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Czarny Dunajec

Bette Stoop Mas provided the name of a resource for people who lived in Czarny Dunajec, a town 8.7 miles WSW of Nowy Targ.  The book includes the professions of these people or families.  As Bette e-mailed me:

"Some family members’ occupations are in the following book (presumably from a database). "List of Jews in Czarny Dunajec 1883-1938 by Profession" in book, Czarny Dunajec i Okolice - Zarys dziejów do roku 1945, Pod Redakcja Feliksa Kiryka, Wydawnictwo I Drukarnia Secesja, Kraków. [Czarny Dunajec and Vicinity - A Sketch of Its Annals up to 1945]. Edited by Feliks Kiryk. Secesja Publisher and Printer, Kraków.

Some family members born in Czarny Dunajec were in the Nowy Targ Ghetto 1942 and are in Yad Vashem Pages of Testimony. Birth records are indexed in JRI-Poland..."

Regarding this same source, Paul S. Valasek, submitted an article to the on-line newsletter called Gen Dobry!, referencing that same book and actually including a list of the names of Jews and their occupations.  He kindly gave me permission to extract from his article and to include the list of names, which I put into a tabular format below.

Caveat: There may be some errors in transcription of the names, and without seeing the actual source, it's impossible to determine where the errors lie.  Letters below in red are presumed corrections by this webmaster.  Anyone who can provide a correction is invited to email this webmaster.

The entire issue, Gen Dobry!, Vol. VII, No. 3, March 2006

From Paul S. Valasek's article (starting on page 7):

"JEWISH CZARNY DUNAJEC — USING A TOWN CHRONICLE AS AN ANCILLARY SOURCE"

“…In the case of the following small database, the material presented comes from original sources, but is now available in a town history written in 1997 and published not long ago. The book is Czarny Dunajec i Okolice — Zarys dziejów do roku 1945, Pod redakcją Feliksa Kiryka, Wydawnictwo i Drukarnia Secesja, Kraków. [Czarny Dunajec and Vicinity — A Sketch of Its Annals up to 1945. Edited by Feliks Kiryk. Secesja Publisher and Printer, Kraków]. It is the story of the Galician town of Czarny Dunajec near Zakopane. …The book goes through the story of the town from its beginnings through World War II and is loaded with names, dates and photos. All of this material was available when the book was written, so it existed in 1997, well after the war ended. The author has used sources from private collections, materials from archives both at the state and local levels, as well as ancillary materials which are available, but not easily recognized for their value by non-Polish speaking researchers. Many towns had chronicles written in the 19th and 20th centuries; when your family has settled in one place for a number of years, it’s wise to search out copies of town histories, whether old originals or new reprints. As time permits, I will add other data bases from this book for those interested in Czarny Dunajec…

