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This is an umbrella project for Hungarian Jewish town projects. Magyar Zsidó Lexikon Hitközségek szerinti mutató Jewish Communities of Hungary JewishGen Yizkor Books - Hungary JewishGen JewishGen Hungary Database Jewish Gen Hungarian Jewish Encyclopedia - 1929 Magyar Zsidó Lexikon Hungarian Jewish congregational archives Dr Gábor Kádár Alphabetic Town Index A Aba Abadszalo...
Sobrance, the easternmost town in Slovakia, is in the Kosice Region (Košický kraj) of Slovakia, about 18 km from Uzhorod, Ukraine and 22 km east of Michalovce. Before the end of World War I, Sobrance, then Szobránc, was the main city in the Szobránci járás (district) of Ung megye (county), Hungary. Sobrance is about 15 kilometers (just over 2 miles) west of Uzhorod, Ukraine, formerly Ungvar, th...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Lackenbach in Burgenland, Austria. KehilaLinks-Lackenbach JewishGen-Lackenbach Pinkas Lackenbach Lackenbach Mohel Book (1882 - 1923)===General History and Geography:Lackenbach is an Austrian municipality in the District of Oberpullendorf, Burgenland. Its Hungarian name is Lakompak. It is surrounded by meadows and forests ...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Dunajská Streda, Slovakia.DUNAJSKA STREDA (Hung. Dunaszerdahely), town located on the largest island of the Danube River in S.W. Slovakia, now Slovak Republic. Towns and villages of the region had dense Jewish populations and most were supervised by the Dunajska Streda rabbinate.The first Jews probably settled in the area...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Holíč (Holics, Holitsch, Weisskirchen an der March) in Slovakia. [Page 152]Holíč, Slovakia Translated by Jerrold LandauHolič (Holics in Hungarian, Holitsch in German) a town in the district of Skalica, region of Nitra in Western SlovakiaYear Population Jewish Population %* 1727 106 * 1737 182 * 1787 3,150 420 13.5* ...
Polish Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) Czech Slovak and Slovenian: occupational name for a carter or drayman the driver of a horse-drawn delivery vehicle from Polish Yiddish and Slovenian furman a loanword from German (see Fuhrmann ). See also Forman . English: variant of Firmin . Americanized form of German Fuhrmann . Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Schulz and in North America (also) an altered form of this. This form of the surname is also established in France (Alsace and Lorraine) Denmark and Sweden. Germanized form of Czech Slovak Croatian and Slovenian Šulc (see Sulc ) and of Polish Szulc surnames of German origin (see Schulz compare above). Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd ed...
English (southern): nickname from Middle English newe ‘new’ (i.e. newly arrived or newly appointed) + man ‘man’ (Old English nīwe + mann). Americanized form (translation into English) of surnames meaning ‘new man newcomer’ for example German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Neumann Swedish Nyman Polish Nowak Czech or Slovak Novák Slovenian Croatian or Serbian Novak . Source: Dictionary of American Fami...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Tuchów, Poland, also known as Tuchov. Gesher Galicia - Tuchów JewishGen - Tuchow Tuchow - Wikipedia ===Overview=== Tuchów [%CB%88tuxuf] is a town in Tarnów County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland, with a population of 6,476 (2004). It lies on the Biała river, at the height of 220 metres (722 feet) above sea level. The d...
English Scottish German Dutch French (mainly Alsace and Lorraine) Hungarian Czech Slovak Polish Croatian and Slovenian: from the ancient Germanic personal name Arnwald (Middle English Arnold Old French Arnaut) composed of the elements arn ‘eagle’ + wald ‘rule power’. This name was introduced to Britain by the Normans. English: habitational name from either of two places called Arnold in Notting...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Nove Mesto nad Vahom, Slovakia.NOVE MESTO NAD VAHOM (Slovak: Nové Mesto nad Váhom; Hungarian: Vágúhely; German: Neustadt an der Waag, Neustadtl, Waag-Neustadtl, Waagneustadtl, Waag-Neustadt), town in western Slovakia, since 1993 Slovak Republic. Located at the northern edge of the Danubian Hills at the foothills of the no...
