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The Lublin Ghetto was a World War II ghetto created by Nazi Germany in the city of Lublin in occupied Poland, on the Nazi-administered territory of the General Government. Its inhabitants were mostly Polish Jews, although a number of Roma were also present. The Lublin Ghetto, set up in March 1941, was one of the first Nazi-era ghettos in occupied Poland to be "liquidated". In November 1942 arou...
The Izbica Ghetto was a Jewish ghetto created in Izbica in occupied Poland during World War II, serving as a transfer point for deportation of Jews from Poland, Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia to Belzec and Sobibor extermination camp s.Jews in Izbica (eez-beetz-uh) established a kehilla in 1775. Under threat of imprisonment, Jews were forbidden to cross the bridge leading from Izbica to Tar...
The gentry of: the Principality of Halych ('Red Ruthenia') of the Kievan Rus' (1124-1199) and its predecessors the Principality of Galicia-Volhynia (1199-1340) the territory divided between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania during the Galicia-Volhynia Wars (1340-1392) the Belz ( województwo bełskie ) and Ruthenian voivodeships ( województwo ruskie ), of the Polis...
This project is here to give us a greater insight into the lives of our ancestors from across the empire and to help us work together to find our common roots. List of Austro-Hungarian Jews Wikipedia>===Famous People Sigmund Freud : Father of Psychoanalysis. Theodor Herzl : Father of Zionism. Stefan Zweig : Novelist, playwright, journalist, biographer. Franz Kafka : Novelist.
The Łódź Ghetto (German: Ghetto Litzmannstadt ) was the second-largest ghetto (after the Warsaw Ghetto) established for Jews and Roma in German-occupied Poland. Situated in the town of Łódź and originally intended as a temporary gathering point for Jews, the ghetto was transformed into a major industrial centre, providing much needed supplies for Nazi Germany and especially for the German Arm...
KATYN 1940 Massacre Please add profiles of people (Polish officers and others) who were murdered in Katyn area (including i.e. Charkow, Miednoje, Kalinin, Kijów, Ostashkiv) in the spring of 1940. The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre, was a mass execution of Polish nationals carried out by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the Soviet secret poli...
Great Northern War==== The Great Northern War (1700–1721) was a conflict in which a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. The initial leaders of the anti-Swedish alliance were Peter I of Russia, Frederick IV of Denmark–Norway and Augustus II the Strong of Saxony – Poland–Lithuania . Frederick IV...
Starostwo Haienskiego. Powiat Miński, Województwo Mińskie, Wielkie Księstwo Litewskie. Rzeczpospolita Projekt ten opowiada o Starostwo Haienskiego i jego mieszkańcach, którzy zamieszkiwali wsie wchodzące w skład starostwa przed okupacją rosyjską w 1793 roku. Mieszkańcy zostali uwzględnieni na podstawie wzmianek w inwentarzach (1738 roku, 1765 roku, 1789 roku) i księgach metrykalnych cerkwi gre...
Great Northern War 1700-1721. Prisoners of war and their descendants in Russia. There were many non-ethnic Swedes. From the Baltic States, Ingermanlandia (Kexholm, Vyborg, Narva, Noteburg (Oreshka), Nyenskans). Joining projects: in the project page, click "Actions" > "Join project". This also includes Swedish soldiers who were captured in Poltava, Russian Empire during the great Norwegian w...
The Order Wojenny Virtuti Militari (War Order of Virtuti Militari) (Latin for "For Military Valour") is Poland's highest military decoration for heroism and courage in the face of the enemy at war. It was created in 1792 by Poland's King Stanisław August Poniatowski and is one of the oldest military decorations in the world still in use. Order Virtuti Militari (łac. Męstwu wojskowemu – (cnocie)...
The Order of Saint Stanislaus (Polish: Order św. Stanisława Biskupa Męczennika, Russian: Орден Святого Станислава), also spelled Stanislas, was a Polish order of knighthood founded in 1765 by King Stanisław August Poniatowski of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It remained under the Kingdom of Poland between 1765 and 1831, and was incorporated under the Russian Empire from 1831 to 1917, unti...
The Pomorian soglasiye (Согласие, which means "creed" or "confession") is a group of bespopovtsy ("priestless") Old Believers, who abandoned the practice of receiving "runaway priests" after the death of the last pre-Raskol (schism) priests of the Russian Orthodox Church. In the absence of the priesthood, they began to elect literate laity to conduct services. The Pomorian creed was formed in ...
