Records of the Fischer family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 1417 records for the surname Fischer (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:

  • Saul SCHARER f. FISCHER
    tax record from Brzeżany Jewish Taxpayers (1936)
  • Samuel SCHARER f. FISCHER
    tax record from Brzeżany Jewish Taxpayers (1936)
  • Dawid SCHARER f. FISCHER
    tax record from Brzeżany Jewish Taxpayers (1936)
  • Ruchel FICER
    death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
  • Mariem FISCHER
    death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
  • [no given name], child of Wolf FISCHER and Ester FISCHER
    birth record from Jezierna Jewish Births (1876-1886)
  • Anna FISCHER, grandchild of , , ,
    Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
  • Anna FISCHER, grandchild of , , ,
    Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
  • Chaim FISCHER, grandchild of , , ,
    Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
  • Chaskel FISCHER, grandchild of , , ,
    Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 1417 records. The AGD is updated with new records every few months, so check back often to see the latest results.

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There are 15 entries listed in the Gesher Galicia Family Finder for this surname.

Here are the 3 most recent records.

Family & Location Researcher Researcher's Location Date Added
FISCHER in
Belyy Kamen, Ukraine
GG Member Anacortes, WA
USA
Nov 8, 2019
FISCHWEICHER in
Tysmenytsya, Ukraine
GG Member Penfield, NY
USA
Aug 4, 2019
FISCHER in
Klasno, Poland
GG Member Bruxelles,
BELGIUM
Jun 25, 2019

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

There are 193 search results for the surname Fischer 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 225 {y80}
    ... 2 children HERBST MARCUS. Uncle, wife and 5 children SHNAPP LIPKA. Aunt and 6 children PELTZ SARAH. Aunt and 8 children FISCHER SHLOIME. Uncle wife and 2 children BELLER HERSH. Father in law. wife and 6 children GALLER MENACIIEM, Brother in law. mother, wife and child FISHER Dr. ISIIK)R commemorates FISHER CHAYE. Sister-in-law FISHER RACHEL. Niece FISHER SHERKE Niece FISHER YSRUEL LEIB. Nephew FISHER MINDL. Sister with husband CHAYM FISHER MO !SHE. Nephew FISHER YSRUEL LEIB. Nephew FISCHER MOISIIK commemorates HERBST BKRIL Friend, and his entire family FLt'SS SELIG commemorates FLUSS HEME. Mother WYNTKR ROSHE ...
  • Bobrka Yizkor Book (1964), image 230 {y80}
    ... undertook to cover all expenses from their own pockets. We arc fortunate that all notices in the Yiddish press as well as on the radio announcing the meetings were given to us gratis. On June I, when I returned from Israel. I rendered a report, telling of the Yahrzcil (Memorial) which we attended on April 8th at the Culture House which Abraham Fischer had erected in the colony Raanana. There we met than 100 Boibcrker Landslcit who came from all parts of Israel to honor the martyrs. It was good to see that a financial report of the committee in Israel was enclosed to each of their members together with the invitation to the Yahrzcil meeting. The report shows how much money they received from the committee in the United States as well as from Boibcrkcr landsleit in Israel. I was told ...
  • Bobrka Yizkor Book (1964), image 231 {y80}
    ... to the story. I asked Kruvi how much the old time Boibcrkcr in Israel were ready to raise among them. His reply was. whatever they could, they will raise among themselves. I advanced 300 pounds and told him that we expect two other Boibcrkcr from America to visit Israel shortly for the celebration and that I intended to collect their share from them. I did collect from Herman Zuch and Abe Fischer their share when they arrived in Israel. Several days later, we met in Haifa with a large group of Boibcrkcr who resided in that city. From them I learned that they planned to organize themselves into a Boibcrkcr Society to help Boibcrker immigrants who were coming to settle in Israel, and would need assistance. Thats how the Boibcrkcr Free Loan Society was organized in Israel. When ...
  • Bobrka Yizkor Book (1964), image 236 {y80}
     Max, Pincus Fischer and his brother Abraham. At first the meetings were held in private homes and business places. Later they were held in the then well-known wine and mead tavern of Kalman Rosenbluth on Attorney Street on the lower East Side of New York. The meetings were always conducted on a high level. The members discussed subjects of current importance and engaged in a play of words of Biblical interest. In this dialogue Aaron Hafner would most of the time propound the subject and the first to answer was Obadiah Panzer. On other occasions. Panzer would put the questions and Hafner would give the answer. Chaim Hafner’s society ...
  • Bobrka Yizkor Book (1964), image 239 {y80}
    ... land in Eretz-Israel, which has led to the proclamation of the State of Israel in our days. In later years, we began to realize that even young folks have to prepare burial ground for young and old. The group who gathered on May 17th to organize the society consisted of: Max Glantzcr. Hertz Fischer. Rubin Gracbcl. (my school mate in Boibcrke), Julius Engclbcrg, David Gcwantcr, and several others. They elected Max Glantzcr as president. Julius Engclbcrg as Financial secretary and Hertz Fischer, as the protocol secretary. Two years later, Simche or Sam Hcrbst, joined the society and for several decades he and Rubin Grabel were the guiding spirit of the society. The present officers are; Max or Meyer Gimpel. ex-president. Sidney Heifer, president. Herman Ehrenzweig. vice president ...

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