Families: The Fetter Family of Galicia

Records of the Fetter family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 207 records for the surname Fetter (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:

• Abraham FETTER, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Herszek FETER
  1787 property record from Kozowa Josephine Survey (1787)
• Moises FECHTER
  1803 other record from Galicia Jewish Marriage Permissions (1803)
• Nattan, son of Susche FECHTER and -
  1809 birth record from Lwów Jewish Births (1805-1872)
• Nattan, son of Susche FECHTER and -
  1809 birth record from Lwów Jewish Births (1805-1872)
• Riwka, daughter of Isaac FETTER and -
  1810 birth record from Lwów Jewish Births (1805-1872)
• Riwka, daughter of Isaac FETTER and -
  1810 birth record from Lwów Jewish Births (1805-1872)
• Rywka FETTER, daughter of Isaac
  1811 death record from Lwów Jewish Deaths (1805-1880)
• Gittel, child of Sisse FECHTER and Chaje Sara
  1815 birth record from Lwów Jewish Births (1805-1872)
• Israel, son of Dawid VETTER and Leye
  1815 birth record from Lwów Jewish Births (1814-1816)

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Records of the Fetter family in Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website

There are 40 search results for the surname Fetter 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.

• Bobrka Yizkor Book (1964), image 244 {y80}
  ... worked hard and long hours, since the trade unions were still in their infancy and could render little assistance. They managed from time to time to send money to their families whom they had left in Boibcrkc. Eventually they During the latter part of the 19th century many Jews of eastern Galicia, including many from our township of Boibcrkc, sought to better their economic condition by emigrating. Most of them went to the United States, where they knew that able-bodied men willing to work could earn a fairly good living. There was a valid reason for their eagerness to leave Boiberke. The town was situated in eastern Galicia, a province of the Austria-Hungarian Empire, which had its industries in other provinces, chiefly in Bohemia (now Chechoslovakia) and Upper Austria. Galicia ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 409 {y94}
  168 B E M A'A L O T KEDOSHIM Avraham Levite / MY FATHER, HA’IM HERTZ LEVITE radically and cut ourselves off from our sinful off-spring, how could we ask God to treat us otherwise ? Far better that we be lenient with our wayward sons and this would give us the right claim before God : "True, we have sinned, but we are Your sons; as You sec, we, too, have sons of whose behavior we do not approve, but we do not banish them, God forbid. They always remain our chilren and our hearts arc open to them." It once happened that one of the shtetl’s well-known fanatics came running to Father, telling him excitedly that he had seen with his own ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 450 {y94}
  ... first ones were followed by others and all found food and shelter. I, too, went to the ghetto, for I saw no difference between it and the camp — equal destruction awaited us in both places. I worked in a restaurant and ate well. There were about 20 of my townsmen in the ghetto and we kept in touch with one another. The rest of my townsmen remained in the camp, believing that as laborers their chances were better. The turn of the Krakow Ghetto came in March 1943. Two days before the "action" the Germans surround* ed both ghettos. Ghetto A was transferred to the Yerozolimska Camp, as were the inhabitants of Pla-shov Prokochim. Ghetto B was closed down. Then the "action" began. Gendarmes and S.S. soldiers as well as the Gestapo entered the ghetto, going from house to house to verify that ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 513 {y94}
  ... would go to eat at friends’ houses, and dishes were not borrowed either from neighbours or relatives. This phenomenon was called in Yiddish: "Pesach mischt men sich nicht!" (You don’t get involved with each other during the Pesach). This segregation naturally contained elements of snobbery and a competitive desire to go one better with interdicts and precautions, but there was another principle involved, that of not discriminating between those who were punctilious about every restriction and others more liberal. The rule was applied to everyone in order not to shame the latter. A common prohibition was the use of matza which had been
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 546 {y94}
  ... not have such impressive tools. After banging a number of times on the table from which the Torah is read he would deliver his message : "Me’iz machriz umodia..." followed by an important announcement on behalf of the Gabbai or the Rabbi. That was it! The children accompanied the "politzei" from one narrow street to another till the Oliyarnia is reached, home of the scoundrels who had better be avoided. Here there was a "changing of the guard" and the Heder children ceded their place to the bare-foot rascals who now joined and followed him in all the streets of the Goyim. Their task ended, the children rushed home with the exciting news : "me’hot gepoikt!" The drum was beaten, it was announced ! — What was announced ? To this there was no reply, they did not know. Yet the event ...

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