Hasip Yom Kippur, by Maurycy Gottlieb

Belarus is located east of Poland and is slightly smaller than the State of Kansas.  It borders Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Russia and has a total population of 10.4 million of which it is also home to some 20,000 to 70,000 Jews.

Over 50% of the population of the major cities Minsk, Grodno, Mogilev and Vitebsk were Jewish cities. Ninety eight percent of the native Byelorussians lived in the countryside.  Today, Jews constitute one percent of the national populations according to information from the Minsk In Your Pocket Guide, Summer, 1997, page 30; Winter, 1997-98, page 31.

White Russian (Byelorussia) is the nationality of the people living in this marshy  land area, that was formerly part of  Mother Russia.  White Russian Monarchists, fighting Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War (1917 to 1920) were referred to as "White Guard" and those they fought were referred to as the Red Guard.  They were more commonly referred to as the Reds and the Whites.

Today, Belarus is not much different than yesterday's Belarus. You will still see the horse drawn plows and vehicles on the rough highways next to old models of the Lada automobile.  Getting gasoline, which is rationed, can take up a great deal of time, when you find someone selling gasoline along the side of the road.  It is quite a poor country controlled by the military, but in some areas, the people are better off than other Russian satellite  states.  You will find that the people are scraping the bottom in order to survive including selling off personal items and even used shoes and clothing items.  Outdoor markets are quite common.

Belarus lost over 30% of its population and over 75% of its towns and villages during WW II. The notorious 12th Lithuanian Police Auxiliary Battalion, chillingly named the Schutzmannschaft was formed in Kaunas in 1941, and was composed entirely of Lithuanian volunteers.  According to documents in the Belarusian Archives, this unit was dispatched to Belarus on October 5, 1941 with the ostensible mission of breaking the back of local resistance and partisan groups.  

The 12th Police Auxiliary operated principally in Minsk City and Minsk District, but sometimes moved further a field.  The unit was responsible for massacres in Slutsk, Smilovichi, Borisov, Rudensk, Koidanov and many other Shtetls.  Its principle functions were mass executions, hangings and genocide, often on the streets and in city squares.  At least 42,000 people; Jews, partisans, and alleged Communist Party members were murdered by the unit. 

It was in Byelorussia that the Nazis wholesale murder of Jews was first tested.  At the same time, many ghettoes became centers of resistance.  Underground organizations were active in the ghettoes of Baranovichi, Bobruisk, Brest, Grodno, Slonim, Minsk, Vileyka and others.

An in-depth study of the history of Belarus from ancient times to the present (in English)
http://www-cat.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~zelenko/history.html

European Reading Room
http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_
in_Belarus

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/
Belarus.html

http://www.jewishbelarus.org/index.php?pid=
23&lang=en

http://www.porozow.net/Links.htm  

The country known today as Belarus, consisted of four Guberniyas:
Grodno, Minsk, Mogilev and Vitebsk prior to the Revolution.
http://www.bakerbluminfamilytree.com/map.html

Belarus Shtetl listings:
http://www.belarusguide.com/culture1/diversity/
Bel_Jewry.html 

http://shtetlfoundation.org/ShtetlListing.htm

http://njjewishnews.com/njjn.com/010109/
njdriventranslator.html

http://uk.ask.com/wiki/List_of_shtetls

http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/Shtetls/
Belarus.htm

As of 2/1/01, the Belarusian ruble stands at 1230 to the U.S. dollar.

Details on the administrative structure can be found at
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/Vitaly/
Minsk%20Uyezd.htm

http://www.belarusembassy.org/belarus/
structure.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_
Public_Administration_%28Belarus%29

Valuable information on primary and secondary genealogical resources in various archives and libraries in Belarus
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/newsletter/
torontoconf_primarysources.htm

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/newsletter/
oleg_present.htm

http://www.cameraontheroad.com/family/
primary-versus-secondary-sources-research-
until-you-think-its-right/

http://genealogy.about.com/library/glossary/
bldef-secondarysource.htm

http://www.genealogy.com/tip12.html

Books 
          

"A Few Words About Towns of Those Days",
From Viachka Tselesh's book
 

"A Jew in Byelorussia, Lida and Karaganda"
(Un Juif de Bielorussie de Lida A Karaganda) (In French) Ghetto-Maquis-Goulag
Authored by Kuszelewicz, Joseph Harmattan - 19/09/2002
ISBN 2-7475-1308-4

"Ashes"
Authored by Arnold Zale, a Melbourne, Australian writer who has traveled to Belarus and recorded his feelings in a moving and literary manner.  Available from most major chain bookstores.

"A Survivor's Story"
An interview with a WWII survivor from Luninets:  as provided by The Columbus Dispatch newspaper in the January 23, 1997 edition.

"Atlas of the Jewish People"
Contains many diagrams that illustrate Jewish migrations starting from biblical times to the present.

"Bashert: A Granddaughter's Holocaust Quest"
Authored by Andrea Simon and published by University Press of Mississippi. The book contains the most extensive information to date on the Brona Gora and Volchin massacres.
ISBN 1-57806-481-3

"The Belarus Secret"
Authored by John Loftus, a former federal prosecutor in the Nazi war crimes unit of the Justice Department.  Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York Library

"BriefeMeiner Erinnerung: Mein Uberleben in Judischen Ghetto von Minsk 1941-1942"  Roughly translated to "My Letter Living Through the Jewish Ghetto in Minsk".  This book, written in German by Ana Krasnaperko, is available from the publisher Haus Villigst, 5840 Schwerte, Germany Telephone: 02304/755230.  

The Holocaust Museum has a copy and discusses the story of the many German Jews from Bremen and Hanover deported to Minsk and includes photos and text, but does not list names.  And, along with her mother, who was a doctor, escaped into the woods and lived with the partisans.

"From Belarus To Cape Breton And Beyond"
Authored by Larry Gaum lgaum@total.net Some of the scenes of the atrocities that Larry learned of when he visited Lakhva in 1994 from a former resident and survivor are included in this book.

"History Atlas of Belarus"
In Russian.  Leonid Smilovitsky smilov@netvision.net.il states that he has "a free copy of it direct from Belarus'.  The Atlas was published in Minsk in 2001 and contains 28 pages.  He also offers, in Russian, a monograph of Dr. Anishchenko "Pale of Settlements in Belarus" (18th century) 

"Holocaust in Byelorussia, 1941-1944"
The first systematic study of the history of the Holocaust in Byelorussia written in Russian Authored by Dr. Leonid Smilovitsky with a preface by Daniel Romanovsky and published in Tel-Aviv, 2000. See the Online Newsletter of the Belarus SIG for the article.
http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/newsletter/bnl_index
.htm

"Jewels and Ashes"
Authored by Arnold Zable, a Melbourne, Australian writer who has traveled to Belarus and recorded his feelings in a moving and literary manner.  Available from most major chain bookstores. Try my link to Amazon.com at 'Books' page

"Jewish Life in a Shtetl in Europe"
Authored by Cheyna Rogovin Chertow (born 1912), who shares her memories of Belakoritz and Wolzyn in 1912 to 1931 is available at JewishGen archives of 3/1/1999 on page 7. 
http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus  

"Jewish Religious Life in Belarus, 1944-1953"
Translated into English by Dr. Leonid Smilovitsky of the Diaspora Research Institute of Tel Aviv University. See the Online Newsletter of the Belarus SIG for the article.
http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/newsletter/
bnl_index.htm

"Jewish Roots in Poland: Pages from the Past & Archival
Inventories"
Authored by M Weiner.  Published by Roots to Roots Foundation, Inc. 136 Sandpiper Key, Secaucus, NJ 07094-2210  Telephone 201 866 4075

"Jews in Belarus: From Our Common History, 1905-1953"
Authored by Dr. Leonid Smilovitsky, Diaspora research Institute of the Tel-Aviv University and published by ARTI-FEX in Minsk, 1999 in Russian. See the Online Newsletter of the Belarus SIG for the article.
http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/newsletter/
bnl_index.htm

"Jews in Belorussian Public Prosecutor's Offices, 1944-1956
/East European Jewish Affairs"
Vol. 33, No 2, Winter 2003, pp. 97-112 Authored by Dr. Leonid Smilovitsky The Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center, Tel Aviv University, E-mail: smilov@zahav.net.il  For details of past and future contents of  East European Jewish Affairs, please, contact:
www.tandf.co.uk./journals

"Jews of Moscow, Kiev and Minsk: Identity, Anti-Semitism,
Emigration"
Authored by Rozalina Ryvkina

"Settlers in Yekaterinoslav Guberniya"
Which is not located in Belarus, but offers some interesting information on why Jews left the economically poor cities in the north, like Belarus, and established new settlements in Novo Russia  
http://www.jewishgen/belarus

"Towns of Belarus on Old-Time Postcards"
Authored by Viachka Tselesh and published in Minsk in 2001 as the 2nd edition.   The book, 9" x 11", has 255 pages in hardcover, texts are in Belarusian and English.  The majority of postcard photographers, printers and sellers were Jews.  The book is an important source of information about the life of our ancestors in the Russian Empire

"Un Juif de Bielorussie de Lida A Karaganda" (In French)
(A Jew in Byelorussia, Lida and Karaganda) Ghetto-Maquis-Goulag
Authored by Joseph Kuszelewicz, Harmattan - 19/09/2002
ISBN 2-7475-1308-4

Born in Lida, his family survived with the partisans in the nearby forests. After a five year post-war imprisonment in the Gulag, he joined his family in Paris.

"Jewish luck," spoken of with bitter irony by Jews and with resentment by their neighbors, led Joseph Kuszelewicz from the Lida ghetto in Hitler controlled Byelorussia, to Stalin's gulag in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. The story begins in the one hell of the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question," and ends in the alternate hell for Soviet citizens deported as zeks to the gulag.

Between these two moments in time and history, young Joseph Kuszelewicz was a partisan fighter with the Bielski resistance movement in Byelorussia. The Bielski partisans were escapees from Nazi ghettos and slave labor camps. With some help from the Red Army, they and other resistance groups made a substantial contribution to the defeat of the Nazis and their local collaborators.

After the Lida region was liberated, Joseph was conscripted into the Red Army. He was severely wounded in East Prussia during the final months of the war. Released from the army, he was arrested and deported to Kazakhstan. The author's story is supported by an appendix that includes documents and transcripts from the Lida war crimes trials of 1966. From a posting by Bernard Kouchel

General  
Belarus Genealogy  
Information

Old Belarus Synagogue - Photo courtesy of Brest Online

I would suggest to the researcher of the following sites, to also check the other two Baltic Country sites, including Estonia and Lithuania, as well as Poland and Russia as there may very well be some cross references as the country borders changed many times between wars.

An excellent site to find information about most European countries is at http://searcheurope.com  

and type in the name of the country you wish to research in the search field.  This site is a great source to find information for almost every European country. Another valuable site to help find a person, maps, etc.
http://www.webhelp.com/home  

and type in the name of any country you wish to research. This service is free.

Global Gazetteer
It is a directory of  2,880,532 of the world's cities and towns, sorted by country and linked to a map for each town.  A tab separated list is available for each country. 
www.calle.com/world/

The World Fact Book
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
geos/bo.html

All Belarus Database

Enter the surname you are looking for, and see what records exist within this database. 
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/belarus 

http://www.genealogylinks.net/europe/belarus/

http://www.jewishfamilyhistory.org/

Belarus Shtetl History Data
http://www1.tau.ac.il/humanities/ggcenter/
images/documents/LS/
belarus%20shtetl%20history%20data.pdf 

Archives

Access to archives since the mid-1990s has greatly enriched the Holocaust historiography in Byelorussia.  Documents on the history of the Holocaust, lists of ghetto victims, descriptions of partisan actions in which Jews took part, lists of monuments on common graves, etc., began to appear in the 'Pamyat' (Memory) series of documented chronicles of Byelorussian towns and districts which have been published since 1987.

  
Centuries-old documents are damaged by sunlight that enters through broken windows

Director is Orest Laroslavoych Matsiuk; Deputy Director (Directress) is Diana Peltc who, it has been noted, forwards personal researcher requests to a "freelancer"  who then increases the price, but the cost is still relatively reasonable archives@cl.lv.ukrtel.net   Hours are Monday through Friday 9 to 3 pm.  Then select Genealogy and then Archives.
http://lemkos/    

Archives
To request records you must first contact the
Belkom Archive
Kollektornaya St. #10,
Minsk. 
It is advisable to also send a copy of your request to the consulate in your country.  Individual archives are not allowed to provide information on the contents of their holdings, but the Belkom Archive is allowed to provide the information on subordinate archives.  They charge $50  for initiating a search.  

For access to the holdings of the national Archives, the researcher should apply directly by official letter of application to the director of the individual archives requested.  The majority of documents preserved at the Archives are open for researchers.  Foreign researchers planning visits should check in advance regarding operating hours and temporary changes.  Most Archives are open Tuesday through Friday from 9:00 to 5:00, but check first.

Fees for a genealogical research includes a pre-payment of $80.00 and a final sum based on a charge of $4.00 per hour of research.  Enclose a check, drawn on your bank, for the pre-payment of the $80.00, made payable to the name of the appropriate archive.

Also see below under the title of Military, addresses of Archives where records may be found.  Records for areas in Belarus have been turning up in Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, the United States and in Israel.  Some of these are primary records and others are secondary records.  You may also fined that some Jewish records are mixed with 'Church Records' and 'Mixed Records'.

You also may write to: 
Director of Archival Research, 
Historical Archives of Belarus, 
Kozlova Street 26, Minsk, Belarus 
in English. Replies may be received in Russian.

Archives of Belarus (in Russian)
http://www.mtu-net.ru/rrr/ukraine.htm

Archives and Burial Places in Belarus
(including Jewish Cemeteries and the Jewish Communities in Belarus)
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/resources.htm

http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/european/
belarus/resources/by-history.html

http://www.jewishgen.org/cemetery/e-europe/
belarus.html

Byelorussian Archives
Links to each of the various archives
http://www.president.gov.by/gosarchives/
EArh/Erx_spisok.htm 

http://www.ac.by/country/history.html

http://www.cjh.org/pdfs/Belarus.pdf

Central State Historical Archives L'viv
Tsentralny Derzhavnyi Istorychnyi Arkhiv (TsDIA-L)
290008, L'viv - 8, pl. Sobornosti Square 3-a, Ukraine   
Phone/Fax: (0322) 72 35 08 or 72 30 63 
http://www.huri.harvard.edu/abb_grimsted/L-1.html

http://www.halgal.com/LvivBielawa.pdf

http://www.usukraine.org/lvivarchives.shtml

Director of the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine   
110 Solomianska Street, 24, 
252601 Kiev, Ukraine
http://www.archives.gov.ua/Eng/Archives/

National Historical Archives of Belarus 
Branches in several cities http://president.gov/by/
gosarchives/Arh/arx_naz_ist.htm

http://archives.gov.by/eng/index.php?id=745474

National Historical Archive of Belarus (Minsk) 
NHAB (Minsk)
55, Kropotkina St., 
Minsk 220002
Republic of Belarus
http://archives.gov.by/eng/index.php?id=503226

Director: Alla K. Golubovich
Telephone: (375 017) 268 65 22,  268 65 2
Fax: 268 65 20
E-mail:  niab@solo.by 
nosev@minsk.sovam.com     

They are asking an $80.00 deposit upfront. Records prior to 1917 'should' be in the National Historical Archives of Belarus.  The Minsk branch should have the records from areas that were once part of Vitebsk, Mogilev and Minsk Guberniyas.  The Grodno branch should have the records for what was formerly the Grodno Guberniya.  Please keep in mind that many vital records did not survive and you may have to use secondary records, Revision Lists, Resident Lists, Court Records, etc. if they are available.  

