Voronovo

1993 population: 6,800 people. A village, 123 kilometers s from Grodno, one kilometers from the railways station on the railway line: Lida-Vilnius, on the road: Lida - Vilnius.

First found in the Chronicles of the sixteenth century as a part of Great Lithuanian Principality, Voronovo s ancient name was Bolotna (Blotna), deriving from its location on the river Balatnyanka, now a small stream. Polish sources call it Werono. Russian sources call it Voronov. On the map of T. Makovski (1613), Voronovo is mestechko (small town) belonging to Gashtold.

In 1690, Voronovo had sixty-one houses, a Catholic Church, and a tavern. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, A. Masevich owned Voronovo. In 1705, he started building the Catholic Church of St. Tadeush. Later, the town belonged to Stipion and then to Zaretski. In 1735, Yakov Stipion opened a secondary school. At this time, it was the center of starostat (district.) In 1795, Voronovo belongs to the Russian Empire as a mestechko of Lida powet (district). In 1865, the population was 468 people (eighteen Orthodox, 117 Catholics, and 333 Jews.) Voronovo had forty-two houses, a Catholic church, a synagogue, a prayer house, a water mill, twelve shops, a post office, a post station, weekly fairs, and two leather factories completed the town. Close to Voronov was an estate (or a colony) with one hundred Catholics, eighteen Orthodox and eight Jews. In this colony was a wine factory, the wooden church of St. Zbivatselya. This colony was the center of local community of Rudan Dekanat. The 1897 population was 1574 people: 1,432 of them Jews.

In 1921, Voronov belonged to Poland as the center of gmina of Lida povet, Novogrudok voevodstvo. In 1928, Voronovo was designated as a miasteczko (small town) (?in the gmina of Bieniakonie?), in the First Uchastok of Lida powiat, Nowogrodskie voevodstvo of Poland. The Justice of the Peace was in Eisiskes and the Justice Court in Wilno. The 1928 miasteczko population was 1,232. The railway station was a train stop for limited transports in Woronow II on the Lida-Wilno line. The post office and telephone were in Woronow and telegraph in Lida. Voronovo had one Catholic church, one synagogue, mills, and a Merchants Association. Markets were on Tuesdays.

In 1939, Voronovo belonged to Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. On January 15, 1940, Voronovo became the regional center. On June 23,1941, the occupying Germans killed more than 2600 people from Voronov and those who had been brought to Voronov from Vilna. Liberation from the Germans by the Red Army was July 11, 1944.

The 1970 population was 3,600 people. 1992: milk factory, bakery, and wine factory. Civic facilities: professional training school, secondary school, musical school, sports school, two kindergartens, school student center, House of Culture, two libraries, hospital, cinema, Monument to the Victims of Fascism (Nazis).

Eliach, There Once was a World, (Little Brown, 1998) has a picture of cows coming home to the village of Warinova on page 267. She also says there was a town soccer team called Vulcan that some of the better Eisiskes players joined, and on page 530 there's a photo taken May 26, 1924, dedicated to the Eisiskes player Velvke Saltz.

Do you need to convert old Russian units?

Sources:
Ksiega Adresowa Handlowa, Warszawa Bydgoszcz 1929
Sachenka B. I [editor], Encyclopedia of the History of Belarus. Volume 2, Minsk: 1994, p. 358.

