BELARUS: JEWISH BURIAL SITES

 SITES IN: Bragin, Yelsk, Kalinkovichi, Kopatkevichi, Loev, Mozyr, Narolya, Petrikov, Rechitsa

https://dapamoznik.blogspot.com/2021/04/blog-post.html   

Information included: Names, DOB, DOD,  Birth Place.

Use your favorite translator as needed.

1915-1918 LODZ: ASYLUM FOR THE MENTALLY ILL [Part #2]

  

Other Records on Same Subject [from 1918]: https://yourjewishgem.blogspot.com/2026/07/1918-archival-information-asylum-for.html

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From the State Archives in Lodz, 

          Fond: Lodz Jewish Religious Community.

          Reference code: 39/228/0/-/22

          Year: 1915-1918

https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/de/jednostka/-/jednostka/11314527

1. Scan #12  Dec. 31, 1915--Nuta Neissbard

    To the Jewish Asylum for the Mentally Ill: Request for this mentally ill person, who resided at Francisz St. 26, could be admitted to the institution.

2. Scan #13

    Request for admission of Jaraelowitsch into the beggars' asylum 

3. Scan #15

   Ruchle Lisner, born Ajzner. Mentally ill.  Moved to Lodz in 1895. Passport # 80728. Relatives in Batuty. (translated by Claude Sonnet 5, AI)

4. Scan #17

This is possibly a log recording the route and timing of Ruchla Lisner's transport as she was moved from community to community en route to Lodz.

5. The letter is from the Imperial Police headquarters in Lodz to the representative board of the Jewish community asking about institutions for neglected Jewish children. Also asked if there was such institutions at another location in the Lodz county, in the Lask district, or in the Brzeziny district. (Claude Sonnet 5)

6. Scan #27

Father requested, in writing, that daughter Pesse Sch. be institutionalized for mental illness free of charge. He was too poor to pay for the service. The request had been made verbally, at first.

7. Scan #

    Dated 5 Apr 1916. Medical certificate issued by a doctor, certifying that a man named Hersz Majer Goldstein/Oldstein, suffered from mental illness (indicated a form of early-onset dementia; what was later known as schizophrenia). requested that he be admitted to a psychiatric hospital.

8. Scan #33

Request for the Community Board to arrange for Hersch David Dawidowicz's immediate admission/transfer into a mental hospital for a recurring mental illness (previously treated successfully at a psychiatric hospital).

9. Scan #50

Adam Rode, 11 year old homeless boy. Taken into custody because he was homeless. Police requested the Jewish community take charge of Adam to prevent neglect.

This is only a partial listing. Continue on to the additional scans for additional names & other information, using your favorite translators as needed. I used ChatGPT, Claude, & Perplexity Pro, & Google Translate. I can't guarantee the accuracy of the translations.

1935 Register of Identity Cards Issued by the City Council in Lodz (from #60001 to #68512)

1935

1. Files of the City of Lodz (#60001-65000):

https://skanoteka.genealodzy.pl/id4119-sy86609-se4120 

2. Files of the City of Lodz (#65001-68512)

https://skanoteka.genealodzy.pl/id4119-sy86610-se4120

Unfortunately there is no index for these lists of names.  The lists include both Jews & non-Jews.

When you click on each item:

you will be brought to lists which include the following:

Sample: 

1896 ULANOW: Notarial Files of Kazimierz Jarema

File Numbers: Click on a number to access a particular  file.

https://notariaty-genealodzy-pl.translate.goog/id5187-sy38-se?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en. 

File Documents:

 https://notariaty.genealodzy.pl/index.php?op=pg&id=5187&se=&sy=38&kt=&plik=001.jpg&zoom=1

Here are a few of the names found in the various files (1896). The numbers represent the file #s in which the names were found. This is a partial list. There is no index. You will need to manually check each page.

Samuel Schleyer, Jakub Flus (or Tlus), Nachman Bergstain- (#1-signatures). Abraham Bergstain, Samuel Schlayer.