The Kindertransport (also Refugee Children Movement or "RCM'") is the name given to the rescue mission that took place during the nine months prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. The United Kingdom took in nearly 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the Free City of Danzig. The children were placed in British foster homes, hostel...
Zapraszamy do uczestniczenia w projekcie Geni Polska - który ma na celu skupienie jak największej liczby polskich użytkowników Geni w celu lepszej i wydajniejszej współpracy! W przypadku jakichkolwiek pytań kliknij tutaj . 'For English language, please see In English thread in Geni Polska message board. 'Członków prosimy o zapraszanie współpracowników z Polski do tego projektu (Opcje > Add Coll...
Ten projekt ma na celu zbierać profile osób, które mieszkały na terenie dzisiejszego Zawiercia, w historycznych parafiach, znajdujących się w miejscowościach Kromołów (św. Mikołaja) i Skarżyce (św. Trójcy i św. Floriana). This project aims to collect profiles of people who have lived in the area of present-day Zawiercie, in the historical parishes of Kromołów (St Nicholas) and Skarżyce (Holy T...
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a European state that existed from the 13th century until 1795, when its territory was occupied by the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia and the Habsburg Empire of Austria. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania included the lands of much of the former Kievan Rus and other neighboring states, including present-day Lithuania , Belarus , most of Ukraine , and parts of...
This project aims to assemble all of the Jewish families from the city of Łódź. We welcome collaborators. There are a lot of families to find and enter. Feel free to join, not just Follow, the project and enter the names of families who lived in Łódź. Go to ACTIONS (top right of the profile) click on ADD TO PROJECT. Select the project name that appears from the responsive check box and then DO...
This is an umbrella project for the Jewish communities historically associated with Poland- this includes the Russian Pale, Congress Poland, Galicia and parts of Prussia. NOTE THE LIST BELOW IS NOT ALL INCLUSIVE AND IS IN PROGRESS OF DEVELOPMENT. There were over 1000 Jewish communities in Poland and what was at one point or another historically associated with Poland. Several towns are the f...
Stettin, Länsi-Pommeri, Puola==== Stettin (puol. Szczecin ) on satamakaupunki Luoteis-Puolassa ja Länsi-Pommerin läänin ( voivodeship ) pääkaupunki. Kaupungissa asuu päälle 400 000 asukasta, sen ympäristössä noin 730 000 asukasta. Stettin on läänin suurin kaupunki ja Puolan seitsemänneksi suurin kaupunki. Stettin on merkittävä poliittinen, kulttuurillinen ja taloudellinen keskus maan luoteisosa...
The University of Tartu (UT; Estonian: Tartu Ülikool, Latin: Universitas Tartuensis) is a university in the city of Tartu in Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia and the only classical university in the country, and also the biggest and most prestigious university in Estonia. It was founded under the name of Academia Gustaviana in 1632 by Baron Johan Skytte , the Governor- General ...
The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest ghetto in all of Nazi occupied Europe, with over 400,000 Jews crammed into an area of 1.3 square miles (3.4 km2), or 7.2 persons per room.From there, about 254,000 Ghetto residents were sent to Treblinka extermination camp during the two months of summer 1942.The sheer death-toll among the Jewish inhabitants of the Ghetto during the Großaktion Warschau would ha...
❢IMPORTANT❢==Do not start adding random people to this project. It helps nobody and will quickly turn it into some sort of flame-war regarding who belongs and who doesn't. Please read the goal of the project below. After you understand what the project is about and you want to add relevant people, please make sure that you inform Volodya Mozhenkov , so that profiles are not duplicated.==About==...
1863 January Uprising - Lithuanian and Polish revolt against Imperial Russia.Started in 1862, suppressed by Russian Imperial army in 1864. Uprising participants were harshly punished: nobility titles removed, property confiscated, executed, imprisoned or sent to exile. Some escaped and lived their remaining years in foreign countries.Please add profiles of participants in January Uprising, incl...
This project aims to identify founders, notable teachers and students of Jagiellonian University from 1364 to the present day. If in your family tree you have an individual who was a notable professor, administrator or student of a high professional achievement (later in life), whose education was associated with Jagiellonian University, please add them to this project. It would be great if wit...
