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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...
Poznańska (Błogosławiona) Piątka (błogosławieni oratorianie) ==Pięciu młodych wychowanków Salezjańskiego Oratorium świętego Jana Bosko w Poznaniu. Podejrzewani przez gestapo o przynależność do tajnej organizacji politycznej zostali aresztowani w dniach 21 i 23 września 1940 roku, a potem więzieni w Poznaniu, Wronkach, Berlinie, Zwickau i zamordowani w Dreźnie. W skład Poznańskiej Piątki wchodzą...
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...
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 childr...
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, ...
This project is for those buried in Levant Cemetery, Poland, Chautauqua County, New York. Find a Grave NY Gen Web Painted Hills
Polscy malarze / Polish painters
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
... 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...
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 known anc...
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...
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 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 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...