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Novogrudok

Novogrudok, Novogrudok uyezd, Minsk gubernia
Latitude: 53º36' Longitude: 25º50'
Also known as NAVAHRUDAK, NOVOGROUDOK, NOVOGRUDEK, and NOWOGRODEK 73.7 miles WSW of Minsk
Jewishgen; Novogrudok, Novogrudok uyezd, Minsk gubernia, Belarus
1906 Novogrodok Uyezd Duma List, A-H
August 7, 1942 list of Novogrudok victims
shot, hung, and tortured to death
contributed by Henryk Limon
1929 Polish Business Directory - Nowogrodek Province
Compiled by Ellen Sadove Renck
Novogrudok Draft evaders- May 10, 1880

http://www.novogrudek.org.il

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The Bielski brothers, founding member of the Bielski partisan group ( The movie Defiance is about them) ; From Left Zusia (1906-1987), Asael (killed on the Soviet front in 1944) and Tuvia (1906-1987)

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#novo-29: Members of the He - Chaluts movement in Novogrudok (Novogrudek). In the photo: Chaim Rodner (top row, third from the left). Photographed in 1930.
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#novo-31: Danuta Joselewicz. Her "Aryan" name was Teresa Wolska. She was born in Novogrudok (Novogrudek) in 1938, the daughter of Aharon and Sala. Her parents perished. Danuta was redeemed from Christians by the Coordinatsia. Album of Masza Kaplinski
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The synagogue

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THE MONOSSON AND RABINOWITZ FAMILIES
Novogrudok
-- For more information go to:
http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/pfh.novogrudok-mon-rab.htm

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1935; Bracha and her sister at the grave of their mother: Leah Lutzki daughter of Moshe
The mother passed away in 1918.

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Hachalutz Members credit; Lutzky/ Horenstein family

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C 1900 ; on the right; Leah Lutsky, wife of Eliyahu; Mother Of Rivka, Zipora, Bracha and ?

credit: Bracha' grandson: Nadav Horenstein nadavh@iaa.gov.il

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Bracha Lutsky and her sisters c early 1930s' by the Zamok [citadel] mound with the ruin of the citadel of the ancient Lithuanian princes.
posted by Nadav ( Bracha' grandson)
From the list of perished:
LUCKI Izchak, Dowid, Jona, Szlomo, Duba and her 2 children

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Zipora Lutsky of Novogrodek 1925. Zipora sent the picture to her sister Rivka in Eretz Israel. Zipora perished in the holocaust. The picture was posted by the grandson of Bracha, the sister of Zipora and Rivka
Nadav Horenstein nadavh@iaa.gov.il

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The Lutsky family just before Bracha left for Eretz Israel in 1935. Other then Bracha everyone in the picture perished. Sister Rivka who survived was already in Israel when the picture was taken.
From: Brach' grandson; Nadav Horenstein nadavh@iaa.gov.il

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Bracha Lutzki/ Lutsky with her sister and brother in Novogrodok. The sister and brother perished. Bracha came to Israel in 1935.
posted by Bracha' grandson: Nadav Horenstein

 

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From the album of Bracha nee Luzki ( related to the Lubczanski family)

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Reportage in the "BERLINER KURIER" about Roman Kroke's illustration-project on the Bielski-Brothers
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=661707548#!

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Shlomo Stoler was born in 1926 to Tovah Gitl and Zelig. He escaped with his brother Yehuda from the Novogrodek ghetto and Joined the Bialski partisans. Yehuda and Shlomo joined the Red Army when the area was liberated and Shlomo was killed while fighting the Nazis in May of 1945.
Shlomo came to Israel in 1946. He the army and was killed during the Independence war at the end of 1948
http://www.izkor.mod.gov.il/izkor86.asp?t=91529

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David Volfowitz was born in Novogrodek in 1923.
a holocaust survivor he came to Israel in 1949.
To read about him click here

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Dr. Adi  Sulkin's mother is second from the left on the second row from bottom. Adi's mother attended the Tarbut school and lived with her amily across from the train station in novogrudok.
Adi is planing a trip there in a few months.

