Families: The Glazer Family of Galicia

Records of the Glazer family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 917 records for the surname Glazer (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:

• Eugenia GLOGIER
  census record from Tarnopol Refugees at Beginning of WWI (1914-1915)
• Markus GLASER, son of and Itte GLASER
  birth record from Fond 424 Jewish Births (various towns), part 2 (1890-1911)
• Bassia GLASER
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Etie Rose GLASER
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Sara GLASER
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• [infant] GLASER
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Beile GLASER
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Gittel GLASER
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Dawid GLASER
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Ruchel GLASER
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 917 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 Glazer family in Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website

There are 192 search results for the surname Glazer 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.

• Chrzanow Yizkor Book (1989), image 521 {y114}
  ... Fishier Menashe, Faigush, Shmuel, Itzchak Fleisher Berish, Necha—born Siegel, Josef, Etl Freifeld Faigl, Gutka, Zanvl Frisher Josef, Fraigl, Laib, Chaim Fuksbrumer Abraham—Shmuel, Mindl—born Tauber Ganger Israel-Laib, Rachel, Shmuel-Elimelech, Zeev-Yehoshua, Shloyme Geldvert Shmuel, Lipa, Faigl Glazer David, Rachel—bom Siegel Glass Yacob Glass Moyshe, Chai David Gnat Eliezer, Nechama Goldberg Shmuel, Chana-Tamar Grajover Shloyme-Alter, Symche, Elimelech, Aharon, Yoel Grajover Baruch, Miriam—born Cyzner, David, Yoel, Shmuel Grajover Zelig, Ruzia, Aharon, Ruzia—bom Mandelbaum, Yoel, Rachel- ...
• Iavoriv Yizkor Book (1950), image 109 {y62}
  SWASTIKA OVER JAWOROW craftsmen received one zlote per hour, and an extra loaf of bread each week. More were allowed to utilize their skill*. Saul Schwartz acted as their spokesman; Yisroel Manber worked as bookkeeper; Stepan Apther as technician, Teiger, Mordichai and Steinbach as cabinet makers; M. Singer, Glazer and Tieger were in charge of supplies. Among the unskilled were Ray Diamant, West, Mania Manber, Itzik Fein, Sh. Broch and Yosel Leberfeld. The construction program lasted until September, 1942. The Soviet prisoners were dealt with calculated cruelty. Many of them died daily. The Jews helped them in many ways." Apart from labor ...
• Mielnica Yizkor Book (1994), image 331 {y323}
  ... merchants who dealt in the past in cereals, textiles, clothing and household utensils, were compelled ,to forgo their dignity' and be in line with the ,ordinary people'. At times of lack of salt and sugar there stood in the queue for getting food ration coupons from the authorities, the daughter of the rich Eliezer Bokser. together with the daughter of Yekutiel the Glazer. The situation in the townlet changed to the belter when the military governor was replaced by another one named Wilson. He was a liberal and tolerant man. He invited several Jewish dignitaries (Jews only, he didn't take in consideration gentiles at all) and after a short conversation he appointed as head of the townlet Binyamin son of Motel Geyer. The Starost of the townlet, Mordche-Yosl Demb, Yerachmiel ...
• Mikulince Yizkor Book (1985), image 436 {y324}
  to the movement, as are Yerahmiel Glazer, Moshe Vunderlich and others. "Gordonia" lasted ten years, until the outbreak of war bet- ween Poland and Germany. AFTERWARD "Gordonia" fulfilled an important function in educating its members - the vast majority of young people in Mikulince. The town lacked a secular educational institution. By this time, the "heder’* had lost its influence over the youngsters. REligion was no longer seen as the only answer to life’s problems. Zionism influenced and attracted a large segment of the populace, which saw it as a logical answer to anti-Semitism. They also saw it as a solution to the ...
• Mikulince Yizkor Book (1985), image 505 {y324}
  ... alphabet). If we want to talk about a school system, his "heder" was the elementary school. The curriculum there did not go beyond one chapter in the weekly portion. The more advanced classes tasted tiny morsels of the first prophets. When a pupil reached this level, his father made sure to find him a more appro- priate teacher such as: Shmuel Itzik the deaf, Pinchas Shmuel Glazer and others. I must mention that there were other teachers, but I will concentrate on the most important ones. Ultimately, parents who could afford it sent their sons to teachers who were known to be knowledgable and sharp in Talmud such as: Henoch Trif, who was considered the best Talmudic scholar in our town: Abraham David (Tatie Friedman) who was blind. They said he knew the Talmud ...

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