A Visual Archive of Documents Held by Lyakhovichi Families
by Deborah G. Glassman, copyright 2008
Copyrights of images retained by their owners, this is a protected publication not a release to the public domain. The Webmaster takes this opportunity to thank again all of the generous members of the Lyakhovichi Research Community who shared these valuable treasures!
The visual resources that the descendants of several thousand emigrants from Lyakhovichi still possess in 2008 has not yet been effectively assessed. In 2004 as I prepared the first version of this website I came across on EBay, with no resources to pursue it, a letter archive from Lyakhovichi to Eretz Israel in the 1930s that numbered in the hundreds of pages. What other collections of letters exist from our town? In publishing the website, readers have generously shared time and again, everything from marriage records to images of matsevas. On this page, you will also find personal documentation that entered the public sphere. The US government restricted casual passage to Poland in 1921 in the wake of the bloody battles that had ensued between the "new nations" of Poland and the Soviet Union. Anyone wishing to travel to assist family in that area had to prove that they were doing so at the request of those close relatives. The letter from the family, the translation of that document, and other relevant documentation was attached to the passport application. The flip side, documentation accompanying a visa request, also provided unique views of personal life. On this page, newly offered May 2008, we begin the process of gathering these records together. We need your help to make this a real research tool - please share the family letters, the receipts and visual ephemera related to travel, work, and your family's lives!
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Szymon Rabinowicz of Lachowicze
to son David Robinson of Detroit
1921
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Translation, notarized 1921 |
Seal of the Mayor of Lachowicze 1921
On David Robinson Letter, reverse side |
Marriage between Isaac Goldberg (ne Wolochwiansky) of Lyakhovichi and Fanny Evenstone.
If her family's original name was Himmelstein, her father may also be a Lyakhovichi native. One of at least a dozen Lyakhovichi families in Leeds England in the 1890s. Thanks to Rachel Turner for this record and sharing her family investigations. On the larger page, hover your cursor in the lower right hand corner for the expansion icon |
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