Maly Trostinets extermination camp (see alternate spellings), located near a small village on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus, was the site of a Nazi extermination camp.Originally built in the summer of 1941, on the site of a Soviet kolkhoz, as a concentration camp, to house Soviet prisoners of war who had been captured following the German attack on the Soviet Union which commenced on June 22 ...
Kraków Ghetto was one of five major, metropolitan Jewish ghettos created by Nazi Germany in the General Government territory for the purpose of persecution, terror, and exploitation of Polish Jews during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. It was a staging point to begin dividing "able workers" from those who would later be deemed unworthy of life. The Ghetto was liquidated between...
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 ...
=Jewish Community of Brody= In celebration of the town of Brody , Austria, present day Ukraine, and the people who came from there, particularly those who died in the Holocaust. A city, where wisdom and wealth, Torah and understanding, commerce and faith are united - Nachman Krochmal , in a letter to Isaac Erter 1961 Please add your ancestors or heroes from Brody to the project. You can do so b...
Warsaw was built on the banks of the Vistula River. The city has been capital of various reorganizations of Poland's territory since the 16th century, when Zygmunt III, commemorated in the famous Zymunt Column, moved the capital of Poland from Krakow.The history of Warsaw spans over 1400 years. In that time, the city evolved from a cluster of villages to the capital of a major European power, t...
Split's Immigrants from other Countries by the Beginning of 19th Century and Their SurnamesAt the beginning of the 19th century, Split has seen a rapid increase in population by influx of people migrating from all over Dalmatia, the Apennine peninsula, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and some Mediterranean and European countries. They were doctors, administrative staff, music teachers, craftsmen, s...
Plaszow Concentration Camp Plaszow was originally a forced labour camp , and subsequently became a concentration camp. Its official designation was Zwangsarbeitslager Plaszow des SS- und Polizeiführers im Distrikt Krakau. The construction of the camp began in summer 1940. Its first prisoners were Poles. In 1941 the camp was extended and the first Jews were deported there. The site chosen compro...
Krakow was one of the largest Jewish centers in Poland/Galicia. Founded before the end of the first millennium, the city of Krakow (Cracow), located today in southern Poland, served as the seat of the Piast Dynasty and eventually as the capital of the Polish Kingdom until the early 17th century. After the third partition of Poland in 1795, Krakow became the seat of Galicia province in the Aus...
The November Uprising (1830–31), also known as the Polish–Russian War 1830–31 or the Cadet Revolution, was an armed rebellion in the heartland of partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire. The uprising began on 29 November 1830 in Warsaw when the young Polish officers from the local Army of the Congress Poland's military academy revolted, led by lieutenant Piotr Wysocki. They were soon join...
The Grand Dukes of Lithuania, c1200 - 1569 >==From King Mindaugas to Sigismund III.The state of Lithuania formed in 1230s, when threatened by the Livonian Order in the north and the Teutonic Knights in the west, Baltic tribes united under Mindaugas leadership. He became the only crowned king of Lithuania. His state became known as Grand Duchy of Lithuania. After Grand Duke Jogaila became also k...
If in your family tree you have persons that were participants of the Battle of the Vikhra River , please add them to this project. It would be great if within the profile description "About" there would be brief biography. Within opened profile page use the 'Actions' button to "Add to project". Select this project (you must be on the list of collaborators in this project to see it on the sele...
The Częstochowa Ghetto was a Jewish ghetto set up by Nazi Germany in the city of Częstochowa in south-central Poland, for the purpose of persecution and exploitation of local Jews during the German occupation of Poland. The approximate number of people confined to the ghetto at its beginning was around 40,000 and at its peak – right before mass deportations – 48,000. In late 1942 most ghetto in...
Polish soldiers of World War One.Polscy żołnierze w Pierwszej Wojnie Światowej.1914-1918=Zaangażowanie Polaków na frontach I wojny światowej jest jedną z najczęściej pomijanych kart naszej historii. Powodem jest zapewne fakt nieistnienia polskiej, niepodległej państwowości w okresie, w którym toczyły się walki. Takie podejście jednak powoduje, że nie uwzględnia się ani wzmożonych wysiłków polit...
