Links to the Shtetl Coordinators for each town exist. If you do not see a coordinator for "your" town, please consider volunteering!

NOTE: There is another, different, Szczuczyn in Poland.

Other Names

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Maps

• Map of the Szczuczyn Area
• Szczuczyn and some of the surrounding villages
• Rozanka and some of the surrounding villages

Pictures

• The Beth Hamidrash in Rozanka
• Members of Hakhlutz in Rozanka, 1925 and members of Hakhlutz Hazen, 1930
• Tarbut 1925 and Bet Ruben in Rozanka
• The wooden Synagogue in Rozanka
• The World War II Monument in Rozanka
• The Market in Szczuczyn in 1910 and 1945
• Survivors from Sczczuczyn at the mass grave there.  Do you know this photo?  Please let us know so we can get the proper permission to post it.
• Mass Grave in Szczuczyn
• YIVO's marvelous on-line photgraph collection has 3 pictures of Shchuchin. They're probably of the other Szczuczyn, which is a larger town.  You'll have to register to use the site - it's free.  Enter the town name as I've spelled it here.
  

Background Information

Rozanka

• Memoirs of Isidore Remz, born in Vasilishki, lived in Rozanka.  Contributed by Alan Rems

Rozankers abroad

• Landsmanshaftn burial plots
• The Independent Roszanker Benevolent Association was organized September 26, 1904.  The association is still active.  E-mail me to make contact.

Szczuczyn Today

• Scucyn has a web page in "The Virtual Guide to Belarus". Click on "cities", then find Scucyn
• One of our members visited Szczuczyn in 1998
• Jan Sekta visited Grodno, Lida, & Szczuczyn May 2000
• Jan Sekta's photographs of all the grave stones he found in the Szczuczyn cemetery

Web Pages for individual localities

• Rozanka under construction, contact Ellen Sadove Renck
• Szczuczyn under construction, contact Gary Katz

Yizkor Book

• Yizkor translation - both Szczuczyn and Rozanka
• Yizkor Necrologies Database

Holocaust

• Two Yad Vashem testimonies of Szczuczyn residents

Information for Individual Localities

• Kamenka/Kaminka/Kamionka
• Zeev Sharon is interested in contact with anyone who has Kamenka roots
  
• Mackiszki including Butrimonys and Strel'tsy
• Rozanka including Malewicze, Nowa Rozanka, and Potoka
• 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 "Rozhanka" into the search box.
• Szczuczyn including Andruszowce and Iszczolna
• Szczuczyn, from Slownik Geograficzny
• IAJGS Cemetery Project has an entry for Scucyn (Find "SCUCYN")
• Information on Szczuczyn Landsmanshaftn burial plots in Chicago -use your browser's "find in page" feature to look for "STUCHIN"
• 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 "Shchuchin" into the search box.
• Incorporation papers location information for 6 Shuchiner Landsmanshaftn, follow the link from the "Exclusive Resources column" & eventually look for Stutzin,  in column 3.  It's not clear if these refer to our town - probably not. 
  
• Wawiorka
• Zabloc

Famous Sons

• Choreographer & dancer  Jerome Robbins' (1918-1998) family  was from Rozanka.  His grandfather was Nathan Mayer RABINOWITZ. [Thanks to Alan Rems & Amanda Vail].  A recent biography is Dance with Demons by Greg Lawrence.  There are, as of early 2002, many reviews of this book on the web - do a search for the title.

Rozanka Volost Land Owners 1890-1932

1921 census (published 1923)

