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Soly
Soly, Belarus 54°31' 26°11' 70.2 miles NW of Minsk
Near Smorgon, by the road Minsk to Vilna.
Was Part of Poland between the wars, part of the Russian empire before the first world war.
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#soly-7: Zarazki Yaakov was born in Soly in 1901 to Pinchas and Zipora Feiga (Nee Horvitz). He was married to Rivka ( nee Meler) They had two children. The family lived in Michilzuk (near Vilna) . Yaakov perished in 1943. reported by his brother; Reuven Agmon in Jerusalem.
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Shraga Mostvilishker/ Gishry was born in Soly in 1914. He came to Eretz Israel in the 1930 and lived in Kibutz Ganigar with his wife and 2 children. He fall as a soldier in 1948. To read about him GO TO http://www.izkor.gov.il/izkor86.asp?t=77003
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Three Mir Yehshiva students with their teacher. The students ( from right to left), Meir Matzkevich, Reuwen Arotzker and Izchak Srebnik, from the town Soly, dedicated a poem to their teacher on the back of the photograph. The three boys were murdered in Ponary in April 1943. picture taken; July 25,1938
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April 5, 1943: Three hundred Jews from Soly and Smorgon, Belorussia, are transported by rail westward to Vilna, Lithuania. En route, the captives shatter the railcars' wire-reinforced glass and attempt to flee, but are shot to death by guards. The survivors are later shot at Ponary, southwest of Vilna, by German and Lithuanian SS troops.
Soly was part of the Vilna district before the war ( until 1939). After the 1790s it became part of the Russian Empire.
in 1847 the Jewish community included 245 people. By 1897 the Jewish community increased to 530, the entire population that year was 981 ( 451 non Jews). During the first world war some Jewish home were destroyed ( total of 28 homes).
After the war ended the area changed rulers many times. by 1920 it became part of Poland. The community was rehabilitated with the help of the Yekopo relief organization. there were 130 Jewish families in Soly ( about half of the population) by 1930. After some years Polish economic rules changed, favoring non Jews. The Jews had a very hard time , they could not compete with the Polish people who were undermining their livelihood.
The Soviets entered the area in September of 1939. Zionist organization were disallowed. Some Jews were sent to Siberia. in June of 1941 the Germans took control. A Judenrat and a ghetto were established and Jews were forced to work as slaves to the Germans. The Jews suffered greatly. The ghetto was one of four where Jews from Vilna were transferred.
In 1943 the Jews were told that they are going to be evacuated to Vilna and Kovno. They were taken directly to Ponar and killed.
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The Gordon line is via my mom's 2nd marriage and I was adopted.
This line goes back at least to Abba and Rache Gordon in Soly, Grodno, now Belarus.  They would be my 2nd great grand. 
Their pics are attached.  You may add their photos at your discretion, if you want.

My aunt found this record which is attached.  One page of it is missing from the book.  I think it may be the genealogy going back to Soly, but I cannot read it.  The Gordin-Gordon connection may apply to you with the Soly location.   I don't know if it is Hebrew or Yiddish.