English (London) Flemish Dutch and North German: patronymic from the personal name Steven . The surname of Flemish origin is also found in the Walloon part of Belgium. In North America the English form of the surname has also absorbed some like-sounding Jewish names and various other European cognates e.g. Greek Stefanidis Serbian Stevanović (see Stevanovic ) Slovenian and Slovak Štefanič (see ...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Dolni Kubin, Slovakia.DOLNI KUBIN (Slovak Dolný Kubin; Hung. Alsókubin), town in N. Slovakia, now Slovak Republic. According to existing documentation, Jews arrived in the city of Dolni Kubin, and in the Orava region, by the beginning of the 18th century, though it can be assumed that they were in the area earlier.Moravia...
Prince English and French: nickname from Middle English Old French prince (from Latin princeps). Americanized form (translation into English) of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Prinz ‘prince’ or its Czech Slovak Slovenian or some other Slavic cognate Princ from princ ‘prince’. Americanized form of Slovenian Primc: status name for one who lives in the house of his father-in-law from a derivative ...
Trenčin Memorial > The Trenčin Memorial for 1593 victims - Zavraždení 1942-1945. Restored with Participation and Contributions from Trenčin Survivors 1999 - 2002.> Names of the Trenčin victims were authenticated through a review process by editors from Slovakia, Israel, USA, Canada and Germany.>These reviews took place over a period of over two years to establish the Memorial as a historical m...
Pozsony county was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory lies in present-day western Slovakia.Its name changed along with that of the city of Pozsony, today's Bratislava. Its names around 1900 were Pozsony vármegye in Hungarian, Prešpurská župa in Slovak and Preßburger Gespanschaft in German.The county shared borders with the Austrian land of Lower Austri...
English French Walloon Dutch Flemish Hungarian Polish Czech Slovak Slovenian and Croatian: from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements heri hari ‘army’ + man ‘man’. Compare Harman 5. Americanized form of German Hermann a cognate of 1 above. English: perhaps a shortened form of Herniman a topographic name for a ‘dweller (in a) nook or corner of land’ from Middle English herne ...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Jablonec nad Nisou (Gablonz) in Bohemia, Czech Republic.The first written records about the existence of Jews in the Jablonec region date back to 1770 (chronicler Benda mentions Salomon Altschul in Malá Skála), but none of Jews probably lived directly in the town itself, but rather they lived in the surrounding villages. ...
ógrád (Hungarian; Latin: comitatus Neogradiensis, German: Neuburg or Neograd, Slovak: Novohrad) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in southern Slovakia and in northern present-day Hungary. The name Novohrad is still used in Slovakia as an informal designation of the corresponding territory. The name is derived from the former Nógrád (Novohra...
Forced labor and concentration camp in Slovakia. During the spring and summer of 1942, the authorities began using Sered as a labor camp. In fact, the idea of establishing such labor camps had come from the Jews themselves: during the height of the mass deportations, the Slovak Jewish rescue organization called the Working Group came up with a plan to save Jews from being deported by sending th...
German English Dutch and Danish: from a short form of the various ancient Germanic compound names with the first element wolf ‘wolf’ or a byname or nickname with this meaning or a topographic or habitational name referring to a house distinguished by the sign of a wolf. The wolf was native throughout the forests of Europe including Britain until comparatively recently. In ancient and medieval t...
In early January 1945, the German Einsatzkommando and members of the Slovak pro-Nazi Hlinka Guard Storm Troops murdered hundreds of people in a lime kiln in the village of Nemecká, about 25 km northeast of Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. Most of the victims were Jewish citizens born in Czechoslovakia, Austria and Hungary. The murdered were supposed to vanish without a trace, as if they had never exi...
Irish and English: from the Middle English personal name Col(e)man Old Irish Colmán earlier Columbán adopted as Old Norse Kalman. It was introduced into Cumbria Westmorland and Yorkshire by Norwegians from Ireland and probably spread widely across England. Ó Colmáin (‘descendant of Colmán’) was the name of an Irish missionary to Europe also known as Saint Columban(us) (c. 540–615) who founded t...
Esztergom County (Latin: comitatus Stringoniensis, Hungarian: Esztergom (vár)megye, Slovak: Ostrihomský komitát / Ostrihomská stolica / Ostrihomská župa, German: Graner Gespanschaft / Komitat Gran) was an administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary in present-day southern Slovakia and northern Hungary on both sides of the Danube river.Esztergom County shared borders with the counties Bars (...
This project is on History Link Jewish Paratroopers of British Mandate Palestine were a group of 250 Jewish men and women in Mandate Palestine who volunteered to join the British army and parachute into German-occupied Europe between 1943 and 1945. Their mission was to organize resistance to the Germans and aid in the rescue of Allied personnel. History Of the 250 original volunteers, 1...