Suwalki (Poland)

Other Names: Suwalk, Suvalk

The Great Synagogue

Street Scene

Czarna Hańcza River

The 38th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy will be held in Warsaw Poland August 5-10, 2018

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Excerpts from Independent Suwalki and Vicinity Benevolent Society Yearbooks:

Memories of Suwalk from the 85th Anniversary Yearbook October 21, 1990.

Suwalki Pictures from the 90th Anniversary Yearbook November 5th, 1995.

The last Jew of Suwalki from the 95th Anniversary Yearbook. October 29, 2000

Searchable Databases

ALL POLAND DATA BASE. - The JewishGen "All Poland Database" is a multiple database search facility, which incorporates all of the following databases: JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF), JRI -Poland, Yizkor Book Necrologies, JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR), 1929 Polish Business Directory, JG Discussion Group Archives, SIG Mailing List Archives and much much more. Click on one or both of the gray search boxes below. Be patient as searches can take a few minutes.

Routes to Roots Foundation (Data Base of What Eastern European Records have been found)

Jewishgen Yizkor Book Project

Yizkor books were written by Holocaust survivors or their descendants as memorials to the Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust. They include descriptions and histories of the people and communities. Many also contain photographs, maps, synagogue details, etc. The Jewishgen Yizkor Book project started around 1996 and is in process of translating and puting hundreds of such books online. They are working on two Yizkor books for the Suwalki area:

Jewish Community Book Suwalk and Vicinity, Editors: Yehuda Alroi, Yosef Chrust, Tel Aviv, 1989

Memorial Book of Suvalk, Editor: Berl Kagan, New York, 1961 99% complete as of 1/15/2018