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David Majus on Wielkie Oczy
interviewed in Hebrew on the Polish Government Radio Service (mp3 download)

  

Other Names

Wielkie Oczy in Yiddish

 Vilkatch, Vilkatchi, Vilkoch (Yiddish)

Wielkie Oczy in Ukrainian

 Velyki Ochi (Ukrainian)

 

 

Maps (coordinates: 50°01' 23°09')
Current Map of Wielkie Oczy
Austro-Hungarian Empire (Galicia, 1882)
Google Satellite Image		 Documents
Wielkie Oczy 1929 Business Directory
Vital Records of Wielkie Oczy
Subscription Lists (Prenumerantn)
Photographs
Aerial Photographs
Streaming Photo Show of the Synagogue
Synagogue (June 2003)
Town Buildings and Synagogue (March 1997)
Gottfried Commemorative Tablet (photo)
Wielkie Oczy (by Jola Dziubinska)
Zmijowiska (by Jola Dziubinska)		 Memoirs and Family Stories
Ryszard Majus - Personal History
Issie Hoffman - The Story of My Life
Zvi Orenstein - Remember, Don't Forget
Stanisław Szarota (Strasser) Remembers
Stanisława Cicha Remembers
Notes by Kazimierz Sawiński
Lea Zukerberg née Weinrath Remembers
Grazyna Partyka - Stories Told by My Mother
Background Information
General Description
A Short History of Wielkie Oczy
Rabbis of Wielkie Oczy
Jewish Schools (cheder) and Teachers (melamed)
Jewish Families  Wielkie Oczy on the Eve of Shoa
More Jewish Community Family Names
Chronicle of Extermination of the Jews of Wielkie Oczy
Bibliography		 News & Project Updates
Letter of Condolence John Paul II
30 Thousand Zlotys for Headstones
2003 Essay Contest Winners Announced
2002 Essay Contest Winners
Wielkie Oczy Essay Contest Launched
Cemetery Gates Installed at the Jewish Cemetery
A Wielkie Oczy Journal (April 2001)
Additional Information
Landsmanshaft in America: Erste Wielkie-Oczer K.U.V.
Family Names:  Mt. Zion & Mt. Hebron cemeteries NYC
 Other Links
Wielkie Oczy (the definitive source in Polish) 
Wielkie Oczy (historical background, Jewish cemetery)
Early History of the Jews in Poland
History of Jews in Poland: 1800-1939
History of Jews in Poland: 1939-1945
Brief History of Poland:  the Last 200 Years
Zmijowiska (a village near Wielkie Oczy)
Gesher Galisha (special interest group for Galicia)

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Jewish Records Indexing Poland (Search for and order copies of Wielkie Oczy birth and death records covering the period 1843-1874 held in the Polish National Archives.)

 

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