the Germans had several large grenade factories. My job was outside, cutting down trees and working with spades and wheelbarrows. Again, rain or shine wc had to do hard work with practically no food in our bellies. The last camp was Buchenwald where I changed my name and registered ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 489 {y94}
  ... a dry piece of bread, without any real chance of achieving that goal. The cars moved at great speed, which in our jumbled positions, made our condition catastrophic. Having come to the con-elusion that they had nothing to lose, four youths from Brzozow used this hilly journey to make a bold escape. The Gestapo, following behind us in their cars, were on an upgrade. As soon as those attempting to flee were out of the line of sight (of the Gestapo), they jumped into the ditch and hid there. Later on I heard that these youths returned to Brzozow, hid there until the evictions began, and then were taken to an extermination camp along with the other Jews. We were taken to a train station at a holiday resort, Ivonitz. On side rails, were waiting two closed cars used for transporting cattle, with ...

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