The names are grouped according to the first letter of the last name
in Yiddish. They are not alphabetized within each group in the original
or in this translation.
I transliterated Hebrew names according to how I think they are pronounced
in Yiddish.
Pronounce:
"i" as in "is"
"ay" as in "fine."
"ey" as in "grey."
Within each letter, I have skipped a space every ten names. This is
not done in the original.
See also the list at the very end of people identified by first name
and occupation.
TITLE First line in Yiddish: Nesvizh Jews who were martyred (or "met a violent death al kiddush hashem")
Next three lines in Hebrew: and the names of our townspeople, who were killed, slaughtered, burned, strangled "al kiddush hashem" (for the sanctification of the Name (of God) at the time of the second World War).
EDITORS' NOTE (in Hebrew)
In the list of martyrs we are publishing only the name of the head
of the family and the number of additional members of his or her family.
Similarly, at the end of the list of names for each letter of the alphabet,
we've left room to add the names of those who are omitted here. We have
not been able to remember all of them. the editors
ALEPH Ayznbud, Binyomin - 3 kedoshim (additional martyrs - see editors' note above) Ayznbud, Frume - 6 Ayznbud, Henye - 2 Afrimsky, Henye - 4 Orens, Velvl - 4 Oginsky, Dovid - 4 Alperovitsh, Rivke - 4 Ofitsiner, Dov - 5 Arens, Shule - 3 Arens, Khayim - Helye - 5 Itskovsky, Mine - 4 Andrusyer, Shmuel - 5 Angelovitsh, Leybe - 4 Andrusyer, Sore - 2 Isakov, no first name given - 3 Andrusyer, Alter - 5 Alperin, Khane - 3 Avinovitsky, Khane - 3 Alperin, Golde - 1 Ordyansky, Michl - 1 Abramovitsh, Sore - 3 Abilevitsh, Shlomo - 3 Ayznshtat, Rokhl - 1 Altman, Sore - 2 Anilevitsh, Ahron - Leyb - 4 Izraelit, Yosef - 7 Abilevitsh, Freydl - 4 Okrent, Dovid - 2 Abramovitsh, Yosef - 10 Itskovitsh, Feyvl - 8 (from village of Buzineh) Itskovitsh, Lifshe - 4 (from village of Buzineh) Albiansky, Shmuel - 3 (from village of Buzineh) second column: BET Berezin, Sonye - 5 (additional martyrs - see editors' note above) Berezin, Dvore - 1 Berezin, Khayim - 4 Berezin, Yankel - 3 Berezin, Alter - 7 Blotshinsky, Ruve(y)n - 4 Berkovitsh, Soreh - 5 Baskir, no first name given - 6 Baskir, Gitl - 4 Boker, Gitl - 4 Boker, Tsharne - 3 Bloch, Yerakhmi(e)l - 10 Brochem, Kosheh - 6 Blumes, Yankl - 4 Bergman, Shmuel - 7 Blaker, Yosef - 3 Blumes, Shmuel - 4 Burgshteyn, Yehoshue - 5 Bashinkevitsh, Meyer - 7 Bratkovsky, Khane - 7 Brik, Khayim - 2 Bashinkevitsh, Getsl - 2 Bak, Tsipke - 2 Berensteyn, Ester - 7 Bruzl, Moyshe - 4 Bratkovsky, Avroml - 5 Berenshteyn, Pinye - 3 Breytman, no first name given - 2 Berenof, Yehoshe - 2 Beneraf, Shmuel - 3 Birg, Avro(ho)m - 2 Banshtik, Nekhame - 2 Bliakher, Yankl - 3 Berezinsky, Yosef - 3 Bloch, Sender - 6 Breytman, Ben-Tsion - 2 Binshtok, no first name given - 3 third column: Baskir, Dovid - 5 Berkovitsh, Beryl - 3 Bak, Beryl - 2 Bakhman, no first name given - 2 Blatshinsky, Sore - 3 Bik - no first name given - 3 Blatshinsky, Velvl - 3 Busel, Avro(ho)m - 3 Berkovitsh, Kopl - 3 Bashinkevitsh, Yisroel - 5 Bashinkevitsh, Yeshayahu - 9 Berezinsky, Efraim - 4 Berezinsky, Kasye - 3 Breytman, Avro(ho)m - 4 Birda, Yosef - 5 Berezin, Yankl - 7 Bliyakher, Hershl - 7 Bliatshinsky, Sore - 7 Bliatshinsky, Frume - 3 