Records of the Butter family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 48 records for the surname Butter (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:

  • Ruchel BUTTER
    1823 death record from Lwów Jewish Deaths (1805-1880)
  • Tewel, son of Wolf BEUTER
    1831 birth record from Brody Jewish Births (1815-1861)
  • Esriel, son of Wolf BUTER
    1834 birth record from Brody Jewish Births (1815-1861)
  • Tewel BUTTER, son of Wolf BUTTER
    1839 death record from Brody Jewish Deaths (1815-1861)
  • Hersch, son of Wolf BUTER
    1839 birth record from Brody Jewish Births (1815-1861)
  • Jüdel, son of Wolf BUTTER
    1841 birth record from Brody Jewish Births (1815-1861)
  • Moses BUTTER, son of Wolf BUTTER
    1842 death record from Brody Jewish Deaths (1815-1861)
  • Joseph Salomon, son of Wolf BUTTER
    1844 birth record from Brody Jewish Births (1815-1861)
  • Joseph, son of Wolf BUTTER
    1845 death record from Brody Jewish Deaths (1815-1861)
  • Lea BOTHI, daughter of and Channe BOTHI
    1845 death record from Lwów Jewish Deaths (1805-1880)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 48 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 13 entries listed in the Gesher Galicia Family Finder for this surname.

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Family & Location Researcher Researcher's Location Date Added
BADER in
Dynow, Poland
GG Member Brooklyn, NY
USA
Jul 6, 2020
BADER in
Ropczyce, Poland
GG Member New York, NY
USA
Jun 25, 2020
BADER in
Lviv, Ukraine
GG Member Fort Wayne, IN
USA
Aug 29, 2018

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

There are 56 search results for the surname Butter 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 531 {y94}
    ... for bargains in the market. A lively bargaining goes on between the Jewish women and the villagers. Each hen and duck is felt all over; their behinds are breathed on to reveal the skin under the feathers and its level of fat. As the buyers look for all the malformations known to man in the prof-fered goods, they offer a price far below that which has been asked : the butter is as pale as lime; the In the case of a respectable farmer, things arc more complicated. He enters with his whip under his arm, as befits a man of property. His intention is to buy, but seeing so many useful things around him, he cannot withstand the temptation ! The expe-rienced saleswoman discerns him at once and the alarm is given : "Nu ! Look !" The "arel" with the eyes (uncircumcised one) is a 'lackucher ...
  • Baranow Yizkor Book (1964), image 246 {y32}
    ... son, Reb Itzele. Subsequently Reb Itzele acquired the rabbinate in Zavichost. Congress Poland, and his son Reb Avigdor succeeded to the rabbinate. He was the last Rabbi Baranow was privileged to have. Unlike his predecessors Reb Avigdor was social minded. Though lacking the scholarly eminence of his father, he was the one instrumental in con-verting the large Besdin room into a center of learning. Here the "BETTER" lx›ys spent many hours poring over Talmudic tomes. The Rov himself conducted a shiur with some of the more promising boys. He saw in Zionism the very antithesis of Orthodoxy. The restlesncss of the younger generation, its flight from the Talmud to secular education, its becoming lax in observing the mores and taboos of tradition he attributed to the Zionists. Undismayed ...
  • Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 389 {y94}
    186 RABBI YOSSELE WEBER the whole congregation right up to the bitter end. living through all the suffering and the tortures with The Jews were so deeply sunk in misery that it is hard to know just how much need they had of a Rabbi’s services in those fearsome years. Indeed it is doubtful whether the Rabbis, who were the first victims of the worst atrocities perpetrated by the accursed sadists, and had been brought as low as human beings could be, were capable of finding solutions for the endless calamities then raining down upon the Jews who were ...
  • Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 394 {y94}
    ... , reading and studying, his thirst for knowledge unabated. The tragic termination of the Przemysl ghetto marked the end of Yehoshua’s young and promising life. May these few lines serve as a modest tribute to his memory. Yehoshua Schweber was still just a boy and I a grown man when I met him in Brzozow, but it was in Przemysl, where he was staying with his mother and brother Leibish, that bitter fate brought us to-gether. During his stay in the ghetto Yehoshua main-taincd contact with his sister and two brothers in Switzerland, assisted by the mediation of a gentile friend. The contact was kept up to the moment when the situation in the gheto had so deeriorated that all connection with the family was severed. By then the assassins bore down on the miserable ghetto dwellers ...
  • Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 405 {y94}
    ... of a sadistic brutality the like of which was unknown in human history. These select few realized that the sufferings of the Jews were completely unmerited and this fact increased their respect for them. Sophia Woychek who described the ,,action" in detail, is conscious of the terrible tragedy and is touched by it. No man capable of human feelings could remain indifferent to their bitter fate. Stanislav Rogovsky may also be counted among those chosen few. His sympathy and warmth towards the unhappy victims find expression in his writing, particularly so in his identification with his protago-nist, Shlomo Adler. He tries to describe the Jewish tragedy as seen through the prism of Shlomo Adler, symbol of the whole Jewish community. His helplessness in the face of his destiny ...

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