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Grodno Cemetery

by Eric Adler

Listed below are 1,829 names extracted from the cemetery in the "Zaniemanski Forshtat" area of Grodno, Belarus.  Of these entries, 902 have surnames. The burials occurred from 1784 to 1968. 

The cemetery is located on the southern bank of the Nemen River, across the river from Grodno proper and just west of the "New Bridge."  It is possible that most of the people buried in the cemetery lived in the Zaniemanski Forshtat area, across the river from Grodno.  The other two Grodno cemeteries were destroyed and no official information remains from these cemeteries.

The information was transcribed directly from the gravestones and transliterated to English in July and August of 2000.  Some entries are still incomplete due to either the disrepair of the stones or the unusual nature of names or abbreviations on older  gravestones.

Thanks to Kate Suvorina for her assistance in Grodno and to JewishGen members Ofer Cohen, Ida Selavan Schwarcz, Ze'ev Sharon, Arthur Sugerman, and Judith Romney Wegner for their assistance in the transliteration of especially difficult material.

Most of the dates use the Jewish calendar.  To convert dates to the Gregorian calendar, use the aid at http://www.jewishgen.org/jos/josdates.htm.

Please send any corrections in transliteration or inconsistencies to Eric Adler at eladler@yahoo.com.  

The data is in a format compatible with JewishGen's Online World Burial Registry and will eventually be available through that link at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/cemetery/.

The information below is copyright by Eric Adler (2000).

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