The Belarus SIG has extracted and translated into English, the entire remaining census forms for the Grodno Guberniya.  While most of the records were destroyed, the remaining remnants provide valuable genealogical data for those who can find their families on the census records.  This census includes the place of birth, place of registration, along with the address and shtetl where people were living at the time of the census.  In many instances these three locations are different for the same person in the census database.  The information provides an insight on origination of families and helps to lead to other shtetls for you to research.

In addition to areas now in Belarus, the Grodno Guberniya portion of the 1897 Census includes areas now in Poland; Bialystok, Bielsk and Sokolka Uyezd.  BIALYGen, the Bialystok Region Jewish Genealogy Group.
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/1897_russian
_census_grodno_gubernia.htm

The BelarusSIG web site has inventories of records known to exist in the two branches of the NHAB, as well as the postal addresses for the two different branches of the NHAB.

National Historic Archive of Belarus (Grodno)
2, Tizengauza Sq.
Grodno, 230023
Republic of Belarus
Director: Karina P. Batrakova
Tel./Fax: (375-152) 44-94-66
http://www.archives.gov.by/eng/index

www.president.gov.by

National Archives of the Republic of Belarus
43, Kirova St.,
220030, Minsk
Republic of Belarus
Tel: (375 017) 222-32-29
Tel./Fax: (375 017) 222 32 85
Director: Viacheslav D. Selemenev
http://archives.gov.by/eng/index.php?id=439239

http://archives.gov.by/eng/index.php?id=187774

The Archives was founded on May 28, 1927.  During 1930-1944, it was located in Mogilev.  In June 1995, the documents of the former Central Archives of the Communist Party were added to the State Archives' complex.  The Belarusian State Archives was reorganized into the National Archives of the republic of Belarus.  More information ins available at http://www.president.gov.by/gosarchives/EArh/
E_naz.htm 

Previous Names of the archive:

Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic's Central Archives of October Revolution (1927-1938)

Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic's Central State Archives of October Revolutions and Socialist Development (1938-1993)

Belarusian State Archives (1993-1995)

State Archives of Brest Region
8, Engelsa St.
Brest, 224005
Republic of Belarus
Telephone (375 0162) 26 59 29
Director: Anna V. Terebun
http://archives.gov.by/eng/index.php?id=872100

State Archives of Grodno Region
84, Dzerzhinskogo St.
Grodno, 230005
Republic of Belarus
Telephone / Fax: (375 0152) 72 24 43,  47 04 92 
Director: Larisa I. Yunina
(This archive contains records from 1917 to the present.)
http://archives.gov.by/eng/index.php?id=184649

State Archive of Register Offices (Grodno Region)
3 Ozheshko Str.
Grodno, 230023
Republic of Belarus
http://archives.gov.by/eng/index.php?id=673706

Grodno OZGS = State Archive of Register Offices For The
Grodno Region
3 Ozheshko Str.
230023, Grodno
Republic of Belarus
Telephone: (375 0152) 47 09 54 
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/belarus_records
_various_archives.htm

National Historic Archive of Belarus (Minsk)
http://www.map.by/en/info/about1116.htm

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/minsk_archive.htm

Molodechno OGA = Zonal State Archives In Molodechno
69, Libavo-Romenskaya St.
Molodechno, 222310
Republic of Belarus
Telephone: (375 017 73) 7 26 76,  7 77 33
Director: Rostislav F. Gerasimovich
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/minsk_archive.htm

http://tunicks.com/NIAB.html

Some records for shtetls that were once in Lithuania may be found in the Vilna Archive

Belarus Records in the Vilna Archive (Lithuania)
Lietuvos Valstybinis Istorijos Archyvas
Gerosios Vilties 10
Vilnius 2015
Lithuania (Lietuva)
http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1369

http://www.balticconnections.net/index.cfm?article
=Lithuanian+Archives+Department

It is recommended that both addresses be also written in Ukrainian.  A sample of how to address the Archive can be found at this site where you will also find 'Vital and Marriage Records' from Greek Catholic and Orthodox Parishes in Former Austrian Galicia, Former Malo Rus, Ukraine, Poland and Belarus.'
http://lemko.org/genealogy/galiciapl.html 

http://www.lemko.org/genealogy/galiciapl.html

A possible contact for the Archives in Minsk, Belarus, according to Amy Levinson arl@teleport.com in a message on the JewishGen forum of 12/9/96 states that a probable contact for the Grodno Archives may be 'Perzashkevich, aka "Minsk Genealogy Group" at Minsk PKP 
pkp1@drop.belpak.minsk.byhttp://cpedia.com/wiki?q=Bialystok&guess_ambig=Shtetl+microfilms+Polish
+State+Archives+

http://tor.tripod.com/easter2000/

National Archives
http://archives.gov.by/eng/index.php?id=194729

Useful site
http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/belarus_records
_various_archives.htm 

ZAGS Archives

State Archive of Register Offices for the Brest Region
18 Svobody Sq., 224030, Brest
Tel: (375-162) 26 73 22
http://archives.gov.by/eng/index.php?id=673706

State Archive of Register Offices for the Gomel Region
20, Krestianskaya Str., 246050, Gomel
Tel: (375-232) 53 63 63, 53 44 86
http://archives.gov.by/eng/index.php?id=934247

State Archive of Register Offices for the Grodno Region
3, Ozheshko Str., 230023
Tel: (375-152) 47 09 54
http://www.zabludow.com/GrodnoOblast.html

State Archive of Register Offices for the City of Minsk
24a, Krasnoarmeiskaya Str., 220030, Minsk
Tel:  (375-17) 227 89 50, 227 38 23
http://archives.gov.by/eng/index.php?id=314645

State Archive of Register Offices for the Minsk Region
24a Krasnoarmeiskaya Str., 220030, Minsk
Tel: (375-17) 227 70 33
http://archives.gov.by/eng/index.php?id=314645

State Archive of Register Offices for the Mogilev Region
Apt. 026, Town Council, 212030, Mogilev
Tel: (375-222) 32 68 99, 32 67 90
http://archives.gov.by/eng/index.php?id=675601

State Archive of Register Offices for the Vitebsk Region
6 Gogolya Street, 210010, Vitebsk
Tel: (375-212) 36 62 81
http://archives.gov.by/eng/index.php?id=847071

A Belarus Miscellany

A collage of information 
http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/~kasaty/miscellany.html   

http://www.belarus-misc.org/

A Belarus Miscellany
An excellent place to start your research is at
http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/belarus/
miscellany.html 

http://www.belarus-misc.org/download/download.htm

Belarus

Informational sites - look at the YIVO News winter edition for "Jewish Documentary Sources in Belarus" using the finding aid.
www.yivoinstitute.org

http://www.haruth.com/JewBelarus.html

http://www.gulevich.net/history_art_eng.files/
history_eng.htm

http://www.belarusembassy.org/belarus/
worldwarII/IB__28-06__157.pdf

http://www.belarusguide.com/culture1/
diversity/litvak.html

   Maps
For maps, travel guides and other European Cities' information. 
http://www.mtu-net.ru/rrr/ukraine.htm

Virtual Guide to Belarus
http://www.belarusguide.com  

http://www.belarusguide.com/culture1/people/
Dunin.html

http://www.belarusguide.com/main/index.html 

The later site was initiated in 1994 by a group of Belarusian scientists working around
the world and contains a collection of information about Belarus
http://www.belarusguide.com/cities/index.html    

Belarus Cemetery Law

A law was enacted that is applied to cemeteries of all faiths, including Jewish cemeteries. Any cemetery unused for 25 years can be reclaimed for other purposes.  Owning to the murder of entire Jewish communities by Germans and their Lithuanian, Latvian and Ukrainian partners in the 1941-44 period, the bulk of Jewish cemeteries fall under this law during the years 1966-69.
http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/belarus/
index.html

http://www.belarusembassy.org/political/
commentary2004.htm

http://www.ncsj.org/Belarus.shtml

http://www.belarus-misc.org/jewish2.htm

Belarus Discussion List

This list is for those interested in Belarus using Internet discussion list 'netiquette' and any further restrictions imposed by the charter. Complete 'welcome' description
http://www.belarus-misc.org/welcome.html 

http://www.belarus-misc.org/bel-net.htm

http://www.belarus-misc.org/bel-forum.htm

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/litvania/

Belarus Jewish Community

The leader is Yuri Dorn who is also the President of the Union of Religious Jewish Congregations of the Republic of Belarus.
http://www.jewishbelarus.org/index.php?pid=&lang=en

http://www.jhrgbelarus.org/

http://www.kosherdelight.com/Belarus_Jewish
_Communities.shtml

Belarus: History and Famous Personalities

http://www.mtu-net.ru/rrr/ukraine.htm

http://www.ac.by/country/history.html

http://www.archaeolink.com/belarus_history.htm

http://www.belarus.by/en/about-belarus/famous
-belarusians

Belarus Museums

http://tourvitebsk.by/index.php?option=com_
content&task=view&id=37&lang=en

http://jewish-heritage-travel.blogspot.com/2009/
01/belarus-brest-jewish-museum.html

Belarus Postal History   

http://www.norphil.co.uk/fsu_postal_history/belarus/
bel05.htm

http://www.statoids.com/uby.html

http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/russia/
xbelarus.html

Belarus Records in Various Archives

Authored by David M. Fox is quite informative regarding surviving records that may be available including information about 'Changing Borders'; Centralization of Records; Conditions in the Archives and much more
http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/belarus_records
_various_archives.htm  

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1476

http://archives.gov.by/eng/index.php?id=12

http://www.university-directory.eu/Belarus/Belarus.html

http://www.jhrgbelarus.org/

Belarus: Reference

Much information about the country, with hundreds of links to sites on Belarus in English and links to maps of cities of the Republic
http://www.slavophilia.net/belarus/refer.htm 

http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/Belarus/
Reference/

http://www.thefullwiki.org/Belarus

http://www.dmoz.org/Reference/Education/Colleges
_and_Universities/Europe/Belarus/

Belarus Research (from Poland)

http://www.mtu-net.ru/rrr/ukraine.htm

http://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen-erosity/
v_projectslist.asp?project_cat=1

Belarus Research Guide
http://www.belarusguide.com/cities/index.html

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/

Belarus Research List

A list of people searching for ancestors with ties to Belarus
http://feefhs.org/by/byrl/byrl.html

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/ragas_vol4_no2.htm

http://www.pravapis.org/articles.asp

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~polwgw/areas.html

http://www.cyberpursuits.com/gen/slavlist.asp

Belarus Revision Lists

The 'Reviska Skazka' (Revision Lists) were conducted in territories ruled by the Russian Czar in the 18th and 19th centuries.  The Lists only enumerated those individuals subject to taxation and was also used for identifying men to draft into the army.  Further information and a table showing the years by Shtetl/District can be found at  
http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/intro_rev_list.htm 

http://www.feefhs.org/links/Belarus/revisionlists.html

http://www.uoregon.edu/~rkimble/Mirweb/
SurnamesfromRecords.html

The Belarusian State Museum of the History of the
Great Patriotic War

http://nacbibl.org.by/natart/en/branches.html 

http://old.minsk.gov.by/cgi-bin/org_ps.pl?k_org=
2072&lang=eng

http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/belarusian-
state-museum-of-the-history-of-the-great-patriotic
-war/view/?service=1

BelarusSIG

Here is a great site where David M. Fox webmaster has tried to collect all the data accumulated about various archival information and inventories of records and has made them available at
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/research_tool.htm

http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/belarus_records_
various_archives.htm  

"Fonds that are not included in the inventories at this site, are secondary records (other than vital records or revision lists) where the archives or private researchers found valuable data.  Frequently, vital records or revision lists are not available for some shtetls and the only way to gather information is from secondary records."