Jakob Schifferman (#3)

Herz Wilkenfeld, __ Silber (# 8)

___ Silber (#10)

 Herz Wilkenfeld, Gibel/Gifel (?) Silber ( #11 signatures)

Herz Wilkenfeld (#12)

Herz Wilkenfeld (#317 signature)

____ Kindblum (#142, Hersz Kuhl (signature)

Leib Beril (#177 signature)

Solomon Kuhl (#178)

Moj___ Laufer (#270)

____ Silber, Leib Klopper (?), Mojzes Laufer (signatures) (#272)

Jakob Pfeffer, Abrackam Berg Stein, _araet Iser Teicher (#296, signatures)

Isak Silber, Leib Kloppz (#299 signatures)

Herz Kohane (#300)

Rozalya Malek (signature, #302)

Samuel Schleyer, Moses Taub, Nachman Bergstain (#305, signatures) & Nachman & Bergstain.

Fiszel Spira & Tobla Spira, Rachla Spira, Fiszel Spira (#306)

Fiszel Spira, Pinkas Spira,Marje__ Spira, Tobla Spira, __Spira,Jude Spira,Ruchla Spira,Rachli spira (#307) (?) Spirow, Rachla Spirowe & Fiszla Spira Michalowi (#308)

Ruchla Spira & Fisela Spira, Fiszla Spiry (#309)

Chaim Hama, __sle Spirowe  (#310)

__lel Spira (signature #311)

Mojzesz Laufer, Leib Klapper (#325, signatures)

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You can find a complete list of Notary Kazimierz Jarema's "Notarial Deeds" at:  https://notariaty.genealodzy.pl/id5187

1929 IDENTITY CARDS: State Archives,Piotrkow Branch in Tomaszow Mazowiecki:

NOTE: you need to "sign in" to see all of the information.

The people in the following files include both Jews & non-Jews. Many photos are included.

1.  File 49/7/0/-/III-1145a

Underlying records have not been scanned yet, but the list of names for this card file are available under "Tags": https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/25940474 

2.1929.  ID cards. Folder No. 2. 49/7/0/-/III-1146

https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/jednostka/-/jednostka/25940475

Go to "Tags" Click on desired name for the underlying records.

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First & last name, birth date & place, residence, parents' names & places of birth, physical description.

3. Folder No. 3: ID Cards: 49/7/0/-/III-1147

https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/25940476

1765 & Beyond: Chislavichi

 Chislavichi was a town in the Mstislavl are, presently Khislavichi, in Smolensk Oblast. It was one of the largest Jewish shtetls (Choslavicz/Choslawicze) in the Mstislavl district of Mogilev Governorate; & was destroyed during the Holocaust.

 (GPT 5.6 Terra)

   

Included here is a copy of an extensive list of links related Chislavichi residents. The list can be found at:

https://shlomogurevich.net/Chislavichi/  . [from Zalman Kleinman]

On the left side of the page, click on the link, "Lists of Former Residents".  

1913 [1914] ULANOW: NOTARIAL DEEDS

1913 Ulanow Notary Files: "Imperial-Royal Notary Alfred Josse in Ulanow"

Collection 1098, Unit 1.

https://notariaty.genealodzy.pl/id5324-sy1-se.  These are the notarial file numbers. click on each to bring you to a particular file page.

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These are just a few of the names appearing in some of the deeds. You will need to go through the book, file page by page to find other names. There is no index. This is the top, left corner (translated): 

Isaak Silber, merchant ( #27) https://notariaty.genealodzy.pl/index.php?op=pg&id=5324&se=&sy=1&kt=&plik=027.jpg&x=0&y=112&zoom=4.01

 (translated)

Josef Fluss & Wolf Wein  (file #63): also on following page

https://notariaty.genealodzy.pl/index.php?op=pg&id=5324&se=&sy=1&kt=&plik=063.jpg&zoom=4.01

Moses Kornblau (?)-witness,  Josef Fluss, & Wolf Wein--signatures (file #66)

Josef Fluss, Wolf Wein, merchants (file #77)--see next couple of following pages

Israel Hersch _ornstreich (file #84)

Israel Hersch & Wolf Wein-signatures (#85)

Moses Kornblau, witness-signature (#88)

Chana Koller, merchant from ____, Wolf Wein, Josef Fluss (#90)

Leib Fass, Israel Brandt (#93)

Israel Brand (from Radom?), Schaja Hasenfeld, merchant from Ulanow (#100)

Leib Fass, merchant, Schaja Hasenfeld (#101)

Chiel Schnek, merchant from __. Jakob Goldman, merchant, Nyser Apeidman (?), merchant (#102)

Jakob Salamon, Hakel & Dwoira ___ (#103)

Jakob Fisch/Tisch -signature (#118)

Maj_ere Schnek (#139)

Chiel Schnek (#140)

Shima Fluss (#141)

