Families: The Reiss Family of Galicia

Records of the Reiss family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 6103 records for the surname Reiss (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:

• Reisel REISS
  census record from Brody Jewish Census (1850-1857)
• Taube LIEBMAN, child of Mozes RAPP and Schewa LIEBMANN
  birth record from Austrian Ministry of Interior - Certification of Vital Records (1903-1918)
• Josef, child of Selig JOLLES and Beile Hudie BRECHER vel RAUCH
  birth record from Austrian Ministry of Interior - Certification of Vital Records (1903-1918)
• Isaak, child of Selig JOLLES and Beile Hudie BRECHER vel RAUCH
  birth record from Austrian Ministry of Interior - Certification of Vital Records (1903-1918)
• Fanny, child of Selig JOLLES and Beile Hudie BRECHER vel RAUCH
  birth record from Austrian Ministry of Interior - Certification of Vital Records (1903-1918)
• Juda REISS
  tax record from Brzeżany Jewish Taxpayers (1936)
• Herzel REICH
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Chaim RAUCH
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Zlatte REIS
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Moises REIS
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 6103 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 Reiss family in Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website

There are 164 search results for the surname Reiss 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 93 {y24}
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• Baranow Yizkor Book (1964), image 243 {y32}
  ... time spent over the Sidur (prayer book—primers were not available in Baranow) was in short intervals. On the other hand the child was always in company of friends—children of his own age, and from early childhood he acquired the social habit of adaption and accommodation. The older the child became, the more strenuous his studies and the more severe the discipline. At the age of nine (9) he would rise about 6 A.M. and learn until about 8, davin, go home for breakfast and was off to school. By two (2) P.M. he was back in Cheder until four. Then he was free until after the evening services when another two hour session in Cheder followed. Somewhere in between, the child squeezed in his homework for school and Cheder and enjoyed such relaxation as was available to him. The lot of the girls ...
• Baranow Yizkor Book (1964), image 250 {y32}
  ... economic and social functions. Its polluted waters furnished a limited supply of fish for the community. In winter it was used by the non-Jews for ice skating and on Rash Hashono by the Jews for Tashlich. The narrow lane in the north, paved with broad flagstones, led to the cluster of Jewish institutional buildings such as the Bes ... on the north-western corner pointed to Dolansky's "Castle" (The Hoif). This was an imposing medieval palace of gargantuan size. During the formation of the Polish government in the days immediately following the conclusion of World War I, Drs. Reich and Sommcrstcin (subsequently elected members of the Polish Scjm) were held here in a form of house arrest, as their ideas were held by the politicos to be contrary to the best interests of the country. The "Castle ...
• Berezhany Yizkor Book (1978), image 490 {y48}
  ... . as principal. In 1929 a second Hebrew-School was founded by the "Tartout" organization. Mr. Mansfeld was it's' principal. Shortly there after still another Hebrew-School was established by the Mizrachi orgazination. CHARITY AND WELFARE INSTITUTIONS A fter First World War. many orphans without shelter and protection were /\ left in the town. Thanks to the intervention of Mrs. R. Reich. Mrs. H.G01- J^denberg and Mrs. A. Milch and other Jewish women, a Jewish womens organization for the protection of these children was organized. In 1920 it changed its name from The Organization of Jewish Women for the Supervision of Orphans to The Socieiy for the Protection of Jewish Orphans. This worthy cause was sup-ported by Brzezany emigrants to the U.S.A. and particularly by the family of Isaac ...
• Biecz Yizkor Book (1959), image 320 {y69}
  ... "Remember what Amalek did unto you". This motto should always stand before our eyes, because it has given us in the past the power to stand up and to overcome all those who intended to de-stroy us. There are still a lot of criminals who walk in the world as free men and do not get the punishment they deserve. They are as impudent as they were before, and they are only waiting for an opportunity to rise again and repeat their wicked deeds. It is in order to keep alert against such elements that we are ordered "not to for-get". As this is a memorial document which is meant for the coming generations, it should include the past history, because the life of the community was full of national and cultural events; Beicz was not a community of gyp-sies or of degenerated people, its men were ...

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