Weinreb Family History
The official Weinreb Family History
This webpage describes the Weinreb family history and focuses on Weinreb's descended
from Moses Weinreb. He lived between 1840-1897 in eastern Europe.
Many of his offspring immigrated to the USA between 1900 and 1938, and flourished.
Most that stayed in Europe perished during
WW2.
Genealogy Documentation
- Moses Weinreb (1840-1897)
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Moses was from a region called
Galicia.
As of 2012, this region includes Southern Poland, Western Ukraine, Slovakia, and Czech Republic.
For information about jews living in this region, click
here.
Much of the Galicia region was part of Austria Hungary before WWI and Poland between WWI and WWII.
For a Map of Poland and Galicia in 1910, click here.
For a map that shows the countries of 2012, with Galacia referred to in red text, click here.
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Before WW1, several Weinreb's lived in
Przemysl, Poland
and
Turka, Ukraine.
Both of these are on today's Ukraine/Polish border and are within the Galicia region.
For a 2012 map that shows them, click
here.
To see a 1914 map that shows how these towns were in what was then Austria-Hungry before WW1, click
here.
To see a 1922 map that shows how these towns were in what was then Poland between WW1 and WW2, click
here.
Some of Weinrebs in Przemysl and Turka immigrated to the USA, whereas others stayed.
Many that stayed perished in WW2, for one reason or another.
For comments on this by Robert Weinreb (b: 15 Jan 1944), click
here.
- Descendants of Moses Weinreb in family tree format:
Summary,
Diagram, or
Detailed.
- Moses's son, Avrum Mordechai Weinreb (1866-1939), and his family, emigrated from
Galicia to the USA in 1920. For details, click
here. This document
was authored by Dr. Fred Ederer (born 1926). For a 1997 conversation with Dr. Ederer, click
here
- Aba Wolf (born 1800?) is the grandfather to Rose Wolf (1869-1936). Rose married Avrum Mordechai Weinreb (1866-1939), and
emigrated from Galicia to the USA in 1920. For a list of descendants of Aba Wolf (born 1800?) in family tree format,
click here.
- For an online book about a typical jewish town in Poland (which was destroyed in WW2),
click here.
This is not the exact same town where Weinreb's originated, yet is similar.
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Slideshow of Weinreb/Quint Family Presented at Cousins Party,
Ellen Weinreb's Wedding, May03, San Franscisco, CA
- "The Secret Drawer", an article by Marilyn A. Gelman
- For documents on Weinreb genealogy, please click here
Dr. Sander Weinreb, DOB Dec 9, 1936
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