This project is designed to record and display the Jewish families and individuals with a connection to the town of Birnbaum an der Warthe (now Miedzychod) in the district of Posen (Poznan). Jewish Records Index for Poland (JRI-Poland) offers some data on this town here: details of the Jewish population of Birnbaum may be found here, including some rare photographs: is one microfilm identified ...
The Province of Posen (German: Provinz Posen, Polish: Prowincja Poznańska) was a province of Prussia from 1848 to 1919. Posen was established as a province of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1848 after the Greater Poland Uprising, converted from the Grand Duchy of Posen annexed by Prussia in the Polish partitions of 1815, and became part of the German Empire in 1871. Posen was part of the Free State ...