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bircza online lists

information

In research on Bircza, I have come across many useful lists of residents, survivors, and more. These lists are of great use to genealogists and other researchers. I have organised as best I can and posted them here. Browse the lists by using the index at right, rather than scrolling down, since some of the lists are larger and are located on separate pages. Some, like the commerce listings, were donated graciously by various individuals, whom I thank for their kind help. Likewise, if you have information, please share it with the rest of the Bircza researcher community by contacting me.

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mt hebron internment list, 2010

I compiled the following list of deceased persons interred in Bircza society burial plots at the Mt Hebron Cemetery in Flushing (Queens), New York, by using the Mt Hebron Cemetery website, which has a searchable database here. [The deceased list below was last updated in February 2021.]

Click on the names of the deceased below to see photographs of their graves taken on 30 August 2006. The photographs will open at a large resolution and resize automatically to fit your screen. To zoom in or out, simply click on the image with the mouse. Occasionally, I took more than one picture of a grave; I have linked the second photograph to the plot location below (e.g., see Boris Leybentsun). Unfortunately, graves of those deceased since August 2006 have not been photographed.

bircza landsmanshaft cemetery plots

The following is a list of cemetery plots of Bircza ‘community associations’ (landsmanshaftn). This list has been compiled through the New York City Jewish Genealogical Society website, which has a searchable database here. Hover your mouse above hyperlinked (green) societies to find out more information about them and their records.

*NEW* Photographs (taken 30 August 2006) of the burial societies’ grave markers can be found below. The photographs will open at a large resolution and resize automatically to fit your screen. To zoom in or out, simply click on the image with the mouse.

Society name

Cemetery

Plot location(s)

Birczer Young Men’s Benevolent Society Founded: 1897
YIVO landsmanshaftn collection: RG (Record Group) 1003 (1926–1954)
Established old-age and loan funds for members. File (written in Yiddish/German with Roman alphabet) includes constitution, minutes, and miscellaneous materials, such as a letter from an artisans union in Bircza (1926).

Sources:
—New York City Jewish Genealogical Society
—Guide to the YIVO archives, ed. Fruma Mohrer and Marek Web (Armonk, New York: M E Sharpe, 1998), p. 34 no. 102.
[photos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6] Mt Hebron (Flushing, Queens, New York) block 5, ref. 3; block 12, ref. 22

First Birczer Sick & Benevolent (or Sick Benefit) Association Incorporated: 1907
AJHS file no. 1435

Source: New York City Jewish Genealogical Society.
[photos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5] Mt Hebron (Flushing, Queens, New York) block 6, ref. 17

First Birczer Sick Aid Association Incorporated: 1912
AJHS file no. 5347

Source: New York City Jewish Genealogical Society.
[photos: 1 | 2 | 3] Mt Hebron (Flushing, Queens, New York) block 114, ref. 20

jacek proszyk’s gravestone list, 2001

In 2001, Jacek Proszyk compiled a list of names from tombstones in the Bircza cemetery and contributed the list to the Bircza Online website. If a gravestone indicated a surname, it is listed below in capital letters, usually according to Jacek’s transliteration (with some modifications and additions). Some of the gravestones have been photographed and can be found here. If an individual name below is hyperlinked in green, you can click on it to be transported directly to its photograph. For some gravestones whose images appear elsewhere on this site, the Hebrew names and dates appear as well.

Natan Nata, son of Wolf, d. 1804 (oldest)
Aba, son of Cwi Schmeinberg, d. 1889
Abraham Jehoszua, son of Jakoba, d. 1889
Arie, son of Mosze, d. 1919
Ḥayy[ah] Braindel, daughter of Samuel Jakob, d. January–February 1920 (Shvat 5680)
חי בריינדל בת שמואל יעקב ז"ל, נפ' בשבט תר"פ
Chana Mindel daughter of Szymon Menachem, d. 1920
Dawid son of Jehoszua, d. 1917
Dawid, d. 1881
Henoch, son of Zarua (Zerach), d. 1830
Yitsḥaq Ajzyk, son of Samuel Zanwel [Raphael] ha-Lewi, d. 14 September 1922 (21 Elul 5682)
יצחק אייזק בן שמואל רפאל הלוי, נפ' כ"א אלול תרפ"ב
Josef, son of Mosze Meller, d. 1914
Majer, son of Dawid ha-Lewi, d. 1899
Majer, d. 1809
Mosze Majer, son of Naftali Herc/Herz
Naftali, d. 1841
Rebeka, daughter of Aron ha-Kohen [KaTS], d. 10 June 1836 (25 Sivan 5596)
רבקה בת אהרן כ"ץ, נפ' כ"ה סיוון תקצ"ו
Rebeka, daughter of Zeew, d. 1888

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survivors list, 1967

jewish community lists

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