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Welcome to the Lyakhovichi Shtetl Website
You are looking at the simplified,
easier-to-navigate Home page of the Lyakhovichi shtetl website.
As of May 2008
there are over 120 separate pages
on the site, each with multiple articles, indices, and images.
The right-hand column
on every page is a Table of Contents with Links to each and every page across this site.
You can get
to any page on the website by clicking on its page link in that column.
The Table of Contents begins with a set of people-finding tools to help you find people named on every page on our site. The first is a Surname Index currently divided over seven pages.
That is followed by pages of a Given Name Index, Patronymics, Women in the Revision Lists, an Index to our Immigration Lists, and a very special visual archive called FaceIndex.
The Table of Contents continues with a set of information-finding tools to help you move around the site better. Look to the Detailed Guide to the Table of Contents for descriptions of the articles you will find linked in the right-hand columns of each page and for a Site-Map and Article Index. Go there first to look for a subject of interest or to see what we include in a specific article.
We have tried to make the pages less visually confusing. We have created new pages for some of the information that had previously been on the Lyakhovichi Home Page i.e.: History of the Lyakhovichi Website; Photo Headlines; the Detailed Table of Contents; and an important new stop on your tour -New Additions to Our Site.
We then concentrated on presenting the information in a
more comfortable field of view on your monitor and to create a more
inviting first impression. The purpose of every page on this site is
to create an environment in which you feel welcome to participate in
the documentation of the history of Lyakhovichi's Jews. We need your photos, documents, and family stories. We need the questions that spur us to new discoveries
and the observations you have made in your own searching.
You can write to us, by clicking Contact . Gary Palgon has agreed to be our
single point of contact, and he will answer and/or forward your queries to Deborah Glassman
and Dr. Lamdan. Please write Lyakhovichi in the subject area of any email you send him.
1910 Funeral filling the street with Lyakhovichi Jews
This picture was selected for several reasons and tells multiple stories.
1) It shows the main business street of the town with its solid masonry buildings
and cobblestone paving, and that a thousand Jews could fill it from end to end. You will see it in another picture holding military divisions on parade when reviewed by an Archduke in 1915 and you will see it in a third when men in horse-drawn sledges used it as a winter highway. This is the same Market Square into which the Nazis gathered the Jews of Lyakhovichi before murdering so many.
2) It documents an event that the Jews felt
an obligation to witness, while experiencing an incredible sense of loss and shame. The death was of a well-liked young man who died
in a senseless political argument between two groups of Jewish activists. One man was buried and another was helped to run
for his life. Look at the picture and know that Lyakhovichi life was not a nostalgia-filled picture book, it was all-too real for both good and bad.
If you want to learn more about this particular funeral, come to where it is movingly described in a memoir we publish across five full webpages A Walk through my Devastated Shtetl" by Avrom Lev, translated by Neville Lamdan. (You can also access it from any page on this site under the Table of Contents heading Biographies, Family Stories, and Memoirs: Lyakhovichi, pre-1914
3) This picture is also a demonstration of the new possibilities in technological genealogy. We recently
took a picture with over two hundred attendees at a dinner in 1923 and created individual portraits of many. Imaging recoginition software may allow us to eventually seek connections between living people and their relatives in this photo. Please share your
group photos as well as your individual portraits, as we seek out the history and fate of every Jew of this town!
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this is a brand new counter we are adding in July 2008. The other way you can let us know if our pages are effective is to email us and tell us what you like!
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Compiled by Deborah G. Glassman
First Posting by DGG Dec 2004, Updates July 2005, Nov 2007, Winter 2008. Most Recent Update May 2008.
There are around 130 separate pages on this
site in 2008, All copyright of each page (unless designated elsewhere on
the specific page) is retained to Deborah G. Glassman.
Copyright © 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008
Deborah G. Glassman
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research materials by volunteering or by offering resources, or you would like to be kept
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Genealogy. If you have been aided in your research by this site and wish to
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