Leib  _____, Isaak  Silber (#143)

Majer Last (or Lask) & Ny_____  _zeisman or _reisman (#145 & 146)

Majer Lask (#153)

Samuel Eieber, Vielman (?) Silber, Jakob Hakel (#155)

Josef Schiffer ( #172, 173, 179, 181 [signature])

Mojciech Szempreich (#181-signature)

Leizor/Leizan/ (?) Borok/Barak/Bank (?) (#184, 185, 186-signature)

Lejzor Bor_k (#195, 196)

Hersch Lorber (?) (#197)

Laja Scheinmann, Rubin Scharf, Maarkus _ihl ( #550)

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Note: these are also available for Ulanow: Files of the Imperial-Royal Notary, Alfred Josse in Ulanow.

1914. https://notariaty.genealodzy.pl/id5324-sy2-se [#196-343]

1914. https://notariaty.genealodzy.pl/id5324-sy3-se  [#344-516]

1914. https://notariaty.genealodzy.pl/id5324-sy4-se [# 317-696]

1924 PETRIKOV, BELARUS: THREE LISTS OF PARISHIONERS OF JEWISH PRAYER HOUSES

(Published by Dapamozhnik Publishing House)

"NEW SCHOOL": https://dapamoznik.blogspot.com/2020/05/25-1924.html 

     "OLYKSKAYA" ( Rubchanskaya St.): 

 https://dapamoznik.blogspot.com/2020/05/24-1924.html 

     

     "Bolshaya Shkola" (Shkolny Lane): https://dapamoznik.blogspot.com/2020/05/11-1924.html

GOMEL BELARUS: BOOK OF MEMORY (Memorial Book: Rechitsa)

"List of Victims of Wars Buried in the Rechitsa District of Gomel"

 http://www.files.rechitsa.gov.by/musei/070923.pdf

This document, written in Russian is a 49-page list of individuals, including surname, first name, patronymic, DOB, DOD, Burial # (or place of residence & circumstances of death).

Here is a list of potentially Jewish names found in the provided text & transcribed by .AI. This is only a partial list. You can continue reading/transcribing the list using your favorite translation tool, as needed.

• Evsey Leybovich Azbel (Евсей Лейбович Азбель)

• Fanya Albinskaya (Фаня Альбинская)

• Altser (Альцер — surname only, first name missing)

• Beyta Leybovich Arklis (Бейта Лейбович Арклис)

• Tsira Feyvelevna Arklis (Цира Фейвелевна Арклис)

• Yudka Leybovich Arklis (Юдка Лейбович Арклис)

• Atlas (Атлас — surname only)

• Moisey Atlas (Моисей Атлас)

• Afingendina (Афингендина — surname only)

• Riva Babitskaya (Рива Бабицкая)

• Belfrada (Бельфрада — surname only)

• Osya Berlin (Ося Берлин)

• Polina Berlina (Полина Берлина)

• Faina Berlina (Фаина Берлина)

• Feyga Berlina (Фейга Берлина)

• Basya Bernovskaya (Бася Берновская)

• Avram Bernovsky (Аврам Берновский)

• Lyusya Blyakher (Люся Бляхер)

• Ginda Bogdan (Гинда Богдан)

• Yudka Bogdan (Юдка Богдан)

• Feyga Bogdanova (Фейга Богданова)

• Genya Yankelevna Braverman (Геня Янкелевна Браверман)

• Piya Evseevich Bravermann (Пия Евсеевич Браверманн)

• Sora Yankelevna Bravermann (Сора Янкелевна Браверманн)

• Yankel Bravermann (Янкель Браверманн)

• Sara Branniya (Сара Бранния)

• Solomon Branniya (Соломон Бранния)

• Khariton Yankelevich B some (Харитон Янкелевич — name truncated in the text, likely Jewish given the patronymic "Yankelevich")

1929-1939 PIOTRKOW TRYBUNALSKY STATE ARCHIVES: TOMASZOW MAZOWIECKI IDENTITY CARD FILES

1929-1939 RECORDS OF THE CITY OF TOMASZOW MAZOWIECKI

https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/de/zespol?p_p_id=Zespol&p_p_lifecycle=1&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&_Zespol_javax.portlet.action=zmienWidok&_Zespol_nameofjsp=jednostki&_Zespol_id_zespolu=80140

 The files are about both Jews & non-Jews. Many include photos, parents' names, addresses, ages, etc. 