• Rozanka administrative district
• Szczuczyn administrative district

General Information Entries from the 1929 Polish Business Directory

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
Andruyu- shetvtsy/ Andruszowce	5340 2438	Lida uezd-second uchastok					Szczuczyn
Baliche/ Balichi	5331 2446	Lida uezd-second uchastok					Rozanka*
Bartoshi	5335 2437	Lida uezd					Szczuczyn*
Bobra		Lida uezd-second uchastok					Rozanka
Butrymance/ Butrimantsy/ Butrimonis/ Butrimonys/ Novyye Raklishki/ Rakliskes Naujos/ Rakliskes Naujosios	5415 2509	Lida uezd-second uchastok					Mackiszki
Ciejkow- szczyzna		Lida uezd-second uchastok					Rozanka
Dolina Zarzeczna		Lida uezd-second uchastok					Rozanka
Dolne I Gorne		Lida uezd-second uchastok					Rozanka
Dowklew- szczyzna		Lida uezd-second uchastok					Rozanka
Dzekhtsyary	5348 2454	Lida uezd					Wawiorka*
Dziakowce		Lida uezd-second uchastok					Rozanka
Girziejowska		Lida uezd-second uchastok					Rozanka
Kaleczyce		Lida uezd-second uchastok					Szczuczyn
Kaminka/ Komionka
Klimowszczyzna		Lida uezd-second uchastok					Rozanka
Kolonya Dubruva		Lida uezd-second uchastok					Rozanka
Kovali	5350 2501						Wawiorka*
Kozakow- szczyzna		Lida uezd-second uchastok					Mackiszki
Krupava/ Krupovo	5356 2512	Lida uezd
Kryszylki		Lida uezd-second uchastok					Rozanka
Mackiszki		Lida uezd-second uezd			kolonja and gmina	Poleckiszki (seat of community council), Butrymance, Kozakow- szczyzna, Narkuszki, Rakliszki Nowe, Rudnia	Wawiorka	Lida	Ejszyszki	Wilno	89
Makiowce/ Makhovichi	5349 2510	Lida uezd-second uchastok					Rozanka
Malewicze	5401 2507	Lida uezd-second uchastok					Rozanka
Meyry	5348 2502						Wawiorka
Myto/Myta	5350 2507	Lida uezd - second uchatok					Wawiorka
Nacha	5404 2450	Lida uezd - second uchatok					Wawiorka
Narkuszki		Lida uezd-second uchastok					Mackiszki
Nowo-Rozanka		Lida uezd-second uchastok					Rozanka
Onichow- szczyzna		Lida uezd-second uchastok					Rozanka
Petucky see Potoki		Lida uezd-second uchastok			see Potoka		Rozanka
Podbobra		Lida uezd-second uchastok					Rozanka
Podrozanka		Lida uezd-second uchastok					Rozanka
Podzamcze		Lida uezd-second uchastok					Rozanka
Poleckiszki		Lida uezd-second uchastok				seat of community council	Mackiszki
Potoka, village of Razanka		Lida uezd-second uchastok					Rozanka
Rakliszki Nowe		Lida uezd-second uchastok					Mackiszki
Rakovichi/ Rakowica/ Rakowicze	5331 2451	Lida uezd-second uchastok					Rozanka*
Repniki	5348 250						Wawiorka*
Rezy/Reziai	5415 2508						Mackiszki*
Romanovichki	5331 2452	Lida uezd-second uchastok					Rozanka*
Rozanka/ Rozhanka/ Ruzanka/ Razanka/ Rozhankov/ Rozhankovskaya	5332 2444	Lida uezd-second uchastok	- X -  Kagan Haprenumerantn 8143; Fond #170 in Grodno Archives	EE: XIII: 572 [4 lines].	miasteczko (small town) and gmina wiejska (town)	Girdziejowka, Onichow- szczyzna, Rakowicze	Rozanka	Lida	Szczuczyn	Wilno	734
Rudnia		Lida uezd-second uchastok					Mackiszki
Rulevicy/ Rulevichi	5352 2502	Lida uezd					Wawiorka*
Rylovtsy	5352 2506	Lida uezd					Wawiorka*
Savovshchizna/ Savovshchina	5334 2455	Lida uezd					Szczuczyn*
Shnipki I	5332 2438	Lida uezd					Rozanka*
Skorzhiki	5333 2435	Lida uezd					Rozanka*
Soltaniszki/ Saltoniskis/ Soltanishki	5401 2451	Lida uezd					Zabloc
Strel'tsy/ Strielciai/ Sauliai	5416 2510	Lida uezd					Butrimonys
Szczuczyn/ Shtutchin/ Scucyn/ Suicin/ Shchuchin	5336 2445	Lida uezd-second uchastok	- X -		gmina (town)	Andruszowce, Iszczolna, Kaleczyce	Szczuczyn	Lida	Szczuczyn	Wilno
Szczuczyn/ Shtutchin/ Scucyn/ Suicin/ Shchuchin	5336 2445	Lida uezd-second uchastok	- X -	Kagan Haprenumerantn 5771; Rabbi in 1912 was Yehuda Leib Chasman (1867- ?); Rech Pospolitaya, Grodno Pavet (Grodno Region) end of 16th c.; Fond # 173 , 177 in Grodno Archives; EE: XVI: 144 [8 lines].	miasteczko (small city		Szczuczyn	Lida	Szczuczyn	Wilno	1,539
Szemiakow- szczyzna		Lida uezd - second uchatok					Wawiorka
Turowka		Lida uezd-second uchastok					Rozanka
Verbilka/ Vezhbilka/ Wierzbilki	5334 2442	Lida uezd; second uchastok					Szczuczyn
Wawiorka/ Vaverka/ Vavryka/	5350 2458	Lida uezd - second uchatok			miasteczko (small town) and gmina (town)	Myto, Szemiakow- szczyzna	Wawiorka	Lida	Wasiliszki	Wilno	174
Zabloc/ Zabolot'/ Zablots'	5356 2451	Lida uezd			miasteczko (small town) and gmina wiejska	Soltaniszki	Zabloc	Lida	Lida	Wilno	258
Zaborze		Lida uezd-second uchastok					Rozanka
Zapolye	5333 2446	Lida uezd					Rozanka

Grodno (Belarus): Belorussian Historical Archive in Grodno; from Elyashevich
opus
167 Rozankovskaya Synagogue in Lidski uezd. #33, 10 chronicles, 1897-1900
170 Shuchin Synagogue in Lidski uezd in Scucyn #255, 3 chronicles, 1897-1899
174 Government of Shuchin Jewish Religious Community, #361, 1931

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