The BelarusSIG web site, besides offering "All Belarus Database", offers:
Shtetls of Belarus;
Belarus Surname Index;
Archival records; Belarus
Given Names Database;
Resources, Addresses;
Archives; Russian Military
Archives; Basics and FAQs;
Belarus Today;
Bibliography; Cemeteries;
Conferences;
Holocaust; Laws;
Maps;
RAGAS Articles;
Researchers and
Translators and much more at
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/ 

BelarusSIG site
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus   

To join the SIG:
www.jewishgen.org/belarus/membersh.htm  

To post to the Belarus SIG discussion group, send your message to:
belarus@lyris.jewishgen.org

Belarus On-line Newsletter:
http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/newsletter/bnl_
index.htm 

Information on these Guberniya: Grodno, Minsk, Mogilev, Vitebsk and
other Belarus Resources Available. The Belarus SIG is online
http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/newsletter/
editorial_1_2000.htm   

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/newsletter/
bnl_index.htm   

or to the Belarus SIG website
http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/  

There is much to learn from these pages and in addition to a large database, you will also find detailed maps of various areas (and years) of the country.
http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Soc/
soc.genealogy.jewish/2008-11/msg00413.html

Translations include:
1903 Russian Business Directory;
Minsk Yizkor Book Name Index;
Minsk Guberniya Revision Lists;
Mogilev Vital records;
1834 Borisov Revision List; 
Senno 1861-64 Birth Records translated version available at  
www.jewishgen.org/belarus

The Webmaster is Edward Rosenbaum
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus

http://shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Belarus.html

Belarus Given Names Database 

A searchable database of Jewish given names used in Belarus during 1795 - 1925 and links in each record to the new local vernacular names adopted in this same time period in nine Foreign countries (Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Palestine, South Africa, UK, US)
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/srchbela.htm

http://www.genealogylinks.net/europe/belarus/

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1392

Belarus Surname Index
Now has 21,462 surnames from 97 web sites indexed  
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/static_index.htm

Ghetto Names
http://www.2babynames.com/ghetto-names.shtml

Belarus Newspaper Link

http://newslink.org/eubela.html

http://www.genealogylinks.net/europe/belarus/

http://www.genealogylinks.net/country/jewish-
genealogy/europe/belarus.htm

http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/

Belarus Online Newsletter

http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/newsletter/
bnl_index.htm

http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/newsletter/
torontoconf_primarysources.htm

Belarus Radio Stations

http://www.surfmusic.de/country/Belarus.html

http://www.radiobelarus.tvr.by/eng/default.asp

http://www.radiotower.com/country-BY.html

Belarus SIG Web Page

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/research_tool.htm

http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Belarus
-SIG/default.aspx

Belarus Yizkor Books

Katastrofia Evreev v Belorusii 1941-1944
(Holocaust in Belorussia, 1941-1944)
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html

http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/david-and-sylvia
-steiner-yizkor-book-collection-a-g

http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/david-and-sylvia
-steiner-yizkor-book-collection-h-m

http://www.klezmershack.com/articles/winkler/
yizkorlinks.html

The Belarusian Association of Jewish Organizations
and Communities

President is Leonid Levin - Minsk 220123, Belarus
http://www.ncsj.org/Belarus.shtml

http://jewishbelarus.org/index.php?pid=21&lang=en

http://www.europeanjewishfund.org/index.php?/
member_communities/belarus/

Belarusian Heritage

http://www.belarusguide.com/as/heritage/heritage.html

http://www.belarusguide.com/as/heritage/famous.html

http://www.russia-ukraine-travel.com/belarus-historical
-sites.html

Belarusian Historical Figures

http://www.google.com/search?q=Belarusian+Historical
+Figures&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-
US:official&client=firefox-a

http://www.belarus-misc.org/bel-figs.htm

http://www.belarusguide.com/as/history/history.html

Belarusian Born People

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Belarusian_Jews

http://blogs.euobserver.com/rakhlei/tag/felix-
dzerzhinsky/

http://www.scientificpsychic.com/search/famous-
jews.html

Belarusian Diaspora in Poland

Lots of interesting information at this site
http://www.belarus-misc.org/bel-dpol.htm

http://www.belarus-misc.org/diasp-pl.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusian_diaspora

http://www.ac.by/country/society.html

Byelorussian in Poland

http://www.belarus-misc.org/bel-dpol.htm#top

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusian_minority_
in_Poland

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus

http://www.jstor.org/pss/3728331

Byelorussian in Russian Federation

There are approximately 1,206,000 Byelorussian in Russia as of 1993.  There is a large community in the Komi Republic (27,000 currently live in Komi, the republic's fourth largest ethnic community after Russians, Komi and Ukrainians, and approximately 12,000 Byelorussians in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia). 
http://www.belaurs-misc.org/bel-diasp.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_State

http://www.nlr.ru/eng/opac/

http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp
?code=bel

Birth Certificates from Belarus

http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/kovno/kovno
_pages/kovno_doc.html

Include the full name (including patronymic) exact date and place of birth, date of registration of the birth; birth certificate number; parents' names; parents' parents' names (including parents' mothers' maiden names); parents' birth dates (father's full birth date and mother's birth year); father's occupation; and any changes in the registry of birth.

Birth Records
From the "Detailed Inventory of 13 Microfilms of Belarus Records at the Family History Center"  See also the All Belarus Database
www.jewishgen.org/databases/belarus/

http://www.genealogylinks.net/europe/belarus/

http://www.foreigndocuments.com/birth_en.html

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/13_cds_births.htm

Brewing Trade in Belarus

http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/newsletter/Kobrin
_Synagogue.htm

http://historyofalcoholanddrugs.typepad.com/alcohol
_and_drugs_history/belarus/

Cemeteries

Bruce Kahn has a searchable photographic database of this and many other cemeteries. Follow the links and you will find around 2,000 photos of Jewish cemeteries in Lithuania and Belarus.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/belarus-workers-move
-bones-from-jewish-cemetery-to-dump-1.243863

http://horwitzfam.org/showmap.php?cemeteryID=4

http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/eastern-
europe/index.html

http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/belarus/
index.html

Chevra Kadisha

See also individual shtetls.

Located on Mohliver St. in Tel-Aviv is working on a list of Chevra Kadisha files for towns in Belarus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBzVzyEN4Nw

http://www.jewish.by/ 

Consolidated Jewish Surname Index,

Includes the Jewish Records Indexing - Poland; All-Lithuania Database;
All-Belarus Database; All-Latvia Database and JewishGen Family Finder
http://www.avotaynu.com/csi/csi-home.html

http://www.avotaynu.com/csi/csi-result.html

http://www.jewfaq.org/jnames.htm

http://www.jewishlink.net/genealogy.html

http://yugejar.angelfire.com/consolidated-jewish-
surname-index.html

http://www.dinur.org/resources/resourceCategory
Display.aspx?categoryid=487&rsid=0&sortField=
hitcount&sortOrder=desc

http://www.lkessler.com/jglinks.shtml

Culture of the country  

http://www-cat.ncsa.uluc.edu/~zelenko/belarus/
Ceramic.html  

http://www.ejpress.org/article/28542

Cyrillic Keyboard

See also my Ukrainian and Language web pages for more information on Russian and Ukrainian languages.
http://winrus.com/screen_e.htm

http://www.shevchenko.org/vk.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout

Deliveries to Belarus

Meest-Boston delivers US dollars, sea and air parcels, food parcels, equipment and electronics, letters and small packages to Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Moldova, Poland and other countries. More services are available 
www.meestboston.com

http://www.russianmeetingplace.com/forums/russia
-ukraine-belarus-travel-news/topic.php/17508-1.html

How To Send Money To Belarus
http://www.ehow.com/how_6794395_send-money-
belarus.html

http://coinmill.com/BYR_EUR.html

Money Orders
http://www.cpost.cz/en/sluzby/penezni-sluzby/
zahranici/money-order-z-a-id26850/

Directories & Lists    

Contains address and contact person for 19 Jewish communities in Belarus.  Provides a template to transliterate surnames.
http://www.jewishgen.org/BELARUS/resources.htm 

http://www.belarusguide.com/genealogy1/index.html

http://www.jgsgb.org.uk/sneeur.shtml

http://tracingthetribe.blogspot.com/2010/03/wdytya-
back-to-belarus-with-lisa.html

http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/belarus/

http://www.cyndislist.com/easteuro.htm

http://www.avotaynu.com/csi/databases.htm

http://www.avotaynu.com/wwwsites.html

http://www.cjh.org/pdfs/Poland07.pdf

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/

http://genealogy.imstumped.com/genlinks.shtml

Duma

The Voter Lists
for all of the districts of Minsk Guberniya includes the Uyezds of: Minsk, Pinsk, Mazyr, Igumen, Novogrudok, Borisov and Slutsk
http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/

http://www.genealogylinks.net/country/jewish-
genealogy/europe/belarus.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Councils_for_
Soviet_Jews

http://www.genealogylinks.net/europe/belarus/

East European Genealogy Society 

Lots of information 
http://www.GateWest.net/~eegsi/

http://www.eegsociety.org/BackIssues.aspx

http://www.feefhs.org/

East Europe Jewish Heritage Project

Dedicated to the preservation and perpetuation of East European Jewish culture, Jewish monuments, buildings and cemeteries.  To raise funds, the project offers genealogical services for a cost of $80.00 for a preliminary report and a family tree now costs in the order of $500. The initial search checks relevant archives and record offices for documents relative to your family.  You will then receive a report of the results. This group has negotiated with the Belarusian Committee for the Preservation of the Nation's Heritage, an agreement for the protection of Belarus' Jewish Cemeteries.

Contact:
Franklin Swartz, Executive Director,
East European Jewish Heritage Project,
13b Dauman Street
Minsk 220002, Republic of Belarus. 
Phone/Fax: +375 17 234 5612/234 33 60 
or

P.O. Box 97
Minsk
220074
Republic of Belarus
http://eejhp.netfirms.com/

http://www.centropa.org/

E-mail eejhp@yahoo.com  
Their web site is
http://eejhp.tripod.ca

Eastern European Jewish History - "EEJH" 

European Jewish History, Religion and Culture / Eyropeyishe Yidishe Geshikhte, Religion un Kultur is a mailing list for the discussion of Jewish religion, culture and history in Europe.   Discussions range from European Jews in ancient times to events in the 21st century. Special attention is devoted to topics dealing with Jewish Culture, Customs and Beliefs, Folklore and Folk Religion, Jewish-Christian Relations in Europe
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eejh/ 

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/
easteutoc.html

http://www.khazaria.com/

http://mteter.web.wesleyan.edu/HIST156.html

Estonia

There are approximately 28 thousand Byelorussians in Estonia.  See the 1993 information from The First World Convention of Byelorussians at
http://www.belaurs-misc.org/bel-diasp.htm  

http://www.ngonet.ee/eva

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_
in_Estonia

http://depts.washington.edu/baltic/papers/holocaust
.html

FEEFHS Belarus Research List

http://www.feefhs.org/

http://www.feefhs.org/new/e107_plugins/content/
content.php?content.168

http://internet-genealogy.com/austriahungary25.htm

http://genforum.genealogy.com/ny/messages/8172.html

Genealogy

(Including Jewish Genealogy) in Belarus
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/european/belarus/
resources/by-genealogy.html

http://www.belarus-misc.org/bel-gene.htm

http://www.shamash.org/links/Genealogy/

http://genforum.genealogy.com/jewish/

Genealogy resources at the Belarus National State
Archive 

http://tiny.cc/es9b7

http://archives.gov.by/eng/index.php?id=12

http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/links.htm

http://www.kindredtrails.com/belarus.html

GenWeb (World)

The Belarus GenWeb was started in 1999 by Charles Wardell.  Belarus GenWeb is a part of the world-wide network WorldGenWeb, 

http://www.genealogylinks.net/country/jewish-
genealogy/europe/belarus.htm

http://www.genealogylinks.net/europe/belarus/

http://www.pitt.edu/~meisel/jewish/ls_europe.htm

Ghettos, All About them

http://www.agcholocaustlibrary.org/ghettos.html 

   Maps

Guberniya District Maps, Grodno, Minsk, Vitebsk Guberniyas
maps

http://www.ac.by/country/history.html

http://www.flora-and-sam.com/finalversion/
finishedversion/pages/
AncestralTowns.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_of_Settlement

http://home.earthlink.net/~cherlinfamily/Ref/Maps/
maps.html

Ghettos, All About them  

http://www.agcholocaustlibrary.org/ghettos.html

History of Byelorussian Jewry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in
_Belarus

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/
Belarus.html

http://www.beljews.info/

http://www.belarus-misc.org/jewish.htm

Index of Kasaty

http://openlibrary.org/books/OL2570276M/Kasaty
_zakono%CC%81w_na_ziemiach_dawnej_
Rzeczypospolitej_i_S%CC%81la%CC%A8ska_1773-1914

http://www.belarusguide.com/culture1/literature/

Jewish, Jews Jewry

http://www.saskgenealogy.com/Library_Catalogue/
Jewish.htm

Jewish Property Seized in the Occupied Soviet Union
in 1941 and 1942: The Records of the Reichshauptkasse
Beutestelle

http://hgs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/14/1/83

Jewish Victims of Stalin Purges

Keroor, a Jewish organization in Russian, has assembled a list of 2,193 Jewish victims of Stalin's purges. Vitaly Charny has picked out the names of 563 victims who seem to have been born in Belarus. The original, complete, Russian list
http://politicalfilms.com/guest/stalin.html

Jews and Judaism in Belarus

"At the turn of the century, over 50 percent of the population of Minsk (Mensk), Hrodna, Mogilev and Viciebsk were Jewish (98% of native Byelorussians lived in the countryside).  Today, Jews constitute one percent of the national population."  Information obtained from the Minsk in Your Pocket guide, Summer, 1997, page 30 and the 1997-98 guide,
page 31.  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Jews_and_Judaism
_in_Belarus

http://www.belarus-misc.org/bel-religion.htm

http://www.belintourist.com/eng/services/tours_and_
excursions/judaism

Also check out
www.belarus.net  
for information about Belarus

Latvia

There are approximately 120 thousand Byelorussians in Latvia in 1993 and approximately 97,000 in 2000. There are approximately 10 officially registered Belarusian organizations in Latvia.  More information available at
http://www.belarus-misc.org/bel-diasp.htm

http://www.cjh.org/pdfs/Latvia07.pdf

http://www.jewishbelarus.org/

http://www.li.lv/index.php?option=com_content&task=
view&id=99&Itemid=597

http://www.balticgen.com/

Lithuanian Database 

Offers approximately 10,000 records which probably contain names that may have lived in Belarus which had been Lithuania
http://www.jewishgen.org/litvak/all.htm

http://www.jewishgen.org/litvak/

http://www.genealogylinks.net/europe/lithuania/

http://www.cjh.org/pdfs/Lithuania.pdf

This list includes names of all Jewish servicemen from Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine and Russia.
http://russiananzacs.narod.ru/Jews.htm

Magnate

"Apparently, the country had an intensely feudal character for hundreds of years, the effects of which have not completely worn off.  Polish landed gentry (often absentee landlords) from the joint Poland/Lithuania Common wealth, which ruled the area for hundreds of years (1550-1795ish), actually *owned* whole towns, cities, and manorial estates; had private armies; and often offered protective charters for Jews whom they contracted with to run distilleries, inns, collect taxes from the Belarusian peasants, provide services like shoemaking, etc., and basically act as middlemen between the Poles and the natives. 

The landed gentry were called "magnates" and were often princes and counts and other kinds of lesser nobility. After the Czar took over this region (1795-ish), many Jews performed the same services for the Russian nobility who had simply exchanged places with their Polish peers.  Interestingly, there was an unusual urban-rural split in Belarus: towns and cities were populated almost entirely by the landed gentry and Jews (the only groups allowed to travel in the region), while the countryside was populated almost exclusively by the native Belarussians who spoke their own language (Belarusian, rather than Polish or Russian) and had a different religion (Greek Orthodox, rather than Roman Catholic, Russian Orthodox, or Jewish), and were mostly involved in agricultural activities." 
    
