Brest, Belarus
Alternate names: Brest [Bel], Brest Litovsk [Rus], Brześć Litewski [Pol], Brześć nad Bugiem [Pol, 1918-39], Brisk [Yid], Brasta [Lith], Brest Litowsk, Brisk Dlita, Brisk de-Lita, Brześć-Litewsk, Brist nad Bugie, Bzheshch nad Bugyem, Bieraście
Region: Grodno Coordinates: 52°06' N, 23°42' E
Brest Landsmanshaft Cemetery Plots in the New York Area:
•Brisk Benevolent Association – Mt. Zion Cemetery - Path 20 Right, Gate 5; Path 14 Right, Gate 7
•Brisker Benevolent Society – Beth David (Elmont) Cemetery - Section H, Block 2
•Brisker Benevolent Society – New Montefiore Cemetery - Section 6, Block 6
•Brisker Cechanovtzer Frat Organization – Wellwood Cemetery- Block 38, Section 2
•Brisker Congregation (Synagogue) – Grove Street & South Orange Ave – Grove Street (maps #5 & 6)
•Brisker Ladies Benevolent Association – Mt. Hebron Cemetery - Block 3, Path 11
•Brisker Lodge #337 - Independent Order Brith Sholom – Mt. Lebanon (NY) - Block J, Section 7
•Brisker Lodge #682 - Independent Order Brith Abraham – Mt. Judah - Section 2, Block 1
•Brotherhood & Benevolent Society of the People of Brisk De Litau Inc. - Montefiore Cem. - Block 16, Gate 502/W
•Brotherhood & Benevolent Society of the People of Brisk Delita Inc. - Montefiore Cem. - Section 6, Block 12
•Chevra Ahavat Achim Brisk D'Lita – Washington (B'klyn) Cem. - Section 1, Post 59, 93 & 118; Section 4, Post 461
•Chevra Ahavath Sholem Mebrisk Delito – Mt. Zion Cemetery - Path 9 Left, Gate 2
•Brisker Lodge #565 - Independent Order Brith Abraham – Mt. Hebron Cemetery - Block 3, Path 20
•Independent Brisker – Grove Street & South Orange Ave - Union Field - Map #6; Talmud Torah - Map #12
•Independent Brisker Young Men – Montefiore Cemetery - Block 16, Gate 357/N
•Independent Brisker Young Men – Beth Israel Memorial Park Cemetery - Block 11B
•Progressive Brisker Benevolent Association – Beth Israel Memorial Park - Block 11B
•Progressive Brisker Benevolent Association – Mt. Zion Cemetery - Path A Left, Gate 24
•United Brisker Ben Society - Beth David (Elmont) Cemetery - Section B, Block 6
Two other good sources for material:
•Ellis Island Database.
•Yad Vashem Pages of Testimony.
Links
The JewishGen Belarus Database is a multiple-database search containing more than 500,000 entries from Belarus which incorporates the following databases: JewishGen Family Finder )JGFF), JRI -Poland, Yizkor Book Necrologies, JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR), Birth Records, Marriage Records, Belarus Names Database, Jewish Religious Personnel in the Russian Empire, 1853-1854, Revision Lists and much more! The database is a work in progress and new entries are being added regularly.
The URL for the JewishGen Belarus Database:
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Poland/
http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/
http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/
Translation of Brisk de-Lita: Encycolpedia Shel Galuyot
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Brest2/Brest2.html
Translation of Brisk Edicion Aniversario
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/brest/brest.html
Translation of “Brest” chapter from Pinkas Hakehillot Polin
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/pinkas_poland/pol5_00226.html
The Brest Ghetto Passport Archive
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Belarus/brest.htm
The Brest conscripts database
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/lists_of_conscripts_for_brest_1891_1918.htm
Other Links of interest:
International Jewish Cemetery Project
Report on the Brest Cemetery
http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/belarus/brest.html
The 2 entire Belarus Yizkor Books were scanned by The New York Public Library, Dorot Jewish Division.. All the pages can be viewed in the original format:
Brisḳ-de-Liṭa / ha-ʻorekh (1954)
http://yizkor.nypl.org/index.php?id=1828
Entsiḳlopedyah shel galuyot = Entsiḳlopedye fun di goles lender : Brisḳ de-Liṭa (1958)
http://yizkor.nypl.org/index.php?id=1834
The Brest-Belarus Group
Brest-Litovsk – Jewish Virtual Library
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0004_0_03518.html
Brest, Belarus Postcard
http://www.edwardvictor.com/Brest.htm
Brest Jews Commemorate Ghetto Prisoners
http://www.eurojewcong.org/belarus/5244-brest-jews-commemorate-ghetto-prisoners.html
Brest-Litovsk - from The Jewish Encyclopedia
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/je_brest_litovsk.htm
The Diary of Rabbi Rozenblum
http://brest-belarus.org/bc/RozenblumDiary/overview.i.html
Headstones in Brest
Brest, Belarus
Brisk בריסק
•Yizkor Books (5 Books):
◦Sefer ir tehila (Warsaw, 1886)
◦Brisk Edicion Aniversario (Buenos Aires, 1953)
◦Pinkas ha-kehilot; entsiklopediya shel ha-yishuvim le-min hivasdam ve-ad le-aher shoat milhemet ha-olam ha-sheniya: Poland vol. 5: Volhynia and Polesie (Jerusalem, 1990)
•JOWBR Landsmanshaft:
Town District Province Country
Before WWI (c.1900): Brest Brest Grodno Russian Empire
Between the wars (c. 1930): Brześć nad Bugiem Brześć nad Bugiem Polesie Poland
After WWII (c. 1950): Brest Soviet Union
Today (c. 2000): Brest Belarus
Jewish Population in 1900: 30,608 (in 1897), 21,796 (1929)
Russian: Брест-Литовск. Belarusian: Брэст. Yiddish: בריסק
Major city in SW Belarus.
Capital of Polesie province of Poland, 1918-1939.
Nearby Jewish Communities:
•Terespol, Poland 6 miles WSW
•Chernavchitsy 8 miles N
•Kodeń, Poland 14 miles SSW
•Zhabinka 15 miles ENE
•Piszczac, Poland 16 miles SW
•Volchin 21 miles NW
•Zamosty 21 miles NNE
•Kamyanyets 21 miles NNE
•Janów Podlaski, Poland 22 miles WNW
•Charniany 23 miles ESE
•Vysokaye 23 miles NW
•Biała Podlaska, Poland 24 miles W
•Abramovo 25 miles N
•Domachëvo 25 miles S
•Sławatycze, Poland 25 miles SSW
•Łomazy, Poland 27 miles WSW
•Niemirów, Poland 27 miles WNW
•Malaryta 27 miles SE
•Konstantynów, Poland 27 miles WNW
•Wisznice, Poland 29 miles SW
•Kobryn 29 miles ENE
•Rossosz, Poland 30 miles SW
Additional information for Brest:
•Encyclopedia of Jewish Life (2001), pp. 195-196: "Brest-Litovsk".
•Pinkas HaKehilot, Poland, Vol. 5 (1990), pp. 226-237: "Brześć nad Bugiem".
•Shtetl Finder (1989), p. 10: "Brest Litovsk, Brisk, Brisk D'Lita".
•Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego (1880-1902), I, pp. 399-404: "Brześć Litewski".
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