Families: The Shutz Family of Galicia

Records of the Shutz family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 251 records for the surname Shutz (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:

• Joel SCHITZ, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Manes SCHITZ, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Tauba SCHITZ, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Leon SCHUTZ, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Elia SCHUTZ
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Jacob SCHÜTZ
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Mandel SCHÜTZ
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Gittel SCHÜTZ
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Elieser/Eliezer OFFENBERGER, son of Wolf OFFENBERGER and Chaje SCHÜTZ
  0 birth record from Fond 424 Jewish Births (various towns), part 2 (1890-1911)
• Jcyk SOC
  1788 property record from Brody Josephine Survey (1788)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 251 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 Shutz family in Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website

There are 196 search results for the surname Shutz 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.

• Bielsko-Biala Yizkor Book (1973), image 190 {y76}
  ... be-nothigte polnische Commercium conserviren möchten, so sehen wir uns genötigt, solche Mittel zu ergreifen, wodurch das Commer-cium beibehalten werden könnte, Wir wollen uns zwar hier gar-nicht darauf einlassen, ob und inwiefern das herzogliche Domi-nium befugt ist, von fremden anhero handelnden und sich kurze Zeit aufhaltenden Leuten ein Schutzgeld fordern zu können, son-dern wollen nur allein dies anfügen, dass wir garnicht begrei-fen können, worinnen denn eigentlich dieser Schutz bestehen sol-le, sintemalen die Juden bei ihrer Anherokunft, entweder in den öffentlichen Gasthäusern oder, bei anderen Bürgern einkehren, die Gewölber zur Einlegung der Wolle von selbigen mieten und lediglich bei der Stadt leben und mit den Einwohnern ihr Ge-werbe treiben. Ob nun also das herzogliche Dominium ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 457 {y94}
  ... village of Kozowa, near Berezan, in the Tarnopol Region. Among the kindly inhabitants we found a warm home with the Isserliss and Leber families. We also became good friends with the Ru-hatiner, Shitz, Markovitz. Blumenrcich, Rozmarin, Schmutz and other families — good people who, like the rest of the village, went to great trouble for us and for other refugees in the village, giving ... that you’re taken care of..." That's the kind of Jews we had ! May this story be a candle lit in memorium for his holy spirit. The Jewish refugees had spent almost a year in such places when suddenly, on June 22, 1941, every-one was aghast at the news that Nazi Germany had attacked its great friend and ally — Russia. Within a few hours the Hitlerites had broken through ...
• Berezhany Yizkor Book (1978), image 482 {y48}
  ... blood of innocent Jews. The uprooting of the Jewish population in our region began with the city of Lvov, and according to Nazi plans continued district after district and town after town. This Is how the Germans operated. During the darkness of the nigl.t, or close to dawn, they would surround the town, attack Jewish homes, make thorough search, seize people and bring them to a central-assembly place under a hail of shots,, beatings insults and shouts. They stood there for long hours and then were led away to the train railroad station under heavy guard. The train arrived, the people were brought into the coaches, which were locked and sealed and the train left. After travelling for hours In overcrouded coaches, they arrived at their destination. The coaches were opened, and the people ...
• Brzezany Yizkor Book (1978), image 482 {y91}
  ... search for young women, to be sent to labor camps. They seized 60 girls and transported them to the camp Yagelnica, near Chortkow. After several months of body break-ing work, the girls met their death. The days were passing swiftly and each day brought new news. In those days we were informed about an extermination-camp to be set up especially for us. constructed in the town of B e I z e c. Belzec, ... the Germans operated. During the darkness of the nigl.t, or close to dawn, they would surround the town, attack Jewish homes, make thorough search, seize people and bring them to a central-assembly place under a hail of shots., beatings insults and shouts. They stood there for long hours and then were led away to the train railroad station under heavy guard. The train arrived, the people were ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 449 {y94}
  ... him and it seems that he was shot. The Killers jumped from the escorting cars to catch him. As we drove on we, too, considered the possibility of jumping, only to reach the conclusion that even if we survived the fall from a moving vehicle and were not shot down and managed to hide in the field — there was nowhere to go and no one would help us. We were not atracted by such a form of suicide and hoped that this choice would also be given us in the ... the time, it had caught up with us. I don’t know what happened to the aged and the sick, and there were hardly any children. All we heard were a few shots. We were taken away while they remained. Perhaps they were not executed outright. It would have been superfluous to do so with the sophisticated machinery of Auschwitz so close. We ...

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