Grodno Archives:
Fond 288 Voronovo, Lida yezd, Vilna, gub. 12 chronicles, 1897-1900 Inventory 1 2 items
153: Voronovskaja synagogue in Lidski yezd., #286, 12 chronicles, 1897-1900
286 Fond 12 chronicles 1897-1900 Vilna Guberniya
Inv#1-2 Metrical Book-marriage-Voronovo Synagogue 1898
6 Voronovo Lida yezd, Vilna Gub
286 Fond 12 chronicles 1897-1900 Vilna Guberniya
Inventory 1 Voronovo Synagogue, Voronovo, Lida yezd, Vilna g.
1897-1900 12 Voronovo Lida yezd, Vilna Gub
286 Fond 12 chronicles 1897-1900 Vilna Guberniya
Inv#1-9 Metrical Book-divorce-Voronovo Synagogue 1897
20 Voronovo Lida yezd, Vilna Gub
286 Fond 12 chronicles 1897-1900 Vilna Guberniya
Inv#1-1 Metrical Book-marriage-Voronovo Synagogue 1897
30 Voronovo Lida yezd, Vilna Gub
286 Fond 12 chronicles 1897-1900 Vilna Guberniya
Inv#1-4 Metrical Book-marriage-Voronovo Synagogue 1900
30 Voronovo Lida yezd, Vilna Gub
286 Fond 12 chronicles 1897-1900 Vilna Guberniya
Inv#1-10 Metrical Book-divorce-Voronovo Synagogue 1898
30 Voronovo Lida yezd, Vilna Gub
286 Fond 12 chronicles 1897-1900 Vilna Guberniya
Inv#1-11 Metrical Book-divorce-Voronovo Synagogue 1899
30 Voronovo Lida yezd, Vilna Gub
286 Fond 12 chronicles 1897-1900 Vilna Guberniya
Inv#1-12 Metrical Book-divorce-Voronovo Synagogue 1900
30 Voronovo Lida yezd, Vilna Gub
286 Fond 12 chronicles 1897-1900 Vilna Guberniya
Inv#1-3 Metrical Book-marriage-Voronovo Synagogue 1899
40 Voronovo Lida yezd, Vilna Gub
286 Fond 12 chronicles 1897-1900 Vilna Guberniya
Inv#1-5 Metrical Book-deaths-Voronovo Synagogue 1897
70 Voronovo Lida yezd, Vilna Gub
286 Fond 12 chronicles 1897-1900 Vilna Guberniya
Inv#1-6 Metrical Book-deaths-Voronovo Synagogue 1897
70 Voronovo Lida yezd, Vilna Gub
286 Fond 12 chronicles 1897-1900 Vilna Guberniya
Inv#1-7 Metrical Book-deaths-Voronovo Synagogue 1899
70 Voronovo Lida yezd, Vilna Gub
286 Fond 12 chronicles 1897-1900 Vilna Guberniya
Inv#1-8 Metrical Book-deaths-Voronovo Synagogue 1900
70 Voronovo Lida yezd, Vilna Gub

Address: Grodno Region Department, Director: Miss Karina Botrakova, National Belorussian Historical Archives of Grodno
and
National Belorussian Historical Archives, Grodno Region Department,
Director: Miss Karina Brotrakova
Teizengauz Ploschad 2, Grodno 230001 Belarus

Other possible research sources:

• Kagan Haprenumerantn 2649; 1885:
• Hamelitz lists donors to aid fire victims in Grodno: Yomtov Divanitzki Lillel Peisachov Michal Zilberman and Chanokh Zilberman;
• EVREISKAYA ENCY.: V: 789 [4 lines].
• Woronow, Voronova, by Moshe Berkowitz beginning 1943. Translated from Yiddish by Adah Fogel. [submitted to Yizkor Project, but not up as of 3/27/99].
• Documentary Sources on Jewish History in the Archives of the CIS and the Baltic States: Preliminary List of collections, Compiled by Dmitri A. Elyashevich, Acropolis, St. Petersburg: 1994, St. Peterburg Jewish University, Diaspora Research Institute, Russian State University for the Humanities, Historical Archival Institute, Center for Archival research. Grodno (Belarus), Belorussian Historical Archive in Grodno:
• Opus #286, 12 chronicles, 1897-1900 in Fond # 153 Voronovskaja synagogue in Lidski yezd
• Yad Vashem: TR.10-646 68650, German, 15 Dec 1966, written accusation against Leopold Windich and Rudof Werner in the synagogue in Mainz; description of pursuit of Jews in the LIDA area; establishment of ghettos in the cities and expulsion of the Jews from the towns into the ghettos; description of 3 ghettos in LIDA city and the projects in them in which Jews worked; review of the Judenrat; forced labor; description of "Actions" in SZCZUCZN, ZOLUDEK, WASILISHKI at beginning of 1942; murder of 300 Jews in VORONOVO in Nov 1941; description of murder of Jews in the LIDA area in the fall of 1941 and winter of 1941-42; murder of 86 prisoners in LIDA city in the winter of 1942; "actions" in 1942 in the LIDA region; in LIDA city August 1942; in ZALOUDEK 5 Jan 1942; in WASILISZKI 10 May 1942; in WORONOW 19 May 1942; in IWJE 12 May 1942; notes on the number of Jews that were murdered by him. The files also accuses the occupied governments of LIDA city and their leaders Dienst, Stellen of Himmler in the occupied eastern territories.
• Yad Vashem: 7310, Hebrew, 1 Mar 1973, KAPLAN, Yosef: Jews of Lida under Soviet rule; members of the Judenrat (with names); German workers Werner, Windisch an Hannweg; residents of the neighborhood, WASILISKI, IWJE, WORONOW in the Lida ghetto; failed escapes; escape of the couple Kaplan and their joining the Soviet partisan group Iskra; sabotage and battles
• Yad Vashem: 0.3-4010 12562, Russian, 30 Oct 1978, SINALEVITZ, Felix: Transfer of WERENOW Jews to WASILISZKI; their stay in the ghetto; description of the murder of Jews in the cemetery and their escape from that place of murder, their conditions in the cities around Grodno and Bialystok; their joining the partisans with the name NEVSKIJ and their joining the partisans of the Red Army