Families: The Fait Family of Galicia

Records of the Fait family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 809 records for the surname Fait (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:

• Baruch, son of Jakób SZEINMAN and Malke Sura FASS
  and Ester Chane, daughter of Chaskiel THELLER and Cirl THELLER
  marriage record from Tarnopol Jewish Marriage Banns, Marriage Certificates (1916, 1920-1939)
• Ewhen FASS, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Ignaz FASS, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Jelysaweta FASS, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Tonka FASS, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Isaak FETT, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Mala FETT, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Rubin FETT, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Tauba FETT, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Jehoschia KLAPHOLZ, son of Leib KLAPHOLZ and Sala KLEIN
  and Malke FEIT, daughter of Józef FEIT and Genendel BERGER
  marriage record from Nowy Targ Jewish Marriages (1924-1927, 1930, 1934, 1936, 1937)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 809 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 Fait family in Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website

There are 170 search results for the surname Fait 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.

• Baligrod Yizkor Book (1964), image 421 {y24}
  ... , so long as one of us survives, or so long as one of our hooks remains or one of our ideas endures, wc survive and our culture, our heritage, our tradition is transmitted, as if by a lit candle, from one generation to the next. And so, the story of Suwałk is written to acquaint the living with the tragic events of the past. It is written so that »c may take pride in our heritage, courage in our actions and reinforce our faith in our ultimate survival and rebirth. In rcponing the history of Suwałk we do not concern ourselves with the story of individual Jews but arc primarily concerned with the inner life of the Jews of Suwałk as a whole; their culture, their institutions, their religion — all as expressed by an organized articulate self conscious community of Jews who show their sense ...
• Bobrka Yizkor Book (1964), image 245 {y80}
  campaign brought out many potential leaders for the town. The Polish authorities were displeased because Jewish leaders preached to an independent Jewish nationalism to the Jewish population, instead of merely the faith of Moses. The Polish authorities, with the help of the Chassidic Rabbis who had a considerable hold on the Jews of Boibcrkc would have preferred simply, religion. In the first part of the 19th century. Jews of the Bcrziancr District found themselves under the influence of the Chassidic movement, most of them under the influence of the dynasty of Rcb Mcycr'l of Prcmishlan and Rabbi Brandwein of Strctin. There were many ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 389 {y94}
  ... sadists, and had been brought as low as human beings could be, were capable of finding solutions for the endless calamities then raining down upon the Jews who were mostly in hiding in the strangest places, far from the eyes of the sun. It was each man for himself in dealing with problems of faith and the torments of doubt... The Judenrat, nominated by the Nazis in place of the representatives of the Jewish congregation, could not provide the salaries to be paid to the Rabbis and other "Klei Kodesh". Theirs was the much more important task of stuffing the over-gorged murderers, refilling their bellies and pockets each day anew. Reb Yossele and his family were starving, kept barely alive by the kindly souls who, from time ...
• Berezhany Yizkor Book (1978), image 222 {y48}
  ב־ז־זיני רבבנירב בדדב־ז תדביד רב רדי הבנדדרנ 1 — THE BIG SYNAGOGUE 2 — BEIT HAMIORASH "HABANUI" 3 — STRETINER KLOIB 4 — ROZLOWER KLOIS 5 — BEIT HAMIORASH OF THE "HAZAN" 6 — TSCHORTKOWER KLOIS T — BEIT HAMIORASH — RABI JUDEL S — POTIKER KLOIS B — JAD-CHARUZIM — SVNAGOGLE 10 — RABI MENOELE — SVNAGOGUE 11 — JAIfl'S KLOIB — בית הכגסת הגדול — בית המדרש ״הבנוי״ — ססיסינר קלויז — יוזלובר קלויז — בית המדרש מל "תחון״ — צ׳ורטקובר קלויז — בית המדרש •ל רבי יודל — 0וטיקר קלויז — בית הכנסת ׳׳יד הרמים״ — בית הכנסת של רבי מנדלה — בית הכנסת יאיר 10 ...
• Berezhany Yizkor Book (1978), image 496 {y48}
  ... . There were about forty lawyers thanks to the district court Some of these lawyers eked out a scant living from their profession Thore were also a num-bei of engineers, who completed their course of studies but could not find any work in the field. Most of the druggists couldn't find any work either. A fair portion of them left the town. The same fate met the young teachers. All of them faced a hopeless future. The situation of the artisans and craftsmen failed to improve after the first World War. in many instances their lot became even worse. For the working youth there were no prospects of even finding employ-ment in our town. They organized themselves in various youth movements and waited for '־Aliyah־־־ to Israel. "״״b0׳t ?' th* ■י"״׳•״ Committee RELIGION AND CULTURE w־~v enowned ...

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