Volhynia ( Polish: Wołyń, Ukrainian: Волинь, romanized: Volyń, French: La Volhynie, Latin Lodomérie ), is a historic region in Central and Eastern Europe, situated between south-eastern Poland, south-western Belarus, and western Ukraine. While the borders of the region are not clearly defined, the territory that still carries the name is Volyn Oblast, located in western Ukraine. Volhynia has ch...
Pommern ist eine Region im Nordosten Deutschlands und im Nordwesten Polens, die von der Ostseeküste und deren vorgelagerten Inseln von knapp 50 km bis zu fast 200 km weit ins Binnenland reicht. Der Name Pommern ist die eingedeutschte Form von Pomorje und ist slawischer Herkunft: po more – „am Meer“. Westliche Begrenzung ist die Recknitz. Über die Auffassung bezüglich der Ausdehnung nach Osten g...
The Union of Horodło or Pact of Horodło was a set of three acts signed in the town of Horodło on 2 October 1413. The first act was signed by Władysław II Jagiełło, King of Poland, and Vytautas, Grand Duke of Lithuania. The second and third acts were composed by the Polish nobility (szlachta) and Lithuanian boyars, respectively. The union amended the earlier Polish–Lithuanian unions of Krewo and...
The purpose of Porębski family project is to gather in one place all the information about this family. Feel free to work with all your familiar to me, and no known family. I will also gladly welcomed all people willing to work together and with information useful for research. I also invite all people interested in this project. Kindly share comments in the guest book.Among Porębski and histor...
In the mid-1800s Kashubians migrated for economic reasons. After the Franco-Prussian War and the unification of Germany under Bismarck, Kashubians were met with institutionalized hostility. Life was very harsh for the Kashubs. It was illegal to use Polish or Kashubian in public, especially in church. Many priests were imprisoned or exiled. Churches were left with no parish priests. As a result,...
Background==The area of Nowy Wiśnicz was a monastic village that had existed since the 8th century. The first Jews settled down in this village in 1606. After being banished from Bochnia, they were offered assistance by the village owners called Lubomirscy. In 1613, Nowy Wiśnicz became the property of Stanisław Lubomirski, who was the governor of the Cracow Province. In 1616, he established the...
Westpreußen war eine preußische Provinz beiderseits der unteren Weichsel mit der Hauptstadt Danzig. Sie wurde 1772/1793 zur Zeit der Ersten und Zweiten Teilung Polen-Litauens aus annektierten Gebieten des Preußen Königlichen Anteils gebildet, ergänzt durch einen Teil des preußischen Oberlands um Riesenburg und Marienwerder, das zum Regierungssitz wurde. Die Provinz umfasste das Kulmerland, Pome...
Bochnia is located in southern Poland, in the Malopolskie Province (Lesser Poland). Since the first partition of Poland, Bochnia was under the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. According to the administrative division from 1918-1939, Bochnia was the seat of the Bochnia County which was part of Kraków Province. ==History== Bochnia is one of the oldest towns in Poland and was first mentioned i...
The Rejowiec Transit Ghetto Transit stop for the murder of Slovak JewsMap of Rejowiec in the Krasnystaw districtRejowiec in the district of Chelm, acquired municipal rights during the 16th Century and became famous thanks to Mikolaj Rej, a distinguished poet of the Polish Renaissance.At the end of the 16th Century Rejowiec was populated mostly by Jews, and by the 20th Century the Jews accounted...
Trying to gather all my royal ancestors in one place. Direct ancestors only. awillissam HEnry Whiting was a descendant of King James II, KIng Charles 1st and 2nd. He waS AN uRDU INTERPRETOR IN pUNJAB AAAAAAAA SSSSSSSSSSSSSKILL HE MAAY HAVE LearntAARNT FROM aBDUL kARIM (mUNSHI) His ancestry goes back to Charlmayne and Otto of the Holy ROman Empire. IT includes the dynasties: Normandy and WEs...
Imigração Polonesa==Os imigrantes poloneses no Brasil não formam um número expressivo como os italianos e portugueses. Porém, um grande número de imigrantes estabeleceu-se no país entre 1841 e 1971. Calcula-se que em um século [1869-1970] entraram 130.292 imigrantes poloneses no Brasil, dos quais 50% estão radicados ou deixaram descendentes no Paraná, 38% no Rio Grande do Sul, 5% em Santa Catar...
