and other people with ties to Lida who've shown up on the internet or elsewhere

• David Blaustein (1866 - 1912), New York Board of Education official, emigrated from Lida in 1886.  See the Jewish Encyclopedia online
• Paul Brem heroically saved his pregnant wife from the "line of death" in Lida. After many tribulations in the forest, during which his wife was killed, he and their daughter and his second wife came to the US.
• Miriam Brysk nee Miasnik was from Warsaw, but her family escaped to Lida when the Nazis took Poland in 1939. Saved from the 1942 mass murders at the last minute because her father was a surgeon, the family was taken by partisans later - for the same reason. She's now an artist.
• Rabbi David ben Aryeh Loeb of Lida was a Rabbi of the late 17th century, serving in Mainz, Amsterdam & L'viv.  He may have died in 1698.  See the Jewish Encyclopedia online
  
• Helen Degen Cohen (Halina Degenfisz), poet and novelist. Autobiographical "The Edge of the Field" won a prize. Some of her poetry is on the web.  Her story of returning to see the woman who hid her as a child is online.
• Rabbi Isaac Moses Darshan [Darszon], also known as the Kelmer Maggid (1828-1899), from Lida, was a main preacher of the Musar movement.  See the Jewish Encyclopedia online; look for Moses Isaac of Kelmy
• Rabbi Aryeh Loeb Deiches was an early Rabbi in Lida; See the Jewish Encyclopedia online under Deiches, scroll down to his son Samuel.
• Ella Garber MD, (-2005) gynecologist and obstetrician, graduate of Jagiellonian University, Krakow was born in Lida. She was on the faculty of Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She was the sister of Frances Dworecki, who donated her autobiography to this site.
• Bernard Gorin, journalist (1868-) See the Jewish Encyclopedia online
  
• Rabbi Elijah Akiva Kamenetsky (1798-1875) was A. B. D. Lida & subsequently St. Petersberg.  See Rosenstein, Neil, The Unbroken Chain  NY,  London, Jerusalem: CIS Publishers, 1990 page 409 for his ancestry & descendants.
• Tamara Katz nee Kaplinski (1914-2004) was born in Lida. Her parents and husband, Abraham Dworzinski, were shot in a mass murder in
  Lida in 1941, leaving her with her 3-year-old son Nathan.  She evaded the May 19, 1942 mass murder by hiding in an outhouse with Nathan.  Peasants who had worked with her father hid her for a few nights; she moved among families who'd known her father until a cousin heard she was alive, and sent someone to take her to the Bielski brothers.  She stayed there until  she got false papers, and spent the rest of the war on the run.  She married another partisan, Abraham Katz, in 1944.  On being widowed in 1957, she got a job as bookkeeper in an antiques store [she'd been trained in bookkeeping in Lida], eventually learning the business and running her own store. She was active in Hadassah and a charter member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.  Another obituary.
• Artist Alex Katz's father was from Lida [offline as of 12/2003; http://www.alexkatz.com]
• Rabbi Mordechai ben Asher Klatzko (1797-1883) .  Rabbi in Lida from 1864 until his death.  See the Jewish Encyclopedia online
  
• Rabbi Phillip Lazowski, born in Belitsa, Holocaust survivor, author of Faith and Destiny, 1975.  He returned to Belitsa in 1999 to lead services for the reburial of 36 Holocaust victims whose remains were discovered during a construction project.  A story ran in the Hartford Courant 19 and 20 Sept. 1999.
• Aaron Leibowitz  born in Lida, emigrated to the US in the 1930s.  He served in World War II in the US army, and was awarded a Purple Heart
  for wounding on Omaha Beach during the D-Day invastion.  His mother and nine siblings were murdered in the Holocaust.  He worked in a kosher butcher shop.
• Arkadii Beinusovich Migdal (1911 - 1988), member of the USSR Academy of Sciences from 1966,  Professor at the Institute of Physical Engineering in Moscow from 1944.  Coauthor of a book on quantum mechanics.  [Soviet Encyclopedia].
• Rabbi Lev Ovchinski graduate of Lida Yeshiva, murdered in Holocaust
• Dr.  Harry Polachek  (1913-2002) was born in Lida and emigrated in the 1920s.  He had a doctorate in mathematics from Columbia U and was ordained Rabbi from  the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. During World War II, he was a mathematician at Aberdeen Proving Ground.  He remained with the Navy labs, becoming Director of the Applied Mathematics Lab. He received the Navy Distinguished  Civilian Service Award for his pioneering work in computer applications. (The more informative link above doesn't mention Lida.  That datum is in a much briefer death notice).
• Yakov Popko (Pupko) (1922-)(scroll down to the bottom) was a Zionist in Lida, and imprisoned by the Soviets because of it. He finally managed to emigrate in 1958.
• Rabbi Isaac Jacob Reines (1839 - 1915), founder of the Lida Yeshiva, and the Zionist Mizrachi movement. His entry from The Jewish Encyclopedia, and that of his son Moses.
• Ralph Rose -  http://www.clarku.edu/departments/jewishstudies/rosefolder/rosepage.html -This page, which has been taken down, had a photograph and short biography of Ralph Rose, a businessman & philanthropist whose family was from Lida & who endowed a chair at Clark University in Massachusetts.  Similar details of his life can be found in a press release from 1996 archived on Shamash. Since this is an archive of the entire day's postings, use your browser's search feature to find the reference to Rose.  As of 5/2005, listserve archive searching on Shamash has been disabled , along with which this page is no longer up.
• Rabbi Elijah ben Benjamin Schick, (1809- 1876), Rabbi in Lida for a time; born in Vasilishki. See the Jewish Encyclopedia online 
• Dr. Stefan E. Warschawski  (1904-1989) was born in Lida. His family moved to Koenigsberg during World War I, where he graduated Gymnasium and entered University there to study mathematics, moving to Goettingen after 2 years.  When his advisor moved to Basel, Warschawski did, too.  On graduation, he was offered a position at  Goettingen, which he occupied from 1930 until Hitler came to power. He was able to come to the US and obtain a position at Washington University in St. Louis. After several moves, he settled at the University of  Minnesota, where he built up the Mathematics Department. In 1963 he moved to UC San Diego's La Jolla campus as department chair.