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Submitted by Emily Ciner Rose

Information Picture Question
Category: Translation - German
Approval Date: 3/1/2026 2:13 PM
Family Surname: Ciner-Eisenberg
Country: Poland
Town: Krakow
Date of Image: 1864
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This is the 1864 Birth Register of Mendel Cinner from Krakow. Parents: Isaak Cinner and Lena b. Eisenberg.
Is the given name Lena?
What is the name of the witness?
Does ogan mean officiant?
Thanks so much.


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3/1/2026 11:07 PM Hello,
The mother's name is Leie née Eisenberg.

As for the person on the right (Jona Huttinger), the letters underneath look like "Opor.," which stands for "Oporateur" (probably a misspelling of German "Operateur" from French "opérateur"). In this context, I think the term refers to a mohel. The German word for "witness" would be "Zeuge."

(Also, in the future, if possible, please submit images of full pages, not cropped images. This allows translators to view the column headers and to more extensively analyze the handwriting. In this case, I was able to make some of my interpretations only by consulting other parts of the page and other images in the collection on the Polish Archives' website.)

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