Family Photos of People Who Once Lived in Lyakhovichi
by Deborah G. Glassman, copyright 2008
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The family of Abram Pilnick of Lyakhovichi
Here photographed in Media PA (near Philadelphia) with his wife Chaya Ruchel Hefter Pilnick and his children from left to right, Lifsche (Lillian), Hersh (Harry), Zipe Ratzi (Rose), and Chava (Evelyn). This Lyakhovichi shoemaker shows up in the draft records of our town, in tax records, in Minsk Vedemosti notices, and in the migration records of Hamburg, NY, Philadelphia, and Antwerp, as he went back and forth from the United States to Lyakhovichi and Slutsk at least five times between 1896 and 1913. This picture of the family of her maternal grandparents was provided to the webmaster by, Irene Kleiman Solomon Nudelman, my mother, may her memory be for a blessing.
Studio Portraits from Lyakhovichi
Deborah Glassman, copyright 2008
The research report that will fill this space has not yet been written, too much data still needs to be collected before it makes sense to draw conclusions. I want to include information on who did the photography, how they were trained, what services they offered. Then, each additional sample included, increases the information that we can draw from any individual example.
We know just enough to whet our appetites. Alter Brevda began taking photographs sometime in the nineteenth century as a photographer assistant to an itinerant photographer. He eventually built a studio onto his father's building on Market Place (Bazarskaya) and put out display signs advertising his work. The signage was sufficiently prominent and attractive that when shortly before WWI, a group of young people wanted to start a theater group, they begged for Mr. Brevda to post the show notices here and he obliged. Others put up signs also, but this was the place where people were accustomed to stop and see new photo samples. Perhaps the display cases looked like these in this photo, generously shared with the permission of webmaster Jose Gutstein, from the Szczuczyn, Poland shtetl website.
The photographer's signs and display cases at the street front, inviting in the passerbys, as Alter Brevda's did on Lyakhovichi's busiest street
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The Lifschitz Family
Chava LIFSCHITZ (Eva Lipshitz, died 1906) and her children in Lyakhovichi in 1901: Sorka (Esther), Joseph, Yankel(Jacob) and David.
by first photographer in Lyakhovichi Alter Brevda. The next year the family joined husband and father Aron Shmuel (A. Samuel Lipshitz, died 1911) and several of his older children in the US. Thanks to Chava's grandson Arthur Lowell for photo and info!.
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Itzko b Samuel Mandel family of Baranovichi
Itzko b1840s and his wife Sheina Chaya and their son Moshe Mandel b 1871. Itzko's father Shmuel was born in Lyakhovichi in 1825, Itsko's residences included Lyakhovichi and Siniavka where his son was born, and eventually Baranovichi. The picture was taken in 1905 in Baranovichi by Baron Studios. Courtesy of Moshe's grandson, Moshe Mandel, Kibbutz Afeq, Israel, via Dr. Neville Lamdan, Jerusalem. |
The Abraham Mandel family of Lyakhovichi
Beila Strelovsky MANDEL, with younger sibs Bashe and Moshe Yosef STRELOVSKY. In front row: Beila's sons Yankel and Feivel MANDEL, ages c6 and 2. Abraham Mandel, b Lyakhovichi 1875 had already left for the UK. Bella and her sibs came from a village called Mali Luki, between Lyakhovichi and Slonim. Moshe wears the uniform of his Russian "Gymnasium" [high school] in Slonim, but obviously spends time at his sister's home in Baranovichi. Photo by Baron Studios Baranovichi 1907. Courtesy of Dr. Neville Lamdan grandson of Abraham and Bella Mandel. |
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David and Henia (Budovlya) Poczepoff
with their family. David had been married and left a widower, the four older children were from that first marriage; the younger from his marriage to Henia. Henia was from Lyakhovichi, David appears to have been from one of the small dependent towns around Lyakhovichi - The Poczepoff surname appears in the Gorodysche closer to Lyakhovichi (there is another north of Baranovichi).
Thanks to Ruth Kornbluth for the picture of the Poczepoff family!
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The family of mohel Menahem Joel Kaplan,
1933 in Baranovichi
In the back row are Menahem's sons. All the way to the right is Yekutiel Kaplan and next to him is his wife Reizel Peker Kaplan of Lyakhovichi. Thanks to Alison Greengard! for identifying Reizel of a Lyakhovichi family amidst the siblings and parents of her grandfather Rubin Kaplan. |
The Shklyar family of Lyakhovichi and Baranovichi, 1930sThis family never returned to Lyakhovichi after WWI
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Pinczuk Family of Lyakhovichi
Shaya and Ginda Pinczuk and their children Szulama and Sonia in 1937. Thankyou to Sheron Stone, for reaching out at a difficult time. Thankyou also to Sheron for giving me such positive feedback on the FaceIndex which has a 1905 portrait of Shaya Pinczuk as a teenager! |
The Novogrodsky Family of Lyakhovichi The younger boy is Shaya Novogrodsky. This is another "branch" of the Budowlya family, as Shaya married Sara Budovlya, but I can't find my notes on who sent it to me to thank them, someone refresh my memory please! (and let me know who the others in the picture are!) |
The Kamm/Kaplan family of Lyakhovichi See our biography page on this family! Picture shared by Kathy Schnapper |
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The Begun/Bogin family
of Lyakhovichi, and Connecticut
(l to r)Adult Siblings: Louis Bogin, Eva (Bogin) Zakheim, Lena (Bogin) Leichner, Isaac Zakheim (sitting), Jake Leichner, unidentified woman, Bernard Bogin. This picture was shared by Carole Bogin, thank-you! |
The Sofer family
Aron and Liba Sofer, he was a noted member of the Koidenover Hasidic community in Lyakhovichi, and was a scribe as was the ancestor who gave the family their surname |
Zabelinsky Family
1920s/1930s Khaim Zvi Zabelinsky and his wife Grunia, 2 of the grandchildren on the Bubba's lap and next to the Zayde, then standing right to left: Leibel Banyuk and his wife Beila; Yosef Zabelinski and his wife Shifra, Shlomo Zabelinsky, his sister Leah, and Leah's husband Alter |
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Saul and Devora (Broches) Tuchaczinsky
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The Iser Malovitsky Family
perished in Lyakhovichi in the Holocaust
Iser's parents and siblings were in Eretz Israel and the US |
The Freund Family
so far the only candid in this grouping, taken on the steps of their Lyakhovichi house |
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The Karelitz Family of Lyakhovichi
Zundel and Tzippe Karelitz and their children
from left to right:
Dr. Yudel Karelitz of Lyakhovichi and Minsk; Shmeril Karelitz; Zundel Karelitz aka Zundel Gedalyos a noted scholar; Sima (sitting)Karelitz whose married surname was Sheiman; Chaike Karelitz (standing) whose later married name was Schwartz; Hannah Karelitz whose married name was Israel; Tzippe Karelitz who provided the living for the family in her small tailor's shop; unidentified girl; unidentified man |
Abraham and Doba (Karelitz) Kapulyansky
Abraham son of Zalman and his father owned property on Lyakhovichi's Market Square |
The Slonimsky family of Lyakhovichi and Philadelphia. From left to right on the back row are Solomon Shane, then his wife Sarah Slonimsky Shane, then Morris Shane, and finally Lippe whose English name was Leo. Seated in front left to right are Moshe Aron Slonimsky, the patriarch Kalman Slonimsky, and finally another son of Kalman's Hatzkel. Thanks to Shirley Serota for this photo from c.1890s-1907 |
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The Steinhouse family of Lyakhovichi and Nova Scotia. The parents of this group are the seated Ronia (Litovsky) Steinhouse and Moses Steinhouse. The children in the middle are Libby, Sonia, and Bill Steinhouse. Far right standing is Celia Gutsite who was married to Abe Brook. Thanks to Mark Horn and for identifying everyone. Brook, Gutzeit, and Litovsky are long-time Lyakhovichi families. |
William and Dora (Brody) Israelite
of Lyakhovichi and Norwich Connecticut. Dora was the daughter of Reuven and Itka (Malowitsky) Brody of Lyakhovichi, William was from Novogrodok. They photo is from their marriage in Brooklyn in March 1914 (cert #2856). Thanks to Bernie Kouchel |
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