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Poetry by Mira Łuksza
On April 2013 visit
of Israeli students to
Narewka
In Memory of
Leon Leyson
Native of Narewka
Youngest Holocaust Survivor on
Schindler's List
Watch online SHOAH Foundation's 1995 interview with Leon Leyson
Coming soon!
Narevker Untershititsungs
Ferayn: Konstitushon - נארעווקער אונטערשטיצונג פעראיין : קאנסטיטושאן
1900 pamphlet of
New York Landsmanschaft
In Memory of Moshe Birenbaum
(13 November 1918, Narewka - 24 February 2011)
Recovered Jewish
Gravestones - New!
Recent Meeting of
Israeli and Polish
Students in Narewka
See Visits in Narewka
100th Anniversary of the
TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE:
25 March 1911
25 March 2011
Anna Altman, victim,
native of Narewka
25 March 1911
25 March 2011
Anna Altman, victim,
native of Narewka
Take a look at the
Photo Album of the Narewka Jewish Cemetery Gravestones with Translations of
Inscriptions
Photo Album of the Narewka Jewish Cemetery Gravestones with Translations of
Inscriptions
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Narewka
נרבקה | נארעווקע | Наревка Poland This website is
dedicated to the study of Jewish family
history in the town of Narewka, now in Poland, but formerly in
the Grodno Gubernia of the Russian Empire, and to the memory of
its Jewish community. Today, those with
ancestors from Narewka live in many
locations throughout the world, including
Argentina, Australia, Canada, England,
Ireland, Israel, Mexico, and the United
States.
Narewka is located in northeastern Poland near the Belarus border; it is situated by the Narewka River, a tributary of the Narew River, and the Białowieża Forest. Before WWI, Narewka was in the Prużany District, Grodno Gubernia, Russia. After WWI and before WWII, Narewka was in the Bielsk Podlaski District, Bialystok Region, Poland. Today the village is the seat of Gmina Narewka, a rural administrative district in Powiat Hajnowski (Hajnówka County), Podlaskie Voivodeship.
NAREWKA - NOT TO
BE CONFUSED WITH NAREW!
Maps & Gazeteers In Memory of Leon Leyson (Leib Lejzon) (15 September 1929 - 12 January 2013)  Native of Narewka, moved to Krakow with his family when he was nine years old. An inspiration for this website. New: Watch online: Leon Leyson's 1995 Shoah Foundation testimony, about his early life in Narewka, his family, his experiences during the Holocaust and how he was saved by Oskar Schindler. Go to the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive Online. You need to register online and then search by the Leyson name or interview code 8916. Obituaries: Youngest Holocaust Survivor on Schindler's List Holocaust Survivor remembered as educator Little Leyson, The Schindler Story Additional Videos: Holocaust Survivor Leon Leyson Tells His Story Leon Leyson: A Child on Schindler's List Leon Leyson - Schindler's List In Memory of Ida Sarah Schwartz, nee Linevsky, born in Narewka on 24 March 1919, died in Teaneck, New Jersey on 27 January 2013. Her parents were David Linevsky and Tillie Ain, whose wedding photograph from Narewka can be seen on this website. They emigrated to New York in 1920. Ida was named after her grandmother, Chaya Sara Ain. (Thanks to William Schwartz, son of Ida - more to come soon.) In Memory of Moshe Birenbaum (13 November 1918, Narewka - 24 February 2011) Narewka Photographs © Joy Kestenbaum 2010 I was inspired to create these ShtetLink pages after I returned from my trip to Poland in August of 2010. The pages are dedicated to my grandparents, Benjamin and Selina Freedman, both of whom were members of the Narevker Untershtitsungs Verein in New York, and, especially, to my grandfather, who was born in Narewka, and to the memory of all of those who perished, among whom were my grandfather's siblings and their families. My extended family is living in Argentina, England, Ireland, Israel, and at least eight states in the United States. I was named after my great-grandmother Chaya, the wife of Shepsel, from whom we are all descended. Please contact Joy
Kestenbaum for comments or
contributions.
Compiled by Joy Kestenbaum (jkestenb@gmail.com) Initially created December 2010 - Last updated January 2013 Copyright © 2010-2011 Joy Kestenbaum You are visitor # Thanks to Katarzyna (Kasia) Bielawska, Tomasz (Tomek) Wisniewski, Krzysztof (Chris) Malczewski, Lucja (Lucy) Lisowska, Dorota Michaluk, Mark Heckman, Jose Gutstein, Irit Gafni-Pinchovski, Leo Greenbaum, Yale J. Reisner, Anna Przybyszewska Drozd, Steven Lasky, Mira Łuksza; David Feldman, David Barton, Barbara Kotin, Batya Dashefsky, David Rosen, Jacque Caplan, Lauren Shulsky Orentein, Chaya Pressburger, Phillip Schreibman, Martin Jacobs, Donna Dubinsky, Tsipi Nimrod, Israel and Zvika Birenbaum, Barry Cohen, Barry Traub, Elmer Shapiro, William Schwartz and others descended from families from Narewka and nearby villages; Leon Leyson, who provided me with some of his childhood memories of my family in Narewka; members of my extended family, especially David Ziants and Rachel Hinterstein, and my mother and aunt, the late Rae Kestenbaum and Mona Brockman. The JewishGen Family Finder has helped to connect those with an interest in Narewka, as did Dan Jacob's email discussion group that started in the late 1990s. The photographs and documents on the Narewka JewishGen ShtetLinks website may not be copied or used in any form without permission of the contributor, owner and/or copyright holder of the image. They are the property of the person or the institution that has given permission for their publication exclusively on this website. This site is hosted at no cost by JewishGen, Inc., the Home of Jewish Genealogy. If you have been aided in your research by this site and wish to further our mission of preserving our history for future generations, your JewishGen-erosity is greatly appreciated. |
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Do Not
Miss - Important Audio-Video files
on the Narewka ShtetLink Pages:
Song written by Zvika Birenbaum, Principal of Adar School, Israel,
together with his students, soon after their visit to Narewka in May 2011
Leon Leyson Tells His Story - 2010 Lecture at the Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba
Song written by Zvika Birenbaum, Principal of Adar School, Israel,
together with his students, soon after their visit to Narewka in May 2011
Leon Leyson Tells His Story - 2010 Lecture at the Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba
To Complete the Circle -
Documentary about David Barton's 2009 visit to Narewka
Snila me sie Hana (I Dreamed of Hana) - 1999 Award-winning Polish documentary filmed in Narewka with interviews with Slavic Orthodox residents who reminisce about their former Jewish neighbors
Sylvia Effron Dashefsky's 1997 Ellis Island Oral History
Snila me sie Hana (I Dreamed of Hana) - 1999 Award-winning Polish documentary filmed in Narewka with interviews with Slavic Orthodox residents who reminisce about their former Jewish neighbors
Sylvia Effron Dashefsky's 1997 Ellis Island Oral History