Families: The Frant Family of Galicia

Records of the Frant family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 820 records for the surname Frant (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 Hirsch BLAUSTEIN, son of Ozyasz BLAUSTEIN and Marjam FREUND
  birth record from Fond 424 Jewish Births (various towns), part 2 (1890-1911)
• Isaak FREUND (?) / EHRENFREUND (?), grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Chaim FREIND, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Malka FREIND, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Berisch FREUND, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Jenta FREUND, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Josef FREUND, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Leo FREUND, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Maria FREUND, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Salomon FREUND, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 820 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 Frant family in Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website

There are 163 search results for the surname Frant 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.

• Baranow Yizkor Book (1964), image 242 {y32}
  ... ". A good deal of verbal bantcrings would be heard here. The kibi-tzers would analyze the week's activities of "Kohol," the distribution of the Alyioth, and intersperse their observations with mild gossip and off-color jokes. 'I'lic town enjoyed these "open Uf forums" and one looked forward to these sessions. Later in the afternoon, weather permitting, the women moved out their chairs and sat in front of their homes and exchange Sabbatical greetings with the men strolling leisurely to Shuhl. Subsequently the sitters would close up thus forming clusters of female gatherings in the "Marek." Here confidences were exchanged, the latest styles discussed and attempts at match-making made. The Baale batim sauntered into the Bes Midrosh. Some would pull out a book from the shelf to suit his mood ...
• Baranow Yizkor Book (1964), image 251 {y32}
  ... emigration, particularly to America, and the Jewish population dwindled to a mere 125-135 families. geography Baranow is located in what is commonly known as Western Galicia. The county seat (Starostwo) was in Tarnobrzeg (Dzikov) and was part of the province or state (Wojcwodstwo) of Lvov (Lembcrg). In the center of the town was a large rectangular area called "The Marck" or market place. It was surrounded by neat rows of homes with the front sections serving as stores opening onto the "Marck." In the middle was a huge gas lamp suspended from a tall post which, when lit, shed a dim weird light on the area. To the north and the south were the water pumps from which the inhabitants hand-pumped their daily supply of water. These pumps rose from wooden structures which covered the wells from ...
• Bielsko-Biala Yizkor Book (1973), image 176 {y76}
  ... Tempels gelegene Grundstück als Kaufobjekt in Aussicht genommen. Dieses Projekt gelangte jedoch nicht zur Ausführung. Erst im Jahre 1903 wurde durch einhellige Beschlüsse des Vorstandes vom 7. Juni und des Aus-Schusses vom 10. Juni 1903 der Ankauf des an Ecke der Schul-und Elisabethstrasse gegenüber der nördlichen Front des Tempels gelegenen Grundstückes genehmigt und unter Vorsitz des Kultus-präses ein aus mehreren Mitgliedern des Ausschusses bestehendes Komitee mit der Durchführung der Kauf- und Bauangelegenheiten betraut, welches die ihm übertragene Aufgabe gelöst hat. Bei Ausführung dieses Baues wurde darauf Bedacht genommen, dass derselbe einen entsprchenden Fest- und Betsaal, ebenso die nötigen Ubikationen für die Gemeinde- und Rabbinatskanzlei ent-halte; die Souterrainlokalitäten ...
• Bobrka Yizkor Book (1964), image 239 {y80}
  ... societies were emerging from the newly arrived element. The immigrants were eager to organize societies in the name of the townships from where they stemmed. Most of them made sure that before the name of the township the words "The first." appeared. But when the younger set of Boibcrker gathered to organize, they preferred under the guidance of Rubin Gracbcl. to put in front of the name of the town, the word "Progressive." and thats how the name was given on the 17th of May 1908. when a group of Boibcrkcr boys organiz-cd the "Progressive Boibcrkcr Young Mens Benevolent Society." They approached me to be one of the found-crs but when I learned the purpose. I was reluctant because at that time a cousin and business partner of mine. Louis Kratlcr. and I were members of the then ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 381 {y94}
  ... Rotenberg, God rest his soul, and my father, may God avenge him, prayed together at the Bianer Clois and sat next to each other on the same bench. Zvi and I both ran around outside the Clois during the prayers, each with his own friends. Being the younger, 1 was still exempt from religious duties while Zvi, for all his love of fun. kept one ear opened to the Cantor’s prayer and front time to time ran to his father to join him in 4*kduska" and *4barkhu", not forgetting to run out again to his friends and rejoin their games. In time his father passed away and twice a day Zvi came to the Clois to participate in the prayers, with someone seeing to it that he rose up at the right time to say "Kadish*’. I would watch him in awe — he was an orphan : Then I would glance at my own father ...

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