Berenshteyn, Leybl - 4 (from village of Zaturiyeh) Berenshteyn, Pesye - 2 Belutsky, Khayim - 2 (from village of Zaturiyeh) Belutsky, Sholem - 2 Bezinker, Peshke - 4 (from village of Buzineh) Beneraf, Yisroel - 4 Bashinkevitsh, Mishe - 5 Berenshteyn, no first name given - 4 Page 502: column 1: GIMEL Ginzburg, Meyer - 6 kedoshim (additional martyrs - see editors' note above) Geyzenblozn, Itshe - 4 Grinvald, Khanan - 3 Grinblat, Khile - 2 Grinvald, Shlome - 3 Grinvald, Dovid - 5 Glezer, Mikhal - 2 Gessik, Avro(ho)m - 7 Goldfarb, Leyvie - 5 Gorfinkel, Frume - 5 Gabrielov, Meyshke - 3 Gabrielov, Shlaymke - 3 Grinvald, Itke - 1 Getsav, Yidl - 4 Gurvitsh, Motl - 5 Goland, Motye - 4 Gabrielov, Teyve - 1 Gabrielov, Shlome - 5 Gabrielov, Hershl - 2 Gislin, no first name given - 4 Galey, Itke - 7 Goldin, no first name given - 3 Goldin, Manye - 3 Goldshmidt, Meyshke - 1 Grinblat, Gavriel - 3 Golovitsky, no first name given - 6 Dr. Ginsburg, Yankl - 6 Gilerevitsh, Yoshke - 4 Goldin, Khonye - 2 Gnesin, Ale - 4 Gelvis, Yosef - 8 Grinblat, Dovid - 5 Gantsevitsh, Sheye - 4 Gabrielov, Mikhl - 3 Gat, Yente - 4 Gelfand, Leybl - 5 Gurvitsh, Tsirl - 3 Grivman, no first name given - 3 Galand, Yosef - Aharon - 2 Goland, Yosef - 2 Gurvits, Berl - 5 Gurvits, Zeydl - 6 Grinberg, Akive - 4 Guravitsh, Helye - 1 column 2: DALED Dubovsky, no first name given - 5 kedoshim (additional martyrs - see editors' note above) Dameshek, Refuel - 7 Dameshek, Shmuel - 2 Druker, Gershon - 11 Druker, Yehoshue - 6 Dereviansky, Meyshe - 1 Dravitsky, Gavriel - 1 Duker, Feyvl - 6 Danilevitsh, Shmuel - Leyv - 6 Davidovsky, Aba - 8 Duniets, Matus - 3 Davidovsky, Rivke - Leye - 6 HEY Himlshteyn, no first name given - 3 kedoshim (additional martyrs - see editors' note) Hufert, Sahkne (?) - 3 Hinkediker, Itke - 7 Hinkediker, Yehiel - 4 Holtsheker, Yehiel - 3 Halperin, Meyer - 3 VOV Vinokur, Yisroel - 11 kedoshim (additional martyrs - see editors' note above) Volakh, Asher - 6 Volozshinsky, Peyse - 3 Voloszhinsky, Avro(ho)m - 6 Vanilovsky, Avro(ho)m - 6 Volozshinsky, Zalman - 6 Vabis, Moyshe - 2 Vseluvski, Noakh - 2 Vasilevsky, no first name given - 2 Vinograd, no first name given - 4 Vasilevsky, Yosef - 3 Vekul, Meyer - 4 Vagsberg, no first name given - 4 Vseluvsky, Nahum - 6 third column: Vineshteyn, Yitshok - 7 Vanilevsky, Khayim - 9 Volokhansky, Breyne - 5 Vanilovsky, Moyshe - 3 ZAYIN Zayets, Feyvl - 5 kedoshim (additional martyrs - see editors' note above) Zubak, Noakh - 3 Zubak, Shlome - 7 Zarkhin, Manik - 4 Zilburg, Beyle - 4 Zaturensky, Shmuel - Yosef - 2 Zaturensky, Moyshe - Ruve(y)n - 6 Zaturensky, Rokhl - 4 Zubak, Gershon - 3 Zusman, Sonye - 4 Zmudzak, Leybe - 2 Zubak, Moyshe - 4 Zlatkin, no first name given - 3 Zaturensky, Yankl - 2 Zaturensky, Dovid - 5 Zavusky, Khave - 4 Zaturensky, Shmerl - 5 Zelmanovitsh, Zalman - 4 Zubak, Moyshe - 4 KHET Khit, Mikhal - 3 kedoshim (additional martyrs - see editors' note above) TET Turetsky, Kalman - 2 kedoshim (additional martyrs - see editors' note above) Turtshin, Yehoshue - 4 Tenenboim, Aba - 5 Turtshin, Hershl - 4 Turtshin, Malke - 4 Page 503: Turtshin, Yisroel - 5 kedoshim (additional martyrs - see editors' note above) Tshernin, Dovid - 2 Tsharne, Noakh - 3 YOD Yevelevsky, Avro(ho)m - 6 kedoshim (additional martyrs - see editors' note above) Yukhshan, Motl - 4 