Links Related to Jewish Culture & History in Belarus

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Refer to the following pages on this Web site for further information:

• The Judaism section for religion-related information.

• The Genealogy section for related information about genealogy, e-mail discussion lists, Web pages, and organizations within Belarus.

• News Articles About the Jewish Community in Belarus section.

• A Belarusian NGO: The Mensk Charity Jewish Centre HESED--RAKHAMIM
  • Go to the United Way Belarus Web site for further and possibly more up-to-date information about NGOs in Belarus.

Refer to the following Web sites for further information:

• Jews in Belarus Web site (in Cyrillic Belarusian, by Z'mitzer (Chaim) Levit).   (Windows 1251 encoding, Cyrillic Belarusian.   URL changed, early 2002)
  • This Web site includes a map of Jewish Eastern Europe (1830-1914). Some text in the accompanying article is in English; most of the text is in Cyrillic Belarusian (Windows 1251 encoding).

• Alex Friedman's History of Belarusian Jewry   Web site

• Holocaust in Belorussia, 1941-1944   Web site
  • This is a translation from: Katastrofia Evreev v Belorusii 1941-1944 (The Holocaust in Belarus), Leonid Smilovitsky, Tel Aviv, Biblioteka Motveya Chernogo, 2000

• The Union of Councils for Soviet Jews (UCSJ) -- Belarus Information Web site.     (Note: Jewish issues, especially antisemitism, in Belarus today.)

• The Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust in Belarus Web site.     (Note: A biblography of book-length works on this topic.)

• The East European Jewish Heritage Project Web site.     The Jewish community of Belarus. Information about travel, genealogy, history, tradition, health, relief work and news in Belarus.

• The Jewish History of Belarus Web site (on Heritage Films).     (Note: Some of the information on this Web site is suspect, or clearly inaccurate. I do not know any reputable source about Belarus that considers the last sentence on this linked page to be true: "Since independence Belarus has moved slowly on market reforms, but Lukashenko has attempted to speed their implementation." (sic).)

• The NCSJ Belarus page.     (Note: "Advocates on behalf of Jews in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States & Eurasia.")

• The Righteous Gentiles, the Partisans, and Jewish Survival in Belarus , 1941-1944.     (Note: This Web page is on a Belarusian governmental Web site, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs)