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Vitebsk Benevolent Association

(Vitebsk, Vitebsk gubernia, Latitude: 55º12' Longitude: 30º11')

Contributed by Jerry Seligsohn

I had asked my superior at YIVO where I volunteer as a landsmanshaft archivist why large cities such as Vitebsk [and Warsaw] are so poorly represented in our  archives.  He thought that the social bonding of the smaller shtetl was more conducive to the landsmanshaft organization.  Also in larger cities they are organized and centered around synagogues or political groups.  We leave the reader to decide for himself the answer to this puzzle. Though once providing relief and loans to its members, this landsmanshaft in the years after 1962 served as a burial society.

Click here for information about accessing landsmanshaften records at YIVO.

Click here for "An Intelligent Layman's Guide to Viewing Landsmenshaften, Benevolent Societies, and Burial Societies".

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SURNAME Given name Source
ABRAMSON H A Ledger Membership List
ALBIN Lillian Ledger Membership List
ALEXANDER Mrs Rose Ledger Membership List
ALEXANDR Mrs Ledger Membership List
ALTZMAN Bertha Ledger Membership List
ARKIN Jacob 1960-1962 listing of deaths
ASARCH Fannie Ledger Membership List
AXELROD Abraham Ledger Membership List
AXELROD Jacob Ledger Membership List
AZAR Max Ledger Membership List
SURNAMEGiven nameSource
BALINSKY Samuel Ledger Membership List
BOLTEN S E 1960-1962 listing of deaths
SURNAMEGiven nameSource
CHAFKIN Bessie Ledger Membership List
COHEN Abraham Ledger Membership List
CRANE Dora Ledger Membership List
CRANE Isaac Ledger Membership List
CRANE M W Ledger Membership List
SURNAMEGiven nameSource
DAVIS Louis Ledger Membership List
DEMOV J S Ledger Membership List
DOLGIN George Ledger Membership List
DOLINCK Pauline Ledger Membership List
DOLNICK Harold Ledger Membership List
SURNAMEGiven nameSource
EPSTEIN David Ledger Membership List
EPSTEIN H Ledger Membership List
EPSTEIN Mary 1960-1962 listing of deaths
ETTENBERG Minnie Ledger Membership List
SURNAMEGiven nameSource
FEDER Belle Ledger Membership List
FEDER Elizabeth Ledger Membership List
FEDERMAN Samuel Ledger Membership List
FEIN Abraham Ledger Membership List
FEIN Harry Ledger Membership List
FEIN Samuel 1960-1962 listing of deaths
FEIN Simon Ledger Membership List
FEINMAN Morris Ledger Membership List
FEINMAN Sol Ledger Membership List
FELDMAN Louis Ledger Membership List
FELDMAN Samuel 1960-1962 listing of deaths
FISHLER Dana Ledger Membership List
FISHLER Morris Ledger Membership List
FLEISHER Herbert Ledger Membership List
FREY William Ledger Membership List
FRIEDMAN Jacob Ledger Membership List
SURNAMEGiven nameSource
GARDNER Harvey Ledger Membership List
GERBER Simon Ledger Membership List
GINSBURG B Ledger Membership List
GITLOW Albert Ledger Membership List
GLICKER Paul Ledger Membership List
GOBEL Mrs E Ledger Membership List
GODKIN Harold Ledger Membership List
GODKIN Sam Ledger Membership List
GOLDBERG David Ledger Membership List
GOLDBLATT Lillian Ledger Membership List
GOLDSTEIN Barnet Ledger Membership List
GOODWICH Jenny Ledger Membership List
GORDON Gertrude Ledger Membership List
GOTTESMAN Seymour Ledger Membership List
GREEN Joseph Ledger Membership List
GREENBERG Beatrice Ledger Membership List
GREENBERG S M Ledger Membership List
GREENBERG Sam Ledger Membership List
GREENE Philip Ledger Membership List
GREENHUT Max Ledger Membership List
GRIBOFF Max Ledger Membership List
GRIPON Irving Ledger Membership List
GUTTERMAN Benjamin Ledger Membership List
GUTTERMAN Michael Ledger Membership List
SURNAMEGiven nameSource
HAFTEL Anna Ledger Membership List
HALPEN Nathan Ledger Membership List
HENKIN Celia 1960-1962 listing of deaths
HOROWITZ Dr Elias Ledger Membership List
HOROWITZ Gerald Ledger Membership List
HOROWITZ Louis Ledger Membership List
HOROWITZ Milton Ledger Membership List
HOROWITZ Mrs Benjamin Ledger Membership List
HOROWITZ Samuel Ledger Membership List
SURNAMEGiven nameSource
JOSELSON Max Ledger Membership List
SURNAMEGiven nameSource
KALMENOFF Irving Ledger Membership List
KANTOR Abraham Ledger Membership List
KARNISH Harry Ledger Membership List
KATZ Fannie Ledger Membership List
KATZEN Anna Ledger Membership List
KATZEN Herman Ledger Membership List
KATZEN Leo Ledger Membership List
KATZEN Samuel Ledger Membership List
KATZOFF Bertha Ledger Membership List
KAUFMAN Samuel Ledger Membership List
KEIDAN Bernard Ledger Membership List
KEIDAN Charlie Ledger Membership List
KEIDAN Gabriel Ledger Membership List
KEIDAN Jack Ledger Membership List
KITAEFF Irwin 1960-1962 listing of deaths
KREIMAN Louis Ledger Membership List
KREIMAN Morris 1960-1962 listing of deaths
KREIMAN Philip Ledger Membership List
KUBEL Max Ledger Membership List
KURTZ David Ledger Membership List
KURTZ Joseph Ledger Membership List
SURNAMEGiven nameSource
LA BRAN Garry Ledger Membership List
LA BRAN Leo Ledger Membership List
LANDMAN Mrs F Ledger Membership List
LEEDS Joseph Ledger Membership List
LEIKEN Louis 1960-1962 listing of deaths
LEON Sam Ledger Membership List
LEVENSON Dr Saul J Ledger Membership List
LEVINE Jack Ledger Membership List
LEVINE Louis 1960-1962 listing of deaths
LEVINSON Esther Ledger Membership List
LEVINSON Joseph Ledger Membership List
LEVINSON Morton Ledger Membership List
LEVINSON Samuel Ledger Membership List
LEVINTON Abraham Ledger Membership List
LEVITAN Abe Ledger Membership List
LEVITAN Lena Ledger Membership List
LEVITAN Maurice A Ledger Membership List
LEVITT Irving Ledger Membership List
LIEBLECK Leo Ledger Membership List
LOGAN Samuel J Ledger Membership List
LUBIN Henry Ledger Membership List
SURNAMEGiven nameSource
MACKLER Joseph Ledger Membership List
MARGLIS Arthur Ledger Membership List
MASARSKY Faye Ledger Membership List
MAZARAS Harry Ledger Membership List
MESSER S Stewart Ledger Membership List
MYERS Fannie Ledger Membership List
SURNAMEGiven nameSource
NECHAMKIN Celia Ledger Membership List
NECHAMKIN Charlie Ledger Membership List
NOCKOW Mrs Ledger Membership List
NONAS Leo Ledger Membership List
NORIMOFF Louis Ledger Membership List
NORIMOFF Simon Ledger Membership List
SURNAMEGiven nameSource
OSTROW Allen Ledger Membership List
OSTROW Max Ledger Membership List
SURNAMEGiven nameSource
PACKMAN Joseph 1960-1962 listing of deaths
PERENS Sol Ledger Membership List
PERLSTEIN Sarah Ledger Membership List
PIRATINSKY Ida Ledger Membership List
PIRATINSKY Sam Ledger Membership List
PIRSTEN Anna Ledger Membership List
PLAVNICK Alex J Ledger Membership List
PLOTKIN Herman Ledger Membership List
POLOTOFSKY Rose Ledger Membership List
POLOTOWSKY Herbert Ledger Membership List
POLOTOWSKY Jerome Ledger Membership List
POLOTOWSKY Sorrel Ledger Membership List
POLOTT ? Anna Ledger Membership List
POTASH Theodore Ledger Membership List
PRESS Max Ledger Membership List
PRESS Meyer J Ledger Membership List
PRUDINSKY J Ledger Membership List
SURNAMEGiven nameSource
RAPKIN Louis Ledger Membership List
RAVITCH David 1960-1962 listing of deaths
RIVLIN Louis Ledger Membership List
ROBIN Joseph 1960-1962 listing of deaths
ROBIN Mrs C Ledger Membership List
RODIN Harry Ledger Membership List
ROLAND Howard Ledger Membership List
ROME Bernard Ledger Membership List
ROSEN Morris Ledger Membership List
ROTHMAN Max Ledger Membership List
RUSKIN Samuel Ledger Membership List
SURNAMEGiven nameSource
SACKS David 1960-1962 listing of deaths
SAMINSKY Hyman L Ledger Membership List
SAMINSKY Pauline Ledger Membership List
SAUNDERS Saul S Ledger Membership List
SCHACHMEISTER Max Ledger Membership List
SCHIFFERMAN Louis Ledger Membership List
SCHNEIDER Frank Ledger Membership List
SCHNEWEISS Ben Ledger Membership List
SCHULMAN Mrs I Ledger Membership List
SCHWARTZ Charles Ledger Membership List
SEIF Abraham Ledger Membership List
SELINGER Sabina Ledger Membership List
SERELSON David 1960-1962 listing of deaths
SETLOW Louis Ledger Membership List
SHADRINSKY Tillie Ledger Membership List
SHERR Sam Ledger Membership List
SHORE Jack Ledger Membership List
SIRKIN Becky Ledger Membership List
SIRKIN Joseph Ledger Membership List
SIRKIN William Ledger Membership List
SIROT Lena Ledger Membership List
SLOAN Jack H Ledger Membership List
SOBEL Henry J Ledger Membership List
SOLOMON Ida Ledger Membership List
SOLOMON Louis Ledger Membership List
SOLOMONICK Rose 1960-1962 listing of deaths
SOMMER Joseph Ledger Membership List
STEIN Harry 1960-1962 listing of deaths
STEINBERG Sam Ledger Membership List
SURNAMEGiven nameSource
TANENBAUM Irving Ledger Membership List
TRESKOV Louis Ledger Membership List
TUMARKIN Sam Ledger Membership List
SURNAMEGiven nameSource
WACHTEL J Ledger Membership List
WASSERMAN Irving Ledger Membership List
WAXMAN Sam Ledger Membership List
WEINSTEIN Meyer Ledger Membership List
WEISS Fannie Ledger Membership List
WILLINS Alvin Ledger Membership List
WOLFSON Abbot 1960-1962 listing of deaths
WOLFSON Abbot Ledger Membership List
WOLFSON H E Ledger Membership List
WOLFSON Lillian Ledger Membership List
SURNAMEGiven nameSource
ZACK Sam Ledger Membership List
ZALISKY Max Ledger Membership List
ZELBER Tillie Ledger Membership List
ZELNIKOFF William Ledger Membership List

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