"According to a Google search, the term "Korchma" is currently a kind of restaurant.  Perhaps your relative ran an inn or a distillery for the prince for whom he may have worked. I hope this helps. If I'm wrong about any of the info above, I hope that someone will correct me."  From a posting by Laura Moss Gottlieb Wisconsin, USA
http://jewishbelarus.org/index.php?pid=75&lang=en

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/slutsk/slutsk_
militias.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Belarus

Map of Belarus
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/maps/belarus.jpg 

Old Belarus Maps online
http://www.belarusguide.com/  

Detailed Maps of Belarus Cities
http://www.embassyworld.com/maps/Maps_Of_Belarus
.html

http://www.maps2anywhere.com/Maps/Belarus_road_
map.htm

Map of Grodno Guberniya 1834  
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Lunna/

http://mysite.verizon.net/skobren/sitebuildercontent/
sitebuilderfiles/map.pdf

Map of Grodno Guberniya in 1890 
http://www.porozow.net/Maps.htm

http://stevemorse.org/bereza-and-antopol/grodno.htm

Map of Lida Uyezd - as part of Lithuania
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/shtetls/shtetl_detail
.php?filename=sdyatlovolv

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/lida-district/lida-
dist.htm

Map of Minsk Guberniya Map 1834
http://www.bakerbluminfamilytree.com/map.html

http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/russia/xgovminsk.
html

http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/russia/xgovvitebsk
.html

Map of Minsk Guberniya from 1834
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/1834_vitebsk_
gubernia_map.htm

http://www.mosaicrpm.com/Genealogy%20
Resources.htm

Map of Mogilev Guberniya 1834
http://21.by/belarus/history

http://www.dinur.org/resources/resourceCategory
Display.aspx?sortField=hitcount&sortOrder=asc&
categoryid=486&rsid=0

Map of Poland from 1921 to 1939 - included is Belarus
http://www.polishroots.com/images/pol1921.gif 

Map portion of Vilna Guberniya from 1863
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Lida-District/
Vgub1863.htm

http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/russia/xgovkovno
.html

http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeol99x/

Maps of Russia and the FSU (Former Soviet Union) Republics
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Lida-District/lida-
map-links.htm 

http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/russia/xgovvilna.
html

http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/Vilnius

Map of Vitebsk Guberniya 1834  
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Vitsyebsk/

http://abezgauz-genealogy.com/newsletters/august2004/
vitebsk.htm

Measurement of Land

A Desyatina is 1.09 hectares or 2.07 acres
http://www.belarus.net/softinfo/lowcatal.htm

http://www.fig.net/commission7/bamberg_2004/papers/
ts_05_04_vaskovich.pdf

http://www.maanmittauslaitos.fi/Control_Points/Struve_
Geodetic_Arc

Military History of Belarus The Siege of the Fortress
of Brest, 1941

"Brestskaya Krepasc' (Fortress of Brest) is famous by the deed of its heroic heroes. It was defending their post for more than month completely cut off, surrounded by Germans in 1941, far from the front that was moving fast to Moscow. They all perished but did not surrender. In commemoration of this deed a tremendous memorial was arisen in Brest." 
http://www.belarusguide.com/cities/castles/battles.html

Military Records - The RBVIA serves as the centralized archive for military records of the Russian Empire, consolidating the holdings from various pre-revolutionary Russian military archives and other repositories throughout the former Soviet Union.  RGVIA retains documentation produced from the activities of highest, central, and local military administration and military agencies of the Russian Empire from the end of the seventeenth century until March of 1918.
http://www.genealogylinks.net/europe/belarus/

http://www.deremilitari.org/resources/articles/novikou
.htm

http://landing.ancestry.com/military/us/default.aspx?
o_xid=21837&o_lid=21837

Rossiiskii Gosudarstvennyi Voenno-Istoricheskii Arkhiv (RGVIA) 
Russia 107864 Moscow  
2nd Bauman Street, 3  
Phone +7 095 261 20 70
http://www.idc.nl/faid/497/B4findingaids.html

http://www.idc.nl/faid/497/Adresses.html

For records from 1918 - 1941 ...

Rossiyskiy Gosudarstvenniy Voyenniy Arkhiv
Rossiya, 125212 Moskva
U1. Adm. Makarov, 29
English translation
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/belarus_records_
various_archives.htm

(Russia, 125212 Moscow
Adm. Makarov St. 29
Russian State Military Archive
http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php?topic=
11996.0;prev_next=next

http://www.yale.edu/rusarch/archive.html

http://www.rusarchives.ru/evants/conferences/iww_
pe.shtml

KGB Archive
Moscow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB

http://www.suite101.com/content/contents-of-the-kgb
-archives-a12253

National Library of Russia
18 Sadovaya Street
191069 St. Petersburg
Russia
Telephone: 00 7 812 110 6253
Fax: 00 7 812 310 6148
E-mail mb@glas.apc.org
http://www.nlr.ru/eng/

http://www.nlr.ru/eng/line/

http://www.cerl.org/web/en/resources/hpb/content/
national_library_of_russia_st_petersburg

National Library of Russia
Vozdvigenka 3
101000 Moscow
Russia
Telephone: +7 812 110 6253
Fax: +7 095 200 22 55
E-mail: main@irgb.msk.su 

The National Library of Belarus
220636  Minsk
Chyrvonaarmejskaja St., 9
Republic of Belarus
Telephone/Fax: 375 (0172) 27 54 63
E-mail: sol@nacbibl.minsk.by
Director: Galina N. Oleyni
http://old.nlb.by/eng/

http://old.nlb.by/en/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Library_of_Belarus

Images of military papers with complete translations can be viewed at
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Lida-District/
tabelitsky.htm

Similar papers would have been familiar to every family in Belarus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Belarus-related_
topics

http://www.ipgs.us/iwona/artdirectory/centmilarch.html

http://www.maphistory.info/imageeurcont.html

Mishpoha Magazine

Published in Russian in Belarus by the Jewish Community, on a non-commercial basis.
http://mishpoha.org/nomer15/index.html

http://mishpoha.org/nomer13/index13.html

More information about this publication is available on the Belarus SIG
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus 

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/resources.htm

This magazine also offers FREE ads for family searches.  For research purposes, it would only take less than an hour to learn how to read Cyrillic Alphabet allowing you to pick out surnames and locations.  E-mail to mishpoha@aport.ru Fax/Phone 011 375 212 366872 Note, there is a seven hour time difference (East Coast).  Arkady Shulman, Editor.
Mishpoha Belarus 210001, Vitebsk, Box 22 
http://www.sitereport.org/p/mishpoha.org

http://www.meod.by/print/en/news/ca21e87a70a9b
222.html

Moving Here

Trace your roots from Belarus to Britain and help in finding the relevant records in your search
www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/roots/jewish/country/
belarus.htm

http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/roots/jewish/
country/country.htm

http://www.expat-blog.com/en/destination/europe/
belarus/

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/268374-
belarus-polish-embassy-questions-k-1-visa/

http://www.belarusguide.com/travel1/Attrctn.html

National Museum of Culture and History of Belarus

            

http://www.placesonline.com/europe/belarus/minsk/
museums/the_national_museum_of_culture_and_history
_of_belarus.asp

http://www.hotels-minsk.com/guide/museums-arts-
culture.htm

http://www.belarus.by/en/about-belarus/history

Researching Russian Roots

How to begin, useful links, Archives in Ukraine & Belarus
http://www.maxpages.com/poland/Russian_Research 

Research in Ukraine and Belarus
http://www.scube-ict.eu/index.php/usefulmaterial/usb-
cdversion

http://expertgenealogy.com/service.asp?specialty=
Ukraine

http://www.jewishbelarus.org/

http://www.yivoinstitute.org/index.php?tid=142&aid=367

http://expertgenealogy.com/service.asp?specialty=
Ukraine

Revision Lists 

In addition to the Revision Lists filmed by the LDS, there are other lists available in the Vilnius Archive that cover areas now in Belarus.  According to the FHL Acquisition Department, these Revision Lists will not be filmed until after 2005.  

A list of Revision Lists for shtetls in Zarasai Uyezd, Minsk Guberniya and Lida, Vilna Guberniya is also available on the LITVAKSIG' S website.  Also, Revision Lists and/or family and resident lists, as well as part of the 1897 Census for Grodno Guberniya re in the Grodno branch of the National Historic Archives of Belarus.  These also have not been filmed. 
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/intro_1897_russian
_census.htm

http://www.jewishfamilyhistory.org/

http://www.jewishfamilyhistory.org/Hadassa%20Lipsius
%27%20
Charney%20Family%20of%20Mir,%20Belarus.htm

http://www.genealogylinks.net/europe/belarus/

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/static_intro.htm

http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/by-rec.txt

The National Historic Archive in Minsk
Has Revision Lists, family lists, and resident lists for Mogilev and possibly Vitebsk Guberniya which have also not been filmed yet.
http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/intro_rev_list.htm  

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/lyakhovichi/Minsk
-NHABResearchTools.htm

http://www.kansalliskirjasto.fi/extra/bulletin/brief2.html

Search Engines for Belarus 

The Belarus Special Interest Group now has a search engine that accesses the 246 static web pages at its site. They contain almost 130,000 names. The engine permits searching by surname, given name, town, Uyezd, and Guberniya. Each element can be searched by Starts With, Exactly, D/M Soundex, Contains, or Ends With. Click on "Search for your ancestors."
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus

Also, these sites are of value:
Scroll down to 'Search Engines'
http://slavic.ohio-state.edu/people/yoo/links/default.htm

http://www.slavophilia.net

Search telephone numbers, for free, in Belarus    
http://www.searchpeopledirectory.com/international-
reverse-phone/37517/

http://www.searchpeopledirectory.com/world-phone-
directories/Belarus/
  
http://countrycode.org/belarus

Shtetls of Belarus  

This photo of Belarus is courtesy of TripAdvisor

A shtetl (Yiddish: שטעטל, diminutive form of Yiddish shtot שטאָט",
"town",  pronounced very similarly to the South German
diminutive"Städtle", "little town") was typically a small town with
a large Jewish population in pre-Holocaust Central and
Eastern Europe. Shtetls (Yiddish plural: שטעטלעך, Shtethlekh)
were mainly found in the areas which constituted the 19th century
Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire, the Congress Kingdom
of Poland, Galicia, and Romania.  A larger city, like Lemberg or
Czernowitz, was called a shtot (Yiddish: שטאָט); a smaller village
was called a dorf (Yiddish: דאָרף).
http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/Shtetl

www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/Shtetls

http://www.haruth.com/JewBelarus.html

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/shtetls/shtetls.php

http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/

Slavophilia   

A comprehensive guide to Internet resources on Russia and Central/Eastern Europe 
http://www.hotfrog.com/Companies/Slavophilia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavophile

Timelines of History: Belarus

http://timelines.ws/countries/BELARUS.HTML

http://xz5.org/

http://www.jewishgen.org/BELARUS/borders_timeline
.htm

http://www.belarusguide.com/as/history/gistory.html

Translation Service - Click Here

A commercial site offering many language translating programs
http://www.worldlanguage.com

http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/translation/belarusian/
translation-service.html

http://www.translator4you.com/

Just in case you didn't think of it, contact a nearby university or college's
foreign language department.  They may offer to write letters and translate letters into English.  A nominal fee is usually charged.

Union of Religious Congregations in the Republic
of Belarus

Minsk 220002, Belarus
http://www.europeanjewishfund.org/index.php?/
member_communities/belarus/

http://www.belarusembassy.org/humanitarian/cemetery
_grodno.htm

http://jewishbelarus.org/index.php?pid=21&lang=en

http://www.jewishgen.org/BELARUS/Preserve%20
Historic%20Sites.htm

Virtual Guide To Belarus

http://www.belarusguide.com/main/index.html

http://grodno.digging4roots.com/links/index.html

http://www.belarusguide.com/culture1/people/Dunin.
html
    
http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=
humbul12173

Vital and Marriage Records From Greek Catholic
and Orthodox Parishes in

Former Austrian Galicia, Former Malo Rus, Ukraine, Poland, and Belarus (former Byelorussia) available through The Mormon Family History Library (FHL)
http://lemko.org/genealogy/galiciapl.html

http://www.torugg.org/File-sprava%20numbers%20of
%20villages%20in%20Galicia.pdf

http://www.lemko.org/genealogy/galicia.html

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~polwgw/Research
.html

http://ukrainiangenealogygroup-pei.org/

http://www.genealogylinks.net/marriages/europe/
poland.htm

http://www.everything.com/FTMThe-Other-Europe/
#axzz0wFPbtQWX

http://genforum.genealogy.com/poland/messages/
49975.html

Cities and Towns in Belarus

                                                               

Names - Political Changes of Names of Soviet Towns
http://www.jstor.org/pss/4209080

Note: Towns that are part of the Lida District Research Group Project have DRG next to their names.

Antopol Drogichin Brest 3137 1792

Brest Brest Brest 30,608 21,440 25,000

Baevo Dubrovno Vitebsk 505 243 -

Baranovichi Baranovichi Brest 2171 9680 12,000

Beloe Boloto Borisov Minsk - - 400

Belynichi Belynichi Mogilev 95 100

Bereza Bereza Brest 2623 2743

Beshenkovichi Beshenkovichi Vitebsk 3182 1487 1119

Bobr Krupki Minsk 1479 1018

Bobruisk Bobruisk Gomel 20,760 21,558 26,703

Bogushevsk Senno Vitebsk - 390 569

Berestovitsa Berestovitsa Grodno 963 720

Borisov Borisov Minsk 7722 8358 10,011

Bragin Bragin Gomel 2254 2165 968

Braslav Braslav Vitebsk 1234 1130 2100

Brest Brest Brest 30,608 21,440 25,000

Buda-Koshelevo Buda-Koshelevo Gomel some dozens some
hundreds 496

Budslav Miadel Minsk 150 121 -

Byten Ivatsevichi Brest 1614 1200

Bykhov Bykhov Mogilev 3207 2575 2295

Gantsevichi Gantsevichi Brest - 900

Germanovichi Sharkovshchina Vitebsk 500 350 90

Glubokoye Glubokoye Vitebsk 3917 2844

Glusk Glusk Mogilev 3801 25681 1935

Golshany Oshmiany Grodno 1938 1976

Golynka Zelva Grodno 59 49

Gorval Rechitsa Gomel some hundreds some dozens

Gorki Gorki Mogilev 3029 2343 2031

Gorodeya Nesvizh Minsk 688 796 -

Gorodishche Baranovichi Brest 2108 760

Gorodnaya Stolin Brest 562 583

Gorodok Gorodok Vitebsk 3413 2660 1584

Grodno Grodno Grodno 22684 21159

Chashniki Chashniki Vitebsk 3480 - 1109

Chechersk Chechersk Gomel 1700 1248 977

Cherikov Cherikov Mogilev 2698 - 949

Cherven Cherven Minsk 2817 2027 1941

2

Drissa (before 1962)

Verkhnedvinsk)

