Families: The Fass Family of Galicia

Records of the Fass family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 782 records for the surname Fass (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)
• 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)
• Jankel FASS
  1788 property record from Brody Josephine Survey (1788)
• Channa FOST
  1789 property record from Lwów Żółkiew District No. 3 Josephine Survey (1789)
• Jonas SÄCHER and Pesill FATT
  1803 marriage record from Lwów Jewish Marriages (1801-1866)
• Aszer GRUNBERG and Channe FASS
  1805 marriage record from Lwów Jewish Marriages (1801-1866)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 782 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 Fass family in Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website

There are 194 search results for the surname Fass 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.

• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 421 {y94}
  ... his family in Brzozow. Of Eliezer Kintzler’s family two daughters and the son, Moshc, came to Eretz Israel. Reb Itzhak Fass, son of Reb Eliezer Fass, opened a flourishing used-clothes store after the First World War. Reb Itzhak and his wife, Gittele, were renowned for their charity ... as well as buying the medicine. He died in 1936. The only survivor of the Fass family is their son. Eliezer, now with his family in New York. (Translated by Herzlla ... the shtetl of Kolbashov. A total of one hundred members of my family were lost in the Holocaust. It is my wish to thank Mr. Ha’im Bank for taking upon himself the great task of perpetuating the me-mory of our martyrs. New York. ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 436 {y94}
  ... on the streets of Brzozow but never seen him again. Solomon Mener, a Jew from Brzozow, was hidden by a Polish family near the cemetary with the same result. No one knew what happened to him. Gita Fass was hidden by a ... Polish family, Bolek; she had been told that on the following day her house would be demolished. At the risk of her life she went to her house at night for her valuable possessions. Unfortunately, she was observed by a "Volksdeutch" (native German) named Kestling and turned over to the Gestapo. Herman (Hershele) Roth, leader of the "Agudath Israel'* (The Society of Is- I could spend no more time talking, for it was sen-seless to continue. Next I decided to visit the apartment of Mrs. Kuzio, one who is among the "Chasideh Umot Hao-lam" (the pious ...
• Bobrka Yizkor Book (1964), image 238 {y80}
  ... received in Boibcrkc was headed the parade astride a big white horse flanked by one or two aides. Their greatest, glory each year was on August 18th, the birth-day of the Austrian F.mpcror Franz Joseph I, whom many Jews of Galicia admired and loved as a friend of the Jews. On that day Nissan Katz, would be attired in an expensive new uniform, which he could ill afford to pay for. He and his unit would pass in review before the Austro-Hungarian Consul General in New York and from there they would proceed to the "Dukler Mogcn Avrohom Shul" on Altor-ncy Street (on the lower East Side), where the Cantor would chant a Mishcbirach for the Emperor. Some days later, Nissan Katz would proudly display a letter of thanks from the Austrian Ambassador in Washington. But the turnover in the regiment ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 391 {y94}
  ... would paste up himself on the walls of the prayer rooms, the meeting place of the Jews. Several days later he would return to the prayer rooms, and would take down the posters from the notice boards, care-fully collecting the drawing pins for future use, so as not to waste the public’s money. If a memorial was to be set up to the " Faithful Civic Worker" — it should be dedicated to ... Trouble began for all the Jews, and Prof. Korn and his family were also swept Avraham Levite In the memorial book for the town, one should not pass lightly over one of the most wonderful people there — Professor Korn. (It should be pointed out that in several of the central European countries, such as ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 441 {y94}
  ... all going ? Inside sits the mother, head between her hands and her face bereaved. Her heart is beating strangely and her whole life seems to pass before her: child-hood, youth, the short and happy family life, a home, ... Peretz, ed.) who remain silent, pretending to be guarding God knows what shattering secrets. Only in heaven, where no pose or pretence is tolerated, do they admit the secret of their life — a longing for a buttered bun ! The game has come to an end. A giant project has been finalised, one that will stand for genera-tions : Judea has been obliterated from the face ... wire. A stalwart soldier stands upon every step. A little child peeks out of one of the hatches, face beaming and bright brown eyes, all curiosity and courage. He knows no evil and what unrolls before him is ...

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