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Nachum Zeidel Kushner (left) with his daughter Reichel Kushner , son in law Joseph (changed his last name from Berkovitz to Kushner). They are holocaust survivors from Novogrudok, They were refugees and immigrated to the US in 1949. They are the grandparents of the son in law of Trump. Also pictured Nachum's granddaughter

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I came across your website while researching my genealogy. My grandmother was Rebecca Harkavy. She was born in Novardok.
I have a number of pictures that you'd probably find interesting. 
I'm attaching a picture of my grandmother in front of a grave.
I'm trying to figure out how she's related to the person who died December 17, 1917, according to the gravestone.

Yehuda Rapoport
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From the Jewish Encyclopedia:

NOVOGRUDOK: Russian town in the government of Minsk. The first mention of Jews in connection with Novogrudok dates back to 1484, when King Casimir Jagellon leased the customs duties of the place to Ilia Moiseyevich, Rubim Sakovich, Avram Danilovich, and Eska Shelemovich, Jews of Troki. Novogrudok is next mentioned in two documents of the year 1529. On Jan. 21 of that year the Jews there were made subject, with those of other Lithuanian towns, to the payment of a special military tax. On March 4, in the same year, King Sigismund ordered the waywode of Novogrudok to render all necessary aid to the farmer of taxes Michael Jesofovich in the collection of customs duties throughout the waywodeship. In a document of Nov. 27, 1551, Novogrudok is mentioned among the cities which were exempted from the payment of the special tax called the 'serebschizna.' In 1559 the city authorities of Novogrudok were ordered by the king to place no obstacles in the way of the Jewish leaseholders Jacob Ikhelovich of Brest-Litovsk and Nissan Khaimovich of Grodno in their work of collecting customs duties. By an edict dated Sept. 24, 1563, King Sigismund ordered the Jews of Novogrudok to settle in the lower part of the town on the streets Wilna and Trumko on the farther side of the castle, and to cease erecting new buildings on the street Podlyaskaya. The Jews were not prompt to comply with the new regulations, for in the following year the burghers of Novogrudok complained to the king that the Jews had failed to remove from houses on the street Podlyaskaya. In response to this complaint the Jews were ordered to pay a fine of 1,600 ducats, and to remove from buildings on that street. In 1565 the customs duties were farmed out to David Shmerlovich and his partners, all Jews of Brest-Litovsk. On July 20, 1576, King Stephen Bathori renewed the charter of privileges of the Novogrudok Jews. Among the prominent merchants of the town at that time was Lazar Shmoilovich. The Jewish sources give but little information on the history of the Novogrudok community. The gravestones in the old cemetery have been weathered until the inscriptions are no longer legible. Of the older cemetery, on the north side of the city, all traces have disappeared. Novogrudok is mentioned in one of the responsa of Solomon Luria (d. 1575). The prosperity of the community has decreased since the last Polish revolution. Albert Harkavy, the Orientalist, besides other members of that family, was born at Novogrudok. The following rabbis, among others, officiated there during the nineteenth century: David ben Moses (1794-1837; author of 'Galya Massekta,' responsa, halakic notes and sermons, Wilna, 1848); Alexander Susskind; Baruch Mordecai Lipschutz (author of ''Berit Ya’akob,' etc.; d. Shedlitz 1885). Novogrudok has a total population of 13,656, of whom 8,137 are Jews (1897).
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Russko Yevreiski Arkhiv, vol. I., Nos. 4, 130; vol. ii., Nos. 104, 184, 196, 202, 222, 249, 268; Regesty i Nadpisi; Ha-Zefirah, 1887, No. 280.Novogrudok was in the uyezdny gorod volost' (courtesy of Vitaly Charny)
There is an article about Novogrudok in the Encyclopedia Judaica. The article can be found in volume XII, page 1237-1238, and is 75 lines long. (contributed by Joel Spector)
There is an article about Novogrudok in the Jewish Encyclopedia. The article can be found in volume IX, page 342, and is 60 lines long. (contributed by Joel Spector)
There is an article about Novogrudok in the Russian language Jewish Encyclopedia (Evreiskaya Encyclopedia). The article can be found in volume XI, page 757, and is 47 lines long. (contributed by Joel Spector)
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BELARUS NEWSLETTER; Novogrudok,, an article from the Belarus SIG newsletter
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/newsletter/novogrudok.htm
Navagrudak, an article by Alex Friedman
http://www.beljews.info/Navagrudak.htm

Novogrudek

Author/s: Beyrak, Nathan, prod.; Turisky, Yossi, dir.

