Families: The Drach Family of Galicia

Records of the Drach family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 74 records for the surname Drach (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:

• Samuel DRECH
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Hessie DRACH
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Jakim DRACH
  1787 property record from Rawa Ruska Josephine Survey (1787)
• Rischel, daughter of Hersch DROK?/DROH?
  1805 death record from Lwów Jewish Deaths (1805-1880)
• Riwka DRAT
  1806 death record from Zbaraż Jewish Deaths (1804-1858, 1894-1942)
• Moses Henoch, son of Salamon DROH and -
  1806 birth record from Lwów Jewish Births (1805-1872)
• Jacob, son of Hersch DROH and -
  1807 birth record from Lwów Jewish Births (1805-1872)
• Moses Henich, son of Salamon DROH
  1807 death record from Lwów Jewish Deaths (1805-1880)
• Sprinze, daughter of Hersch DROCH and -
  1809 birth record from Lwów Jewish Births (1805-1872)
• Sprinze, daughter of Hersch DROH and -
  1809 birth record from Lwów Jewish Births (1805-1872)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 74 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 Drach family in Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website

There are 181 search results for the surname Drach 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.

• Baranow Yizkor Book (1964), image 252 {y32}
  B A R A N O W By Jacob D. Brand history The origin and early development of Baranow is difficult to trace. There is no documentary evidence available. In the checkered history of Poland, Baranow occupied no special position, notwithstanding its location on the Vistula (Wisla). The origin of the Jewish settlement is likewise unknown. It must be assumed that during the reign of Casimir the Great, in the 14th century, when Jews found refuge in Poland from persecution in Western Europe, they fanned out in its fertile plains and settled along the shores of the Vistula. It is claimed that the cemetery contained monuments (uprooted by the Nazis ...
• Berezhany Yizkor Book (1978), image 485 {y48}
  ... to the prison. The following morning, after a meeting with the Kreishauptman. we rushed to collect golden items as ransom for the lives ofthose Jews, who were put in Jail. We collected 5 kilos of gold articles and brought It to the Kreishauptmann. He took the gold and put It in his pocket, but didn't release the people. Instead, they were loaded on trucks and transported to an unknown destination. They disappeared, without leaving any trace. The peasants in the neighbourhood told later that these people were murdered. The Germans claimed, that they were taken to a labor camp. We lived witn the hope of seeing them alive again. The German machine to finish off the Jews, worked without a halt. A new order came from the Kreishauptmann He could not stand so many Jews in our town. He. therefore ...
• Berezhany Yizkor Book (1978), image 497 {y48}
  THE ECONOMIC SITUATION n Brzezany and surroundings there were no natural resources or indus• tries of any kind. There were a handful of wealthy people such as j£ owners of estates, possessors of flour-mills and lumber dealers. The middle class was ... distant America. Of course, this emigration brought relief but it also caused many tragedies. A great number of emigrant husbands left their wives and children without any material aid, and disappeared without leaving a trace. The various wars which took place in the year 1914—1920 had an ill effect on the Jews of our town. Many Jews left Brzezany forever. Most of the Jewish homes were destroyed, ...
• Bielsko-Biala Yizkor Book (1973), image 156 {y76}
  ... , denn der junge Jurist der begonnen hatte sich eine Existenz aufzubauen und dessen Klientel die Fabrikanten waren - unter-stutezt gerade die Feinde seiner Brotgeber - die Arbeiterschaft! Die politische Gesinnung Dr. Traubners wurzelte tief im sozialistischen Ideengut. Sie basierte auf dem Wissen um die historische Entwicklung der Wirtschaft und die entscheidende Stellung der Arbeiterschaft, die sie durch den Klassenkampf er-ringen soll. Dr. Traubner kam im engen Kontakt mit den jüdi-sehen Arbeitermassen in Galizien und Polen. Die bedrängte Lage dieser Menschen führte ihn zurück zur zionistischen Tätigkeit im Rahmen von Poalei-Zion. Mit vollem persönlichen Einsatz und Hingabe wirkte er mit am Aufbauwerke des jüdischen Staates. Noch vor Einzug der Nazis in Bielitz, übersiedelte ...
• Bielsko-Biala Yizkor Book (1973), image 159 {y76}
  ... er deutschen, jidischen und hebräischen Zeitun-gen lieferte, seien nur die Artikel in der "Welt" hervorgehoben und ganz besonders die Aufsätze, in denen er das Archiv des so-zialistischen Schriftstellers Liebermann und im Anschluss daran sozialistische Studien in der New Yorker "Zukunft" in den let-zten Jahren veröffentlichte. Um den Zionismus hat er sich ein bleibendes Verdienst durch die Übersetzung des Herzl’sehen "Judenstaates" (mit Anmerkungen) und dessen Zionistischen Schriften ins Hebräische erworben. Da ihm die wissenschaftliche Tätigkeit keinen ausreichen-den Lebensunterhalt bot, wandte er sich dem Lehrfach zu. 1909-1911 finden wir ihn an dem Gymnasium in Brünn und Iglau und 1911 kommt er als Religionsprofessor an das Staatsgymnasium in Beilitz. Und jetzt könnten ...

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