Lyakhovichi Shtetl Home Page: Historical Studies and Collaborative Research in the History of the Jewish community of Lyakhovichi

Creating a resource for collaborative research
on the history of the Jewish community
in what is today Lyakhovichi, Belarus

Welcome to the Lyakhovichi Shtetl Website

Use the links on the left hand side of the page to navigate to any page on this website. But make your first stops at New on the Lyakhovichi Shtetl Website and Current Projects of the Lyakhovichi Shtetl Website

Bazarskaya - the main Market Street in Lyakhovichi

The July 2009 Update is Complete. Please come take a new look at our page!

1932 class, Melnik School, "Lachowicze, Poland"
Szulama Pinczuk is the little girl to the right of teacher Mr. Promeranietz.
Thanks to Sheron Stone for sharing this picture.
Help us identify Szulama's classmates and the other teacher please. Szulama Pinczuk arrived in the United States in 1939, perhaps others escaped the Nazis as well.

Finding Names across this website

There are a number of indices linked from the left-hand column but indexing is frequently not current with the material added.

Do a full webdomain search as follows:

Go to Google.com search toolbar
Type search subject immediately before this phrase
site:http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/lyakhovichi/
example-

Olcha site:http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/lyakhovichi/

That brings up all of the pages that contain the surname Olcha on our 220+ webpages

You can also go to Google Advanced Search and cut and paste that website address into the line where it requests what site you want to restrict your search to. The complete website address from the http to the slash after the word lyakhovichi is required.

The Lyakhovichi Shtetl site HomePage

You are looking at the simplified, easier-to-navigate Home page of the Lyakhovichi shtetl website, for the town of Lyakhovichy in Belarus located at latitude 53º02' Longitude: 26º16' (in Brest oblast near the city of Baranovichy). The Key Pages in the left-hand column are an easier-to-use interface that can take you from any page on the site to any other. Almost 4,000 people viewed the site in the four month period between July 2, 2008 and November 28, 2008!

This is the website for the town of Lyakhovichi (most recently called Lyakhavichy, Belarus) and in the past called by a number of synonyms including Lechowitz, Lechovich, Lachowicze, et al. For a fuller list of alternate names go to our page on the History of this Website. Since many places share this name and its alternate names it is important to note that this is the Lyakhovichi currently close to the city of Baranovichi, in the oblast of Brest, in Belarus. It's geographical coordinates are at Latitude 53º02' Longitude: 26º16'.

Begin with the set of people-finding tools to help you find people named on every page on our site in text and images. The Welcome pages start you at the Home Page and move you through a series of pages including What's New on our site and Projects in progress. Each subsequent heading will take you to the hundreds of pages of documents and the scores of articles written specially for these pages. The purpose of every page on this site is to create an environment in which you feel welcome to participate in the documentation of the history of Lyakhovichi's Jews. We need your photos, documents, and family stories. We need the questions that spur us to new discoveries and the observations you have made in your own searching. You can write to us, by clicking Contact . Gary Palgon has agreed to be our single point of contact, and he will answer and/or forward your queries to Deborah Glassman and Dr. Lamdan. Please write Lyakhovichi in the subject area of any email you send him.

Photographs across the Lyakhovichi Website

Do you recognize these young Zionists of 1910?

In November 2008, we had over 600 identified portraits of Lechovichers at this update, thousands of images of all types, and we continue growing our visual resources. Many were extracted from group photos as were these. Their picture was extracted (lower left corner) from the photo in the center of the page in which a thousand Jews of Lyakhovichi filled the streets for a 1910 photo.All over this website you will see individual and group photographs some telling multiple stories. This one was selected to show the main business street of the town (Bazarskaya or Market Place) with its solid masonry buildings and cobblestone paving. A thousand Jews filled it from end to end in this picture of a 1910 funeral. You will see it in another picture of military divisions reviewed by an Archduke in 1915 and you will see it in a third, when men in horse-drawn sledges used it as a winter highway. This is the same Market Square into which the Nazis gathered the Jews of Lyakhovichi before murdering so many.

The funeral picture was chosen because it documents an event that the Jews felt an obligation to witness, while experiencing an incredible sense of loss and shame. The death was of a well-liked young man who died in a senseless political argument between two groups of Jewish activists. One man was buried and another was helped to run for his life. Look at the picture and know that Lyakhovichi life was not a nostalgia-filled picture book, it was all-too real for both good and bad. Details of this funeral, are movingly described in a memoir we publish at A Walk through my Devastated Shtetl" by Avrom Lev, translated by Neville Lamdan. This picture also demonstrates new possibilities in technological genealogy. You can see in the close-up above that we have the potential to find individuals in this large scene. Imaging recognition software may allow us to eventually seek connections between living people and their relatives in this photo, many of whom were young people active in the Zionist and Labor movements. You can see a larger image divided by a grid and enlarged for individuals. on our page Mourners at a Lyakhovichi Zionist Funeral Share your group photos as well as your individual portraits, help us document the history every Jew who lived in this town!
Lyakhovichi funeral 1910, detail
Young Activists at Funeral 1910

Streets of Lyakhovichi filled for Jewish funeral 1910 Funeral filling the same street as above, with Lyakhovichi's Jews

In July 2009, the Lyakhovichi Research Group has again deepened the resources of those researching the Jews of Belarus.

