KehilaLinks: Cherven , Belarus

Other Names

• Igumen - Greek for "father superior of a monastory"
• Ihumen, Ehumen or Yehumen ("G" is a very gutteral sound in Russian, often transliterated as "H")

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Geography

• Mapquest
• Map of Minsk Guberniya showing Igumen
• RussianMap showing Minsk and Igumen /Cherven (1915)
• French Map showing Igumen/Cherven (1915) found by Michael Steinore
  (shows "Igoumen" )
• Street Map of Cherven (circa 1980) original map
• Street Map of Cherven (circa 1980) edited for legibility
• Partisan map - donated by H. Cuckle.
• Large scale map of Igumen area - donated by H. Cuckle
• Aerial view of Igumen Donated by Bill Rubin.

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Cemetery

• How I came to visit my grandparents shtetl by H. Cuckle
• Description of current state
  Coming from Harold and Ed Cohen
• Photos of tombstones in Igumen, Belarus
• Map of Igumener Benevol. Assn section in Beth David cemetery, Elmont NY with names from Ed Cohen and Morris Thompson
• Igumen Chevra Kadisha (burial society) by H. Cuckle

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Photos

• Photo of the Igumen Fire Department
• Igumen Association meeting, 1974-75
• Shoah Memorial in Cherven, Belarus - donated by H. Cuckle
• Igumen photos: the main square - submitted by Ed. Cohen
• Town Photos in Igumen, Belarus
• Photos of tombstones in Igumen, Belarus
• Livshits school in Igumen, Belarus - donated by Yakov Livshitz

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History

• History of the town Coming soon
• Evreiskaya Encyclopedia Entry
• Napoleon and Igumen
• Massacre at Cherven. 1941
• Shoah Memorial in Cherven, Belarus
• Jewish population, 1897-1898
• Photos in Town of Cherven, Belarus
• Origin Coming soon
• Bibliography Coming soon

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Archives and Documents

• Igumener Landsmanshaft minutes at YIVO Jewish archives (RG 893)
• List of Members of the Igumener Landsmanshaft by Jerry Seligsohn
• Genealogical records for Igumen Uyezd, 1918-1923
• The main census data on Igumen uyezd Minsk province
• My Shtetl Website (in Russian. Open in Chrome browser and use Google translate)
  Carola Murray-Seegert very kindly brought this website to my attention. She writes:
  
  There are ten or more stories about families from Cherven / Igumen on a Russian website called My Shtetl. The tricky thing is, you have to go to the Russian language page for Cherven and then translate the stories (I have Google translate installed in my Chrome browser). The translation isn’t perfect, but is adequate for our purposes. The provided English version of the website does not include the same entries.
  Some of the stories (on the Russian version) include:
  

  - Terrible Truth About the War - Valentina Levina (family of Michael and Esther Margolin, ca 1941)
  - History of One Photo - (blacksmith Boruch Gelfand)
  - Memories of Movsha Samuilovich Muler
  - It was in Cherven - Leonid Smilovitsky
  - Execution - Nin Kumanyaeva
  - Vaennae Sirotsktiva = Aliaksandr Walawe
  - Rod-Kershteynov Margolin - Victoria Mochalov
  - Margolin Family Album (photos) - Victoria Mochalov
  - History of a Song - Eleanor Nisnevich
• Database of Names
  Please add names by sending to webmaster below

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Memoirs and Family Stories

• Nathan Lipson (Lipschitz) donated by Howard Cuckle
• A Trip to Cherven by Howard Cuckle
• Memories of Igumen by Morris Thompson
• Yaakov (Yankel) Gelfand by Jeff Malka
  See also
  Story of a photo
• Rose Rubincik: Memories of Igumen by Sasha Margolis
• The noted Yiddish poet H Leivick

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Searchable Databases

• JewishGen Family Finder (for Cherven )
  Would you like to connect with others researching Cherven ? Click the button to search the JewishGen Family Finder database.

  Minsk Guberniya Resources

  All Belarus Database

  The JewishGen Yizkor Book Necrology Database
  Contains over 12,000 entries for Belarus.

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