Thanks so much to all of you who participated in our LitvakSIG Birds of a Feather session on May 22 for the Lida and Oshmiany Districts. A recording of the session -- as well as a PDF of the slides an

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Hi Terry, Did you find any additional resources? I have ancestors from Svislach but not with your surnames, although Turetsky is on my wife's side. Kind regards, Charles

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Amit, Is this the town? https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/LocTown.asp Byenitsa, Беніца, Bienica, Benitsa populated place 54°21' N 26°33' E G Belarus 51.3 miles NW of Minsk 53°54' N 27°34' E It see

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Dear Amit, i´m researching all KRULL;KRUL;KROLL;KROL Family connection too. especially Julie Kroll from near Wronki / Poznan Region. Julie Kroll was born 9.6.1865 , Father Michael Kroll ; Mother Julia

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Hello all, I'm looking for the (Abe) POZNIAK and (Chana) KRUL families from the town Benitsa, currently in Belarus (but also appears in LitvakSIG). Are there any more sources available for this town?

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JewishGen Press is proud to announce the publication of our 143rd title: Memorial Book of Kamenets Litovsk, Zastavye, and Colonies (Kamyanyets, Belarus). This is the translation of: Sefer Yizkor le-Ke

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“Immediately after they took my father, which happened in the first weeks of the German occupation, hunger knocked at our door. My mother who worked and sewed her whole life was broken after losing fa

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Michele, I think you may have solved my Rosopovich question, or at least as close as we may get. Asipovichy (aka Osipovich) makes sense to me: 1) Asipovichy/Osipovich is very close to Rosopovich, and

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Out of curiosity, I entered "Rosopovichi, Belarus" into Google maps, to see what it came up with. And it suggested that the town might be the current Asipovichy, located 26 miles northwest of Bobrusk,

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Районы Гродненской области — Википедия (wikipedia.org) Rosopovitch, Rosopovitchi not found Розопович, Разоповичи not found Janet Furba, Germany

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To find Rosopovitch ask the Mogilev State Archive https://maps.vlasenko.net/list/belarus/mogilevskaya/ Районы Могилёвской области — Википедия (wikipedia.org) Janet Furba. Germany

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Subject: Seeking correct name and location of “Rosopovitch” in Belarus My wife’s grandfather Morris (Moshe Mordechai) GARELICK was born in Parichi, Belarus in 1888. I have confirmed that the family mo

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The title “Our Child Saved Us” from the Yizkor book of Voronovo (Belarus) sums up what this week’s excerpt is about. It is Kay Lisorki’s story of how she and her husband survived the ghettos and later

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Susan, Have you seen this JewishGen page? Additional resources listed on lower right-hand portion of page. https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-1946669 Narowlya [Bel], Narovlya [

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My paternal grandparents were from Narovlya in what is now Belarus. Does anyone in the group have photos, information, or stories about the town from c. 1800-1914? Anyone know about the Safyan/Safian/

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Can someone please translate the return name and address (russsian?) and the content in Yiddish. Written to either my father of his sister (depending on whether that is an S or an I) from Brest Litovs

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Researchers with connections to towns in the Lida and Oshmiany Districts (see list below) are invited to a free “Birds of a Feather” Zoom session for the LitvakSIG Lida District and Oshmiany District

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I have been researching my supposed connection to a Rabbi David ben Moshe and Leah of Kletzk, of Novarodok, (no family name known), and author of a rabbinical treatise "Galya Mesechta" for many years.

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My great-grandfather was Leib Kasdan, born around 1875 in Krucha/Mogilevy/Belarus. His parents were Barney and Gertrude Kasdan and he married Bella Shulman in 1894. Leib immigrated to NYC in July 1903

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Hi Robert, I did both a phonetic and then a soundex search at The JewishGen Unified Database. A soundex search finds in this database The Vsia Rossiia 1903 & 1911 Minsk, 1903 & 1911 Mogilev & 1911 Vit

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