In July 2009 we add Supplements to Revision Lists from 1858 to 1884.

In March 2009 we accessed A List of Jewish Males of Lyakovichi, Residing in the Russian Empire

Both of these sources are still being brought to publication by supporters of the Lyakhovichi Resource Group. Contact Gary Palgon to learn how you can contribute and view this information now. See the letter below introducing the 1874 List of Males. Both of these resources are introduced more fully on our new pages The Revision List Supplements of 1858-1884 and The 1874 List of Jewish Males of Lyakhovichi

You can also see three indices to these lists

Surnames from the 1858-1884 Supplementary Revision Lists

400+ Place Names in the 1874 List of Jewish Males in Lyakhovichi
This list has been reformatted July 2009 for easier usability

and in the table just below, an index to the Names in the 1874 List of Jewish Males of Lyakhovichi.

The 1874 List of Jewish Males in Lyakhovichi

An Important Announcement to those Researching Belarus-Jewish Genealogy
from Gary Palgon
March 2009

We are excited to announce the translation and databasing of the 1874 "List of Jewish Males" for the shtetl of Lyakhovichi (Lachowicze, Lechovich, Lechowitz) in the former Minsk Gubernia. The list records 3,058 individuals registered in Lyakhovichi and its surrounding villages, residing in 906 separate households, having over 350 different surnames between them.

Grouped by family units, each entry contains the individual's surname, given name, relationship to the head of the household, his age both as shown in his papers and by his appearance, the date of the last revision (census) he was included in, his place of registration, address and landlord. When an individual was out of town, the List gives an indication of where he has moved to (when known). Prepared primarily for recruitment and taxation purposes, the List is a goldmine for genealogical information for researchers interested not only in Lyakhovichi but also in nearby towns, such as Nesvizh, Kletsk, Novo Myzh and Baranovichi.

Details of the surnames on the List are to be found below. The List will eventually be posted on the Lyakhovichi Website but if you are interested in having an early sight of it or acquiring it, please contact me, at Expert@FamilyTreeExpert.com

