Stanislawow Indexing Project awarded IAJGS John Stedman Grant

[Pamela Weisberger pweisberger@gmail.com]

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Gesher Galicia is pleased to announce that our organization, in partnership
with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The Herzl Institute, The
University of Haifa, and the Jewish Galicia & Bukovina Association was
awarded the IAJGS John Stedman Memorial grant for the Stanislawow District
Census and Passport Application Project.

The announcement was made during the awards ceremony at the IAJGS conference
banquet held in Jerusalem on Thursday, July 9. In 2012 the IAJGS created the
Stedman grant from a gift they received from the estate of Jon Stedman to
honor his late father, John Stedman.

This ongoing project involves indexing 20th century census and passport
records, which the USHMM microfilmed (then digitized) from the collections
held at the Ivano Frankivsk State Oblast Archives in Ukraine. There are 15
census reels of microfilm and 111 reels of passport records. These are
currently viewable by researchers in the USHMM Archives, but with a
simplified finding aid it is difficult to find exact names and locations.
(The Museum archives cannot do the research for you. You must go in person.)

Indexing will create an easy path to the information.

History:

In August 1939, approximately a month before the Nazi invasion of Poland and
the Soviet occupation of Stanislawow (today Ivano Frankivsk, Ukraine) a census
was taken of the entire city which had 14,400 households, both Christians and
Jews in the Polish language.

The passport applications (dating from the 1920s-30s) are for Jewish
individuals and families residing throughout the Stanislawow district to travel
abroad for business, medical treatment, vacations, study or emigration. Often
these application are over 10 pages long, filled with recommendation letter,
police reports, and travel details, and family photographs, providing valuable
genealogical information. The census is solely for the town of Stanislawow, but
the passport applications represent many towns in the Stanislawow region.

Project:

Our collective will create a free, online searchable database (available on
both the Jewish Galicia & Bukovina site and Gesher Galicia's All Galicia
Database) where one can search by name, street address, occupation and birth
date, to make information easily accessible in a variety of search and sorting
formats. Each image number will be provided to make access to scans of the
original documents (via the USHMM's archives in Washington, D.C.) easy for the
purposes of genealogical, historical and academic research. Note that there is
also a 1941 census for Stanislawow, in Cyrillic, and passport and consular visa
applications exist for other regions in Galicia. These remain unfilmed and
unindexed, but our hope is that over the coming years new projects will be
created for these records as they would provide a goldmine of useful
information to genealogists.

Completion of stage one of the project - census records - is expected
late fall, with passports to follow over the next year.

More about the project with sample images is here:
http://www.geshergalicia.org/projects/1939-stanislawow-census-passport-project/

A special thanks to Neil Guthrie, Megan Lewis and Peter Lande at the USHMM who
helped us to make this project a reality and to the IAJGS board and awards
selection committee for the Stedman grant.

Pamela Weisberger
President, Gesher Galicia
pweis...@gmail.com
http://www.geshergalicia.org
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