Language: English

Publication Year: 1988

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Abstract:

This short documentary features footage of an American Jewish immigrant's visit to his East European hometown, Novogrudek, located 80 miles south of Vilna. Shot in 1931, when over half the town's population was Jewish, this film records the Jewish community's social services, sports and educational activities, and religious and cultural life before the Second World War. This glimpse of pre-Holocaust Polish life is one of the only existing views we have of a world lost to us forever. While watching this film, the viewer will come to the chilling realization that few, if any, of the Jews filmed survived the Holocaust.

Novogrudek

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Presented by Naama Galil
Project Coordinator
Commemoration & Public relations Division
Yad Vashem
Tel: 02-6443146
Mobile: 050-9902283

A recently acquired a 38 minute DVD. It appears to have been made from some black and white silent home movies shot in 1931 in the shtetl of Novogrudak, now in the western part of Belarus, but in Poland in 1931. The film shows Jewish life in Novogrudak with clips of the Jewish Cemetery, hospital, old age home, synagogue, schools,etc. In addition, there are views of market day, stores, and other street scenes. There are some captions in Hebrew and English and there is Yiddish music that plays in the background.

Even if your family shtetl is other then Novogrudak, the film provides some valuable insight in how our ancestors lived in the "old country".

 

I will provide a copy of the DVD to anyone who makes a minimum donation of $100 US to the Belarus SIG general fund
<http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/belarus.html > between January 21 and February 21, 2005. Just email me a copy of the donation acknowledgement message you receive from JewishGen along with you postal mailing address. I will only be able to send copies to locations outside of the US and Canada via surface mail, because of the high postal
costs. This is a SIG fundraiser.

 

David Fox
Mail to: davefox73@earthlink.net
Belarus SIG Coordinator
Arnold, MD USA
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus
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I stem from Novogrudok (Russian) or Navaredok (Yiddish). I have a copy of the film. It was made for Alexander Harkavy, a native son and a well known writer and activist from New York, by a film crew from Warsaw during Harkavy's visit to Novogrudok in 1931. The film is unnique and well known among the students of the Jewish communities of those times. A local (Melbourne Australia) lady is using the film in her lectures on the period. Anyone who is interested in the existance and institutions in Navaredok can learn more at: http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Novogrudok/Novogrudok.html where the Yizkor book of Navaredok is being translated.

Best regards,
O. Delatycki

http://www.novogrudek.co.uk/intro/
The story of the Jewish population of Novogrudek, a shtetl in Eastern
Europe during the interwar and wartime years.
http://www.pbase.com/mkotler/novogrudek
The following might be of particular interest to those with connections
to
the towns of Lida and Novagrudek.
On Sunday, November 12 at 4pm (EST) the History Channel will present a
production "The Bielski Brothers: Jerusalem in the Woods:" 1,200
Jews
survived the Nazi occupation of Belarussia by taking refuge in the
forest
haven created by these Jewish resistance fighters.
"The Bielski Brothers: Jerusalem In The Woods"
features an interview with the last surviving Bielski
brother... Aron Bielski was twelve years old when he
entered the forest with his older siblings. The
documentary also contains interviews with decendents
of Tuvia, Zus and Asael Bielski and more than a dozen
Bielski Brigade survivors from the United States,
Israel and Great Britain. "The Bielski Brothers:
Jerusalem In The Woods" proudly pays tribute to three
of the greatest unsung heroes of the Holocaust.
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