Town overview
| Modern town name: | Belz, Ukraine |
|---|---|
| Latitude and Longitude: | 50.3833, 24.0167 50°23' N , 24°01' E |
| Galician (Austro-Hungarian) Administrative District: | Sokal |
| Galician (Austro-Hungarian) Judicial District: | Belz |
| Jewish Kehilla (Community) District: | Belz |
| Interwar (Polish) District: | Sokal |
| Interwar (Polish) Province: | Lwów |
| Modern District (county or raion): | Sokol raion |
| Modern Province (voivodeship or oblast): | Lviv oblast |
Map of Belz
Families from Belz
There are 4 members of Gesher Galicia researching 5 surnames from Belz:
Here are the 3 most recent records.
| Family name | Researcher | Researcher's Location | Date Added |
|---|---|---|---|
| DONNER | GG Member | Jerusalem, Israel |
Jun 27, 2020 |
| STANGER | GG Member | Boston, MA USA |
Apr 3, 2020 |
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Cadastral Maps and Landowner Records from Belz
The following is a list of records and maps that Gesher Galicia has cataloged at the archives in Lviv, Ukraine. In some cases, copies of these files have been obtained, transcribed, and put online in our All-Galicia Database (AGD).
| Place | Admin. District | Item Type | Year | Description | Archive Info | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belz (Belz) | Sokal |
Text | 1731-1762, 1754-1763 | Inventory description of property of the Roman Catholic church. | Lviv Archives: 140-1-142 |
Not Yet Examined |
| Belz (Belz) | Sokal |
Text | About the debts of Jewish society before the monastery. | Lviv Archives: 141-1-12 |
Not Yet Examined | |
| Belz (Belz) | Sokal |
Text | 1758 | About the visiting of Jewish society at Roman Catholic church every week. | Lviv Archives: 141-1-13 |
Not Yet Examined |
| Belz (Belz) | Sokal |
Text | 1811 | About 2-grade school in Belz (42 pupils). | Lviv Archives: 146-4-158 |
Not Yet Examined |
| Belz (Belz) | Sokal (Sokal' okr.) |
Text | 1917 | List of people who suffered during the war. | Lviv Archives: 146-48-128 |
Not Yet Examined |
| Belz (Belz) | Sokal |
Text | 1789 | About German-Jewish school in Belz & information about the pupils. | Lviv Archives: 146-85-1903 |
Not Yet Examined |
| Belz (Belz) | Sokal (Zhovka okr.) |
Text | 1784 | About the population of Belz. | Lviv Archives: 146-88-556 |
Not Yet Examined |
| Belz (Belz) | Sokal (Zhovka okr.) |
Text | 1784 | About the population of Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews. | Lviv Archives: 146-88-556 |
Not Yet Examined |
| Belz (Belz) | Sokal (Zhovka okr.) |
Text | 1784 | Information about the fact, that there were 540 more Jews than Christans. | Lviv Archives: 146-88-556 |
Not Yet Examined |
| Belz (Belz) | Sokal (Sokal' okr.) |
Text | 1894 | About 4-grade school for boys & 3-grade school for girls. | Lviv Archives: 165-2-2140 |
Not Yet Examined |
| Belz (Belz) | Sokal |
Text | Name list of books about the people of Belz who received estates. | Lviv Archives: 166-1-1253 |
Not Yet Examined | |
| Belz (Belz) | Sokal |
Text | 1799, 1831 | Record book of people's properties. | Lviv Archives: 166-1-1254 |
Not Yet Examined |
| Belz (Belz) | Sokal |
Text | 1781, 1851 | Record book of property documents of people of Lublin & Zabolotia suburbs of Belz. | Lviv Archives: 166-1-1255 |
Not Yet Examined |
| Belz (Belz) | Sokal (Belz povit) |
Text | Alphabetic book of Belz & Belz povit. | Lviv Archives: 166-1-1256 |
Not Yet Examined | |
| Belz (Belz) | Sokal |
Text | 1788, 1803 | Record book of properties of people. | Lviv Archives: 166-1-1257 |
Not Yet Examined |
| Belz (Belz) | Sokal |
Text | 1792, 1873 | Record book of property documents. | Lviv Archives: 166-1-1249-1252 |
Not Yet Examined |
| Belz (Belz) | Sokal |
Text | 1803, 1880 | Record book of property documents. | Lviv Archives: 166-1-1258-1263 |
Not Yet Examined |
| Belz (Belz) | Sokal (Zhovka okr.) |
Text | 1879 | Book of landowners including the place where they lived, the category of lands & amount of taxes. | Lviv Archives: 186-1-897 |
Not Yet Examined |
| Belz (Belz) | Sokal (Zhovka okr.) |
Text | 1878 | Alphabetic list of landowners including the category & number of lands. | Lviv Archives: 186-1-898 |
Not Yet Examined |
| Belz (Belz) | Sokal (Zhovka povit) |
Map (1 part) | 1910 | Copy. | Lviv Archives: 186-5-18 |
Not Yet Examined |
| Belz (Belz) | Sokal (Zhovka povit) |
Map (I, IV, V, VIII-XI) | 1854 | Original. | Lviv Archives: 186-5-810 |
Not Yet Examined |
| Belz (Belz) | Sokal |
Map () | 1854-1910 | Cadastral maps. | Lviv Archives: 186-5-18, 81 |
Not Yet Examined |
| Belz (Belz) | Sokal |
Text | 1789-1797 | Inventory description of the properties of Belz. | Lviv Archives: 453-1-24-33 |
Not Yet Examined |
Books about Belz
Yizkor books for Belz
There is at least one known Yizkor book about Belz: "Belz memorial book" ("Belz; sefer zikaron") , published in 1974 in Tel Aviv.
The JewishGen website has an English translation of this book available online. You can read the original book online at the New York Public Library website, or you can find a copy in a library near you through the free library search website WorldCat.
There may also be other Yizkor books published that cover , or larger nearby towns, or the region in which it was located; check JewishGen's Yizkor Books database for the latest details.
About Yizkor books
A Yizkor book is a "book of remembrance" about a Jewish community that was destroyed in the Holocaust. Each book documents the town's history and usually gives a necrology (list of the murdered) at the back of the book. Most of the books were written by survivors from the town, or people from the town who had immigrated before the war, and were mostly published between 1945 and 1975, and usually written in Hebrew or Yiddish. Some large towns may have had more than one Yizkor book published at different times.
The non-profit Jewish genealogy organization JewishGen has a comprehensive online database of Yizkor books and the towns that they document. They also host English language translations of much of the content of the books, sponsored by the website's donors and volunteers.
Many of these books have been scanned and put online for free reading at the New York Public Library's Yizkor Book website. The Yiddish Book Center also offers reprints of Yizkor Books which you can buy on their website.