Families: The Eisgrau Family of Galicia

Records of the Eisgrau family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 97 records for the surname Eisgrau (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 SCHNEYER and Bluma EGR [EGRA]
  1801 marriage record from Lwów Jewish Marriages (1801-1866)
• Moses, son of Joel EGRO and -
  1810 birth record from Lwów Jewish Births (1805-1872)
• Moses, son of Joel EGRO and -
  1810 birth record from Lwów Jewish Births (1805-1872)
• Löb, son of Joel EGRA and -
  1814 birth record from Lwów Jewish Births (1805-1872)
• Riwka IGRA
  1817 death record from Tarnopol Jewish Deaths (1816-1820)
• Mayer IGRA, son of Salaman and Manie
  1824 birth record from Tarnopol Jewish Births (1820-1838)
• Jakob EGRE, son of Aron EGRE
  and Ester EGRA, daughter of Joel EGRA
  1827 marriage record from Lwów Jewish Marriages (1801-1866)
• God IGRA, son of Salman and Menie
  1827 birth record from Tarnopol Jewish Births (1820-1838)
• Aron IGRA, son of Jacob and Ester
  1828 birth record from Lwów Jewish Births (1805-1872)
• Joel EGRA
  1828 death record from Lwów Jewish Deaths (1805-1880)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 97 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 Eisgrau family in Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website

There are 176 search results for the surname Eisgrau 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.

• Bielsko-Biala Yizkor Book (1973), image 160 {y76}
  ... er selbst schöner, als wir es könnten, in seinem Beitrag zur Festschrift, die aus Anlass des 25. Jahres-tages des 1. Kongresses im Jüdischen Verlae erschienen ist, Wir finden diesen Beitrag in den "Mitteilungen des Zionistischen Kreiskomites" vom 24.9.1922 abgedruckt. Doch sein Schicksal trieb ihn wieder herum und so kommt er als Bibliothekar des Lesevereines "Esra", den Thon gegründet hatte, nach Krakow und machte sich auch dort durch Vorträge ver-dient. Mit Krakow hatte er schon 1898 durch den Verlag Achi-assaf Verbindung erhalten, indem er dort die Redaktion und Administration einer jiddischen Zeitung "Der Jud" führte. Doch
• Krakow Yizkor Book (1967), image 51 {y258}
  ... of all the committees, some which came into being during the various stages of our development: The Membership Committee—To solicit member- ship and keep records containing vital informa- tion of all members. To organize membership meetings. Social Committee—To plan, organize and execute social events serving the entire membership. Israeli Committee—To maintain close ties with Isra- el and to celebrate Israeli events. Welfare Committee—To help members in need. Newsletter Committee—To prepare, collect, and edit news items in a monthly newspaper. Gemilat Chcscd Committee—To manage funds for the purpose of lending money to members in need. Sunshine Committee—To bring "sunshine" into the hearts of members in times of distress. Public Relations Committee—To make the Society ...
• Berezhany Yizkor Book (1978), image 491 {y48}
  ... were Dr. Solomon Glaser president, M. Thaler secretary. E. Roth and M. Tunis, were members of the committee. The names of these four devoted J.N.F. workers, were inscribed in the Golden׳Book of the Jewish National Fund. The "Keren Hayesod" in Brzezany was established in 1922. Dr. Nagler was elected president. M. Taub treasurer and Mr. Bar-David, administrator. The aim of "Ezra" was to render financial aid to those, who wished to go on "Aliyah" to "Eretz Israel". The president of Ezrah was Dr. Wilner. It is worth-while to note that not one young person, who wished to leave for Israel, had to give up "Aliyah" because of lack of finances. "Esih in Brzezany THE HEBREW SCHOOL /n important chapter in the history of the Jews of our town, was the founding of a Hebrew-School by the organization ...
• Brzezany Yizkor Book (1978), image 491 {y91}
  ... , M. Thaler secretary. E. Roth and M. Tunis, were members of the committee. The names of these four devoted J.N.F. workers, were inscribed in the Golden Book of the Jewish National Fund. The "Keren Hayesod" in Brzezany was established in 1922. Dr. Nagler was elected president, M. Taub treasurer and Mr. Bar-David. administrator. The aim of "Ezra" was to render financial aid to those, who wished to go on "Aliyah" to "Eretz Israel". The president of Ezrah was Dr. Wilner. It is worth- while to note that not one young person, who wished to leave for Israel, had to give up "Aliyah" because of lack of finances. Brzezany THE HEBREW SCHOOL n important chapter ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 423 {y94}
  ... was another family, that of Avraham Schcrtz, his wife Miriam and a daughter living in the neighbourhood. Then there was the family of Avraham Sc hertz, nicknamed "Der alter Avraham" (he died in the twenties). All the families I have listed above were inter-related. There were more of that name but they did not belong to the large family. There was Reb Shlomo Ezra Schcrtz, God rest his soul, a hat maker and owner of a hat shop. He was a highly respected man of learning. After the pogrom in the shtetl at the end of the First World War he emigrated with his family to America, and so they were all saved. Reb Melceh Schertz — a family with a number of children, all killed in Brzozow. The eldest son, Michael, was a refugee in a shtetl in the Tarnopol area during the Russian ...

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