Drissa Vitebsk 2856 1265 825

Drogichin Drogichin Brest 200 4500

Druya Braslav Vitebsk 3006 2500

Dubrovno Dubrovno Vitebsk 4364 3105

Dunilovichi Postavy Vitebsk 1553 685

Diakovichi Zhitkovichi Gomel 96 some dozens

Diatlovo (Zhetel) Diatlovo Grodno 3033 2376

Elsk Elsk Gomel - 682 1231

Zhabinka Zhabinka Brest - 445

Zheludok Shchuchin Grodno 1372 1800

Zhitkovichi Zhitkovichi Gomel 293 925 898

Zhlobin Zhlobin Gomel 1760 3531 3709

Zhuravichi Rogachev Gomel 1618 938 646

Zelva Zelva Grodno 1844

Zembin Borisov Minsk 1037 840

Ivanovo Ivanovo Brest 2875 - 2000

Ivatsevichi Ivatsevichi Brest - some dozens 120

Ivenets Volozhin Minsk 1343 1200

Iveye Iveye Grodno 573 2076 -

Izabelin Volkovysk Grodno 454 1709

Ilia Vileika Minsk 829 1200

Indura Grodno Grodno 2194 1709

Kalinkovichi Kalinkovichi Gomel 1341 3102 3386

Kamen Lepel Vitebsk 826 426

Kamenets Kamenets Brest 2722 3780

Kletsk Kletsk Minsk 3415 6000

Khoiniki Khoiniki Gomel 1668 2053 1645

Kholmetch Rechitsa Gomel 1380

Khomsk Drogichin Brest some hundreds some hundreds

Kobylnik (Naroch) Kobylnik (Naroch) Minsk 591 300

Kozlovshchina Diatlovo Grodno 325 328

Koidanovo (before)

1932 (Dzerzhinsk)

Dzerzhinsk Minsk 3156 1778 1314

Kolbasino Grodno Grodno some dozens some dozens

Koldychevo Baranovichi Brest

Komarin Bragin Gomel 547 527 500

Kopatkevichi Petrikov Gomel 1310 820 881

Korma Korma Gomel 1328 1248 981

Kostiukovichi Kostiukovichi Mogilev 2186 1608 1134

Kolyshki Liozno Vitebsk 1127 1006

Krugloe Krugloe Mogilev 553 428 238

Krupki Krupki Minsk 1080 885 870

Krucha Krugloe Mogilev 713 297

Krivichi Miadel Minsk 457 278 800

Kurenets Vileika Minsk 1613 1500

Lapichi Osipovichi Mogilev 74

Lahkva Luninets Brest 1057 1400

Lebedevo Molodechno Minsk 1232 900

Lelchitsy Lelchitsy Gomel 180 542 746

Lenin Zhitkovichi Gomel 753 928 1070

Lepel Lepel Vitebsk 3379 1923 1919

Lida Lida Grodno 5294 5419 6700

Loev Loev Gomel 2150 1064 535

Liady Dubrovno Vitebsk 3763 2020 897

Liakhovichi Liakhovichi Brest 3846 1656

Luban Luban Minsk 732 1031 1077

Luzhki Sharkovshchina Vitebsk 761 600 500

Lubonichi Kirov Mogilev 506

Lunna Mosty Grodno 1364 2500

Luninets Luninets Brest 283 2232

Lubcha Novogrudok Grodno 2463 1500

Ludenevichi Zhitkovichi Gomel 167

Mozyr Mozyr Gomel 5361 6901 6307

Molchad Baranovichi Brest 1188 1500 1020

Motol Ivanovo Brest 1354 1140

Mstizh Borisov Minsk - - 300

Mstislavl Mstislavl Mogilev 5076 3371 2067

Miadel Miadel Minsk 436 133

Minsk Minsk Minsk 47,562 53,686 71,000

Mir Mir Grodno 3319 2074

Miory Miory Vitebsk - 500

Mogilev Mogilev Mogilev 23,539 17,105 19,715

Narovlia Narovlia Gomel 1060 - 1167

Nesvizh Nesvizh Grodno 4687 3364 4000

Novogrudok Novogrudok Grodno 5015 3405

Nowojelnia Novogrudok Grodno - 135

Nowy Dwor Novogrudok Grodno - 370 500

Ozarichi Ozarichi Gomel 1308 - 1059

Ostrina Novogrudok Grodno 1440 1067 1200

Ostrovno Beshenkovichi Vitebsk 514 410

Orsha Orsha Vitebsk 7383 - 7992

Parichi Parichi Gomel 3132 2535 1881

Petrikov Petrikov Gomel 2515 1710 1074

Pogost-Zagorodsky Pinsk Best 593 737

Polotsk Polotsk Vitebsk 12481 - 6464

Porozovo Svisloch Grodno 931 567

Propoisk (after 1945 Slavgorod)

Propoisk Mogilev 2304 1513 1038

Pruzhany Pruzhany Grodno 5080 4000

Ptich Petrikov Gomel - 230

Pukhovichi Pukhovichi Gomel 1761 929

Radoshkovichi Molodechno Minsh 1519 1215

Radun Voronovo Grodno 896 900

Rakov Volozhin Minsk 2168 - 928

Rogachev Rogachev Mogilev 5047 5327 4601

Rubel David-Gorodok Brest 500 300

Rudensk Rudensk Minsk - - 176

Ruzhany Pruzhany Grodno 3599 2400

Riasna Gorki Mogilev 918 739 -

Sapotskin Grodno Grodno

Senno Senno Vitebsk 2471 - 1056

Shchedrin Zhlobin Gomel 4022 1759

Shchuchin Shchuchin Grodno

Shklov Shklov Mogilev 5122

Shumilino Shumilino Vitebsk - 483

Sirotino Sirotino Vitebsk 1766 660

Sitnia Kalinkovichi Gomel 219 200

Skidel Skidel Grodno 2222 1936

Skorodnoe Elsk Gomel 422

Skrygalov Mozyr Gomel 417 866

Slonim Slonim Grodno 11515 6917 8605

Slutsk Slutsk Minsk 1577 8358 7392

Smilovichi Smilovichi Minsk 2094 1748

Smolevichi Smolevichi Minsk 1927 - 1385

Smoliany Orsha Vitebsk 1704 950

Smorgon Smorgon Grodno 6743 2500

Snow Nesvizh Grodno 526 401

Starye Dorogi Starye Dorogi Minsk 55 - 1085

Stolbtsy (Stolpcy)

Stolbtsy Minsk 2409

Stolin Stolin Grodno 2489 2966 8500

Streshin Zhlobin Gomel 1179 1244 531

Surazh Surazh Vitebsk 1246 - 461

Svetilovichi Vetka Gomel

Svisloch (Swislocz)

Grodno 2086 1959

Svisloch Svisloch Mogilev 1120 742

Swir Miadel Grodno 1114 820

Telekhany Ivatsevichi Brest 1508 463

Timkovichi Kopyl Minsk 1523 - 1093

Tolochin Tolochin Vitebsk 2054 - 1292

Uvarovichi Buda-Koshelevo Gomel 622 - 517

Uzda Uzda Minsk 2068 - 1143

Vasilevichi Rechitsa Gomel 229 250 216

Vasilishki Shchuchin Grodno 2081 1800

Vetka Gomel Gomel 3726 2094 944

Vileika Vileika Minsk 1328 1100

Vitebsk Vitebsk Vitebsk 34420 37013 37095

Vishnevo Smorgon Grodno 1463 700

Volkovysk Volkovysk Grodno 5528 8000

Volozhin Volozhin Minsk 2452 1434

Volpa Volkovysk Grodno 1151 1000

Vorobievichi Slonim Grodno some dozens

Voronovo Voronovo Grodno 1432 920

Vysokoe-Litovsk Kamenets Brest 2876 3600

Viazan Vileika Minsk 234 137

Yanovichi Vitebsk Vitebsk 1702 1500 709

Yrevichi Kalinkovichi Gomel

Dr. Leonid Smilovitsky,
The Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center,Carter Bldg.
Tel Aviv University, Rama, Tel Aviv 69978,Israel

+ (972)-2-672-3682 (h)  t Aviv

E-mail: smilov@zahav.net.il
Telephones: + (972)-3-6409799 (w) Fax: + (972)-3-6407287
http://www2.tau.ac.il/news/engnews.asp?month=8&
year=2004

JewishGen offers a superb database to find information on your shtetl including the distance and direction from the capital city of the relevant country. Type in the name of the Shtetl you desire. 
http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/loctown.htm  

Another site for selecting shtetls in Belarus
http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/Shtetls/Belarus
ShtetlsLeftIndex.htm 

Aleksandrovsk (see also Novo Aleksander)

Photos of the city without touchups. This was one of the Jewish agricultural colonies scattered throughout the districts of Mariupol, Berdyansk, Aleksandrovsk and elsewhere.
http://www.razruha.ru/eng/cat1439.htm?page=3

http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/russia/makhno_antisem
.html

Alexandria (Alexandra)

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/info_mogilev_gub.htm

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/shtetls/shtetl_detail.
php?filename=salexandriaom 

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/mogilev.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusian_Greek_Catholic
_Church

Amdur (Indura)  

The Shtetl is located near the city of Grodno (about 15 miles south) and in 1887 it had a population of 2,194 Jews, which was 82 percent of the total population. In 1931, the total population was engaged in brewing and distilling. A Yizkor Book has been written and a copy is in the library at Yad Vashem.  The call number is T996.   E-mail library@yad-vashem.org.il  It may be of value to write to the library and request the name and address of the committee that wrote the book.
http://www.answers.com/topic/amdur

http://tiny.cc/vm1yz

http://genealogy.familyeducation.com/surname-origin/
amdur

http://phantomscribbler.blogspot.com/2007/01/god-
exists-but.html

Antopol (Antelpolie, Belarusian: Антопаль. Russian:
                 Антополь. Yiddish: אנטיפאליע Hebrew אנטופול) 

http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/belarus/
antopol.html

http://stevemorse.org/bereza-and-antopol/ant_poi.htm

http://stevemorse.org/bereza-and-antopol/ant-hist0.htm

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/n/o/e/
Rachel-T-Noel/GENE1-0003.html

"Sefer Zikaron" (Antopol Yizkor Book)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/antopol/antopol.html

http://www.slcl.org/branches/hq/sc/yiz-a-c.htm

Antopoler Young Men's Benevolent Association
a database created by Jerry Seligsohn 
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/static_index.htm

http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=426472

Asmjany (Ashmyany)

http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/belarus/
ashmyany.html

http://www.shoreshim.org/en/tribefinder/TF_search.asp

http://www.india-goa.info/A%C5%A1miany

Contact is Joanne Saltman
http://shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Belarus.html

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/belarus_records_
inventory.htm

Azarichi 

Regional Special Interest Groups Contact Carol McCloud
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/Belarus.html  

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/search_results.jsp?searchType=1&pageNum=1&searchOpt=0&search=Azarichi

http://jewage.org/wiki/en/Profile:Azarichi_Belarus?view
=map

http://z3950.muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/kritika/
v010/10.1.berkhoff.pdf

Babruysk (Bobruisk)

A Bobruisk History
 

Cemetery
Jews continue to be buried in the Jewish cemetery
http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/belarus/
babruysk.html

The Bobruisk Main Synagogue, from the XX century, is now a gym
http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/syn-europe-
belarus.htm

http://www.mavensearch.com/synagogues/
C3358Y41407RX

BIG - Bobruisk Interest Group
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/bobruisk

Jewish Community
http://www.belarus-misc.org/jewish2.htm

http://www.worldlingo.com/ma/enwiki/en/Babruysk

  Maps

Map of area
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/bobruisk/
osipovichi.htm

http://www.sphereinfo.com/belarus-history-culture-
religion.htm

"Sefer Zikaron li-Kehilat Bobruysk u-Venoteha"
(Memorial book of the Community of Bobruysk and its Surroundings)
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html

http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/bobruisk/bysktoc1
.html

Yosef Tunkel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef_Tunkel

Baranovichi - (Baranowitsch, Baranowicze, Baranowice) 

"Palonkeh and Baranovichi, Belarus, 1904 to 1922"
Memoirs by Rubin Kaplan  
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/
ejud_0002_0003_0_02002.html

http://www1.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20
Word%20-%205964.pdf

Baranovichi in the History
http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/baranowice/
baranowice.html

http://www.answers.com/topic/baranovichi

http://www.fjc.ru/communities/default.asp?AID=84734

http://www.agcholocaustlibrary.org/ghettos.html

Belitsa (LDRG) 

http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/belarus/
belitsa.html

http://www.geschichteinchronologie.ch/eu/BSSR/
EncJud_juden-in-Gomel-ENGL.html

http://tiny.cc/i4q9r

http://tracingthetribe.blogspot.com/2009/11/belarus
-gomel-site-now-live.html

Regional Special Interest Groups
http://shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Belarus.html

Belsk (Bielsk, Bielski) and Belsk Uyezd (district)

Available in the Grodno (Belarus) archive.  These include Revision Lists, family lists and the 1897 Russian Census.  These films have not yet been filmed by the FHL, they are planning to do so.
http://archives.gov.by/eng/index.php?id=411041

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/intro_1897_russian
_census.htm

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/grodno/biel.htm

http://tiny.cc/tiuef

http://cpedia.com/wiki?q=Shavli&guess_ambig=Telz
+Shavli

Beresin

Located near Minsk
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/shtetls/shtetl_detail
.php?filename=sberezinobm

http://www1.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/women-eng/
Womanhood_Lina_Beresin.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_
Belarus

http://www1.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/women-eng/
Credits.html

http://boards.ancestry.com/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=380&p=localities.eeurope.belarus.general

Bereza (Byaroza)

Located in the Pruzhany District of Grodno Guberniya and shares a website of reference material with the shtetl Pruzhany.  Bereza Area Research Group includes all towns within a 25 mile radius of Bereza and is just off the main road from Brest to Minsk. 
http://www.beljews.info/Bereza-Kartuz.htm

http://stevemorse.org/bereza-and-antopol/ber-hist4.htm

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/
ejud_0002_0003_0_02629.html

PURS includes research from the five major towns of the Pruzhany District in Grodno Guberniya, Russia now Belarus including Pruzhany, Kartuz Bereza (Bereza), Selets, Malch and Shershev. 
http://www.purs.org 

A $25 a year paid subscription to PURS, allows complete access to the site and enables PURS to obtain more data from various archives in Belarus.  Questions should be directed to Herb Maletz at purs@purs.org 

1910 House Owners Inventory - Bereza
http://tiny.cc/y96if

http://www.felshtin.org/resources/felshtinarchive.pdf

9th and 10th Revision Lists - Bereza
Additional lists to be acquired:
http://www.pruzhanydistrict.com.ar/Newsletter5.htm

http://cpsa.info/bereza/bereza.html

http://topic-tree.thefullwiki.org/Bereza_Kartuska_
detention_camp

Township of Bereza-Kartuzskaia:

