Note: Zhetl/Dyatlavo/Zdiezeciol was in Slonim Uezd in 1887

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Other Names

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Maps

Pictures

• Two postcards of Dyatlavo (Zhetl, Zdiecol)
• Another postcard of Dyatlavo
  
• There are pictures of Dyatlavo at the bottom of the Dyatlavo frame in Shtetls of Belarus
• Panorama of Zaludok by H. Collier, donated by Robert Craig.
• YIVO's marvelous on-line photgraph collection has 13 pictures of Zheludok.  You'll have to register to use the site - it's free.  Enter the town name as I've spelled it here.
  
• Many pictures from the Yizkor Book for Zaludok and Orlova have been scanned & are on-line. Scroll down rapidly to the bottom of the page to find the thumbnails, or search for "Photo" with your browser's "Find in page" function.
• Photographs of mystery relatives from Zaludok, donated by Jean Perkin.  Has anyone inherited copies of these photos rom their ancestors?

Background Information

• Read about a family from Orlowa (Alova)
• Life in late 19th. century Zaludok from the autobiography of the son of a former resident. Donated by Bill Yotive.
• Postcards, 1890, from Zaludok, donated by Robert Craig.
• A family story, donated by Jean Perkin.
• An extract from Leah the Fish-Seller, by Ben Avigdor.  Donated by Robert Craig.
• Obituary of Ben Avigdor, from The Jewish Chronicle, London.  Donated by Robert Craig
• Portions of the Yizkor Book are now on-line at the Yizkor Project
• Family history page for the HaLevi Epstein family from Dyatlavo
  

Web Pages for individual localities

• Dzyatlava by Dzimtry Krasiuk
• Orliany, under construction, contact Susan Stone
• Zaludok, under construction, contact Susan Stone

Landsmanshaft

• The Independent Orler Benevolent Society, Inc.
• There is still an active Zhetl Landsmanshaft in Israel.  Contact Irene Newhouse for the address.

Yizkor Book

• Zaludok and Orlowa
• Zhetl - the first entry is for a town in Ukraine with the same D-M Soundex code as "Dyatlavo".  Ignore it & scroll down the screen for the real Zhetl entry.

Holocaust

• Outline of the course of the 1942 mass executions in Zaludok, from records at the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archive
  

Yizkor Book Translations

• Orlowa
• Zaludok

Information on individual localities

• Dyatlovo
• The Jewish Records Indexing Project has discovered a list of deaths in Dzyatlava [note their spelling] for 1846 in the Bialystok Archives.  Surname Search of JRI  The surnames in this list are: ARLINSKI, AWZER, GERBAWSKI, GERCOWSKI, GERMAN, GISOGURSKI, GRINSZTEJN, IWENICKI, JARMOWSKA, JOSELIOWICZ, JUDELIOWICZ, KAPLINSKI, KROWECKI, LECHOWICKA, LEJBOWICZ, LIDSKI, MEDWED, MIRSKI, NAMIOT, NOWOGRUDSKI, RABINOWICZ, SAWICKI, SREBAWSKI, SZAEWICZ, WENCOWSKI, WILENSKI, ZELIKOWICZ, ZUSZENDEL, ZWIT
• IAJGS Cemetery Project has an entry for Dyatlowo/Zhetel.  Look for DYATLOVO
• The Holocaust in Dyatlavo - from the Wiesenthal Center. Due to frequent site reorganization, I cannot maintain this link. Find its current location with a search combining Wiesenthal and Dyatlavo.
• There is still an active Zhetel (Dyatlavo) Landsmanshaft in Israel.  Contact Irene Newhouse for the address
• There are Landsmanshaftn cemetery plots in the New York area. From the Jewish Genealogical Society of New York Home Page,  click on "10,200 Burial Societies in the NY Metro Area" under "Exclusive Resources".  Enter "Orler" into the search box.
• Incorporation papers location for 2 Orler Landsmanshaftn.  Click on "New York Landsmanshaften & Other Organizations under "Exclusive Resources".  Look for Orla.  These may be for other Orla's.
  
• Skrzybowce
• Zaludok

Famous Sons

• The author Ben Avigdor was born in Zaludok
• The Zionist leader Nahum Goldmann was Ben Avigdor's nephew.
• Rabbi Yisroel Meir HaKohen (1838 - 1933), the Chofetz Chaim, born in Zhetel, founded the Yeshiva of Radun, and was its first director.
• The artist Pinchus Kremegne (1890-1981) was born in Zaludok. If you do a web search on his name, you'll find links to art dealers selling some of his images, with illustrations.  As these are ephemeral, I'm not linking to any of them.
• Polly Rockberger is a British artist with family roots in Zaludok.  Some of her work is inspired by her family history.

Area Families Abroad

• The extended Epstein Family has members from Zhetl. 

