

CONTENTS
Name:
Krivichi
Кривичи
Krzywicze
Krivitsh
קריוויטש
Kryvichy, Kryvičy
Крывічы
other spellings: Krivitchi, Krivitch, Kryvitsh, Krevitsh, Kriwitz
The name derives from the Krivichi tribe, one of the tribal unions of Early East Slavs between the 6th and the 12th centuries. (Note: there are several other towns in modern Belarus with the same name. This one is in Minsk oblast, Myadzyel district.)
Location:
Latitude 54º71′02″N • Longitude 27º29′02″E
93 km (58 miles) NNW of Minsk
Maps:
Geopolitical Timeline:
Brief Overview:
In 1897, there were 457 Jews in Krivichi. During the 1920s, some Jewish organizations operated in the shtetl. There was a two-story synagogue located in the center of Krivichi and a Jewish cemetery which still remains today. The Jews were religious and observed the Sabbath. Jews spoke Yiddish at home, but at school they studied in Polish alongside the other children. On the eve of World War II, there were about 400 Jews in Krivichi. (See A Brief History of Jews in Krivichi.)
External Links for Krivichi:
Yizkor Book for Krivichi – English translation
(please help translate more chapters)
Yizkor Book for Krivichi – Hebrew and Yiddish
(read online or download PDF)
Yad Vashem: Untold Stories • Krzywicze
Holocaust by Bullets: Execution of Jews in Krivichi
Krivichi and Kurenitz benevolent societies
Links for Genealogy Research:
JewishGen Belarus Database includes the following databases: JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF), JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR), JRI-Poland, Yizkor Book Necrologies, Belarus Names Database, Revision Lists, and more.
Louis Kessler's Jewish Genealogy Links