Families: The Honig Family of Galicia

Records of the Honig family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 763 records for the surname Honig (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:

• Neche HENIG
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Leib Ber HENNIG
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Nechemje HENIG
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Ester HENIG
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Chaim HÖNIG
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Itte HONIG, daughter of Chaim Leib HONIG
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Chawa HONIG, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Sara HONIG, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• [no given name] HÖNIG, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Blima HÖNIG, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 763 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 Honig family in Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website

There are 189 search results for the surname Honig 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.

• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 7 {y94}
  ... 20 Meiz machriz umodia (proclaiming and informing) 30 1 24 The apteik drugstore 31 1 7 Attic instead of enresol 31 2 16 wine "Tokay" instead of today 34 2 22 Kira emperor"s kingdom 41 2 11 Leah Henig died in Los Angeles 45 2 32 "Targowica" market place 46 1 24 Gorden zlotys (shouldbe) tenfold 51 1 13 Baal musaf reader of supplementary prayers ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 417 {y94}
  ... who came after her was Eliezer Teicher who later married one of his pupils — Glickel Braff: were both killed in the holocaust. Let me say something about my family: my father was a man of learning, an exemplary father, husband and human being. He had lived a few years in Amer-ica where he had two daughters, Clara and Gittel. He returned to Brzozow some years before war broke out. THE HENIG FAMILY Of his children three sons lived in the shtetl. The youngest, Reb David, God rest his soul, a tall, hand-some man with a well-tended reddish beard, died sud-denly in the early 30’s, leaving a wife, Dina and a son, Mendel who, handsome and athletic as he was, died suddenly like his father, at the age of 16. There was also a daughter, Esther, who married Avraham Kupper of Sanok ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 446 {y94}
  ... come the moment when the balloon of miracles would be emptied and that was the end. Others, whom fate continued to supply with some, were saved. It would take too long to recount the quirks of fate which saved me during my illness. After endless vicissitudes I left the hospital with a painful, swollen leg and managed — in ways too complicated to tell — to get a sitting job. I sat on a large pile of stones which I hammered into little pieces, thus sparing my leg and letting it heal slowly. One Sunday after the muster, as we dispersed to our blocks, I met Hanina Henig, a townsmen and the son of Ber Henig who had left the shtetl in the
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 460 {y94}
  ... for the purpose and presumably "proletarian" minded, with the correct Leninist-Stalinistic approach, had caught him near the were daily transferred in organized fashion to the other side of the river. There was also an escape route by means of farmers living on the river’s bank. These men were familiar with the locality and glad of the opportunity to make an easy penny. My cousin, Feige Honnig (today Roth, in Holon). managed to get in touch with such a farmer in one of the villages near Sanok, whose house was right on the bank of the San and part of whose family lived across the river. The man had a boat by means of which Feige transferred all the household goods to her sister’s family in Sanok, for they had made the crossing empty-handed. Then Fe’.ge returned to the shtetl, packed ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 577 {y94}
  ... Family H. Bank 153 The Trachman Family H. Bank 153 The Kintzler Family H. Bank 154 A letter B. Berglass 154 A letter C. Kaplan 155 A forgotten family S. Weiss 155 My family E. Weiss 156 My shtetl and family B. Hann 157 The Henig family A. Levite 158 A tragic family R. Seelenfreund 160 R’ Israel Feith H. Bank 161 Our family A. 1. Laufer 162 The Jewish intelligentzia M. Amit 163 The Retarded A. Levite 164 BEMA'ALOT KEDOSHIM My Father A. Levite 165 R' Hirshele ...

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