This project deals with the family stories of the many Poles who emigrated from their homeland to the USA. The task of this project will be to try to give the people who are on the passenger lists a family history and perhaps even a link to the world family tree. It's also about filling out existing stories and expanding them further. We hope that this project will serve its purpose and that Ge...
This project is to honour all the Polish men and women who made a contribution to the world in the field of medicine, science, literature, sports, engineering, entertainment, art, etc. who were born in Poland or elsewhere in the world. The Famous Polish People Project is partially replacing Geni Polska. (Geni Polska is now a portal project and profiles can no longer be added to it).
Polish Americans are Americans who have total or partial Polish ancestry. There are an estimated 10.5 million self-identified Polish Americans, representing about 3% of the U.S. population.Polish Americans are the largest Slavic and West Slavic ethnic group in the United States, second largest Central European group after the Germans, and the eighth largest immigrant group overall.The first Pol...
The Order of the White Eagle (Polish: Order Orła Białego) is Poland's highest decoration awarded to both civilians and the military for their merits. It was officially instituted on November 1, 1705 by Augustus II the Strong and bestowed on eight of his supporters: four Polish magnates, three Russian field marshals (including Peter Lacy), and one Cossack hetman. Order Orła Białego – najstarsze ...
The Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland took the lives of three million Polish Jews, destroying an entire civilization. Poles represented the largest number of people who rescued Jews during the Holocaust. To date, 6,863 Poles have been awarded the title of Righteous Among the Nations by the State of Israel, over 700 of which received their awards posthumously. Between October 1939 and July 1942 ...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland.Grodzisk Mazowiecki is a town located 30 km. southwest of Warsaw. The town had a Jewish community and it had been the center of the Hasidic Grodzhisk dynasty, (Grodzisk Mazowiecki being pronounced as "Grodzhisk" in Yiddish.) Grodzisk was the birthplace of Kalonymus Kalman Shapira (1889-1943), also known as...
Heads of Jewish Households listed in History of the Jewish Community of Ostrowo , written in 1896 by Aaron Friemann. Reproduced here in English translation. The current city of Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland, is here . The synagogue building still stands today, and has been renovated and is used as a community center/performance space. It is located here . Website of the current synagogue b...
... and has filled him with a divine spirit of wisdom, insight and knowledge in all craftsmanship. -- (Exodus 35:30-31) The Broniatowski family from Czestochowa, Poland, included innkeepers, weavers, and soap makers as well as prominent figures in medical research, science and the arts. During the Second World War, a family book, containing the history and origins of the Broniatowskis w...
( MOVE BACK TO THE MAIN PAGE - VERDI GALLERY )* Historical persons (HP) behind the opera characters * Performers and collaborators of the first Premieres * Performers most liked by Giuseppe Verdi and his wife Giuseppina Strepponi * Greatest performers after Verdi's times * Persons are sorted by roles and birth years. * Please, add profiles only to the main page, "Verdi Gallery". =Un giorno d...
The Kościuszko Uprising was an uprising against the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia[9] led by Tadeusz Kościuszko in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Prussian partition in 1794. It was a failed attempt to liberate the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from Russian influence after the Second Partition of Poland (1793) and the creation of the Targowica Confederation. If in your fa...
Kashubian History and Culture==This project is to focus on the history of the Kashubian people and their unique culture, traditions and language. Kashubians are not German nor Polish. Since 2005, the Kashubian language enjoys legal protection by the Polish government as a minority language. Kashubian is taught in Polish schools and is found on many street signs in the region. Historians and lin...
If in your family tree you have people who participated in Warsaw Uprising, please add them to this project. It would be great if within the profile description there would be a brief biography added.Within opened profile page use the 'Actions' button to "Add to project". Select this project - Warsaw Uprising in 1944 . You must be among collaborators within this project - in order to see it on ...
Meet the Gottheimers Hamilton Jordan's original title for his memoir (published Oct 2015) was "Meet the Gottheimers" -- a startled observation finding out, after her funeral, that his maternal grandmother had been Jewish. This Geni project collects Gottheimers, not just his. Some are indeed surprising. Contributions welcome. Gottheimer Family Profiles Family heads (earliest kno...
