Comments on: Austrians in Galicia: The Hirsch Family https://forgottengalicia.com/austrians-in-galicia-the-hirsch-family/ Remnants of the past found in Lviv, Galicia & the former Austrian Empire Mon, 06 Sep 2021 11:54:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Jennifer C https://forgottengalicia.com/austrians-in-galicia-the-hirsch-family/#comment-2659 Mon, 06 Sep 2021 11:54:20 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=4607#comment-2659 I don’t know if this site is still active,figured I’d try. Doing research I cannot find anything beyond my great grandfather. Was it common for an immigrant from Austria to change their last name? Even in the US there is only census records. Doing a simple search of Andrew Frank Hirscy, brings up Hirsch. Just curious if that was pretty common to change names like that.

]]> By: Areta https://forgottengalicia.com/austrians-in-galicia-the-hirsch-family/#comment-1753 Tue, 06 Oct 2020 08:45:43 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=4607#comment-1753 In reply to Andrzej Kunstman.

Hi Andrzej, please send to forgottengalicia@gmail.com, thank you!

]]> By: Andrzej Kunstman https://forgottengalicia.com/austrians-in-galicia-the-hirsch-family/#comment-1750 Mon, 05 Oct 2020 18:06:29 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=4607#comment-1750 The info for Areta Kovalska.
I am the grand-son of Ludwik Hirsch, the youngest brother of Rafal, Piotr, Jan, Franciszek + sisters.
In my possesion are the Hirsch family old documents including birth (baptism) cetificates of Margaretha Kintera 1783 (wife of Mathias Hirsch) and Philipp 1816 , her son, as well as the mariage document of Mathias and Margaretha 1809 in Prelauc (now Czech Republic). I visited personally the graves of Hirsches in Lvov and Ponikwa, shown in your pictures. I can share with you the scans and photos of these documents, as well as family info. Send me your e-mail and I will answer

]]> By: Areta https://forgottengalicia.com/austrians-in-galicia-the-hirsch-family/#comment-1495 Mon, 27 Jan 2020 21:04:51 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=4607#comment-1495 In reply to Wojciech Hirsch.

Hi Wojciech, I will respond to you via email.

]]> By: Wojciech Hirsch https://forgottengalicia.com/austrians-in-galicia-the-hirsch-family/#comment-1490 Sat, 25 Jan 2020 21:52:36 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=4607#comment-1490 Hello. My name is Wojciech Hirsch, I live in Poland, Upper Silesia. My grandfather Jerzy Hirsch comes here from Lviv where he was born in 1925 and lived until 1940, next he moved to Krakow and next Katowice-Upper Silesia after end of war. He had brother Zbigniew Hirsch who stayed in CCCP after war. I dont know genealogy of my grand dad but im very interested. i wondering is this family i s my family.unfortunatelly he quick past away . My dad know only that his granddad was Piotr or Rafal and he participate in uprising. Is name Hirsch was common in Lviv?

]]> By: Areta https://forgottengalicia.com/austrians-in-galicia-the-hirsch-family/#comment-1454 Sat, 30 Nov 2019 20:59:56 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=4607#comment-1454 In reply to Roman Lahodynsky.

Thank you for the information, I made the correction

]]> By: Roman Lahodynsky https://forgottengalicia.com/austrians-in-galicia-the-hirsch-family/#comment-1453 Sat, 30 Nov 2019 17:38:43 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=4607#comment-1453 In the last 4 sentences you confuse WW1 with WW2. For WW1 I recommend you to follow the project on Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war initiated by my friend Peter Felch: spurensuche-turkestan.org, there is also an interview with him on Novastan.org. During WW2 Stalin allowed General Anders to collect Polish and other POWs in the SU to fight Nazi-Germany in the West – but Stalin had already murdered thousands of officers in Katyn and other locations. The army of general Anders left the SU via Iran, Lebanon and fought in Monte Cassino. Later many soldiers settled in Britain, Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand.

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