Families: The Safier Family of Galicia

Records of the Safier family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 2653 records for the surname Safier (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:

• Rubin SAFIR
  census record from Brody Jewish Census (1850-1857)
• Isaac SAFIR
  census record from Brody Jewish Census (1850-1857)
• Zlate Beile SAFIR
  census record from Brody Jewish Census (1850-1857)
• Czarne SAFIR
  census record from Brody Jewish Census (1850-1857)
• Peisech SOFER
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Channe SCHAFFER
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Pinkes SZAFIER, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Rzeszów Registration Cards (1919-1942)
• Adolf SCHAFFER
  tax record from Brzeżany Jewish Taxpayers (1936)
• Róża SEIFERT
  tax record from Brzeżany Jewish Taxpayers (1936)
• Genia SCHAFFER, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 2653 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 Safier family in Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website

There are 179 search results for the surname Safier 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 382 {y114}
  ... . We were par-tially successful. I went out into the market place, where all the shops had been looted, and saw Father Kaminsky standing there with a few commissars, enjoying themselves. 1 went up to a commissar whom I knew, and asked him why he was do-ing nothing to stop the pogrom. He said to me, "The police know what they're do-ing. They have precise orders..He advised me that I'd be safer if I went home. One group of anti-Semites was led by a lawyer, whose rotten name I've forgotten—I only remember that he had pimples. (This was doubtless Dr. Janikowski—M.B.) They went up to the rabbi, doubtless wanting to harm him in some way. We im-mediately warned Rabbi Mendele to avoid them. The rabbi deserves praise, for he went around the city, shouting "Jews, don't be apathetic! Go out into ...
• Berezhany Yizkor Book (1978), image 489 {y48}
  ... and beating up their Jewish neighbours, and the Ukrainians engaged in burning and pillagig Jewish homes, and even murdering Jews who lived in villages. Antisemitism increased from day to day. When second World War broke out. though we were aware that it could come, it was a heavy blow. We were not prepared for the war neither physically nor spiritually. Terror and confusion gripped us, and fortunately we didn't suffer human casualties in the brief initial period From the start Polish officers and generals deserted the frontier. The roads were jamed with refugees, soldiers and vehicles. There was confusion from constant bombardment by the German airforce. The air-attacks caused heavy losses We helped fleeing people with whatever we could. It is difficult to describe the prevailing confusion ...
• Bobrka Yizkor Book (1964), image 253 {y80}
  ... a short time we enjoyed a kind of Jewish autonomy. The Ukrainian rule came very soon to an end and after fierce fighting the Poles took over and we became overnight Polish citizens, after having been Austrian citizens most of our lives and Ukrainian citizens in the interim. The good days did not last long. In 1920 the Russians came back as the Red army. Again we had to suffer hunger and privation because there was no chance to earn a living or a possibility of getting any food. Jews lived in Boiberke for hundreds of years, almost from its very inception. It was surround-ed by beautiful scenery of colorful fields and forests. Prior to World War 1 the peoples. Poles Ukrainians and Jews nicely convivcd and life was pleasant and easy. All studied in the same school. The language ...
• Brzezany Yizkor Book (1978), image 489 {y91}
  ... beating up their Jewish neighbours, and the Ukrainians engaged in burning and pillagig Jewish homes, and even murdering Jews who lived in villages. Antisemitism increased from day to day. When second World War broke out. though we were aware that it could come, it was a heavy blow. We were not prepared for the war neither physically nor spiritually. Terror and confusion gripped us. and fortunately we didn’t suffer human casualties in the brief initial period. From the start Polish officers and generals deserted the frontier. The roads were jamed with refugees, soldiers and vehicles. There was confusion from constant bombardment by the German airforce. The air-attacks caused heavy losses. We helped fleeing people with whatever we could. It is difficult to describe the prevailing confusion ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 477 {y94}
  ... murderers. All of that is written of later in the next chapter of my life during the war, which, as is well-known, was more tragic and horrible than my previous experience. (Translated by Fela Ravatt) and I was duty bound to give them a respectful salute. Even as a loser the obligation was the same. They returned the salute. Xo one bothered me and I did not suffer from any mishaps. By nightfall I reached my mother's cousin. I even had a chance to observe the Jewish stores closed and on each store there hung a note "Jewish business" with a star of David framed. The family of my mother's cousin did not expect me and their joy at seeing me free from the camp was enormous. We talked ...

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