Family Name	Given Name(s)	Occupation
BACHNER	Chaim Salomon	butcher
BALITZER	Chaim	merchant
BAUMAN	Jozef	merchant
BAUMAN	Mendel	merchant
BAUMAN	Suche	(data missing)
BINDER	Zalka	merchant
BLITZ	Juda Szabse	manufacturer, merchant
BLONDER	Szymon	manufacturer, merchant
BUCHSBAUM	Mordche Jozef	stall-keeper
ENGLENDER	Moses	stall-keeper
FAUST	Emil	manufacturer
FEIT	Izak Aron	manufacturer
FEIT	Jozef	stall-keeper
FEUER	Mortko	baker
FLANK	Mojzesz Jozef	butcher
FRIEDMAN	Salamon	stall-keeper
FRIEDMAN	Salamon	merchant
GOLDFINGER	Herman	stall-keeper
GOLDFINGER	Hirsch	(data missing)
GOLDMAN	Izak	butcher
GUTFREUND	Simche	teacher
GUTFREUND	Salamon	baker
HOLLANDER	Chaim Jozef	merchant
HOLLANDER	Moses	merchant
HOROWITZ	Adolf	tavern keeper
HOROWITZ	Aurgdor (Avigdor?)	baker
HOROWITZ	Jozef	shoemaker
JERET	Aron Zachariasz	merchant
JONAS	Georg	baker
JONAS	Izak	baker
JONAS	Salamon	baker
KALFUS	Izak Aron	stall-keeper, kosher butcher
KLEINZAHLER	Chaim	tailor
KLEINZAHLER	Mendel	merchant
KLUGER	Izak	tavern keeper
KOHN	Pinkus	tavern keeper
KORNGUT	Efraim	merchant
KORNGUT	Izak Hirsch	merchant
KORNGUT	Jozef	merchant
KORNGUT	Szymon	stall-keeper
KRAUS	Izak	tavern keeper
LAMENSDORF	Georg	merchant
LANGER	Hirsch	shoemaker
LANGER	Izak	butcher
LANGER	Jakub	tavern keeper/ restaurateur
LEHLER	Jozef	merchant
LEMMULER	Mojzesz	shoemaker
LIPSCHULTZ	Aron	merchant
LIPSCHULTZ	Izak	rabbi
LORBERFELD	Bernard	journeyman baker
MAHLER	Jozef	merchant
MARKOWICZ	Abraham	in Verso, Hungary
NEUGEWIRCZ	Natan	(data missing)
NICHTBERGER	Dawid	(data missing)
PACANOWER	Herman	merchant, stall-keeper
PACANOWER	Szymon	attorney
PIETRUSZKA-FUCHS	Dawid	(data missing)
RATTNER	Nisen	merchant
RIMSTEIN	Abraham	data missing
RIWEN	Kummer	merchant
RUBIN	Naftali Herzl	stall-keeper
SAMUELI	Szaje	merchant
SCHIFFELDRIM	Salamon	merchant
SCHORF	Dawid	merchant
SCHWARZBRAND	Dr. Bernard	lawyer (degree)
SINGER	Chaim	merchant
SINGER	Henrich	merchant
SPITZ	Abraham	merchant
SPITZ	Jozef Hirsch	manufacturer, tavern keeper
STEINER	Bernard	merchant
STEINER	Szaje	merchant
STEINLAUF	Salamon Zalmen	merchant
STERN	Juda Szulim	merchant
STIEL	Majer	merchant
STIEL recte HENKORN	Dawid	merchant
STILLER	Adolf	tailor
STILLER	Dr. Jakub Jozef	legal consultant
STILLER	Samuel	tavern keeper
STRUM	Leser	merchant
SZMAJE	Leib	kosher butcher
TREPPER	Chaim	master shoemaker
TREPPER	Leibisch	shoemaker
WEISS	Pinkus	butcher
WEISSMANN	Gedalje	tailor

Jewish Soldiers in Austro-Hungarian Army, 1748-1918

The book, Juden in der k. (u.) k. Armee 1788-1918, Jews in the Habsburg Armed Forces, by Erwin A. SCHMIDL, was printed by the Österreichisches Jüdisches Museum, Eisenstadt 1989. Dr. Erwin A. SCHMIDL is head of the Department of Contemporary History at the Institute for Strategy and Security Policy at the National Defense Academy in Vienna.

It appears that this book is not easy to find in English-speaking countries and many do not speak German. To help those interested in seeing if the book is of value to them, here is a transcription of the alphabetized list of references in the Register/Index List pages (pp. 235-236) from that book. Since the book is in German and English, the initial pages through p. 90 are in German; pages in English are from 91-152. After page 152 are additional sections and appendices that appear to be entirely in German. The rest of the book has limited English. However, Appendix 4 (pp. 191-218) is entitled, Photographs of Jewish Soldiers in World War One, and captions appear in both languages.

Habsburg's Jewish Soldiers, 1788-1918

Habsburgs Jüdische Soldaten, 1788-1918, is another book written by Dr. Erwin SCHMIDL, and published in 2014. It is entirely in German, and an English description is available.

The good news is that Dr. Schmidl is working on an extended version in English, to be published sometime 2019-2020. In the meantime, Dr. SCHMIDL has kindly allowed us to see the Index of Names and Places in PDF format as they appear in the current German version.