Austrian Poland Jewish Records: Difference between revisions

Austrian Poland, a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1772 until 1917, now in southern Poland and western Ukraine.  

*To visit the Galicia Jewish Museum online click [http://www.en.galiciajewishmuseum.org/ here].<br>The Galicia Jewish Museum exists to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and to celebrate the Jewish culture of Polish Galicia, presenting Jewish history from a new perspective.

*The '''[https://www.geshergalicia.org/galician-town-locator/ Gesher Galician Town Locator]''' is a free online gazetteer for locations in Galicia. On the site, scroll down on the table to view all towns in Galicia, Austria as well as judicial/administrative districts and the location of the Jewish, Roman Catholic, and Greek Catholic centers. Their data comes from the year 1900. The list is organized alphabetically. You can also use the control find feature to help you locate your town quickly. This can be done by pressing the '''Ctrl (or Command if using a Mac)''' and '''F''' keys on your keyboard at the same time. Type your location in the box that appears on the screen (usually in the upper right hand corner) and press enter. Keep in mind that spellings used on the site may be different from the spellings you have, and so if you don't find it using a control find search, be sure to check the alphabetical list.

====Miriam Weiner Maps====

Gesher Galicia's Digital Map Room is a collection of maps from the former Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia. The site contains regional maps as well as cadastral maps, or land maps that show the boundaries and ownership of land parcels. Many of their maps are full color and very high quality. Be sure to also explore the '''Maps''' tab of the [https://www.geshergalicia.org/ '''Gesher Galicia website'''] for additional resources.

Austrian laws allowed Jews to maintain registers under Catholic supervision from 1789, but most Jewish registers date from the 1830s or later. Jewish records were not given the status of official legal documents in Austria until 1868.

The '''[https://search.geshergalicia.org/ All Galicia Database]''' is home to over 720,000 free, indexed records. Clicking on a result will pull up additional information including a record citation which lets you know where the original record came from.

*'''To locate additional source information''' scroll down to the bottom of your search page on JRI-Poland to the '''Datafile''' section. Locate the collection of interest from the index and then look at the final column, '''LDS films/contact information'''.

'''[http://www.agad.gov.pl/inwentarze/testy.html AGAD]''' contains many Jewish metrical records (birth, marriage, and death), index books, and additional records from the voivodeships of Lwów, Stanisławów and Tarnopol. Many of these metrical records have been scanned and are available as digital images. For an inventory of records available by location, record, type and years, click [https://www.geshergalicia.org/inventories/fond-300/ here] and [https://www.geshergalicia.org/inventories/fond-424/ here]. The inventory links to the digital images on AGAD, as well as whether or not the record has been indexed by another organization.  

*[https://portal.ehri-project.eu/ '''European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Online Portal'''] offers information on Holocaust archival material held in institutions in Europe and throughout the world.

*'''[https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2357/ USHMM: Poland, Jewish Holocaust Survivors Registered in Warsaw, 1945-1956 Ancestry Collection]''' contains indexes to 31,175 registration cards of Jewish survivors in Warsaw after the war. The indexes provide name, date of birth, information about parents, pre-war residences, and additional information. Ancestry is typically a subscription site, but you can search Holocaust records for free. See more information about that [https://www.ancestry.com/cs/alwaysremember here]. You can request a copy of the original record by using the [https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/person_advance_search.php Document Request Form fond at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website.]

*[https://yvng.yadvashem.org/index.html?language=en '''Yad Vashem Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names'''] is a database of victims of the Holocaust.