If in your family tree, you have persons that were voters during the 1696 election of August II , please add them to this project. It would be great if within the profile description "About" there would be brief biography. Also, please specify this project under the pictures and documents related to the 1696/97 election event. Within opened profile page, use the 'Actions' button to "Add to pro...
Das historische Ostpreußen erstreckt sich an der Ostseeküste vom Weichseldelta bis nördlich der Memelmündung bei Memel/Klaipėda, wo bei Nimmersatt „das Reich sein Ende hat“. Das nördlich der unteren Memel am Kurischen Haff gelegene Memelland wurde 1920 durch den Völkerbund von Ostpreußen abgetrennt, war von 1923 bis Anfang 1939 von Litauen annektiert und gehört seit dem Kriegsende wieder zu Lit...
February 15, 1941, and February 26, 1941, two deportation transports with 2,003 Jewish men, women and children on board left Vienna Aspang Station bound for Opole, a small town south of Lublin. Opole had a long established Jewish community; when war broke out about 4,000 Jews lived here, i.e. about 70 percent of the population, a proportion which rose further after the beginning of the war, as ...
Photographs and text by Julian H. Preisler Dobrin in Yiddish Former Jewish community in Lipno Province, Poland. [GPS: 52.6385%C2%B0 N / 19.3215° E, 52°38'18" N / 19°19'17" E]Dobrzyń nad Wisłą (Dobrin in Yiddish) is located on the Wisłą (Vistula) River in the Włocławek Province of Poland. It is a small town located halfway between the cities of Włocławek and Płock in central Poland. The town, f...
Kuperberg family members born in the Lublin Gubernia, specifically in the Pulawy / Końskowola area, in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries. Especially parents, siblings, and ancestors of Dawid Hersz Kuperberg, born approximately 1880. Additionally, his wife, Hinda Chaja Lerche, born about 1870. Here is what is known Dawid Kuperberg and his wife, Hinda Lerche Kuperberg had six child...
Wikipedia JewishGen Oshpitzin History of Oswiecim Profile photo attributed to Ed Wight, MailOnline, Jan 27, 2015 Photo of Auschwitz assembly square - Jack Hazut, Jewish Virtual Library ===Background===The town's name is of Slavic extraction, likely deriving from the name of the owner of a Slavic gord which existed there in the Middle Ages. Across centuries, it was spelled in many different ways...
Dedicated to the memory of 400 years of a Jewish community that was brutally annihilated by the Nazis, in WWII. 'מוקדש לזכרון 400 שנה לקיומה של קהילה יהודית שהוכחדה באכזריות ע״י הנאצים ומשתפי הפעולה המקומיים שלהם בתקופת השואה, במלחמת העולם השניה A sub-Project of ]
The Jewish vital records for Silesia are fragmentary and for many towns no longer exist. For this reason researching families for this region requires some creative searching. Prague Conscriptions (1850 - 1914) - Applications for Residence Permit of Prague Police Ernest Lanzer (1887 Teschen), lediger Reisender Vienna Heinrich Lanzer (1837 Karvina - 1899 Vienna) Heinrich Lanze...
Myrtle Cemetery is located in Poland, Chautauqua, New York. Also known as Mud Creek Cemetery and Clarks Corners Cemetery, Myrtle Cemetery rests on a knoll and borders the town of Kennedy, New York. Though this small cemetery was established in 1877, burials date from the 1820s. There are many interred here, who served their country; representing service from the American Revolutionary War thro...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Radom Region, Poland. About Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski [%C9%94s%CB%88tr%C9%94v%CA%B2%C9%9Bt%CD%A1s ɕfʲɛntɔˈkʂɨskʲi] (About this sound listen) is a town in south-central Poland (historic province of Lesser Poland) with 74,211 inhabitants (2006). The main industry is metallur...
The Battle of Grunwald , Battle of Žalgiris or First Battle of Tannenberg was fought on 15 July 1410 during the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War. The alliance of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, led respectively by King Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) and Grand Duke Vytautas, decisively defeated the German–Prussian Teutonic Knights, led by Grand Master Ulrich v...
If in your family tree you have persons that were participants of the Battle of the Vorskla River , please add them to this project. It would be great if within the profile description "About" there would be brief biography. Within opened profile page use the 'Actions' button to "Add to project". Select this project (you must be on the list of collaborators in this project to see it on the sel...