List of residents 1929
List of taxpayers 1931-1932
Lists of conscripts 1931, 1938-39
Parish register transcripts about birth, marriage and death 1933-1937
Electoral Lists 1934-1935, 1939
Record cards and lists of the township's residents have real property 1935,36
List of voters to the town Rada (council) 1939
http://archives.gov.by/eng/index.php?id=673339

http://www.belarusembassy.org/belarus/worldwarII/
IB__28-06__157.pdf

http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~shtetlmaster~POLESIE_f23~ZZ~MILES
~~~~~SE~~

From the Grodno archives, PURS is planning to obtain the Family List of Inhabitants of Bereza 1874 Page 36-270

The Bereza (Kartuz Bereza) and Antopol website maintained by the BARG (Bereza Area Research Group)
http://www.stevemorse.org/bereza-and-antopol/

Regional Special Interest Groups
Contact Stuart Liss  To join the Bereza Research Group, send a request to: listserv@lyris.jewish.gen.org  and in the body state: subscriber Bereza with your first and last name. http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/Belarus.html  

Yizkor Book
"Pinkas Pruzhany ve-ha-Seviva; edut ve-Ziharon le-Kehillot she-Hushmedu ba-Shoa" (Memorial Book of Pruzhany and its Vicinity) (Bereze, Malch, Pruzhany, Shershev, Seltz and Lineve)  

Chronicle of six communities that perished in the Holocaust 
"Kartuz-Berezah; Sefer Zikaron ve-edut le-Kehila she-Hushmedah Kartuz-Breze", (Our Town, Memorial Book) 
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

Bialystok

Archive Coordinators are Mark Halpern Willie46@aol.com  and Sonia Hoffman SoniaHoff1@aol.com  There is a massive amount of German Grodno Amtskommisar for Civil Administration records of the Bialystok Region that is being currently held in the USHMM (Holocaust Memorial Museum) but has not been released for research purposes at this time.  Most of these records are in German, some in Polish and some in Russian.
http://www.zchor.org/bialystok/bialystok.htm

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/BialyGen/BialCem
.htm

http://www.bialystokgymnasium.org/jewcity.htm

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId
=10005170

A Brief History of Bialystok  
http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/bialystok/bialystok
.html

Ghettos, All About them
http://www.agcholocaustlibrary.org/ghettos.html 

Jewish Cemetery in Bialystok (Videos)
http://tiny.cc/lremc

"The Jews of Bialystok During World War II and the Holocaust"  "This history of Jewish Bialystok during World War II provides an in-depth analysis of one of the largest Jewish communities to pass from Soviet to German occupation, and it enhances our understanding of the response of Polish Jewry to the Holocaust.
http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9781584657293

List of Names of 1200 Bialystok Children
Tilford Bartman  bartmant@earthlink.net  has created a web site that contains a list of names of children sent from the Bialystok Ghetto at it's final liquidation in August, 1943 to Theresienstadt, and then to Auschwitz in October, 1943.  All of the children, and their adult caretakers (including Otla David - sister of Franz Kafka), who accompanied them from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz were gassed and burned on Erev Yom Kippur, 1943.  
http://www.zchor.org/bialystok/hana.htm

The list has the name of the child, the date of birth, place of birth and parents names. At this site you can also find links to: Ronka Klibanski's article about the Bialystok children, 'Murder on Yom Kippur' 'Art as Evidence' also by Hanna Greenfield; 'The Bialystok Children' by Charlotte Opfermann; 'Testimony of Phinia Korovski'; 'Testimony of Tobiasz Cyrton' and 'Testimony of Hadassah Levkowitz'   
http://www.zabludow.com/Bialystokchildren1.html 

http://www.zabludow.com/greenfield.html

One of the principal Russian Polish Jewish centers (in Russian: Belostok), incorporated into Russia between 1807 and 1921 and administrated by the U.S.S.R. between 1939 and 1941, reverting to Poland in 1945.
bialystok.htm

Bialystoker Synagogue
http://www.bialystoker.org/bialystok.htm

Yizkor Book
http://www.slcl.org/branches/hq/sc/yiz-a-c.htm

Bielski Uyezd

Benjamin Eisenstein maintains a website for Drogichin http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/drogicin/drogicin
.html

Bildyugi

The Disna Uyezd Research Group
The translation of the 1850 Revision List for the benefit of DURG members.  Contact Batya Matzkin Olsen batya@netsynthesis.com for information.

Translations are now available for Bildyugi, Diszna, Glubokoye, Postavy, Plisa and Sharkovshina.  Bildyugi (Bilziugi) and Diszna are already in the ALD, Glebokie (Glubokoye) and Postavy will be added in the future.
http://www.partisans.org.il/Site/site.advsearch.en.aspx

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/vitebsk.htm

Bobruysk (Bobroisk, Bobrinsk, Bobransk, Bobrowisk, Bobrnisk,
                     Babrush, Babransh, Bolbrinsk, Mabrisk, Aurusk)

Bobruysk SIG
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/bobruisk/bobruisk
.html 

1816 Revision List - Jews from Bobruysk  
http://users.vnet.net/allbell/rechit.html 

1906 Bobruysk Uyezd Duma List
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/static_index.htm

History
http://romanuniverse.com/ronatuf/bobruisk1.html

Jewish Community of Bobruysk
President, Boris Gelfand,
31 Komsomolskaya St. Bobruysk 213826, Belarus
http://www.fjc.ru/communities/institution.asp?AID
=85397 

Bobruysk Chronicle and Bobruysk Yizkor Book, Historical Monograph
By Ye. Slutsky (original in Russian, but Google will translate it into English)
http://www.bobruisk.org/letopis.htm

Regional Special Interest Groups
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/Belarus.html  

http://shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Belarus.html

Research
People from Bobruysk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_from
_Babruysk

Yizkor Book
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef_Tunkel

http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/bobruisk/byb118.html

Borisov

Photo of Borisov Synagogue available from Boris Feldblyum's Collection at 
http://www.bfcollection.net/

History of Borisov   
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK-BZX5xoB0

http://annebobroffhajal.com/category/mysteries-of
-my-grandfather/the-world-of-jews-in-borisov/

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/
ejud_0002_0004_0_03344.html

http://www.jewish.by/legacy/borisov/

Birth, Death, Marriage, Divorce and Revision lists records are translated by the BelarusSIG 
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/detailed_inv_13_rolls
.htm   

http://shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Belarus.html 

Borisov Cemetery
http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/belarus/
barysaw.html

http://samgrubersjewishartmonuments.blogspot.com/
2009/06/belarus-jewish-cemetery-in-borisov.html

Regional Special Interest Groups  
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/Belarus.html  

Borisov Revision List
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/borisov_1874i.htm

Bragin Region Nazi Victims List

Available at the Belarus SIG site
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/

Braslav

Braslav is a small town in the Vitebsk district of north-eastern
Belarus, some 250 kilometers from Minsk, the capital of Belarus. 
Under Russian rule, up until World War I, Braslav had been part
of the Novo Aleksandrovsk (Zarasai) Uyezd (district) in the
Kovno Guberniya.

Later, under Polish rule, Braslav became the district capital within
in the Voivodeship (province) of Vilna some kilometers south-west
of Braslav. With all these border changes it will be of no surprise
to learn that the town received many names -  Braslav - in
Russian; Braslaw in Polish, Braslau - in Belarusian, Breslauja in
Lithuanian, Braslau in Latvian and Breslev in Yiddish.
http://www.seligman.org.il/braslav_history.html

http://www.seligman.org.il/slobodka_holocaust.html

http://shtetle.co.il/Shtetls/braslav/braslav_eng.html

http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/

Brest-Litovsk

Photo Courtesy of Brest On-Line

In Yiddish it was known as Brisk by the people from Brest- Brisker.  It is located in the lower southwestern Belarus border.  Brisk or Brest-Litovsk, Russia (now called Brest, Belarus) is located in the former Grodno Guberniya, directly on the border with Poland. It was part of Russia until 1921. Then it became part of Poland until the German invasion
in 1939.
http://www.brestonline.com/en/info/chemproj.html

http://www.jewishgen.org

This major city was formerly in the province of Lithuania, later Poland and now in Belarus. Bernard Rosinsky rosinskyb@usa.net  There is an on-line webzine (Brest On-Line) that I found interesting
http://www.brestonline.com/

Brest-Belarus Group
A world-wide group of researchers tracing our family roots from Jewish Brisk, now the city of Brest, Belarus, and the surrounding region.
http://www.brest-belarus.org/

Brest-Litovsk, from The Jewish Encyclopedia
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=
387&letter=K

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=
436&letter=E

http://www.geschichteinchronologie.ch/eu/BSSR/
EncJud_juden-in-Brest-Litowsk-ENGL.html

Brisker and Grodner Benevolent Society
1887, 1889 - Cleveland, Ohio available at the Belarus SIG site  
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/

http://www.archivegrid.org/web/jsp/lp.jsp?id=196

Census Records of 1897
These records can be found in fond 100, opis 1, delo 66
through 109 of the Grodno branch of the NHAB.  This inventory was done by Dimytri Panov and indicates the existence of the 1897 Russian census for portions of what was Grodno Guberniya in 1897
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/intro_1897_russian
_census.htm

http://www.flora-and-sam.com/finalversion/finished
version/pages/AncestralTowns.htm

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/
ejud_0002_0004_0_03518.html

City of Brest is on-line with much information
http://www.brestonline.com/

History of Brest, from Brest Online
 

http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/brestlitovsk.htm

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/78908/
treaties-of-Brest-Litovsk

History of Brest Region   
http://www.brestregion.com/history/h16.html

http://www.brestregion.com/history/index.html

http://belaruscity.net/english/brestskaya/

The Brest Ghetto Passport Archive
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Belarus/brest.htm

 
Photo of Mojsze Gersh Tokar from the Yad Vashem Photo Archive
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Belarus/brest.htm

http://sharon-genealogy.blogspot.com/2010/06/brest
-ghetto-passport-photos-in-yad.html

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1456

http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=
humbul10803

"Phoenix Project"
A searchable database, titled  and created by Professor John Garrard, Professor of Russian Literature at the University of Arizona
  
The first phase of this project is a list of more than 12,000 persons 14 years and older who were required by the Nazis to obtain photo identification cards in order to live in the Brest ghetto.  Dr. Garrard plans to recover Holocaust victims' names and as much information as possible about them and their families. 

The database includes direct hyperlinks to the original source documents as retrieved from the archives, which are stored in scanned image files.  The Brest passport photos are not digitized and are available at Yad Vashem and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. 
http://www.brestonline.com/

If you're ancestral search takes you to the City of Brest-Litovsk or Brisk, Russian Poland now Brest, Belarus, then you may be interested in knowing that there are many other Brest (Brisk) descendents who are doing the same thing. A recent search of the United States Ellis Island records found over 4,700 individuals who were listed as arriving at Ellis Island from Brest between the years of 1899-1924. There are probably thousands of other Briskers who arrived in other years, or arrived at different ports. Further there are many individuals who departed Brest and went to Israel, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Argentina, Brazil or other countries of the world.  Ninety (90) of us, all with family ties to the Brest Jewish Community have put together a very active discussion group. We would like to invite all of you, with similar City of Brest interests to participate. By joining with other Brest researchers, you may locate that long-lost family member, or
descendents of your grandparents or great-grandparents. You can join this Brest discussion group by clicking on the "Join This Group!" blue button at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/brest_belarus/

If you are an Existing Yahoo! Users just enter your Yahoo ID and password.  If you are NOT an-Existing Yahoo! Users just click on the blue link to the left where it says-Sign up now to enjoy Yahoo! Groups. Membership in the group is FREE, but registration is required if you want to post messages, or add pictures, articles, links, etc.  Contact Larry Schenker (JewishGen #82676) at: lpsca@earthlink.net  A  temporary website can be visited at:
http://brest.00go.com/index.html

http://www.jewishgen.org/ 

http://www.seelrc.org/webliography/belarusian.ptml

Brest-Litovsk shtetl
http://brestlitovsk.topcities.com/Home.html

http://www.brest-belarus.org/

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/shtetls/shtetl_detail
.php?filename=sbrestbg

home.html  

Towns included in the web site
include: Berezovka,  1.4 Miles NNE; Rechitsa - 2.1 Miles W: Trishin  2.1 Miles E: Volynka,  2.4 Miles E: Terespol, Poland  5.8 Miles WSW

The Brest Hero-Fortress - The Memorial Complex  
http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/1897/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_of_Brest_Fortress

http://eng.belarustourism.by/catalog/13_659.html

There is a Yizkor Book
www.zchor.org/yizkor/books.xls

http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Brest2/Brest2.html

Brona Gora

A forest between Brest and Minsk where some 50,000 Jews were shot by the Nazis in the fall of 1942. See above under Books, the book

Books
        
"Bashert: A Granddaughter Holocaust Quest"
Authored by Andrea Simon

Bryansk

http://tinyurl.com/3p6jfy

http://www.kommersant.com/p-38/r_381/Bryansk_
Region/

http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/Russia/
Bryanskaya_Oblast/Bryansk-643230/TravelGuide-
Bryansk.html

Bychov (Bichev, Bischov, Bichor)

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/info_mogilev_gub.htm

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/shtetls/shtetl_detail
.php?filename=sbykhovbm

Cemetery
http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org//belarus/
bychow.html

Synagogue
Interior of a destroyed synagogue in Bykhov, USSR.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/
synbelarus.html

Brysov

Visited in 1999 by J M Krain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_
Belarus

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/shtetls/shtetl_detail
.php?filename=sborisovbm

Byten (Butern)

Regional Special Interest Groups
Contact Hilda Dickoff Perlitsh,
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/Belarus.html  

http://www.belarusembassy.org/belarus/worldwarII/IB
__28-06__157.pdf

http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/belarus/
byten.html

Yizkor Book
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/byten/byt586.html

http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~
yizkor~lookup_pb~313

Chareja - (Chereya,Girija)

Located about 90 miles northwest of Minsk and is in the Minsk Guberniya

Chernavchich (Czernawczyce, Chernavchitsy)

Located about 10 km from Brest.  It had a Jewish presence.  See Volchin for further information.

http://andreasimon.net/bashert__a_granddaughter_s_
holocaust_quest_25392.htm

http://brest-belarus.org/br/Volchin/DB_report/nearby_
Motikala.i.html

Cherven (Igumen)

The town is located halfway between Tolochin and Minsk. Irving Berlin's (Beilin) had family here before emigrating to the US.
http://knickerbockervillage.blogspot.com/2007/12/whos
-almost-who-in-knickerbocker_17.html

Holocaust
http://www1.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/cherven/
cherven.html

Regional Special Interest Groups
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/Belarus.html  

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/shtetls/shtetl_detail
