Families: The Etra Family of Galicia

Records of the Etra family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 55 records for the surname Etra (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:

• Basia GETREI, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Etla GETREI, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Jakob GETREI, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Majla GETREI, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Pepi GETREI, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Richla GETREI, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Moszek HYRA
  1787 property record from Zbaraż Josephine Survey (1787)
• Isaac, son of Jankel IRO and -
  1812 birth record from Lwów Jewish Births (1805-1872)
• Isaag, son of Jankil? IRO?/JRO? and -
  1812 birth record from Lwów Jewish Births (1805-1872)
• Saul ERREICH
  1820 property record from Dukla Franciscan Survey House Register (1820)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 55 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 Etra family in Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website

There are 175 search results for the surname Etra 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.

• Biecz Yizkor Book (1959), image 373 {y69}
  ... , Jerome Banner, Abraham Beck, Benjamin Beck, Mrs. Pearl Beller, Sidney Berg, Mrs. Malvina Berger, Irving Berkowitz, Irving Bernstein, Louis Bleichfeld, Kalman Blumenkranz, Sadie Briskman, Saul Brandus, Mrs. Phyllis Chananau, Alexander Chananau, Harold Chananau, Louis Citron, Mrs. Beckie Citron, Bernard Citron, Stephen B. Cohen, Lawrence Corn, Alfred J. Dickstein, Mrs. Leah Davidson, Morris Eder, Nathan Eichhom, Harry Eichhom, Joseph Eichhom, Nathan Ertes, Herman Ertes, Milford Ertes, Nathan Ertes, Mrs. Rose Erteschik, Harry Feigenbaum, Mrs. Regina Feigenbaum, Samuel Firestone, Sigmund Fleisher, Nathan Freundlich, Mrs. Rose Geldzahler, Samuel
• Baligrod Yizkor Book (1964), image 422 {y24}
  ... the Nazi horde. It, no doubt, owes this prominence to its strategic location in the triangular arc! formed by the borders of Poland, Prussia and the Baltic States. The course of events affecting Suwałk Jewry, the stages of humiliation and annihilation at the hands of both the German Nazis and the violently Anti-Semitic Polish, Latvian and Lithuanian peasants, was to be paralleled in the history of the treatment given and the attitudes shown to other Jewish communities unfortunate enough to find themselves under the dreadful yoke of Nazi do-mi nation. This volume is a memorial book dedicated not only to those who lived in the Suwałk vicinity, or those who grew up there, or studied there, or served their military duty there, or migrated from there or even perished there, or the descendants ...
• Baranow Yizkor Book (1964), image 243 {y32}
  ... occasion for celebration. Candies and cookies were to be distributed among the classmates and on the Sabbath neighbors and family were invited to share in the celebration. The child sat in Cheder all day. Contrary to supposition, it was not too strenuous on the child. The studies weren't difficult and the time spent over the Sidur (prayer book—primers were not available in Baranow) was in short intervals. On the other hand the child was always in company of friends—children of his own age, and from early childhood he acquired the social habit of adaption and accommodation. The older the child became, the more strenuous his studies and the more severe the discipline. At the age of nine (9) he would rise about 6 A.M. and learn until about 8, davin, go home for breakfast and was off to school ...
• Baranow Yizkor Book (1964), image 244 {y32}
  ... march back to his seat in a state of defiance of his teacher. If in view of these abuses the Jewish pupil nevertheless obtained consi-dcrable education it was not due to the efforts of the teacher but in spite of her. The Jewish child "had" to excel if he was to endure in this atmosphere. the cheder Baranow had three Hebrew teachers (Melamdim). One taught beginners— from Alcph-Beth to Chumosh. Another Mclamcd taught the next age group from about eight to eleven. These boys learned Chumosh-Rashi and Gemoro. The teachers were of local origin whose only claim to teaching profession was their inability to earn a living via any other means. XIII
• Baranow Yizkor Book (1964), image 254 {y32}
  ... until that tragic day when every thing was angulfcd in the calamity that overwhelmed European Jewry. We, a handful, have survived the Catastrophe and by a supreme effort we have begun to weave the strands that bind us to our ravished community. The years arc passing and a new generation has grown to maturity. This new generation, children and grandchildren of the men and women of Barniv in Israel and other countries, know very little about the community from which their parents hail, while the number of townsmen and townswomen of Barniv is steadily growing smaller. It is for these reasons that we regard the establishment of this memorial to the martyrs who died in the crematoria of Belzec as a sacred duty. The resources at our disposal are too small to perpetuate their name in some more ...

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