The Bialystok Ghetto was set up by Nazi Germany between July 26 and early August 1941 in the new capital of Bezirk Bialystok district of German-occupied Poland. About 50,000 Jews from the vicinity of Białystok and the surrounding region were herded into a small area of the city. The ghetto was split in two by the Biala River running through it (see map). Most inmates were put to work in the for...
Polscy malarze / Polish painters
This project seeks to identify Jewish individuals from or connected to the region of Kujawy in Pomerania, Poland. Many small towns and villages have no specific Jewish Town Projects. Some of the larger towns have projects, for example Konin and Kutno. Other Town Projects may be developed in due course.Places like Aleksandrow Kujawski, Babiak, Brzesc Kujawski, Chodecz, Dabie nad Nerem, Dobrzyn n...
The Lviv Ghetto or the Lwów Ghetto (also known as Lvov or Lemberg Ghetto , Polish: getto lwowskie) was a World War II ghetto set up in the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) on the territory of Nazi-administered General Government in German-occupied Poland. It was one of the largest Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany after the joint Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland. The city was a home to o...
This is a shell for Jewish Families of Turek.Located in Wielkopolska Province at 52°02' N, 18°30' E, USBGN: -533,571.Only a fraction of the Jewish records for this town survived the 20th century.The Polish archives has metrical (BMD) records for 1837, as well as "civil" records from 1808-1825. These have all been indexed, but are not yet live on JRI-Poland. A link to the images is in the list, ...
was occupied on 4 September 1939 by the German army. Approximately 24,000 Jews lived in the town, a third of all inhabitants. Like in all other occupied towns anti-Jewish actions took place immediately: Lootings, expropriations, forced labour and killings were the order of the day. Soon a Judenrat was established. Its first chairman was Moses Pelc who refused to collaborate with the SS. Therefo...
If in your family tree you have a persons that were participants of the Great Sejm, please add them to this project. It would be great if within profile description there would be brief biography. Do not add relatives, only add electoral members of the Great Sejm. * Within opened profile page use the 'Actions' button to "Add to project". Select this project (you must be on the list of collabora...
The Jews of Tarnów and the Ghetto==* Jews of Tarnow YIVO* Yizkor Tarnow JewishGen* Tarnow's Jewish Cemetery Before World War II, about 25,000 Jews lived in Tarnów. Jews, whose recorded presence in the town went back to the mid-15th century, comprised about half of the town's total population.[citation needed] A large portion of Jewish business in Tarnów was devoted to garment and hat manufactur...
Reichbart Family from Lodz, Poland >> See extensive family tree chart under Project Document's liink upper right. The Reichbart s originated in the shtetls surrounding Lodz, Poland.My wife, Barbara Melmed nee Goldstein (formerly Nathan) is descended from a Reichbart (Barbara's mother's mother's mother was Mary Reichbart).As far as I can determine, all Reichbarts are related, although there are ...
This is a project for Jewish Families of Głowno, Poland. This project aims to assemble all of the Jewish families from the town of Głowno. Collaborators welcome!Information about the town can be found at the following locations: We Remember Jewish Głowno JewishGen Locality Page for Głowno Virtual Shtetl page for Głowno at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews
This project is dedicated to commemorating the once vibrant and influential Jewish community of Kozienice "Koznitz" in Poland. The goal of this project is to identify and catalogue all of the Jewish families that lived in Kozienice prior to the destruction of the Jewish community during World War II. From Wikipedia:Kozienice [k%C9%94%CA%91%C9%9B%CB%88%C9%B2it%CD%A1s%C9%9B] (Yiddish: קאזשניץ Koz...
This project is for exploring various people and families from Pomerania Province, Poland Sources: Pomeranian Genealogical Association
This project is for those buried in Poland Riverside Cemetery, Poland, Mahoning County, Ohio. The cemetery is located on 110 Riverside Drive and is also known as Poland Cemetery and Riverside Cemetery . In 1865 a few Poland Village men realized that the graveyard next to the Presbyterian Church would not be large enough for the many returning Civil War veterans and their families. To honor th...
The purpose of this project is to identify and connect all of the Jewish families of the small town of Chorostkow. Chorostkow, now called Khorostkiv is located between Husiatyn and Kopyczynce, on the banks of the River Taina in the Ternopil Oblast of the Ukraine in what was once Galician Podolia. The village was granted the rights of a small town by local magnate named Siamianski who invited Je...
The Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (Polish: Order Zasługi Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej) is a Polish order awarded to those who have rendered great service to the Polish nation. It is granted to foreigners or Poles resident abroad and as such is a traditional 'diplomatic order'. It was created in 1974. Order Zasługi Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej – cywilne odznaczenie państwowe Rzeczypospolite...
Bochnia Ghetto, Krakow In 1941, Bochnia Ghetto, Krakow , a closed ghetto, surrounded by a wooden fence, was established in Bochnia. At the beginning of April 1941, all “Aryan” inhabitants of the future ghetto area were resettled, and in July 1941 Jews were prohibited from leaving the ghetto without a special permit. From October 1941, by order of Hans Frank, to do so was punishable by death. Fo...
Main information and table of contents taken from the book: Hitler's Foreign Divisions: Foreign Volunteers in the Waffen-SS 1940-1945, by Chris Bishop, Amber Books Ltd., London, United Kingdom, c. 2005. Book Introduction. "Even today, more than six decades after the outbreak of World War II, it still seems incredible that thousands of men whose countries had been conquered by the Nazis should h...
This project seeks to include descendants from all those Jewish families who once lived in Vilkaviskis. The town is now in Lithuania, but in the interwar years was in Poland. If your family's roots are here, please add their profiles. There is an excellent article by Joseph Rosin on the history of the town on the JewishGen KehilaLink here: . In addition, note the wonderful resource of Jewish Vi...
List of Polish Ghetto Projects on Geni:* Będzin Ghetto * Bialystok Ghetto * Bilgoraj Ghetto * Bochnia Ghetto * Brest Ghetto * Częstochowa Ghetto * Dabrowa Ghetto * Grodno Ghetto * Jaworow Ghetto * Kraków Ghetto
Jewish Families from Wieruszów, Poland This is a project for Jewish Families of Wieruszów, Poland. This project seeks to identify and collect all of the Geni profiles of Jewish individuals connected with Wieruszów and also Jewish families from the town of Wieruszów, Poland. Located on the western bank of the Prosna River and on the southern side of the S8 Highway, east of Kepno and west of Soko...
Hajnówka (Belarusian: Гайнаўка, Hajnaŭka; Ukrainian: Гайнівка, Hainivka; Yiddish: האַדזשנאָװקאַ, Hachnovka) is a town and a powiat seat in north-eastern Poland (Podlaskie Voivodeship) with 21,442 inhabitants (2014).[1] It is the capital of Hajnówka County. The town is also notable for its proximity to the Białowieża Forest, the biggest primaeval forest in Europe. Through Hajnówka flows the riv...
I would like to learn more about the Trybus family tree in my genealogy and help many others out in their researching. Anyone can feel free to post questions, start discussions, join this page, and help people out with their family tree. My main goal with this page is to help everyone with their trees (specifically people who have Trybus ancestry) and to get information from what other people k...
This project seeks to trace and connect people with the surname Philippsborn and variants Philipsborn and Phillipsborn, associated with the South Prussian town of Bentschen, Posen, modern-day Zbąszyń, in Nowy Tomyśl powiat or county. It is located close to the border of today's Germany. Earlier associated with the Kingdom of Prussia, the town became part of the Grand Duchy of Posen after the Na...
Polish prisoners of war/Polscy Jency WojenniIn September 1939, Poland was invaded by German and Soviet troops. A large proportion of the Polish army was captured: around 400,000 men by the German forces and over 200,000 by Soviet troops. Until February 1940, the German authorities gave the ICRC lists of the Polish prisoners of war they held, but after that date they stopped. In 1943, they again...
The town of Bilgoraj is the principal town of its county in Lublin province. As of 2009 its population was 27.341. It is located on Bilgoraj Plateau, on the Lada River (right tributary of the Tanew River), in the vicinity of Roztoczanski National Park. On August 2, 1919 the province of Lublin consisting of 19 districts was established, including Bilgoraj district with the principal town being B...
1918 Influenza Pandemic - Poland: Survivors="Please add to this project any profiles of those who suffered but survived the' Spanish Flu' pandemic of 1918 To participate in any project- you do need to first be a collaborator - so please join the project using the request link under "actions" at the top right of the page. Visit Geni Wikitext, Unicode and images which gives a great deal of assist...