Families: The Wiessenfeld Family of Galicia

Records of the Wiessenfeld family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 211 records for the surname Wiessenfeld (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:

• [stillborn], child of Dawid WESENFELD
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Zirl WISENFELD
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Szmul WISENFELDT
  1787 property record from Tarnobrzeg Josephine Survey (1787)
• Samuel WISENFELD
  1820 property record from Tarnobrzeg Franciscan Survey (1820)
• Aron WISENFELD
  1820 property record from Tarnobrzeg Franciscan Survey (1820)
• Herszek WISENFELD
  1820 property record from Tarnobrzeg Franciscan Survey (1820)
• Dawid WISENFELD
  1820 property record from Tarnobrzeg Franciscan Survey (1820)
• Natan WISENFELD, son of Meier WISENFELD and Rachel
  1844 birth record from Rzeszów Jewish Births (1842-1866)
• Beile WISENFELD, daughter of Maier WISENFELD and Rachl
  1847 birth record from Rzeszów Jewish Births (1842-1866)
• Paise WIESENFELD
  1850 property record from Tarnobrzeg Franciscan Survey (1850)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 211 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 Wiessenfeld family in Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website

There are 170 search results for the surname Wiessenfeld 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.

• Krakow Yizkor Book (1967), image 65 {y258}
  ... MY PARENTS AND BROTHER CHIEL KRANZ FEIGA KRANZ IZIDOR KRANZ By FAM. J. KRANZ X W‹ , morij oj MY UNCLES, AUNT & COUSINS ISRAEL WIESENFELD FRADEL WIESENFELD ARTEK WIESENFELD MANIA WIESENFELD By FAM. J. KRANZ Jn We›nor„ of Mother —HAN A SCHMEISER Brother —ZYGMUND SCHMEISER Sister—FELA SCHMEISER By Husband FISHEL SCHMEISER By Children MR. & MRS. J. KRANZ ...
• Krakow Yizkor Book (1967), image 174 {y258}
  ... , Bernard, Max, Benjamin and Sister Ida In Memory of Beloved Grandmother Ryfka Laja Warech MAX BERGMAN ABRAHAM WIESENFELD In Memory of My Dear Parents In Memory of Our Beloved Parents and Relatives FROM MARYLA FEILER ANNA & HARRY STERNBERG In Memory ...
• Rzeszow Yizkor Book (1967), image 623 {y74}
  ... Mr. Berish Weinstein, 1905-1967, Yiddish writer and poet whose best-known lyrical works are "Raishe" 1947, "America" 1955, and "Bruchwark" 1929-1949, Songs and Poems. These books of poetry have been translated into Hebrew and published in Israel. A very noted landsman who came to the United States shortly after the termi-nation of World War I is Mr. Leon Wiesenfeld. After a varied and rich public life as orator and editor in Rzeszow, where he edited the periodical "Gereehiigkcit" (Justice), he has continued his activities in behalf of the Jewish peopie first in New York, and for the last forty years in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A., as a publicist and leader in communal affairs and in the Zionist Organization of America; also 3s editor and publisher of the "Jewish Voice Pictorial", a periodical ...
• Rzeszow Yizkor Book (1967), image 640 {y74}
  ... thousands of Jews to combat Nazism after Hitler grabbed the power in Germany. He organized the boycott against German goods in Cleveland and fought against the Nazis in his city. Wiesenfeld is always eager for activity which is new and offers a challenge. That is why he had to help his townmates in Israel in the publishing of this book which is now before the reader. He has taken a strong interest in this project, saw to our supply of the paper, and has found ways of enlisting the active support of several Reisha Jews in the United States. PICTORIAL Htw vial IKTICN. I Ml rwiNTV ...
• Rzeszow Yizkor Book (1967), image 641 {y74}
  ... practical business environment in which he now has to move. It is a world gone by, with only here and there a memory or a remnant which he seeks to keep alive by his warm correspondence with his old friends or in his writing about the old days in Galicia. He is distressed at the indifference he finds in respect to the history of his home town Reisha and is seeking to remedy the situation. Leon Wiesenfeld began his journalistic carrier in 1907 in Der Yiddislter Journal published in Lon-don, while he resided in Berlin. Soon afterwards he once again returned to Reisha and there lie published a bi-weekly called Gerechtigkeit. At the same time he was the local correspondent of Der Tog, a Yiddish daily published in Cracow and edited by the late Yona Krepel. During the first World War, when ...

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