Suwalki (Poland) Other Names: Suwalk, Suvalk

Suwalki Satellite and Road Maps via Google Maps (Lat 54° 06´, Long 22° 56´)

1919-1939 Suwalki Town Map

Background Information

• History  
• Bibliography 

Independent Suwalki and Vicinity Benevolent Society

	Memories of Suwalk from the 85th Anniversary Yearbook October 21, 1990.		Suwalki Pictures from the 90th Anniversary Yearbook November 5th, 1995.
	The last Jew of Suwalki  from the 95th Anniversary Yearbook. October 29, 2000

Searchable Databases

 ALL POLAND DATA BASE. -   The Jewish Records Indexing - Poland and JewishGen "All Poland Database" is a multiple database search facility, which incorporates all of the following databases: JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF), JRI -Poland,  Yizkor Book Necrologies,  JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR),  1929 Polish Business Directory, JG Discussion Group Archives, SIG Mailing List Archives and much much more. Click on one or both of the gray search boxes below. Be patient as most searches take about a minute or even more.

Routes to Roots Foundation (Data Base of What Eastern European Records have been found)

State Archives of Poland (Details on the Polish national archival holdings)

The Legacy of the Holocaust

• Yizkor Books

  The New York Public Library has placed online 650 of their 700 postwar Yiskor books exactly as printed (as of 2006).

  The two Suwalki books (mostly in Yiddish) can be read online at:

  • Yizkor Bukh Suwalk (Memorial Book of Suvalk) New York, 1961
  • Sefer Kehilat Suvalk u-Benotehah (Jewish Community Book Suwalki and vicinity) Tel Aviv, 1989 ( the partial English translation is image 540 to image 480)
  The Jewishgen Yiskor Book Project - there are no Suwalki Yiskor book translations in process