Navahrudak, Belarus 

                                                                                                                     

                    Novogrudok, Navaredok    

                                                                 

Alternate names: Navahrudak [Bel], Novogrudok [Rus], Nowogródek [Pol], Navaredok [Yid], Naugardukas [Lith], Novaredok, Novogrudek, Novohorodok, Novradok, Nowogrudok, Nowogradek, Navharadak, Nawahradak

Region: Minsk                                                        Coordinates: 53°36' N, 25°50' E                    

1. •Yizkor Books (4 Books):
   

1. ◦Pinkas Navaredok (Tel Aviv, 1963) 

   

   
   

2. ◦Be'ghetto Novogrudok ve'Betnua Ha'Partizanit (Tel Aviv, 1988)
   

3. ◦Pinkas ha-kehilot; entsiklopediya shel ha-yishuvim le-min hivasdam ve-ad le-aher shoat milhemet ha-olam ha-sheniya: Poland vol. 8: Vilna, Białystok, Nowogródek districts (Jerusalem, 2005)
   

4. ◦Novogrudok: The History of a Jewish Shtetl (London; Portland, OR, 2006)
   

2. 
   

1. •JOWBR: Jewish Cemetery
   

 

                                                                    Town                                    District                            Province                            Country

Before WWI (c. 1900):                      Novogrudok                        Novogrudok                 Minsk                                  Russian Empire

Between the wars (c. 1930):            Nowogródek                       Nowogródek                Nowogródek                     Poland

After WWII (c. 1950):                        Novogrudok                                                                                                                 Soviet Union

Today (c. 2000):                                  Navahrudak                                                                                                                 Belarus

Jewish Population in 1900:

5,015 (in 1897), 6,309 (in 1931)

Belarusian: Навагрудак. Russian: Новогрудок. Yiddish: נאַוואַרעדאָק

82 miles  131 km E of Hrodna (Grodno), 74 miles  118 km WSW of Minsk, 33 miles  53 km NNW of Baranavichy, 29 miles 46 km SE of Lida.

Novogrudok Landsmanshaft Information

Novogrudok / Navaredok  Landsmanshaft Cemetery Plots in the New York Area:

•Independent Nowaridoker Association – Washington (Brooklyn) Cemetery - Section 5, Post 515

•Navaredker Brothers Association – Beth Moses Cemetery -  Block 14, Section 2

•Navaredker Lodge #536 IOBA - Union Field (Ridgewood, NY0 Cemetery - Block 73

•Navaredker Lodge #536 IOBA - Beth David (Elmont) -  Section AA, Block 9 -

•Navaridok Brothers Association - Mt. Zion Cemetery - Path D6 Left, Gate 13

•Navaridok Brothers Association - Mt. Lebanon (NY) Cemetery - Block M, Section 17

•Navaridok Brothers Association - Beth Moses Cemetery - Block 14, Section 2

•Nawaredker Brothers Verein - Washington (Brooklyn) Cemetery - Section 3, Post 299

Additional information for Navahrudak:

1. •Encyclopedia of Jewish Life (2001), pp. 908-909: "Nowogrodek".
   

2. •Pinkas HaKehilot, Poland, Vol. 8 (2005), pp. 430-437: "Nowogródek".
   

3. •Shtetl Finder (1989), p. 64: "Novradok".
   

4. •Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego (1880-1902), VII, pp. 255-263: "Nowogródek".
   

5. •JewishGen Belarus SIG
   

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/

 

Special Interest Group (SIG) webpage

http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/

Translation of the Pinkas Navaredok / Navaredok Yizkor Book:

http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Novogrudok/Novogrudok.html

Translation of “Novogrudok” chapter from Pinkas Hakehillot Polin

http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Pinkas_poland/pol8_00430.html

Description of the Navahrudak Jewish Cemetery:

http://www.iajgs.org/cemetery/belarus/navahrudak.html

The Pinḳes Naṿaredoḳ / Yizkor Book was scanned by The New York Public Library, Dorot Jewish Division.

All the pages can be viewed in the original format:

http://yizkor.nypl.org/index.php?id=2479

The Jewish Ghetto –Navahrudak

http://museumoffamilyhistory.com/ce/ghetto/novogrudok-03.htm

NOVOGRUDOK - Jewish Encyclopedia

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11611-novogrudok

Jewish Novogrudok. This includes photgraphs of the tombstones in the cemetery.

https://sites.google.com/site/jewishnovogrudok/

                                                                                                      

A description of Novogrudok before WWI

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/newsletter/novogrudok.htm

An online exhibit about the history of Jewish Novogrudok

http://www.novogrudek.co.uk/intro/

An article from the New York Times on May 28, 2000 about the Bielski Brothers

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/28/nyregion/heroes-among-us.html?pagewanted=1

A visit to Novogrudok by Mitch Kotler in 2001

https://sites.google.com/site/jewishnovogrudok/mitch-a-visit-to-novogrudok

Rae Kushner Leads Daring Escape Through Tunnel

http://www.timesofisrael.com/jared-kushners-family-is-a-legend-in-this-belarus-town/#.WT0aA-9ib7E.email

Info please - Lyubcha or Navahrudak

https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Lyubcha/Info_Please.html