If you look at the "Tag" labels, the names are listed for each file. You can click on this to access the person's file.

1918 Archival Information: Asylum For The Mentally Ill

STATE ARCHIVES IN LODZ: Fund-- Jewish Community of Lodz

https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/11314628?_Jednostka_delta=1&_Jednostka_resetCur=false&_Jednostka_cur=3&_Jednostka_id_jednostki=11314628

YEAR: 1918

"Mentally Ill At 17 Wesola Street" [259 pages]

Page translated by Google Translate:

Some Names:

Scan 15-16

Beila FASS, 57: 

mentally ill, epilepsy, arteriosclerosis, enlarged heart (signed by physician & dated 16 Oct 1917.)

Josef FASS: her husband.

Lived in Lodz/Baluty

Husband's request for poverty assistance; possible transfer/admission to Kochanowka psychiatric institution. 

[Info. as translated by ChatGPT]

Scan18

Malstina MILLER: 

unmarried; no parents

Scan 19

signed by Helena NEUMANOWA, curator of Asylum for the Mentally Ill.

Scan 21

Selection of women to serve as patrons/guardians/volunteers for mentally ill patients. This was a list of proposed women's names and their addresses.

Scans 22-25 

Dr. Eliasberg

Rifka JAKUBOWICZ, 20: 

Post-typhus symptoms of "mental disturbances"/ episodic, transient. Recommended placement in a general hospital. Headaches.

Summary (according to translation from Claude.ai [I am unsure of Claude's accuracy])--

Ryfka was taken into custody by the vice police on 26 Dec. 1917, for improper/indecent conduct and, citing a doctor's certificate describing "mental disturbances", pushed to have her institutionalized since her parents were unable to keep her at home. 

A doctor's opinion pushed back--attributing her symptoms (headaches) to lingering effects of typhus, noting she was treatable as an outpatient, stating that commitment to a psychiatric hospital was unnecessary.

Note written by S.M. Bender, Ryfka's parent, acknowledging responsibility for providing her with personal items and payment for costs of confinement in asylum for the mentally ill at Wesola St., #17.

Scans 35, 37-39

Scan 37: 

Cecylia vel Cyr_  FUKS:

Request by husband, Dawid FUKS (residing at Zgierska St, #43-45)--States wife, Cecylia, was mentally ill due to the war. He's in a state of poverty with three children. Prior to war, he was the manager of several buildings; now manager of only one, with no other income. Requested placement of wife in hospital for the mentally ill in Kochanowka.

No vacancies available in Kochanowka.

Doctor tried to visit Cecylia at home but doors were locked & no one was home.

Continue to rest of scans for additional names & other information. Use your favorite translators, as needed. I used: Google Translate, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude. I can't guarantee that the translations are all accurate.

1918 LODZ ARCHIVES: VARIED CERTIFICATES

 

Individual certificates issued by the Jewish Community Council in Lodz. 

In addition to names, many addresses are included.

https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/11314653?_Jednostka_delta=1&_Jednostka_resetCur=false&_Jednostka_cur=2&_Jednostka_id_jednostki=11314653

Index:https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/11314653?_Jednostka_delta=1&_Jednostka_resetCur=false&_Jednostka_cur=5&_Jednostka_id_jednostki=11314653

Some Names on certificates:

Rejle SZWARCBARD (signatures of Siegfried Lande, L. Szwarcman)

Fajei GROSS

Fajga BORNSTEIN

Pinkus SIERADZKIEGO (Sieradzky?), Rebece (Rebecca?) SIERADZKIEJ

Noska PRASZKIERA--burial certif. , Salezem MAJMONOWI

Chana LIDZBARSKA, widow--financial need

Erben S. SCHEPS--heirs applied for a burial plot in local cemetery

Pauliny  HASENFELD---3yrs old; died in Budapest; buried in 1916. Adolf KON, attorney-at-law.

Dr. Szmon HARTMAN A- died at age of 31 in Lodz; buried 5 Mar. 2018.

Mordcha GOLDMANN--proof of salary

Icek Joel NAJMAN--died in 1915, age 44; buried 5 Mar. 1915 in local commune cemetery. Certificate issued to Mr. Brusze Dwojrze NAJMAN. Proof of death & burial.

Hersz BIBERGAL--request for exemption of tuition fees to Jagiellonian University in Krakow for son, Samuel BIBERGAL, due to lack of funds.

Siegfried LANDE

Jan POLAK--proof of unemployment & lack of funds; request for exemption for payment of tuition fees to University of Warsaw.

