Families: The From Family of Galicia

Records of the From family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 331 records for the surname From (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:

• Antschel FROM, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Fani FROM, spouse of Naftali , grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Leon FROM, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Mortiz FROM, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Naftali FROM, spouse of Fani , grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Jonasz FROIM
  1787 property record from Czortkow Josephine Survey (1787)
• Smol FROIM
  1787 property record from Czortkow Josephine Survey (1787)
• Nechemie FROIN
  1787 property record from Czortkow Josephine Survey (1787)
• Szymon FROIM
  1787 property record from Zbaraż Josephine Survey (1787)
• Eyzyk FROIM
  1787 property record from Lwów Halicz City District Josephine survey (1787)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 331 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 From family in Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website

There are 195 search results for the surname From 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 420 {y24}
  ... Their destinations were such far away strange places as New York, Johannesburg, the Argentine, Hungary, London, Montevideo and the Holy Land. Zionist Suwałk, it can be noted, was the first community to actually send envoys to Pa-lestine to purchase land. It should also be remembered that the immigrants from Suwałk were in the forefront in the migration from Rastern Europe and that it was as a result of their influence and aid that the orientation of the Jews in the New World changed from a German and Scphardic influence to one of East European domination. The sons of Suwałk helped start a Jewish press in New York, aided in the formation of the Hias, underwrote and founded New York's Beth El Hospital and Su-walker Schules and were responsible for countless other civic and community projects ...
• Baligrod Yizkor Book (1964), image 421 {y24}
  ... of an idea, of a faith, of a religion, of the right to be different is more important than even life itself. Fach time we take this Book in hand we reconfirm our faith that we as Jews can not be obliterated from this earth. For, no matter how many of us arc gassed, or how many of us arc cremated, 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 ...
• Baligrod Yizkor Book (1964), image 422 {y24}
  ... be paralleled in the history of the treatment given and the attitudes shown to other Jewish communities unfortunate enough to find themselves under the dreadful yoke of Nazi do-mi nation. This volume is a memorial book dedicated not only to those who lived in the Suwałk vicinity, or those who grew up there, or studied there, or served their military duty there, or migrated from there or even perished there, or the descendants of all the foregoing, but it is a lxiok dedicated to World Jewry, not only of this generation but of all generations past. It is a book written with a very familiar theme and a recurring history. The story is as old as the Bible itself. The settlement of Jews in a stangc land; how they prospered and how they multiplied through the years — remaining nevertheless always ...
• Baranow Yizkor Book (1964), image 241 {y32}
  ... "Kinian Sefarim" (The purchase and maintenance of the religious books in the Bes Midrosh.) This institution was unique in that it was administered entirely by boys be-twecn the ages of 12 and 18. Somehow, by common consent of the boys who learned in the Bes Midrosh, one of them was elected as Gabai and charged with the responsibilities of this institution. He would make up a list of boys, appointing them to collect money from the Jewish merchants in town. Each boy would have his Friday assigned to him in which to make his rounds. Another list was drawn up designating one boy a week to collect the books strewn on the tables and place them in their respective shelves. The money collected was turned opcr to a treasurer, usually a merchant of good repu-tation. The money was withdrawn only when ...
• Baranow Yizkor Book (1964), image 242 {y32}
  ... made. The Baale batim sauntered into the Bes Midrosh. Some would pull out a book from the shelf to suit his mood and degree of learn-ing, settle down at the table and enjoy its contents. Soon another would join him and together they would indulge in relaxed conversation. The "Farein" occasionally produced a short play of skit for the enjoy-meat of its followers. To ... Jews went in groups for protection and safety. The more venturesome among the youth went bidding or indulged in the game of soccer. But sport activities were considered by a good many as fitting only for "Goyim" and as a deviation from the "right" path and were discouraged. xv

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