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Svisloch Confusions |
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This is the Svisloch of this website 154.5 miles WSW of Minsk
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| Documented in: Abraham Ain, "Portrait of a Jewish Community in Eastern Europe" YIVO 1949. | |
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This is not the Svisloch of this website
Svisloch Osipovichi Mogilev Belarus 53º26' Longitude: 28º59' 66.3 miles ESE of Minsk
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| Documented in: "Shmarya Levin: Childhood in Exile", London 1939 | |
Daniel Soyer writes "When there are two towns with the same name, you have to make sure you are dealing with the right one."
Two posts on JewishGen about the confusions
From Baruch Pinnick:
Now there are two Svislochs in Belarus. One of
them - my
ancestors' shtetl - is about 40 or so miles north of Bobruysk.
The other is closer to Pinsk. You could try the Bobruysk SIG at
https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/bobruisk/index.html
If your Svisloch is the Bobrusk one. By the way,
both Svislochs
are also known as Svislovitch or Svislich. The one north of
Bobruysk is at the confluence of the Svislich and Berazina rivers.
From Bob Weiss in Palo Alto:
I do not know where the two Svislochs are that
Baruch mentions, but there
is a Svisloch at 53 degrees 02 minutes North latitude,
24 degrees 06 minutes
East Longitude just south of the main east-west road joining Wolkowysk
and Bialystok. This Svisloch is closely tied with Wolkowysk/Volkovysk and
is mentioned in Dr. Moses Einhorn's two-volume yizkor book "Wolkowysker
Yizkor Buch" in two chapters on Svisloch and its
destruction written by
Avraham Ein starting on page 600.