This web site is dedicated to the study of
Jewish family history for the agricultural colony of Sarovo,
formerly located in the Grodno Gubernia (Province) of the
Russian Empire, and now is Sarava
in Belarus.
- Location:
Belarus, 52°26'35.83" N, 23°46'31.59"E, about 7 km NNW
of Kamenets (Kamianiec, Kamyanyets) 52°24' N 23°49' E
- Other
names: Sarovo סרובה (Yid), Sarova (Rus), Sarowo (Pol),
Sarava (Bel)
- Nearest
Large City: Brest,
Belarus (formerly Brest-Litovsk in the Russian Empire) [Brisk
(Yid)] located in the extreme southwest of the country
Maps
Pictures
There are no pictures
available. If you have any pictures that depict life at
Sarovo, please contact the KehilaPage compiler via the e-mail
noted at the bottom of this page.
Databases
JewishGen
Kehilalinks
JewishGen
Locality Page for Kamyanyets (Kamyanyets [Bel], Kamenets
[Rus], Kamieniec Litewski [Pol], Kemenets Litovsk [Yid]) with a
list of nearby Jewish communities, including Abramovo,
one of three agricultural colonies (Lotovo, Abromovo, and
Sarovo) established at about the same time in
close proximity to each other.
Virtual
Shtetl - Sarava is found by moving the map around - Follow
Highway P83 north. Sarava is west of P83.
Related
Resources
- JewishGen Belarus
SIG - The special interest group for searching Jewish
genealogy in Belarus
- Jewish Records
Indexing - Poland
- Kamenets
as I Remember You
- The
Jewish Agricultural Colonies (Near Kamenets)
- PINKAS HAKEHILLOT, Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities, POLAND,
Vol. V – VOLHYNIA and POLESIE, page 274 (Sarowo), Yad Vashem,
1990.
- Yizkor Book community Kamenetz-D'Lita (Litovsk/Lithuania)
Zestabeyih and the Colonies, Tel Aviv, 1970, pp. 550-556.
- Jewish
History Tour
- Establishment
of Jewish Agricultural Colonies and Subsequent Years
- Military
Service in Imperial Russia (Yivo Institute)
- The Brest-Belarus
Group - Researchers tracing Jewish family roots from Brisk
(Brest) and the surrounding region
- Wikipedia,
The Free Encyclopedia - Kamenets, 2012
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to Page 2 where there is
more information.
Compiled by
Sherwin Sokolov
Last
Updated 13 Oct 2015
Copyright
© 2012 Sherwin Sokolov
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Updated 8 Sep 2017 BAE
Thanks to the following
persons for their input that made this Kehilalink Page
possible: Sharon Horowitz, Yonat Klein, Alexander Sharon, Yuri
Dorn, and Mark Heckman.
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