Aaron Dubrovsky was born in Yurevichi, Belarus. He is the grandson of Itzhok Yankiv Schwartz. His mother is one of the Schwartz sisters. On the 1922 passenger list at Ellis Island, Aaron listed his father Chamon Lew Dubrovsky, living at…
Read more → Sailing on the steamship George Washington from the German port of Bremen, eighteen year old Feige Kolik arrived in New York on the 8th of June 1914. Ellis Island immigration officials recorded Abram Kolik from “Yurevics, Minsk” as her nearest…
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An eyewitness account of Yurevich in August 1941 was recorded by Arkady Shulman with Valentina Hotkina. This interview states that the Holocaust Memorial in Yurevich fails to mention Jews from Polotsk, is in the wrong location and lists the wrong…
Read more → Abraham Kolik lived in the town of Yurevichi of the Russian Empire and sold luxury goods to wealthy landowners in neighboring districts. Landowners placed orders for items such as French perfumes, silverware and fine fabrics. He owned horses and traveled…
Read more → Yurevich in 1881 was known as Jurewicze. It is described in the Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Polish and other Slavic Countries, Volume III. Jurewicz in 1881 1) Jurewicz is a small town in the former province of Minsk,…
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