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18th- and 19th-century Jewish communal registers (pinkasim in Hebrew) obtained by special agreement with the Russian State Library.

The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic. See the "About" tab for details.

Details of four yizkor books and one communal history featured in Project Zikaron. See the "About" tab for details.

Documents associated with Rabbi Shimen Eisenberg, whose 2nd volume of memoirs was transcribed for Project Zikaron. See the "About" tab for details.

The manuscript of volume three of Avraham Shlomo Melamed's memoirs, which is included in Project Zikaron. See the "About" tab for details.

Three photographs of European Jews taken in the early 1910s. See the "About" tab for details.

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Rositsa (Rositse), Belarus (3)

55°55' N,27°45' E

Nearby Localities and Map
- Lyavonpal (Leonpol, Levinpol), Belarus 8 miles / 13 km
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- Piedruja (Pridruiska, Pridruysk), Latvia 14 miles / 23 km
- Druya (Druja, Druye), Belarus 15 miles / 24 km
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- Skaune (Polishcheno), Latvia 18 miles / 29 km
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- Druysk (Drujsk), Belarus 22 miles / 35 km
- Valyntsy (Volyntsy, Volynets, Volinits), Belarus 23 miles / 37 km
- Kraslava (Kreslavka, Kraslavye, Kreslavl), Latvia 23 miles / 37 km
- Slobodka (Slobodke), Belarus 27 miles / 43 km
- Borkavichy (Borkovichi, Borkovitsh), Belarus 28 miles / 45 km
- Kaunata (Kownat, Kovnat), Latvia 30 miles / 48 km
- Dzisna (Disna, Disne), Belarus 30 miles / 48 km
- Novy Pahost (Pohost Nowy, Novyy Pogost, Nay-Pohost), Belarus 31 miles / 50 km
- Bildyugi, Belarus 33 miles / 53 km
- Braslau (Braslav, Berslauja, Breslev), Belarus 34 miles / 55 km

Ohole-shem: kerakh rishon (1912) ( Communal Histories )
אהלי־שם: יכלכל תולדותיהם ויחוסיהם של רבני וגדולי הדור מכל תפוצות ישראל: כרך ראשון
Gotlib, Shmuel Noaḥ
See Note.
Vitebsk (1957) ( Yizkor Books )
וויטבסק
Sinagogi, Molitvenne Doma i Sostoyashchie pri nikh Dolzhnostne Litsa v Cherte Evreiskoi Osedlosti i Guberniyakh Kurlyandskoi i Liflyandskoi Rossiiskoi Imperii 1853-1854 [Synagogues, Prayer Houses and Their Employees in the Pale of Settlement and Kurland and Livonia Provinces of the Russian Empire, 1853-1854: Part 1] (1992) ( Communal Histories )
Синагоги, молитвенные дома и состоящие при них должностные лица в черте еврейской оседлости и губерниях Курляндской и Лифляндской Российской империи: 1853-1854: архивные материалы по истории и генеалогии еврейского народа
Deich, Genrikh Markovich
See Note.

External Links

Jewish History

JewishGen Yizkor Book Project: Vitebsk (1957)

General History

Wikipedia (English)

Holocaust

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - interviews

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - documents, photos, & artifacts

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