Gary Palgon
Atlanta, GA
March 2009

ABARANOK, ABEL, ABRAMOVICH, ABRANCHIK, ADAKHOVSKY, ADOKHOVSKY, ADUKHOVSKY, AGINSKY, ANGELOVICH, ANGILOVICH, ANILOVICH, ANIOLOVICH, APLIKAR, ARONCHIK, AVZEN, AYBINDER, AYZENBERG, BALIN, BANKOV, BEDER, BEGUN, BEKAR, BEREZANSKY, BEREZINA, BERKOVICH, BIRGEL, BIRGER, BLUTSHTEYN, BRAUDA, BRESLAVSKY, BREVDA, BREYDA, BREZIN, BREZINA, BUDOVLIN, BUDOVLYA, BUNEVITSKY, BURSHTEYN, BUSEL, BUSHEL, BUTSATSIN, BUTSYATSINSKY, BUTSYN, BYTENSKY, CHARNY, CHERNIGOVSKY, CHERNY, DOVYDOVSKY, DUBINCHIK, DUBOVSKY, DUBOVY, DYATLOVICHSKY, DYKSHTEYN, EBSHTEYN, EDLINSKY, EFREMOVSKY, ELIN, ELINA, ELINO, EPSHTEYN, EVNOVICH, EYDLIN, EYZENBLOZEN, FALEVICH, FALYA, FAYBERG, FAYNSHTEN, FAYNSHTEYN, FILIOVICH, FINDEL, FOLEVICH, FOYNSHTEYN, FREYDMAN, FRIDMAN, FRYTSHTEYN, GABRIELEVICH, GALAY, GALEMBA, GAM, GANTSEVICH, GASH, GAVZA, GAVZYA, GEKHTEL, GELER, GELFAND, GELFOND, GELIN, GEPSHTEYN, GERBAR, GESHELEV, GEYZENBLOZEN, GEYZINBLOZIN, GILDMAN, GILERMAN, GINSBERG, GITLIN, GIZOGLAZIN, GLEZER, GLEZOR, GLIN (GLIK), GLINIK, GOLDBARG, GOLDBERG, GOLDIN, GOLEMBA, GONDIN, GOVZA, GRABIN, GRABINA, GREBLA, GREBLYA, GRIMBAL, GRIMBERG, GRINBERG, GRINSHPAN, GRINVALD, GRISHSKY, GRUSHKA, GULITSKY, GUTLES, IOSELIOVICH, is missed, is not specified, KAGAN, KALACHAY, KAM, KANTOR, KANTOROVICH, KAPLAN, KAPLAN or SAKU, KAPLUN, KAPUSTA, KARABELNIKOV, KARABEYNIK, KATS, KERBEL,KESLER, KESLIR, KHAET, KHARAS, KHARAZ, KHARLIP, KHAYAT, KHAYET, KHAYT, KHAYT ADOKHOVSKY, KHVEDYUK, KHVEDZYUK, KIRKHEL, KIRZNER, KLEN, KLION, KOFMAN,KOLYKHAY, KOM, KOMSITSKY, KOPYLCHIK, KORABENIK, KOTLER, KOTLYAR, KOVALEV, KOVALEVSKY, KRAVETS, KRIGER, KUKISH, KULIKOVSKY, KUNITSA, KURKHIN, LAPATYTSKY, LAPTIK, LEV, LEVA, LEVIN, LEYMAN, LIBKES, LIS, LITOVSKY, LIVSHITS, OPUKH, LOS, LUSKAN, LUTSKY, LYAKHOVICH, LYAKHOVICHSKY, LYAKHOVITSKY, LYANDA, LYSITSKY, LYUBOSICH, MADRES, MAGNATSHTEYN, MAKASHEYEV, MAKOSEY, MAKOSEY or KAPLAN, MAKOSHEY, MALER, MALKIN, MALOVIDSKY, MALOVITSKY, MALYAR, MANDEL, MAS, MASLAN, MASLUN, MAYAS, MAZYA, MEDRES, MELETSKY, MENAKER, MENDAL, MENDRES, MIKHLIN, MILETSKY, MILNER, MILOVITSKY, MINAKER, MINKOVICH, MINTS, MISHKIND, MISONCHNIK, MLODIKOV, MLOTOK, MODRES, MOLODINOV, MORDUKHOV, MORDUKHOVICH, MUKASEY, MUKASS, MUKOSEY, MULYAR, MUZYKANT, MYSHKOVSKY, MYSLOBODSKY, MYSLOBOZHSKY, NAYMAN, NEMAN, NEMON, NEYMAN, NOTES, NOTOS, OGINSKY, OLEKH, OLEYNIK, OLKHA, OREMAN, OSHINA, PALEVICH, PARTOLIK, PERLOV, PILNIK, PINCHUK, PLOTNIK, PORTNOY, PREVDA (BREVDA), PURCHIK, RABINA, RABINOVICH, RABINOVICH-MILETSKY, RATNER, REYDBERG, REZNIK, RIMER, ROGOVSKY, ROMANOVSKY, ROSHES, ROZENBLYUM, ROZENKRANTS, ROZHANSKY, RYMAR, RYVKIN, SAK, SAUL, SELETSKY, SEYFER, SHAPIRA, SHAPOCHNIK, SHAPOTNITSKY, SHERESHEVSKY, SHERESHOVSKY, SHERSHEVSKY, SHESTAK, SHESTAKOVSKY, SHEYFER, SHIFER, SHIFRIS, SHKOLNIK, SHLYUSAK, SHMIDT, SHMITS, SHMUSTKOVICH, SHMUYLOVICH, SHOSTAK, SHTEYN, SHTEYNBERG, SHUSTER, SHUSTERMAN, SLUCHAK, SLUSHAK, SLUTSKY, SNOVSKY, SNOVSKY, in marriage LAPTIK, SOFER, SOSIN, STOLYAR, SUBOTNIK, SUKHOVITSKY, TALMINOVSKY, TESLER, TIRLISH, TSERLIN, TSEYTMAN, TSIRIL, TSIRISLAV, TSIRLES, TSIRULIK, TSUKERMAN, TSVIK, TSYRINSKY, TSYRLES, TSYRLETS, TUKACHINSKY, VARSHAL, VAYNSHTEN, VENGER, VENGEROVSKY, VEYNGER, VINGER, VINIK, VINIKOV, VINOGRAD, VINOR, VISHNYA, VODONOS, VOLKOVITSKY, VOLOKHVYANSKY, VULFSON, YUDELEVSKY, ZABELINSKY, ZABLOTSKY, ZATSEREVSKY, ZAYATS, ZAYCHIK, ZAYETS, ZELDIN, ZHMOYDZYAK, ZHMUDZYAK, ZHMUYDZYAK, ZHUKHOVITSKY, ZMODZYAK, ZMOYDYAK,ZMUDZYAK, ZYKHOVSKY, ZYMEL

Creating a resource for collaborative research on the history of the Jewish community in what is today Lyakhovichi, Belarus

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