Documents and Vital Records
There are literally hundreds of primary and secondary sources for research on Mielec Jews. I will be consolidating much of the information on this site; please check back as things will change.
Bank money order from Chane LAUFER for 502 kroner (1918)
Commerce
Bank money order from Kalman KORNREICH for 139.20 PLN (1940): Front, Back
Commercial Receipts from Jewish Businesses
Letters to Abraham CHOIM, owner of a flour mill in Rzemień called “Olga” (3 Aug 1926; 4 Aug 1926)
Letter from “PALHISOG” vodka shop in Warsaw, looking for P. SALPETER (unknown)
List of Doctors, Dentists, and Pharmacists (1936)
List of Inhabitants of Mielec and Cyranka (1852, source: Krzysztof Ślusarek)
Note of debt to Ignacy EICHEN from Pinchas WOLF (1932)
Postcard from Mendel SOMER to Carl ROTTENBILLER in Pest, asking for money in exchange for leeches (1873): Front, Back
Correspondence
Envelope from Vilem STERN to Abbe PERLMANN in Mielec (1913): Front, Back
New Year’s card from Albin HOCHHAUS (unknown)
New Year’s card from Leiser KARTAGENER (1911)
New Year’s card from Meir SCHECHTER (unknown)
New Year’s card from Leiser VERSTANDIG and wife (unknown)
Postcard from M. JOCHNOWICZ to the Red Cross in Geneva, looking for David & Izak GARTNER (1941)
Postcard from Jacob LEIPZIG (1893): Front, Back
Postcard from Libka SEMMEL to Kazimierz RODOWICZ in Krakow (1941): Front, Back
Education
Boys’ School Records (assorted years and sources)
Girls’ School Records (1916-1935, source: LDS Archives)
Immigration, Passports, and Ship Manifests
Immigration Ship Manifests of Jews from Mielec
Polish Passports & Palestine Immigration Documents (source: Israel State Archives)
Legal
The Werynski Files (1933-1950, source: Scott Genzer)
Shoah (Holocaust)
Jewish Displaced Persons and Refugee Cards, 1943-1959
Post-War D.P. Camp Records containing Mielec Jews (source: Arolsen Archives)
U.S. Government (e.g. Social Security)
U.S. Consular Registration Certificates, 1907-1918
U.S. Passport Applications 1795-1925
- ABRAHAM, Adolph: 1909, 1913
- BERGER, Sam (1904)
- BIRNBAUM, Hyman (1922): Front, Back
- BIRNBAUM, Nathan (1922): Front, Back
- BLUM, Frimet (1899)
- BRAND, Max (1924): Front, Back
- BRENNER, Max (1921): Front, Back
- STROM (STRUMPF) Max (1920): Front, Back
U.S. Social Security Applications (1936-2007, source: U.S. National Archives)
Vital Records (Birth, Marriage, Death)
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Immigration Cards, 1900-1965
Poland
Jewish Registration Applications (1935-1941, source: Muzeum Regionalne Dworek i Park Oborskich w Mielcu)
USA
Links for further research
For further research, please go to the “Further Research” page.