Wolkovisker Yizkor Book
(Volkovysk, Belarus)

53°10' / 24°28'

Edited by Moses Einhorn, M.D.

Published in New York, 1949



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Acknowledgments

Donated by

Marjorie Backman



This is a translation from Volkovisker Yisker-bukh ; Wolkovisker Yizkor Book,
ed. Moses Einhorn, M.D., NY 1949

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Wolkovisker Yizkor Book

Editor: Moses Einhorn, M.D.
New York 1949
Volumes: 2 

Includes shtetl Svisloch

VAWKAVYSK//VOLKOVYSK/WOLKOVISK 53°10' 24°28'

and brief mentions of the following towns:

AMSTIBOVE/MSTIBOVO/MSTIBUV/MSTSIBUV/ MSCIBOW 53°07' 24°15' 9.6 miles WSW of Volkovysk
DERECHIN 53°10' 24°28' 19.5 miles ENE of Volkovysk
IZABELIN 53°06' 24°33' 5.8 miles SE of Volkovysk
KREMYANITZE/KREMYANITSA   9.6 miles ENE of Volkovysk
LISKOVE/LYSKOVO/LYSKOW/LYSKUV 52°51' 24°37' 22.7 miles SSE of Volkovysk
MAST/MOSTYY 53°25' 24°32' 17.5 miles N of Wolkovisk
MOSTY (MOSTY VTORYYE) 53°26' 24°38'  
PIESK/PIASKI/PESKI 53°21' 24°38' 14.4 miles NNE of Volkovysk
PORZEVE/POROZOVO/ POROZOV 52°56' 24°22' 16.6 miles SSW of Volkovysk
SWISLOTCH/SVISLOCH 53°02' 24°06' 17.8 miles WSW of Volkovysk
WOLP/ WOLPA/VOLPA 53°22' 24°22' 14.4 miles NNW of Volkovysk
YALOVKE/JALOWKA – Poland 53°01' 23°54' 25.7 miles WSW of Volkovysk
ZELVA/ZEL'VA/ZELWA 53°09' 24°49' 14.5 miles E of Volkovysk

Volume Two

English Portion

Typed by Ellen Sadove Renck

Table of Contents

In Memoriam   991
Wolkovisk - My Native Town Moses Einhorn, M.D. 990
Destruction of Wolkovisk Moses Einhorn, M.D. 954

Note: Most of this volume was written in Yiddish, so the page numbering begins with the Yiddish pages, starting inside the right front cover. This the English translation, published as part of the original book, begins at the very end of Volume 2, with the page numbers in reverse numerical order.

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