Wladyslaw POLAK---proof of lack of funds; request for fee exemption. Llived at 54 Panska St., Lodz. (same address as Jan)--brother to Jan. Also, requested issuance of an exemption certificate for his brother, Jan, and himself, for payment of fees to U. of Warsaw.

Olga KEMPNER--widow of Leopold. Request for support due to lack of funds.

Szlojma GRUNBLATT--exemption from paying community taxes due to poverty.

Heinruch FLIEDERBAUM--exempt from paying community taxes due to poverty.

Sura Branel SILBERSTEIN--not required to pay community taxes.

Enoch Sindel KUSCHER--due to lack of funds, not required to pay muicipal contributions.

Mrs. ROCHMS & son, Schmul--not responsible of municipal dues.

Michal RUNDBERG---granted 4-week leave of absence.

Szlama LEDERMAN--funeral director. lack of funds.

For further information, see the archival records.

1917 LODZ: REGISTER OF PAYMENTS TO GUARDIANS OF ORPHANS

https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/11314591

The archive's title card: 

Archiwum Panstwowe W Lodzi: State Archives in Lodz

Zespol: Lodzka Gmina Wyznaniowa Zydowska: Fond/record grp: jewish Religious Community of Lodz.

MIKR. 29648: Microfilm reel # 29648

Unit/signatura 86

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This is a wartime (1917) Jewish orphan-support payroll list.  

The information shows orphans receiving financial support through a Jewish communal structure in wartime Lodz.

These lists provide guardians' names, names of Jewish children who lost parents during war years (this doesn't mean that the parents died because of the war). It includes guardians' Lodz addresses, numbers of children cared for [dzieci/dziecko= child/children] and their names, and sums paid in marks [Mk].

Left column: surnames & addresses, Middle: number of children, Right: children's names & amounts in marks.

1942 WWII: List of those punished for illegal trade

 The list is from the Polish Genealogical Society:

Masovian Voivodeship, Warsaw Municipality; State Archives in Warsaw

https://skanoteka.genealodzy.pl/id4608-sy278-se

Click on each link, above to get to pages of lists. There are 156 names. Most seemed to have financial punishments; some were sent to Treblinka as well.

The information is in German. The form is filled in with handwritten German.

The title & column headings translate to English, as follows:

     

Here is a careful column‑by‑column translation into English:

1. Lfd. Nr. – Serial no. / running no.

2. Tgb. Nr. – Register no. (literally “diary number,” i.e., case file number)

3. Name des Täters – Name of the offender

4. Wohnung – Residence / address

5. Halt – Status (likely marital or personal status; exact nuance depends on context and is not fully clear from the snippet)

6. Haftentlassung – Release from custody

7. Datum des Strafbescheides – Date of the penal order / judgment of punishment

8. Strafgrund – Reason for punishment / grounds for penalty

9. Geldstrafe – Monetary fine

10. Ersatzhaft – Substitute imprisonment (imprisonment in lieu of unpaid fine)

11. Kosten – Costs (court/legal costs)

12. Geldstrafe eingegangen – Fine received (payment of the fine recorded)

13. Ersatzhaft von / bis – Substitute imprisonment from / until

14. Bemerkungen – Remarks / comments

The large title Strafliste at the top means “penalty list” or “list of punishments.”

Page #1: https://skanoteka.genealodzy.pl/index.php?op=pg&id=4608&se=&sy=278&kt=&plik=001.jpg

MARTYROLOGY OF THE VITEBSK JEWS: Book of Memory

https://mishpoha.org/martirolog/martirolog.pdf

[edited by Arkady Podlipsky, Arkady Shulman]

 " This book contains the names of Vitebsk Jews who died on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War [WWII], were tortured by the Nazi invaders and their collaborators in the ghettos of Vitebsk and other cities, were victims of political repression, and died since 1940 and are buried both in Vitebsk and beyond."

This book is written in printed Russian Cyrillic (273 pages). As needed, use your favorite translation tool.

Image 5 (i.5): 

Vitebsk Jews who died in battles against Nazism in 1941-45

Examples (translated, alphabetical): 

Image 98:

Jews who died in occupied Vitebsk 1941-44

Image 132:

Vitebsk Jews of politcal repression

Images 153-154:

Key to Abbreviations

Vitebsk Jews: Died in Vitebsk

Image 249:

Vitebsk residents who died outside of Vitebsk