Families: The Bratspeiss Family of Galicia

Records of the Bratspeiss family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 56 records for the surname Bratspeiss (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:

• Dawid BRATSPIES
  Array death record from Brzeżany Jewish Deaths (1820-1870)
• Lea BRATSPISS, daughter of Salm. and Malka
  1841 birth record from Mościska Jewish Births (1827-1882)
• Pesel BRATSPIS, daughter of Salm. and Malke EHRENBAUM
  1841 death record from Mościska Jewish Deaths (1827-1885)
• Jacob BRATSPIS
  1846 property record from Rohatyn House Owners (1846)
• Selig BRATSPIS
  1846 property record from Rohatyn House Owners (1846)
• Jacob BRATSPIS
  1846 property record from Rohatyn House Owners (1846)
• Riwka BRATSPIES, daughter of Salaman and Malka
  1847 birth record from Mościska Jewish Births (1827-1882)
• Rifka BRATSCHPIS, daughter of Saloman and Malka
  1848 death record from Mościska Jewish Deaths (1827-1885)
• Malke BRATSPIES, daughter of Leiser and Hinde
  1850 death record from Mościska Jewish Deaths (1827-1885)
• Sendor , son of Leib BRATSPIESS and Itte BAUMGARTEN
  1856 birth record from Drohobycz Jewish Births (1816-1869)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 56 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 Bratspeiss family in Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website

There are 188 search results for the surname Bratspeiss 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 240 {y80}
  ... . In the winter he used to drop in to our house to warm up. When my brother met him on Rivington Street, he was dressed in a dark suit and a dirby hat and his chest was ornamented with a golden watch and chain which in those days was usually purchased from a pedlcr on payments of a dollar a week. When my brother asked him, Mordchy Hersh. how arc things with you, you look prosperous? his reply was. "everything would be all right but the food isn’t as good as in Boiberke. The meat, isn't meat, the beer isn’t beer." My brother looked at him and thought, "here is a man who perhaps had a piece of meat once a week on the Sabbath in Boiberke and a glass of beer only if by chance someone treated him, and here he has plenty of everything but is complaining." Nevertheless, he lived out his years ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 396 {y94}
  ... . In most instances the greater part of Jewish trade had its start not in open stores but in so called "stands" where a variety of merchandise was dis-played to attract the customer and enable him to select and purchase the necessary items. Reb. Chaim Leib was not an exception in this respect because he also started with a stand which later turned into a successful and prosperous business. The majority of the houses at that time were Among the experienced Jewish merchants in Brzo-zow the personality of Reb. Chaim Leib Diller was prominent. He was not actually born in Brzozow, but came from the shtetl of Bukowsko near Sanok. The town of Bukowsko was well-known in the Has-sidic Jewish world as the "cradle" of the Hassidic movement because the rabbinical dynasty of the Shapiro ...
• Busk Yizkor Book (1965), image 342 {y99}
  ... Move-ments : "Hashomcr Hatzair", "Gordonia", "Achvah", "Bethar" etc., and groups from all the Zionist political parties: "General Zionist", "Hitachdut", "Revisionists", "Poalei-Zion left" and "Yad Charutzim". Busk even had a football team and sport club called "Bar Kochba". Several "chalutzim" from Busk joined the 3rd aliya to Israel. Through the many hardships and difficulties of life in israel at that time there were many who stood firm and persevered. One of these Chalutzim is Meyer Dror (Shore), the founder of "Hashomcr Hatzair" in Busk. Mr. Dror built his home in Kfar Yechezkiel and established a prosperous plant export business. XIII
• Chrzanow Yizkor Book (1989), image 400 {y114}
  ... who showed Boehm a map of the projected ghetto. All of these plans were pure fantasy. In February 1943 all the Jews of Chrzanow were deported. THE JUDENRAT AND THE GERMAN AUTHORITIES Contacts between the Judenrat and the local German officials were carried out on more than the official level. The Judenrat had close relations with some of the Ger-man officials, thanks to various gifts and bribes. However, the Judenrat's closest contacts were with the police, headed by Oberleutenant Schindler. An intelligent German, he understood thoroughly how to profit from the situation and received a steady income from the Judenrat, along with numerous gifts from dozens of Jewish families in exchange for taking care of the most trivial matters. He was false through and through, although ...
• Chrzanow Yizkor Book (1989), image 406 {y114}
  ... func-tionaries of the criminal police, Latz and Westphal, were especially diligent in carry-ing out these actions. They harassed their victims with special sadism, shadowing particular individuals in order to catch them committing some infraction. In most cases, these murderers were successful. They didn't spare even their closest Jewish acquaintances, from whom they used to take bribes. (These two murderers were recognized by Chrzanow Jews in 1948 and handed over to justice. They received a fitting sentence from a Polish court.) In general, apathy was the norm among the Jews of Chrzanow during the last period before the final liquidation. Like a herd without a will of their own they marched along, thinking of nothing. All of their energies were devoted to work in the shop, and the other ...

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