Other Names

• Lyda

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Maps

• See Lida Area Page
• Leon Lauresh has a set of maps of Lida through the ages. The one from 1939 is very similar to the one in Sepher Lida,  but in Polish, so it's easier to read the street names.  The rectangle near the river about 1/4 of the way down on the right, "israelicki cmentarz" is the Jewish cemetery.  Further down, also on the right, marked "Dzielnica Zydowska" (Jewish District) is where Jews were centered.

Pictures

• Lida's Market Square with Synagogue
• A mock wedding held in Lida in 1905. Contributed by Fred Cutter
• Drawing of Lida Synagogue from a 1917 book on Lida.  Contributed by Leon Lauresh
• Postcards of Lida
• A postcard collection
  
• Photo of the Jewish Cemetery in Lida, 1916.  Donated by Marv Brooks
  
• Leon Lauresh has an amazing postcard collection on his site. If you like, you can skip to the page illustrating the Jewish section of Lida.
• S. Kalmanowitz fought the Germans in WWII.
• Two Pupko family photos
• We're working on scanning all the illustrations in Sepher Lida for the Yizkor site.  This is a major project, and will take some time to complete.
• Lida section of the 1934 Nowogrodek county telephone book.
• A letter of recommendation written by Rabbi Jacob Reines.
  

Background Information

• Brief History of Lida
• Another Brief History of Lida
• Virtual Guide to Belarus
• There are still active Landsmanshaftn in the US and Israel. Contact is by regular mail. Please contact Irene Newhouse or Ellen Sadove Renck for the addresses.
• Translations from Sepher Lida temporary site until they're on Yizkor site
• Information on the Pupko Brewery in Lida
• Ellen Vine Jakobson's trip to Lida, June 2002
• Naples Florida Daily News reporter Alan Scher Zagier visited Belarus and Lida in late 2002.
  

Holocaust

• The Holocaust links page
• We are proud to be able to present the autobiography of Dr. Frances Dworecki
• The Holocaust monument in Lida was vandalized in August 2002. The story in the FSU Monitor for 21 Aug 2002 has gone offline as of late 2006.
  

Documents

Former Lida residents and their descendants abroad

• There is a Beth Lida Synagogue in Toronto. [Search for Lida on the site's search page] Cemetery records for the Beth Lida cemeteries are in the Toronto Jewish Genealogical Society Collection at the North York Library. Thanks to Elaine Rosenbloom, we have a copy.  Rhonda B. Cohen has updated the cemetery records by transcribing the tombstones in the Beth Lida section of Roselawn Cemetery in March 2005.
• Aber Asner (not the actor) (1916-) was born in the Lida area, and became a partisan, along with his brothers. He met his wife among the partisans. After the war, they emigrated to Canada. 

• Josef Garbaty left Lida, eventually settling in Berlin. He pioneered employee perks like employee libraries, and even unemployment insurance.  In 1929 he retired & his two sons took over a firm employing 2000.  This information is from an article by Michael Skakun in Aufbau, issue 2, 2003.   These links have gone off line as of 2005.  There's a link in German, associated with the renaming of a train station in the Berlin suburb Pankow after Garbaty. This, too, may be temporary. 
  

• Karen Alkalay-Gut is in the English department at Tel Aviv university.  Some of her poems are about her family's Lida heritage A Lithuanian Legacy

• Postcard from Isaac and Maria Pupko, who perished in the Warsaw Ghetto

• Marv Brooks' mother and her parents emigrated from Lida in 1917.  She kept some bills from the trip.
• Ticket for a Lieder Brueder Unterstitzungs Verein drawing. Donated by Howard Zakai
• Lieder Brueder Unterstitzungs Verein Golden Jubilee (1941)
• A kiddush cup presented as a dancing prize by the Lida Relief Society won by Bernard Kouchel's father. Picture donated by Bernard Kouchel
• Lieder Brothers' Section in Beth Moses Cemetery Photographs donated by Roslyn Sherman Greenberg
  
  

• Family history page of Dr. Ernesto Mordecki Pupko, a mathematics professor whose family is from Lida

Emigration

• Lida Residents who entered the US via St. Albans, VT, compiled from an LDS film by Janet Lavine for the Soundex code L-150 only.
• Lida Residents who emigrated via Hamburg, compiled from LDS films by Janet Lavine. You can view this list alphabetically or chronologically
• Lida Residents for whom tickets were purchased through HIAS, on the Rosenbaum Steamship line, compiled from LDS films by Janet Lavine.
• Lida Residents for whom tickets were purchased through HIAS, on the Blitzstein Steamship line, compiled from LDS films by Janet Lavine.
• Lida Passengers found on National Archives microfilmed ships' manifests, compiled by Janet Lavine.
• Former Lida Residents aided by HIAS in the US, compiled from LDS films by Janet Lavine.

 

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