Families: The Eisek Family of Galicia

Records of the Eisek family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 544 records for the surname Eisek (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:

• [no given name] HERZIG, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• [no given name] HERZIG, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• [no given name] HERZIG, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Alfred HERZIG, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Amalie HERZIG, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Eliasz HERZIG, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Hinda HERZIG, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Hinda HERZIG, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Izydor HERZIG, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Rosia HERZIG, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 544 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 Eisek family in Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website

There are 185 search results for the surname Eisek 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.

• Lancut Yizkor Book (1963), image 513 {y2}
  ... were outstanding Rabbis and Hassidim who achieved renown in the Jewry of their periods. Rabbi Moshe Zvi Hirsch Me 17lisch served as a Rabbi of Lanzut in the years 1758—1767. Reb Moshe Lipshitz, the son of Reb Judah Leib of Ludmir, followed by his son Reb Zvi Hirsch Lipshitz author of the work "Tiferet Zvi", were also Lanzut rabbis during the Eiyhteenth Century. The were followed by Reb Moshe ben Itzhak Eisik and Reb Yehiel Michel ben Abraham. From 1777 until 1819 the Rabbi was Reb Aryeh Leibush, author of "Gevuror Aryeh", who was renowned as one of the great saints of his generation. The story is told that the Rabbi, Reb Aryeh Leibush, used to visit the Jewish shops in town and check the weights himself in order to ensure rhat there should be no deception. He safeguarded the moral level ...
• Mosty-Wielkie Yizkor Book (1975), image 470 {y347}
  ... example Rabbi Itzhak David Eberstark, Meir Shiffenbauer, Eli Grunald, Mordechai Sitsamer, Baruch Mor- dechai Etinger and his son, Itzikel, Uren Poch, Shalom Goldberg, and his son Abraham (now living in Israel and calling himself Ben-Pazi), Jacob Weiss, Chaim Shiele Stickler, Aron Mund, Hershl Charik, Pesah Sitsamer, Shmuel Meisels, Eli Rosen, Meir Glicker, Eisik Spritzer, and others. Among the religious figures of the town were the above- mentioned Aron Mund, two or three mohelim (circumcizers), two shochtim (religious slaughterers), and the hazan (synagogue singer), Jacob Meir Brunengraber. Also noteworthy was Yecheskiel Rapoport, father of the Jacob Rapoport described earlier, who really deserves a chapter of his own as he was a brilliant man. We had an outstanding family ...
• Bobrka Yizkor Book (1964), image 224 {y80}
  ... SlIYMON. Nephew MARCUS CHANAH. Niece FRANKFURTER ESTHER. Sister FRANKFURTER JACOB. Nephew FRANKFURTER MIREL Niece GRAEBEL ROISE. Sister CRAEBEL FROYIM. Nephew GRAEBEL BERNARD, Nephew MKSSING-SOPOLSKY GITKL commemorates MESSING EFROYIM. Father MESSING DORA. Step mother and children MESSER MARCUS. Relative MESSER JACOB. Relative and children MESSER ISAK. Relative and children HELFER ELK IE, Relative and entire family MOKIL MILTON commemorates MOHL FAMILY ERDEN FAMILY KARTEN ALTER. Son KARTEN SARAH. LE1BEL KARTEN ABRAHAM. Cousin and entire family KARTEN ISIDORE KARTEN-GROSSBERG JULIA commemorates GROSSBERG MO IS HE. Father GROSSBERG BIN A. Mother GROSSBERG ROIZE. Sister REICHBACH REISELE. Aunt and 6 children SCOWRON FRIDA ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 472 {y94}
  ... smaller and Landsberg was closed in 1949. My brother Ben had left for Sydney, Austra-lia in 1947, and I followed him in 1949. Fela Einziger / CROSSING OF THE The crossing was very difficult and dangerous. We hid in every passing village to avoid the German patrol. Every step was in jeopardy. Our guide instinc-tively, like an animal, avoided danger. Icek rushed me so that we would reach the River "San" before daylight and cross to the other side of the river. We were forced to pass by the German and Russian guards patrolling on the other side of the River "San.’’ We waited for a suitable moment to arrive, in the meantime hiding in the bushes on the edge of the shore. Our guide was diving and looking ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 553 {y94}
  ... cases used to package eggs for export near Penner’s storehouse. The other line began at Koppel Zwik’s house, a low structure leaning on Seiler’s high stone building from which it derived its confidence. With an air of belligerance it defied its critics, as if crying : "Look at who is standing behind me !" The line ended at the crooked, misshapen stone stairs near Eisick Filler’s which led to "Randshines" and further. These stairs were covered in ice during the winter, a hazard to old and young alike. The Rink comprised two parts : to the east lay the smaller part, shaped like a right-angled triangle, while the western and main part was in the form of a rectangle. The village high road, crossing through the Rink, separated the two. In the center of the Rink on its rectangular ...

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