Vital Records — Kraków, Poland

Vital Records · Kraków · Poland

This database contains Jewish birth, marriage, and death records from Kraków, Poland (in the Austrian province of Galicia before WWI), including Kazimierz and Podgórze (today, districts of Kraków).

The information was transcribed and compiled by Prof. Dan Hirschberg from microfilmed and digitized records, the originals of which are held by the Archiwum Narodowe w Krakowie (National Archives in Kraków).

This collection holds birth records (1798–1942), marriage records (1798–1933) and death records (1798–1890). More records are in the process of being added to JewishGen from Prof. Hirschberg’s databases. A detailed inventory will be provided in the future.

Information in square brackets [] was deduced by Prof. Hirschberg by comparison with other records. For example, although an early census record might not include surnames, the surname later used by someone in the record might be apparent by comparison with later records on the basis of common house number, names of inhabitants, their ages, etc. The Notes field in database entries includes information written on the record and/or deduced by Prof. Hirschberg.

Some fields may reference other records with text like m. 1813#18. The first letter identifies the type of record (b = birth, m = marriage, d = death), then there is a year, and the number after the # is the akt/reference/record number. Some fields may reference other house numbers with text like kasim#42, meaning Kazimierz house 42.

This database can be searched via the All Poland Database or the JewishGen Unified Search.