Dear All,

My great-grandparents Sam Pollack and Mary Stoljar came >from Bialystok and
his parents Abraham Piora and Rachel >from Ciechanowiec. Abraham had two
brothers, Shlomo (family shot by Nazis) and Hershel (family deported to
Treblinka). Their parents were Noach Piora(o) and Gole-Gisha my
great-great-great-grandparents. Sam and Mary went on to help found the
Bialystoker Center as members of the bricklayers club--they both died there
as well. My family's only survivors >from Bialystok who remained in Poland
were Shlomo's sons Alter and Nathaniel who both settled in Israel after the
war. They have pices written in the Ciechanowiec memorial book.

Does anyone know of these families >from their own research?

How do you obtain vital records >from Poland?

How would I obtain records >from the Bialystoker Center?

Thanks in advance,

Marya Pollack (but it should be Pioro)
STOJAR (STOLLER), POLLACK (PIORO or PIURA), LEVINE, >from Ciechanowiec and
Bialystok

MODERATOR'S NOTE: Jewish Records Indexing-Poland < www.jri-poland.org >
has indexed records >from Bialystok. If you search the JRI-Poland database
and find records >from your family >from the Polish State Archives (PSA),
click on the word "Order?" and use the JRI-Poland Order Processing System
to order the records you want.

The Moderator directed you to the JRI-Poland database. JRI-Poland has
indexed all the available records covering the years 1835 through 1903.
The 1904 records are currently being indexed. Records for 1905-1942 are
protected by Poland's strict privacy laws and are not available to the
public. For more information about vital records in Poland, please read
Warren Blatt's JewishGen Infofile at
http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/polandv.html .

BIALYGen has developed a relationship with the Bialystoker Center in New
York. With the Bialystoker Center permission, BIALYGen and Zchor.org has
placed the English section of The Bialystoker Memorial Book online at
http://www.zchor.org/bialystok/yizkor1.htm. We have also placed online a
Surname index to this Memorial Book. You can lookup your surname at
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/bialygen/MemorialBook_Surnames.htm
and then find the person's reference in the online Memorial Book.

BIALYGen is also in the process of indexing the Bialystoker Center
Yahrzeit cards. Read more about this project at
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/bialygen/YahrzeitCards.htm .

BIALYGen also has a Surname index to the Bialystok Photo Album published
by the Bialystoker Center in 1951. This can be found at
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/bialygen/Bialystok_Photo_Album_Surnames.htm .

It is my understanding that the Bialystoker Center does not have any
more genealogically relevant materials.

Mark Halpern
BIALYGen Coordinator