Families: The Chajet Family of Galicia

Records of the Chajet family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 756 records for the surname Chajet (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:

• Czarna HEIT
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Malke HEUTE
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Schimschon Hersch HEID
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Zipre HEID
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Golda CHAJT, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Hersch CHAJT, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Jakob CHAJT, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Rojza CHAJT, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Ryfka CHAJT, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Lola JAGED, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 756 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 Chajet family in Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website

There are 184 search results for the surname Chajet 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 251 {y80}
  holocaust there will emerge a new world which will fight against man's inhumanity towards man and the future generations will never know hate and brutality. We shall always remember those who died as martyrs for "Kiddush Hashem" (Sanctification of God's name). Let the young generation remember and see to it that this never happens again. There is no consolation. The only comfort be found in the hope that out of this monstrous {Explanation to Alluxi!' 1 pidair on paff 6) In the days of the Exodus the Children of Israel crossed the sea dryshod. and in due course they found themselves attacked ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 390 {y94}
  ... life. It seems to me that this phenomenal type of Jewish craftsman has unfortunately disappeared. When people came to Reb. Itshe Fenster on an ordinary weekday they had the opportunity of ob-serving hard-working Jew caught in the drudgery of working day and night in order to make "Parnasah" for his family of six in such a small town as Brzo-zow. In the "shtetl" the Christian competition was ... for "Kabalath Shabbat" a different man was revealed. You saw a good-looking Hassidic Jew with traditional Hassidic clothing, dressed in a black silk coat "Chalath", bound with a "Gartel" (silk belt worn during prayers) with a wide, fur-edged hat a "Straimel", on his head. ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 410 {y94}
  ... totally abandoned. The two groups, the retarded as well as the sick, liv-ed among the sane and shared the customs that ruled their environment. Like everybody else they kept the religious traditions and their ragged clothing was in accordance with that worn by their betters around them. They were a reflection, as it were, in a crooked mirror, of their own society, adding a certain shade to the local color. When the war broke out they disappeared, holed up in dark corners, to be seen no more on the streets. They did not understand what had happened — events were beyond the comprehension of wiser men th3n they — only feeling the shock instictively. sensing the approaching danger. Terrified they stared at the ground rocking beneath them, seeking in vain for something to support them ...
• Baranow Yizkor Book (1964), image 238 {y32}
  ... ר. קעסטענבויס וו. שפרינגער אין ענגלאנד Manchester, 12, Cheltenham Crescent Salford 7 א. יאכגאװ־טש אין פוילן Bielsko-Bula, ul, Partyzantow 39 עלי קירשענבוים פארײניקמע שטאטן Chevra Bikur Cholim Bnei Israel, M. Friedman 115 So. 2 St. Brooklyn 11 NT. אין פראנקרײך Lille, 2 Rue, Maire Audie Lille (nord), 10 Rue Faidherbc Paris 14-e, 22, Rue Lediou חנה האלענדער רפאל נוסבוים הערש לײב פענסטער אין קאנאדא Montreal, 5721 Sunrise Cote Lux Montreal, 1950 Des Erables Toronto, 128 Fairholme, 19 out. Montreal, 5721 Sunrise Cote Lux. Montreal, East 51 Lauricr A v., 14 Rue הנוף פענסטער ישראל פענסטער מענדל פענסםער (בן קלמן) סאלומאן פענסטער שלום פענםטער 254
• Baranow Yizkor Book (1964), image 243 {y32}
  ... agreed weekly fee. the eating one day a week at the home of one of each of his pupils. The Melamcd of the beginners' class conducted classes (Cheder) in his own dingy apartment which often consisted only of a kitchen and bedroom. The two higher classes were conducted in the women's section of the Syna-goguc. At the age of three (3) the child got his first haircut. Then the mother took him to Cheder. The Melamcd would seat the child at the table and start teaching him Aleph Beth. This was a mere formality. The mother would distribute candies among the children. Several months later (some would wait a year or more) the child was put in Cheder in earnest. At the age of five (5) or thereabout the child would begin to learn Chumosh (Bible). The traditional starting was "Vayikro" (Leviticus ...

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