ShtetLinks: HORODOK

Other Names

Gorodok (Russian)
Gródek (Polish)
Horodok (Yiddish)
Haradok (Belarussian)
Grudek (Polish)
Grodek Wilenski (Polish)
Harodz'ki (Polish)

Brief Timeline of Horodok

Today: Horodok, Belarus
1390s - 1790s: Part of Polish/Lithuanian Kingdom
1790s - 1915: Part of Russian Empire (Jewish population in 1900: 1,230)
1921 - 1939: Part of Poland
1939 - 1941: Annexed by the Soviet Union
1941 - 1944: Under Nazi control

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Pictures

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Documents

1850 Family Revision List
Horodoker Association in New York
1929 Horodok Business Director
Horodok Partisans (Updated 31 August 2007)

Memoirs and Family Stories

The Story of Yakov and Fruma nee Shulman Lifshitz
To Leyzer Rogovin's Memory
Rabbi Eliyahu Hayim Maizel
Bronia/ Breine nee Kur Rabinovitz Story
Moshe Baran of Horodok
The Story of Avraham Reckin of Horodok
The Story of Sonia Milikovski
Rabbi Baruch Ber Lebowitz
In the War
Uberstines of Gorodok
The story of Isaac Noll
Yaakov Eidelman’ story
The Karbenovich Family
The Wainer Family of Horodok
Grandma Yafa Sheina (nee Lidsky) Abramovitz
Raphael Lizky/Lidsky (1913 - 1996)

Searchable Databases

JewishGen Family Finder (for HORODOK)
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Other Links (Updated 31 August 2007)

View a documentary movie by David Shapiro on Horodok life in the 1930s

Compiled by Eilat Gordin Levitan
Updated by KLO Here 31 August, 2007
Copyright © 2007 Kevin Chun Hoi Lo

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