Families: The Wiessenfeld Family of Galicia

Records of the Wiessenfeld family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 214 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 214 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 174 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}
  ... was based entirely on a Jewish affair in Reisha. It was the conversion of the daughter of Zygmund Zwergel, the owner of a beer tavern in Ruskawiesz that induced him to write this successful show. Dr. Ezekiel Levin, the youngest son of Rabbi Nathan Levin, who was the local correspondent of the Polish-Jewish language daily No»y Dziennik in Cracow, praised the play in his paper and urged Wiesenfeld to continue writing plays. In this respect this reviewer was not the only one to make such suggestion. It so happened that on the day when the show was performed Mr. Mor-genthaus was a professor of the Columbia Univer-of the American Army. One, a relative of the Mor-genthau’s was a professor of the Columbia Univer-sity in New York and the other, whose name was Maurice Samuel, came to see the show ...
• Rzeszow Yizkor Book (1967), image 641 {y74}
  ... editor of the Brooklyn Ncie Zeitung. which was published in Yiddish and English. His next and final destination was — Cleveland. There he worked first as Associate Editor and in due course as Editor-in-Chief of the Yiddishe Welt (The Jewish World). In Cleveland Wiesenfeld became a leading figure not only in the field of Jewish journalism as its President until she left Reisha to join her husband in the United States. Long before she left, however, she did a great deal for newly born children of poor parents. Esther Wiesenfeld has shown a re-markable knack of getting others to help her in her activities, and managed to enlist the support of many women of the educated circles for the orga-nizations in which she was interested. Many of the Jewish women in Reisha were particularly impressed ...

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