Online Record Availability of Chashniki

Aggregated by Ethan Parmet

Records Available on JewishGen

Census Lists and Lists of Jews

1911 Vsia Rossia Index: An index for a business directory of the Russian Empire.
- There are a total of 24 entries from Chashniki that you can check for here.

1894 Census: The 1894 revision list of Chashniki contains the names of all the registered Jews that the authorities could collect at the time, although coverage is not at 100%.
- You can view all 2,500 entries for the Chashniki census here.
- Additionally, you can check this index for a list of surnames that appear on Chashniki’s 1894 census.

Holocaust Victims: Rav Eliyahu Tavger compiled a list of Chashniki Jews who died in the Holocaust which can be viewed here.
- Additionally, a link to an index of the surnames and the results on JewishGen for them (as opposed to the off-site records), can be accessed here.

Metric Books & Vital Records

There are no current metric records available for Chashniki on JewishGen, although many Chashniki residents who settled in other towns but were still registered in Chashniki are indicated as such on their records.

Records Available On- & Off-line Outside of JewishGen

Russian Empire

The Center for Jewish History indexes the instance of an untitled collection of Chashniki records here.

The European Jewish Archives Portal lists the existence of 1913 and 1914 Chahniki Jewish birth records at archives here.

Holocaust

Available records for the town of Chashniki during the time of the Holocaust include:

The Yad Vashem Names Database contains some information on those during the Holocaust who were born, who lived, and who died in Chashniki (2,728 Entries)

Additionally, Yad Vashem has a short story about the slaughter of Chashniki Jews during Operation Barbarossa, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has a video interview of Chashniki Holocaust survivor Arkady Isakovich Pukhovitzki giving his testimony.

Modern & Soviet-era Records

The following link contains a PDF index to the 1922 family lists of Jews in Chashniki. I believe the original is held at the Vitebsk regional archives, but I am not positive.

The National Historical Archives of Belarus gives various listings on their website under the Vitebsk Regional Archives of records held regarding the Chashniki district from the 1920s onwards. Lots of these are non-Jews, but by a certain point, the Soviet government records did not hold separate record books specifically for Jews like the Imperial Russian government did.