Austro-Hungarian Monetary Exchange Rates. From a 1905 Baedeker's travel guide. Collection of Symbols Used on Jewish tombstones in Poland - Four motifs are described: sanctuary/gate, tree, wine/grapevine, and light (menorah/astral bodies); hands. Photos of tombstone symbols.. Galician Memoirs - Personal Stories - Books Image Before My Eyes - A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland, 1864-1939. By Dobroszycki & Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. Schocken Books, New York, 1977 Photos from some towns in Galicia and other Polish towns. Available in libraries and at Amazon. Images of Galician Towns Jewish Cemeteries in Poland: Text and photos. In Polish and English. The Jews of Galicia in 1839 The Jews of Galicia under the Austrian-Polish Rule, 1867-1918 by Professor Piotr Wróbel. The Petroleum Industry in the Drohobycz Administrative District. In the 19th century, the discovery of “black gold” (oil) attracted speculators and fortune hunters to Galicia, but the Polish Carpathian Mountains' oil seeps had been used in Galicia at least 300 years earlier. Traditional Recipes of our Galitzianer Ancestors Videos of Galician Synagogues Videos of Galician Towns