.php?filename=schervenim

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/igumen/igumen.htm

Ciesnowa (Chesnovaya)

Located about 37 miles west of Minsk
http://www.jewishfamilyhistory.org/Oshmiany%20District
_Powiat.htm

Copys'

Located in Goretskiy district.  Jimmy Levine, a Belarus SIG member, received a report in Russian from the national Historic Archives of Belarus (Minsk Branch) in 1998 which was translated into English.  This is what the report stated as translated:

"There are following documents related to genealogy of persons with the last name Lejtes who lived in town Copys' of Goretskiy district and town of Smol'yany of Orshunskiy district of Mogilev province and also others nearest settlements in archives Fonds 'Mogilev Government House'; 'Orshansy Municipal Board'; Jewish Societies of Mogilev Province;
Mogilev Province Office of Military Service'.  

Because of possibility transformation for the 1st name Lejtes the search was made on persons who had similar last names and in the settlements of Mogilev province which were located near the appointed in the request."  Jimmy also provided valuable family data that came from: census (revision Lists) from 1834, 1851, 1858; family lists (1874);
birth registration books (1893-1898); wedding registration books (1894-1917); and draft list (1914)

Dashkovka

Holocaust

http://www1.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/bibliography
.html

Records
Birth, Death, Marriage, Divorce and Revision lists records
translated by the BelarusSIG
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/detailed_inv_13_rolls
.htm   

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1476

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1525

David Gorodok (David Horodok)

The History of David-Horodok to WW I
http://davidhorodok.netfirms.com/yizkor/2a.html

Regional Special Interest Groups
Contact Moshe Shavit
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/Belarus.html  

Delyatichi  (Delatich)

Located in the Novogrudok Uyezd. It is near Lubtch.
http://groups.msn.com/germangenealogy/alsacelorraine
.msnw  

Yizkor Book
"Lubish ve-Delatitsch; Sefer Zikaron (Lubich and Delatich)"
In Memory of the Jewish Community  
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

Derechin  (Deretchin) (see Zelva)

Cemetery
http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/belarus/
derezhin.html

http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/deretchin/deretchin
.html

History

http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/s/syn-europe
-belarus.htm

Yizkor Book
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Derechin/Derechin.html

Disna (Dzisna)

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud
_0002_0005_0_05257.html

http://www.genealogylinks.net/country/jewish-genealogy
/europe/belarus.htm

http://www.jewishgen.org/BELARUS/shtetls/sdisna.htm

Cemetery
http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/belarus/disna
.html

Records
This web site  has indicated that there is a comprehensive list of archival holdings.  
http://www.belarusembassy.org/belarus/worldwarII/
IB__28-06__157.pdf

http://www.rtrfoundation.org/

http://shtetle.co.il/Shtetls/disna/shimukovich_eng.html

Revision List
Disna Uyezd Research Group
offers the translation of the 1850 Revision List for the town of Druya to DURG members.  Contact is Batya Matzkin Olsen batya@netsynthesis.com
There is a translation of the 1850 Revision List for the benefit of DURG members. 

Translations are now available for Bildyugi, Diszna, Glubokoye, Postavy, Plisa and Sharkovshina.  Bildyugi (Bilziugi) and Diszna are already in the ALD, Glebokie (Glubokoye) and Postavy will be added in the near future.

Divin

This shtetl was part of the Kobryn district of Grodno Guberniya from the time when the Great Principality of Lithuania annexed Russia and until the October Revolution of 1917.  In the Fonds of the Central State Historical Archives of the Republic of Byelorussia (Grodno branch) such as"

'Grodno Chamber of Controls', Cobrin Notary N. I. Falin', 'Office of Grodno Civil Governor', 'Grodno Chamber of Criminal and Civil Court', 'Cobrin District Police Administration', 'Grodno Administration of Town Affairs' have documents concerning the families of Garfinkel and Tannenbaum who were living in Divin (now part of Cobrin District, Brest province, Republic of Byelorussia), according to Sandra Garfinkel Shapiro in an email to David M. Fox - Belarus SIG.  

The lists found include 6 pages of detailed family data from list of deserters (1817); family lists (1854- 1899); legal cases (1855-1913); census lists (1885); list of candidates and election data for the Jewish community (1877-1888); list of private buildings with owners name, property address, kind of building, building material, roof material (1910); and register of fines for not reporting for army service (1911)

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud
_0002_0005_0_05266.html

History
http://www.jewishfamilyhistory.org/Brest%20District%
20of%20Brest%20Province.htm

Synagogue
http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/newsletter/Kobrin_
Synagogue.htm

Dokshitsy (Dokshitz)  (See also Parfianov)

Dokshitsy is located in Belarus, about 68 miles northeast of Minsk, the capital. Located 77 miles (120 km) north of Minsk.

Books  
           

"On Foreign Soil", an autobiography by author Falk Zolf, offers additional information including many deeply shocking accounts of the Holocaust including the story of the town of Dokshitsy at  
http://www.onforeignsoil.com/links.htm

Cemetery
Nearby villages with Jewish inhabitants included Voznvoshchina, Uskrom'ye,  Karolina and Krulevschizna. Parafianov.  They all used the Dokshitsy cemetery
http://www.agcholocaustlibrary.org/ghettos.html

From a story in the Friday, 15 February 2008 issue of Jewish Report Newspaper in South Africa "AARON GINSBURG, an American genealogist, says he was “dumbfounded” that the non-Jewish locals were initiating the restoration and “had to quickly overcome any preconceptions about their attitude to the town’s Jewish past”... Among those attending the rededication will be Capetonians Dinah and Joe Polliack, who traces his family’s presence in the village back 300 years. They first visited Dokshitsy, which is 109 km north of Minsk, three years ago."
http://www.sajewishreport.co.za/pdf/2008/feb/15-
February-2008.pdf

http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/belarus/
dokshitz.html

History

http://sites.google.com/site/friendsofjd/home/learn

http://www.tisharon.org/Remember/Communities/
Dokshitz.htm

Chapters 1 and 2 have newly translated material at http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/dokshitsy/Dokshitz
.html 

Friends of Jewish Dokshitsy
http://sites.google.com/site/friendsofjd/

http://jewishdokshitsy.blogspot.com/

Regional Special Interest Groups  
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/Belarus.html  

"Dokshitsy Yizkor Book"  
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html   

The Yizkor book includes information on Parafianov, which is located 6 miles (10 km) west of Dokshitsy (Dokshitz) on a rail line.
http://shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Belarus.html 

Dolginovo (Dolhinov)

Located in Vileyka Uyezd, Vilna Guberniya, it is a small town that passed from Poland to Russia in 1793; within Poland from 1921 to 1945 and now in Belarus. In 1847 the town had 1,194 Jewish inhabitants.  In 1897 it was 2,559.  In 1921, it had a Jewish population of 1,747 out of a total population of 2,671.  There were nearly 5,000 residents in 1941 and the Jewish residents were killed by the Nazis in September 1942.
http://shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Belarus.html

Holocaust
Photos, a map, a list of Holocaust victims, comments by natives, descendants and other, and links are some of the features that are on the Dolginovo site a
http://eilatgordinlevitan.com/dolhinov/dolhinov.html

Eilat Gordon, the webmaster of this site also has archives with many notes from natives and researchers
http://eilatgordinlevitan.com/dolhinov/d_pages/dol_gb
_archive.html 

http://eilatgordinlevitan.com/dolgb/dolgb.html  
 
http://eilatgordinlevitan.com/dolhinov/d_pages/d_
storiesmenu.html 

Regional Special Interest Groups  
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/Belarus.html  

Yizkor Book 
"Esh Tamid - Yizkor le-Dolhinow; Sefer Zikaron le-Kehillot Dolhinow ve-ha-Seviva"
(Eternal Flame; In Memory of Dolhinow)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

Drogichin (Drohichin, Drahicyn, Drogichin - Drohiczyn,
                      Drohiczyn, Drohitchin, Drohiczhn)

Located 69 Km West of Pinsk (located 61.7 miles east of Brest) had a prewar Jewish population of 1,521.  There is a Yizkor Book (the book, originally in Yiddish was about 500 pages and was basically prepared by Drogichiners in Chicago in the 50's)
http://shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Belarus.html

Regional Special Interest Groups  
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/Belarus.html 

Yizkor Book
http://cpedia.com/wiki?q=Pinsk&guess_ambig=8April+
John+Paul+II

"Drohiczyn: Finf Hundert yor Yiddish Lebn" (Drohiczhn; 500 Yeas of Jewish Life)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Drohichyn/dro175.html

Drohobycz Administrative District

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/drohobycz/
generalInfo/generalinfo_biblio.asp

Druskeniki

A web site is in development
http://grodno.digging4roots.com/links/index.html 

Cemetery
http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org//lithuania/
druskeninkai.html

Census
 http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/intro_1897_russian
_census.htm

Yizkor Book
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/kletsk/kle017.html

Druya

http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/

Dubrovno

Before WW II, Dubrovno was a typical Jewish shtetl with a set of traditions and a way of life.
http://shtetle.co.il/Shtetls/dubrovno/dubrovno_eng.html

http://shtetle.co.il/map_sait_eng.html 

http://shtetle.co.il/Shtetls/dubrovno/dreams_eng.html

People
http://shtetle.co.il/Shtetls/dubrovno/kozlova_eng.html

Dudin

A primarily Lubavitcher community. Elaine Bush Carleolady@aol.com is interested in this shtetl

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/shtetls/shtetl_detail.php?
filename=sdudinmm

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/mogilev.htm

http://genforum.genealogy.com/belarus/page7.html

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/colonies_of_ukraine/
allsettlements2.htm

Dunilovichi (Dunilovichi - Russian; Dunilowicze - Polish;
                         Dunilovitsch - Yiddish; Dunilavichi Belarus;
                        Dunilavicy; Danilevtich; Dunalovitch; Dunovitz;
                       Duniloviche, Danilevicai; Dunilovicy; Dunilaviciy)

Located in the NW corner of Belarus about 82 miles N of Minsk, 80 miles ENE of Vilnius, 18 miles WSW of Hlybokaye (Glebokie) and 16 miles ESE of Pastavy (Postawy). It was once part of the Vilna Guberniya of the Russian Empire. 
http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/dunilovichi/dunilovichi.html

Cemetery
There is a cemetery, but it is overgrown and stones are laying on the ground.
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Dunlovichi/

http://tracingthetribe.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/belarus-
dunilovichi-1834-census-cemetery/

Dvorets (Dvoretz)

Regional Special Interest Groups
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/Belarus.html  

http://shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Belarus.html 

http://www.genealogylinks.net/europe/belarus/index.html

Dyatlovo (Djetl, Zhetl) (LDRG)

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002
_0006_0_05507.html

Regional Special Interest Groups
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/Belarus.html  

http://shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Belarus.html

http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/hme-belarus.htm

Germanovichi

The Disna Uyezd Research Group
Has translated information for this Shtetlach.  Further information can be obtained from Batya Olsen
batya@netsynthesis.com

http://shtetle.co.il/Shtetls/prozoroki/prozoroki_eng.html

http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/druya/druya.html

Synagogues
http://www.jhrgbelarus.org/Heritage_Synagogues.php

Glubokoe (Glubokoye)

Inmates offered armed resistance in the ghetto before being murdered by the Nazis.

The Disna Uyezd Research Group
The translation of the 1850 Revision List is for the benefit of DURG members.  Contact Batya Matzkin Olsen batya@netsynthesis.com for information.

Translations are available for Bildyugi, Diszna, Glubokoye, Postavy, Plisa and Sharkovshina.  Bildyugi (Bilziugi) and Diszna are already in the ALD, Glebokie (Glubokoye) and Postavy are soon to be added.
http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/newsletter/Etkin%20for%
20website%202.html

http://glubokoe.vitebsk-region.gov.by/en/news/region?&page
=3

http://archives.gov.by/eng/index.php?id=720398

Golinka (Holinka)

Located near Beresin which is near Minsk
http://www.haruth.com/jw/JewBelarus.html

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukrchern/chernigov/
geography/townsG-K.htm

Golubicy

The Disna Uyezd Research Group
Has translated this Shtetlach information.  Further information can be obtained from Batya Olsen batya@netsynthesis.com
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/vitebsk.htm

http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/postavy/postavy.html

http://groups.google.com/group/soc.genealogy.jewish/
index/browse_frm/month/2002-02?_done=%2Fgroup%2
Fsoc.genealogy.jewish%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fmonth%2F2002
-02%3F&

Gomel  (Gonim, Klomel, Gouiel)

4,000 out of 40,000 Jews were murdered by the Nazis when they occupied the town on August 19, 1941.

Cemetery
Bones from an ancient Jewish cemetery were found in 2008 during the reconstruction of a stadium in Gomel which had been built on the site after WW II.

Gomel's History, from Gomel: Then & Now  

http://tracingthetribe.blogspot.com/2009/11/belarus-gomel
-site-now-live.html

Regional Special Interest Groups
Contact Sherman Titens
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/Belarus.html  

http://www.jhrgbelarus.org/AboutBelarus_articles.php

http://tracingthetribe.blogspot.com/2009/11/belarus-gomel
-site-now-live.html

http://www.jewishbelarus.org/

Synagogue

Goniadz

There was a Jewish presence here until WW II
http://ddickerson.igc.org/tykocin.html

http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/USA/AJHS/Cat
Landsmanshaft.htm

Yizkor Book
http://www.klezmershack.com/articles/winkler/yizkorlinks.
html

http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Drohichyn/dro117.html

Gorki

In the Mogilev Guberniya or oblast. Includes the nearby community of Gory.
http://www.belarus.by/en/belarus/territory/mogilev/gorki/

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/shtetls/shtetl_detail.php?
filename=sgorkygm

http://www.prozzone.com/phone/Belarus/Gorki.htm

http://archives.gov.by/eng/index.php?id=371337

Gorodets (Horodets)

"Gorodets, (Horodets): A Geshikhte Fun A Shtetl, 1142-1942"
(Horodec: History of a Town, 1142 - 1942) 
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

Cemetery
http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/belarus/antopol
.html

http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/erc-syn-manhattan
-les.htm

http://www1.tau.ac.il/humanities/ggcenter/images/
documents/LS/belarus%20holocaust%20toc%20%20eng.pdf

Gorodeya

Located southwest of Minsk.  On June 17, 1942, 1137 Jews were killed there in a single day.  A memorial containing one stone for each killed was unveiled in 2004.
http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~shtetm
~-1943284

http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/newsletter/EEurTrip.htm

http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t143326/

Gorodok (Grodek, Horodok, Kordock)

Located southeast of Minsk and southwest of Bobruisk.  There are two other towns called Horodok.  One is east of Bialystok and the other southeast of Lvov
http://tracingthetribe.blogspot.com/2009/07/belarus-trip-to
-gorodok.html

http://glazbede.com/visit123.htm

http://shtetle.co.il/Shtetls/gorodok/gorodok_eng.html

http://www.freewebs.com/belarussianjewsfamilytrees/census
.htm

Personal Visit to Gorodok July 2009
http://glazbede.com/visit123.htm