Vsia Rossiya 1903 entries for Zhetel/Dyatlavo

Zaludok Businesses listed in the 1925 Polish Business Directory

1921 Census (published 1923) of the Orla administrative district

General Information Entries from the 1929 Polish Business Directory

Note: For most of its history, Tereshki was in Volkovysk Uezd, not Lida

Clicking on highlighted locality names will bring up the 1929 business directory listings.

NAME OF LOCALITY	LAT/ LONG	DISTRICT/ UCHASTOK	YIZKOR	OTHER REF.	DESIG- NATION	town comprised of:	TOWN	POWIAT/ District	JUSTICE OF THE PEACE	ADMINIS- TRATIVE COURT	POPU- LATION
Belevtsy	5337 2509	Lida uezd					Zaludok*
Bucily/ Butily	5335 2506	Lida uezd - second uchatok			wies (village)		Zoludek	Lida	Szczuczyn	Wilno	591
Chodorowce		Lida uezd - second uchatok					Zaludok
Derazno-Turejsk		Lida uezd-second uchastok					Orla
Dmitrowce		Lida uezd					Skrzybowce
Dubeli	5336 2454	Lida uezd					Zaludok*
Dubrovo	5333 2503	Lida uezd-second uchastok			see Kolonya Dubrovo		Zaludok
Dyatlovo/ Zhetl/ Dziatlava	5328 2524	Lida uezd	Dziatlava district, Hrodna [Grodno] region, located about 165 km/99 mi. South-East of Hrodna, 13 km/8 mi. from Navajel'nia, a station on the Baranavicy-Lida railway line. Population: 8,900 (1995).				Orla*
Dyrwance		Lida uezd					Skrzybowce
Dzikuszki		Lida uezd - second uchatok					Zaludok
Farny Koniec/ Farny Konets	5337 2458	Lida uezd - second uchatok					Zaludok
Goldovo/ Holdow	5342 2506	Lida uezd					Skryzbowce
Holdow/ Goldow/ Goldovo	5342 2506	Lida uezd					Skryzbowce
Holuby		Lida uezd-second uchastok					Orla
Hordziejowce		Lida uezd					Skryzbowce
Ignatkowce		Lida uezd					Skryzbowce
Ishelin/ Ishchelnyany/ Ishcholyany/ Ishcolnyany/ Iszczona/ Stary Yederniki	5340 2455	Lida uezd					Ishelin
Kuken	5337 2453	Lida uezd					Zaludok*
Mozejkopw Wielki		Lida uezd					Skzybowce
Murowanka		Lida uezd					Skzybowce
Ogrodniki		Lida uezd					Skrzybowce
Orliany/ Orlja/ Orlya/ Orla:	5330 2459	Lida uezd-second uchastok	- X -	Kagan 658	miasteczko (small city) and gmina (town)	Derazno-Turejsk, Turejsk, Holuby, Szczury, Zaczepicze	Orla	Lida	Szczuczyn	Wilno	579
Orlowa/ Orlova/ Alova: see Zaludok		Lida uezd - second uchatok	163; 164 in Grodno Archives				Orlova
Skrzybowce		Lida uezd-first uchastok			wies (village) (seat of community coucil of Webioda Wielka)	Dmitrowce, Dyrwance, Holdow, Hordziejowce, Ignatkowce, Mozejkopw Wielki, Murowanka, Ogrodniki	Skrybowce	Lida	Lida	Wilno	176
Szczury		Lida uezd-second uchastok					Orla
Turejsk/Tereshki	5316 2413	Lida uezd-second uchastok					Orla
Zaczepicze		Lida uezd-second uchastok					Orla
Zaludok/ Zheloudek/ Zheludok/ Zholodek/ Zholudok/ Zoludek/ Jelawdik	5336 2459	Lida uezd - second uchatok	- X -	Kagan Sefer Haprenumerantn 3297; 1903 rabbi was Eliahu Moshe Levin who died then Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitz; birthplace of Ben Avidor (Abraham Leib Shalkovich (1867-1921); Fond #160 in Grodno Archives; EE: VII: 537 [7 lines].	gmina wiejska	Chodorowce, Dzikuszki, Farny Koniec, the smallholding of Zoludek	Zoludek	Lida
Zaludok/ Zheloudek/ Zheludok/ Zholodek/ Zholudok/ Zoludek/ Jelawdik	5336 2459	Lida uezd - second uchatok	- X -	Kagan Sefer Haprenumerantn 3297; 1903 rabbi was Eliahu Moshe Levin who died then Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitz; birthplace of Ben Avidor (Abraham Leib Shalkovich (1867-1921); Fond #160 in Grodno Archives; EE: VII: 537 [7 lines].	miasteczko (small town)		Zoludek	Lida	Lida	Wilno	1,552

Grodno (Belarus): Belorussian Historical Archive in Grodno; from Elyashevich
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157 Zelodkovskaya Synagogue in Lidksi uezd. #79, 11 chr. 1897-1900
160 Orlja Synagogue in Lidski uezd, #271, 10 chronicles, 1897-1900
161 Orlja Jewish religious organization in Orlya, #1189, 2 chronicles, 1838-1846

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