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Category: Translation - German
Approval Date: 6/14/2026 4:19 PM
Family Surname: Haendel
Country: Austria
Town: Drohobycz
Date of Image: 1881

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Please translate birth record for Aron Haendel. I am wondering if it list parents place of birth or any other important family info.. Thank you in advance!

Response

6/9/2026 2:42 PM

Here you go Kim. The mother is literally identifed as the father’s “unmarried spouse,” which I would interpret as meaning they had a religious marriage but not a civil (legally recognized) one. I do not know what the abbreviations Zag. and Zag. m. (following the house number) signify.

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(1) RECORD NUMBER: 76

(2) BIRTH: 16 Feb 1881, Drohobycz No. 71 Zag.

(3) CIRCUMCISION OR NAMING: 23 Feb 1881, Drohobycz No. 71 Zag. m.

(4) CHILD: Aron, male

(5) LEGITIMATE, REPORTED AS LEGITIMATE, OR ILLEGITIMATE: Illegitimate

(6) FATHER:

(7) MOTHER: Scheindel Bander, local resident, unmarried spouse [uneheliche Gattin] of Israel Händel, day laborer and local resident; daughter of Rafael and Lea Bander, a local married couple, barley millers [Graupenmacher]

(8) GODPARENTS OR WITNESSES:
Raphal Bander, barley miller, local resident – sandek
[Illegible] this says Samuel Reiner, teacher, local resident – godparent

(9) MOHEL:
[Illegible] this says Simon Wilf, shochet, local resident – mohel

(10) MIDWIFE: [circle mark] Rifke Hechler, local midwife – signed by me Osias [Szernbach?]

(11) STILLBIRTHS:

(12) REMARK:

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Translated by Robert Rosenbaum (Ashland, Oregon)
Freelance translator and interpreter
M.A. in Translation and Interpretation (German-English), Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
rosenbaum.robert@gmail.com

ViewMate Posting VM 114645

Submitted by Kim Formica

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Submitted by Kim Formica