Yizkor Book
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/David-Gorodek/David-
Gorodek.html

Grodno

Grodno still is a beautiful European city with many of the old, classic buildings surviving the war.  There are two noble castles to visit and a beautiful theater along with an old town. 

Archives

Grodno Oblast Archive Records
On 7 reels of microfilm, containing 17 Funds (record groups). These pages can be copied at the USHMM archives for 10 cents per page.
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/info_grodno_oblast_
archive.htm

Grodno Regional Historical Archives
Director Ms. Karina Botrakova
http://archives.gov.by/eng/index.php?id=522287

Grodno Regional ZAGS Archives
Director is Ms. Irina Bolbat.  Records that purportedly available include Births, Deaths and in some cases, Marriages after 1900

Books  
            

"Grodno (Grodnenskaya) Guberniya and The Origin of
Grodnenskaya Guberniya"

"Grodno; Volume IX, Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora;
Memorial Book of Countries and Communities"  
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

Cemetery
Once had three Jewish cemeteries.   The main cemetery, nearest the city center, was destroyed in the early 1960s and replaced later by a sports complex.  A second cemetery was also destroyed during the Soviet regime.  The one Jewish cemetery used until 1970, is located across the Neman River in a forest on the opposite bank below the New Bridge (Nowy Most)
http://www.belarusembassy.org/humanitarian/cemetery_
grodno.htm

Civil Registries
From the Synagogue for the years 1850 -1924 and 1940 - 1944 have not survived according to a letter received by Robert Mandelbaum
rmandelbau@aol.com 

Ghetto
Much of the Grodno ghetto is either preserved, or being renovated, although the gate to the ghetto has been vandalized and only one candle on the large iron menorah remains.  A fund raising project has been initiated to translate the Yizkor Book for this shtetl
http://iearn.org/hgp/aeti/aeti-1997/grodno-ghetto.html

http://www.agcholocaustlibrary.org/ghettos.html

http://www.JewishGen.org/JewishGen-erosity/YizkorTrans.html

Grodno Business Listings in Vsia Rossia, 1903
Lists the Surname, Father's Name, First Name, Business Type, Address and number of workers
http://grodno.digging4roots.com/data/vsiarossia_1903/index
.html 

Grodno: Capital of Grodno Guberniya, Capital of Grodno District in the
Russian Empire
http://grodno.digging4roots.com/body.html   
  
http://grodno.digging4roots.com/links/index.html 

http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/grodno/grodno.html

Grodno Guberniya SIG
Among the many nice features of this particular SIG dealing with maps, research and Shtetl Study Groups, is the ease of working the site.  This group has been retrieving lists of men who did not show up for the 1880 to 1882 draft.
http://members.aol.com/jegrod/home.htm  

Grodno Jewish Community Center
Chesed Nacho Jewish Welfare/Community Center
Located at Bogdanovich St. #6. 
An English speaking Jew can be contacted through this center.  His name is Girsch Chasid.
http://www.chabad.org/centers/default_cdo/aid/249350/
jewish/Jewish-Community-of-Grodno.htm

Grodno Printing History  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrodna

Grodno SIG 
(aka Grodno Genealogy Group, Inc) 
http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/Grodno 

http://grodno.digging4roots.com/links/index.html   
which offers a great number of links and a map.

History
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/info_history_of_grodno.htm

Holocaust
http://tiny.cc/2p0n9

  Maps

Map  Grodno Guberniya
http://www.angelfire.com/or/yizkor/gubmaps.html

1890 Cyrillic language map of Grodno Guberniya
with a thick green line indicating the borders of the Guberniya
http://www.belarusguide.com/genealogy1/images/
gdlsth.jpg

http://mapsof.net/hrodna

Synagogues
Grodno's Main Synagogue

A very important building, that was built in the 16th century.  At one time, before WWII,  Grodno boasted nearly 45 synagogues. Grodno Synagogue dates from the 19th century and is now "Spartacus" Sports Hall
http://www.jewishgrodno.com/synagogue/

http://www.fjc.ru/news/newsArticle.asp?AID=223497

Yizkor Book
May be available from Robinson Books in Israel.
E-mail rob_book@netvision.net.il 

http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/grodno/grodno.html

http://www.angelfire.com/or/yizkor/index.html

There are Ten Grodno Uyezds

http://www.belarus.by/en/about-belarus/geography/grodno
-region
 
Bielski Uyezd.  
Benjamin Eisenstein maintains a website for Drogichin  http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/drogicin/drogicin.html   

Brest Uyezd.
Co-Coordinators Bernard & Phillip Rosinsky 
http://www.jewishgen.org 

Grodno Town & Uyezd
http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/grodno 

At one time, Grodno had three Jewish cemeteries.  The main cemetery was destroyed by the Soviets in the early 1960 and the second later, but the third one still remains and is located across the Neman River and located in a forest, below the New Bridge (Nowy Most). The Synagogue is in disrepair but attempts are being made to restore the building when and if funds can be raised.

More, excellent first person information, is obtainable by searching the archives of JewishGen Digest dated November 1, 1998, written by Eric Adler ea73@hotmail.comhttp://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/shtetls
/shtetl_detail.php?filename=sgrodnogg

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/shtetls/shtetl_detail.php?
filename=sinduragg

http://www.servinghistory.com/topics/Bialystok-Grodno_
District

Revision List
http://www.jewishgen.org/

Grodnow

Located in northeast Belarus, Grodnow had a population of over 100,000 of which 50% were Jews before WW II.  Twenty miles further was Skidel with a population of about 3,000.
http://olenberg.org/

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread508889/pg1

http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.magnet/1/mb.ashx

Canadian Newspaper article "Russia's Starving Jews
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d
=EP19030314.2.90

Holinka (Golinka)

Located near Beresin
http://tinyurl.com/2fkq8lx

http://www.henrysiwek.com/Eilender/Carl_014.htm

http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~shtetm
~-1943171

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/grodno/slonim.htm

Horkes

The Henach Horvitz family had a large farm in Horkes, a flour mill and a lust for company. Usually, one always stopped to exchange the news, have refreshments and very often spend the night.
http://www.ldorvdor.net/stories/The_Story_As_It_Is_Best_
Remembered.htm

Horodetz

Contact is Elise Friedman
http://shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Belarus.html 

http://www.slcl.org/branches/hq/sc/yiz-d-j.htm

http://www.therudnicks.com/budnitz.html

http://www.loc.gov/rr/amed/guide/hs-foreword.html

Ilya

Lisa Kudrow, the actress, traces her family to this shtetl.  Watch the story unfold on NBC TV
http://www.nbc.com/who-do-you-think-you-are/video/
lisa-kudrow/1210633/

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud
_0002_0009_0_
09502.html

Yizkor Book
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ilya/ily009.html

http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ilya/ily069.html

Indura (Amdur)

Cemetery
http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/belarus/indura.
html

Regional Special Interest Groups
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/Belarus.html

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~projpreservation/trip2reflections
.htm

http://shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Belarus.html 

Ivaniki

Located 7 kilometers north of Pinsk.  Chaim Weidman emigrated from this shtetl
http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/pinsk/pinsk_pages/pinsk_
stories_legend.html

http://www.ejewish.info/resources/resourceSearchResults.
aspx?sText=Ghettos%20(Holocaust)&keywordid=78&rsid=0

http://www.pinskjews.org.il/eng/history01.asp

Ivenets

http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/ivenetz/ivenetz.html

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BELARUS/
2005-12/1134245450

Cemetery
http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/belarus/ivenets
.html

Yizkor Book
"Sefer Iwieniec; Kamien ve-ha-Seviva; Sefer Zikaron"
(The Memorial Book of Iwieniec; Kamien and the Surrounding Region)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ivenets/ivenets.html

Ivye - (Iwje, Ivie) (LDRG)

http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/

http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/ivie/ivie.html

http://shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Belarus.html

Regional Special Interest Groups  
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/Belarus.html
  
Yizkor Book
"From Sefer Zikaron le-Kehillot Iwie"
(In Memory of the Jewish Community of Iwie)  
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ivye/ivy525.html

Jatowka

Located in the Grodno Guberniya, Volkovysk District, Bialystok Region formerly in Poland and now in Belarus.
http://www.avotaynu.com/jalowka/Jalowka.html

Jonava (Ivanovo, Yanovo)

Located in the Kovno Uyezd in southwestern Belarus. It is in an area that was Polish speaking and is west of Pinsk and east of Brest (on the current Polish border).
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Ivanovo/Ivanovo.html

In ShtetlSeeker, there are Yanovo's/Janowa's in Belarus, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania and Russia.  There are also many towns named Janow in Poland, including a Janow Podlaski and a Janow Lubelskie.  There is even another Yonavo in Lithuania other than the one in Kovno Uyezd - today it is called Jokavai.
http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/tomek/jonava-01.htm

Cemetery
Ada Green offered a listing of Jonava Societies and Associations  associated with the JGSNY Cemetery Project in a message to the JewishGen Digest group
http://gutstein.net/jonava/jonava-home.htm

http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/lithuania/
jonava.html

http://www.geschichteinchronologie.ch/eu/Litauen/EncJud
_juden-in-Litauen02-wk1-bis-1939-ENGL.html

Kamen

Holocaust
http://www1.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/kamen/kamen.html

Birth, Death, Marriage, Divorce and Revision lists records
are currently being translated by the BelarusSIG 
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/detailed_inv_13_rolls.htm 

"List of Kamen Holocaust Victims"   
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

Kamenets (Kamenetz Litovsk)

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_
0011_0_10663.html

http://www.flora-and-sam.com/finalversion/finishedversion/
pages/KamenetsLitovsk.htm   

In the ghetto an uprising occurred prior to the mass execution of Jews on September 9, 1942.

Holocaust
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=
10005442

Regional Special Interest Groups - Contact Miguel Kaplansky  http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/Belarus.html  

Synagogue
The Kamenetz - Brest Region, Synagogue and the Yeshiva operating in the 19th and 20th centuries, is now an administrative building.

Kamenka

"Kamenka (pronounced by the local people as KamenkE) lies near the road between Grodno and Shchuchin, about 40 km. from Grodno, the road is wide and it takes 35 minutes to get there."
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Kamenka/Summery%
20of%20a%20trip%20to%20Belarus%20ver01.htm

Kapyl (Kopyl, Kopyl, Kapolia, Kapoli, Kapulia, Kopil, Kopyly)

Before WWI, it was in the Slutsk District, Minsk Province; Between the wars (c 1930) it was in the Minsk District in Belarus SSR.
http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~
community~-1944511

   Map
http://www.bing.com/maps/?lvl=10&cp=53.0739~26.8372&
FORM=MMREDR

Kartuz Bereza (Bereza Kartuska)

Located about 90 miles south of Skidel and was a market town in the Pruzhany District, Grodno Guberniya before its destruction in 1942 and was also on the main road from Warsaw to Minsk to Moscow.  The railroad also stopped there.
http://www.beljews.info/Bereza-Kartuz.htm

See also PURS (Pruzhany Uyezd Research Society) under Pruzhany below

Contact for the Jewish Landmanschaften from Poland in Israel is Chaim Ben-Israel  

Research
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cpsa/
pinkas1958/pp_table_con.htm

http://www.zchor.org/hitachdut.htm

Yizkor Book
http://isurvived.org/2Postings/bookOnline_Kartuz-Bereza.html

Kaziany

http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/ 

Kelisy  

Located 29 miles SSW of Vitebsk.  This town was part of the Mogilev Guberniya, Syenno (Senno) Uyezd (6.6 miles E of Syenno)

   Maps

http://www.igooglemaps.com/europe/belarus/vitsebsk-
province/kelisy/

http://www.maplandia.com/belarus/vitsyebsk/kelisy/

Kholmich

http://shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Belarus.html 

Holocaust
http://schechsplace.tripod.com/content/HISTORY/FAMILY
HISTORYINTROS/Family_Holocaust.html

Regional Special Interest Groups
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/Belarus.html

Kletsk (Kleck, Klyetsk)

"Kletsk was part of a virtually endless network of towns stretching across the region linked by heavily-traveled roads. It was expected that travelers would generally stay in their general area for fear of traversing unfamiliar roads in areas strange to them. Historically, Kletsk is referenced as having several "dependent" villages, typically with populations of 500 or under: Kajszyce, Laukwcem, Micklewicze Wielkie, Polonkowicze, Zubki."
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Kletsk/

Cemetery
http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/belarus/kletsk
.html

Community
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_
0002_0012_0_11286.html

http://www.kletsk.org/recreating/recreating_e.i.html

http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~
community~-1944253

Holocaust
In the ghetto an uprising occurred prior to the mass execution of Jews on July 21, 1943.  There is an Association of individuals from Kletsk and it was not limited to woodsmen (perhaps carpenters).  Approximately a third of the Jewish craftsmen in Kletsk were tailors, and the town had a reputation for fine quality men's wear.

Research
There is a building that used to be owned by the Kletskers at the corner of Canal Street and East Broadway in New York that still bears the name of the Kletzker Brotherly Aid Association.  Bob Weiss RWeissJGS@aol.com stated in a posting of 12-7-02 that he believes the building is now an Asian mortuary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kletsk

Knyazhitsy

http://belaruscity.net/english/verhnedvinsk/

Cemetery
http://www.jhrgbelarus.org/Heritage_Cemeteries.php

Records
Birth, Death, Marriage, Divorce and Revision lists records
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/detailed_inv_13_rolls.htm

http://www.jewishbelarus.org/index.php?pid=52&lang=en

Kobryn

Kobryn (Kobrin) Uyezd
Co-Coordinators Gene Succor & David Subtask who can be contacted at  
http://www.jewishgen.org/grodno/

Cemetery
International Jewish Cemetery Project: Kobrin: Grodno
http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/belarus/kobrin.
html

History of - Kobryn
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=301&
letter=K

Holocaust
Inmates offered armed resistance in the ghetto before being murdered by the Nazis.  
http://shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Belarus.html 

   Maps

Map of Kobryn at  
http://home.sprynet.com/~bernie06//famtree/fam-main.html

http://stevemorse.org/bereza-and-antopol/kob-hist0.htm

http://brest-belarus.org/br/Kobryn/Kobryn.i.html

Synagogue
http://www.jhrgbelarus.org/Heritage_Holocaust.php

Synagogue -Brest Region
Built in the mid XIX century and is now a beverage shop

Yizkor Book
"Kobryn; Zamlbukh (An Interblik Ibern Yidishn Kobryn)" - (Kobryn; An Overview of Jewish Kobryn) 
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

Kobylnik

http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/hme-belarus.htm

Cemetery
http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/belarus/narach
.html

Holocaust
http://resources.ushmm.org/Holocaust-Names/List-Catalog/
display/details.php?type=nlcat&id=128998&ord=21

Yizkor Book
"Sefer Kobylnik" (Memorial Book of Kobylnik)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

Koidavov  (Dzerzhinsk)

http://distantcousin.com/SurnameResources/Surname.asp?
Surname=KOIDANOV