Shtetl Links: Lyakhovichi

Street and Business Guides to Lyakhovichi and its surrounding communities

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This is a forwarding page. Please go to Directories of Lyakhovichi - Russian Empire Period
Directories of Lyakhovichi - Polish Republic Period
and our newest page Directories of Lyakhovichi - Trade and Professional. The last is a new page that currently includes information about Lyakhovichi and Baranovichi midwives.

You will find on these Pages

New July 2009 Registered Midwives in Lyakhovichi and Baranovichi with the dates of their education and practice.

1926-1930 Images of Lyakhovichi pages The actual raw data on thousands from Lyakhovichi and Baranovichi and dependent towns

1926-1930 All Lyakhovichi Names in those Directories

1929 only - 1800 Extracted Names of Residents of Lyakhovichi and Baranovichi's dependent towns- inc. 1100 from Baranovichi itself; then Darewo, Derewna, Horodysczye, Krzywoszyn, Lipsk, Litwa, Lotwa Mala, Lotwa Wielko, Luki, Luki Wielkie, Niedzwiadka Wielka, Niedzwiedzica, Nowa Mysz, Nowa Wies, Podlesie, Podlisiejki, Podstarzynki, Poloneczka, Zaluze (in Lyakhovichi not Stolpce)

1903 and 1911 Vsia Rossia 206 Extracted Names of Lyakhovichi, Baranovichi, Gorodysche and Novo Mysh

We hope to be posting the images from these directories in the future. Novo Mysh was 3 miles from Baranovichi and in 1897, Jews were more than half the 3,000 person population. When Baranovichi's train connections made it the largest town in the area, two thirds of Novo Mysh Jews migrated to Baranovichi. In the 1903 directory, the few listings for Baranovichi township, are actually for Novo Mysh which was in the township. Gorodysche was as far from Baranovichi as Lyakhovichi was from Baranovichi, continuing in a straight line northwest. But its almost 2,000 Jews in 1900, had long used Lyakhovichi as its main resource for brides and jobs. When the railroad hub in Baranovichi was built, Baranovichi became Gorodische's job center but the intermarriage from all of the communities is evident in the family names in each of the towns. I would like to find if there are separate entries from Medvedichi in this time period also,just seven miles south of Lyakhovichi it had a community of over 200 Jews in 1900.

Pre WWI Businesses and Residents in Lyakhovichi, by Street

A street by street listing of those whose businesses or residences were noted in the moving memoir A Walk through my Devastated Shtetl created in the 1950s and remembering those who lived in Lyakhovichi prior to WWI.

Images of Different Lyakhovichi Streets

 

 

The 1926 Poland-Danzig Directory
This image does not appear in the Polish Danzig Directory. It was created by taking several images in the 1926directory, related to Lyakhovichi and creatively recombining them, for more information content, in a single view. Copyright 2005, Deborah Glassman.
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