ברעסלאַו

Wroclaw, Poland

Breslau

Alternate names: Wrocław [Pol], Breslau [Ger], Bresle [Yid], Vratislav [Cz], Vrotslav [Rus], Wratislavia [Lat], Boroszló [Hun], Wrosław, Breslavl', Breslavia, Bresslau

Coordinates  51°06' N, 17°02' E

Links:

International Jewish Cemetery Project

Report on the Wrocław Cemetery

http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/poland/wroclaw.html

Jewish Wrocław

http://www.inyourpocket.com/poland/wroclaw/sightseeing/jewishwroclaw

Wrocław - The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Wroc%C5%82aw

Jewish cemetery of Wroclaw - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08dWroxCpYM

Wroclaw - Jewish Cemetery at Lotnicza Street

http://www.kirkuty.xip.pl/wroclawlotniczaang.htm

The White Stork Synagogue in Wrocław – You Tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3lDXbCfddw

Rebirth in Wroclaw - A Jewish wedding in Poland celebrates more than marriage

http://www.jewishjournal.com/articles/item/rebirth_in_wroclaw_20000714

Ken Arkwright of Perth, born in Breslau

http://www.aufrichtigs.com/02-Breslau_Aufrichtigs/Breslau.htm

Jewish Records Indexing - Poland

http://jri-poland.org/index.htm

 

Research Tip - Just Added

Subject: For Breslau (Wroclaw) Researchers

From: Stephen Falk <sfalkjd@gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015

JRI-Poland has completed indexing of the 1889 to 1910 Jewish birth,

marriage and records from the Breslau Standesamt (civil registration).

These 22 years of records were not microfilmed by the LDS.

Although covering a relatively recent period of time, the information

in this data is surprisingly valuable to researchers.  The death

entries, in particular, can be very helpful in bridging gaps from

other sources and identifying individual born in the early part of the

19th century.

In addition, many birth records contain notes referring to the

person's marriage or death in pre-War Germany or their continued

residence in Germany in 1939.

And now this data is even more useful!

Digital images of the very Standesamt records indexed by JRI-Poland

are now available online from the Polish State Archive in Wroclaw.

With the information from the JRI-Poland index, it is now very easy to

find the corresponding original birth, marriage or death document

without searching district-by-district or year-by-year.

To view samples of the entries in the JRI-Poland Breslau / Wroclaw

project, go to:

http://jri-poland.org/psa/psawroclaw.htm

A few years of these records are online and can be searched on the

JRI-Poland website. However, the complete 1889-1910 file cannot be

posted online until the project is fully funded.   And when it is

funded, JRI-Poland will provide direct links from its search results

to the corresponding records, making your research even easier.

Please contact me if you would like help in any way or if you would

like more information.

Thank you,

Stephen Falk

JRI-Poland "Town Leader" for Breslau / Wroclaw

Point Roberts, WA, USA

sfalkjd@gmail.com

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CIŻ CAFE will be opened today (17.12.2014), just next to The White Stork Synagogue at Włodkowica 7 at 18:15! Apart from varieties of coffees and teas, the menu will include vegetarian and vegan snacks (like typical israeli rugelach and burekas). It is also the place to buy Jewish books, souvenirs and get all the information one may need about Jewish life in Wrocław and environs.

Subject: Breslau Standesamt records (Re: Seeking Breslau 1903 birth record)

From: "Joachim Mugdan" <mugdan@uni-muenster.de>

Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014

Roger Lustig wrote about the Standesamt (civil records office) records from

Breslau:

Wroclaw II and III don't have 1903 on line yet, [...].

Office IV does not have anything on line yet. [...]

http://ahnenforscher.pl/ offers handy links to the on-line stuff.

Unfortunately, these links are not up to date. The good news is that the

Wroclaw State Archive (Archiwum Panstwowe, AP) has put many more records

online already:

Standesamt I: 1889-1909 (marriages until 1910)

Standesamt II: 1889-1909 (marriages until 1912; NO deaths)

Standesamt III [created in 1891]: 1891-1911 (deaths only until 1898)

Standesamt IV [created in 1899]: NOTHING

Since the AP Wroclaw website is a bit difficult to use, I prefer to access

the records of Standesamt I via the following search form:

http://www.archeion.net/atom/tools/index.php?nrap=82&ilosc_wynikow=100&sort=

sygnatura&fun=0&txt_tytul=&txt_data_start=&txt_data_stop=&nr_zespol=1425&for

mularz=zlozony

For Standesamt II and III, change 1425 to 1426 and 1427, respectively. You

can also do this in the search form under "sygnatura". Under "datacja" you

can enter the first and last years you want to search, and you can limit "nr

serii" to 1 for births, 2 for marriages and 3 for deaths. In the list of

results, the volumes that can be viewed online have a camera symbol at the

end (after "jednostka") - just click on it (you'll need a DjVu plugin

viewer).

For each year, the available volumes are numbered consecutively

("t." plus two-digit number after the year), even if some are missing; for

each volume, the first and last entry numbers (Polish "akt", in JRI-PL

erroneously "akta") are given - but unfortunately not the dates so that

you'll have to find the right volume by trial and error if you don't know

the entry number.

JRI-PL has indexed the years 1889-1910 for all four civil records offices

(Standesamt III and IV start later, of course) but only the years 1889-1900

for Standesamt I and II have been included in the searchable database so far.

Each Standesamt records life cycle events that happened in a particular

district. For example, if a child is born in hospital, the birth is recorded

in the Standesamt district where the hospital is located, not the district

where the parents live. In Prussia, Standesaemter (plural of Standesamt)

were introduced in 1874. At first, Breslau had two: Standesamt I for the

inner city (within the moat, Stadtgraben) and the suburbs north of the Oder

river (Odervorstadt, Sandvorstadt), Standesamt II for the suburbs south of

the Oder.

In 1891, the northern suburbs were assigned to the new Standesamt

III and the western suburb Nikolaivorstadt was transferred from II to I. In

1899, Schweidnitzer Vorstadt in the south, where many Jews lived, was split

up into a western part (new Standesamt IV) and an eastern part (Standesamt II

as before). A list of streets and the corresponding Standesamt can be found

in the Breslau city directory (Adressbuch) for 1915, available online at

http://obc.opole.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=1302&from=FBC

(pages 655-658 of770).             Hope this helps,

Joachim Mugdan, Basel, Switzerland  mailto:mugdan@uni-muenster.de

From: Roger Lustig  Princeton, NJ USA  research coordinator, GerSIG <GerSIG.Research@verizon.net>

Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2014

Subject: Re: Seeking Breslau 1903 birth record

The Breslau civil vital records are a difficult matter. Many of them exist, and some of those are on line. But the end of WW II was unkind to the city, and the archives and registry offices lost many of the books.

The duplicate registers (2nd copies) were sent to Berlin and reside at Standesamt 1. They, too, are fragmentary.

In the case of births from the date you mention, the news is bad on the one hand, indeterminate on the other. Registry Office I is missing the relevant book in both the Wroclaw and Berlin collections. Berlin is missing the book for those dates at II also, but has the books for III and IV. Wroclaw II and III don't have 1903 on line yet, nd II are missing the relevant book. Office IV does not have anything on line yet.

JRI-Poland.org has indexed much of the material in Wroclaw.

http://ahnenforscher.pl/    offers handy links to the on-line stuff.

(Pull down the menu that says "Standesamt Breslau,etc.")

Standesamt 1 in Berlin has a published list of its holdings. Their web

site is:  http://www.berlin.de/standesamt1/     and offers contact info.