Yashinorvsky, Aharon - 6 Yekhenberg, Sore - 4 Yereshevitsh, no first name given - 4 Yevelevsky, Yitskhok - Eliyahu - 4 Yankelevitsh, Khayim - 8 Yekvitser, Avro(ho)m - 7 KHOF Kholavsky, Yitskhok - 5 kedoshim (additional martyrs - see editors' note above) Kholavsky, Shlome - 4 Kharlap, Shlome - 8 Kholavsky, Leyzer - 7 Kharlap, Leyzer - 5 Khakof, Shmuel - 6 Khodosh, Shlome - 2 Khayutin, Naftalie - 4 Khamsky, Hershl - 5 Kharlap, Shmuel - 3 Kharlap, Malye - 3 Kharlap, Aharon - 2 Kharlap, Eyzic (Eye-zic?) - 4 Kharlap, Soreh - 4 Kharlap, Hinde - 3 Khadosh, Yankl - 4 LAMED Lande, Aharon - 2 kedoshim (additional martyrs - see editors' note above) Lande, Yidl - 3 Leviotan, Sore - 4 Lavus, Shifre - 7 Lempert, Shimun - 3 Lempert, Motye - 3 Lempert, Hershl - 7 Lipovsky, Volf - 4 Lifshits, Motye - 6 column 2: Lifshits, Areh - 3 Leyt, Yankl - 4 Lifshits, Noteh - 4 Lakhovitsky, no first name given - 2 Lifshits, Khane - 1 Levin, Yoshe - 4 Lipets, Avro(ho)m - 2 Lavus, Yankl - 3 Lubovitsh, Merke - 5 Liberman, Avro(ho)m - 5 Leder, Morits - 4 Leker, Shmuel - 3 Lifshits, Khane - 4 Lifshits, Yankl - 3 Lipovsky, Alter - 10 Lifshits, Nakhman - 4 Lipovsky, Avigdor - 4 Lubetsky, Meyer - 3 Lifshits, Alter - 2 Levin, Yakov - Dov - 2 Lubetsky, Berke - 3 Lansky, Rokhl - 4 Lubetsky, Shmuel - 7 Lev, no first name given - 2 Levin, Aharon - 2 Levin, Leybl - 3 Lansky, Meyer - 5 Lifshits, Teme - 1 Levkovitsh, Yankl - 4 Levkovitsh, Nakhum - 3 Lipovsky, Yosef - 4 Lemesh, Sheyne - 9 Lempert, Leybl - 1 Libovitsh, Gershon - 3 Lias, Reyzl - 3 Lekakh, Motl - 3 Lius, Ruve(y)n - 3 MEM Meyzel, Kreyne - 1 kedoshim (additional martyrs - see editors' note above) Moyshe-Roim, Katsev - 3 (note: katsev means "butcher"; first and last names could be reversed here. Also noted under Kof and under section at end) Mazin, Pinye - 5 Margolin, Aharon - 6 Miletsky, Dovid - 6 Mikosey, Yoshke - 5 Milshteyn, Shleymke - 4 Mirsky, Meyshl - 5 column 3: Mazin, Yisroel - 7 Mazin, Khane - 6 Moshovitsky, Shlome - 5 Menaker, Motl - 7 Menaker, no first name given - 4 Margolin, Alter - 5 Mekler, Kheyle - 4 Maler, Yankev - 2 Mirsky, Yosef - 3 Menkus, Berl - 3 Menkus, Hershl -6 Mandel, Beynus - 4 Menkus, Itshe - 3 Menkus, Soreh - 2 Moltshatsky, no first name given - 5 Matushevitsh, Khaye - Beyle - 7 Mendelevitsh, Yankl - 4 Malavsky, Soreh - 1 Mirsky, Khane - 5 Masyelevsky, no first name given - 2 Mesiteh, no first name given - 2 Moskalye, Ruve(y)n - 2 Mendelevitsh, no first name given - 3 Meritsky, Isr - 2 Mazin, Hershl - 3 Mayevsky, Bat - Sheva - 6 Mirsky, Zalman - 5 Makalik, Yashe - 5 Mandl, Avro(ho)m - 5 Malavsky, Yirakhmiel - 4 NUN Nun, no first name given - 4 kedoshim (additional martyrs - see editors' note above) Novik, Tevl - 6 SAMEKH Slutsky, Motlye - 1 kedoshim (additional martyrs - see editors' note above) Sivtsky, Pinye - 5 Saltan, Yirakhmiel - 4 Page 504: Streltshuk, Khanye - 5 Slibovsky, Yashe - 4 Svirshtshik, Aharon - 3 Svirshtshik, Avreml - 5 Sragovitsh, Gedalyohu - 2 Svirshtshik, Sore - 3 Sragovitsh, Hindl - 4 Segal, Frume - 2 Selibavsky, no first name given - 4 Selibavsky, Khatskl - 5 Savitsky, Avrom - 5 Slonimsky, Meyer - 2 Svirshtshik, Tsirl - 2 Svirshtshik, Dvosye - 7 Soltan, Khayim - 1 Slutkin, Bashke - 3 Sragavitsh, Yitskhok - 3 Sragavitsh, Drezl - 2 Skakalski, no first name given - 2 Sragavitsh, Menukhe - 4 Slutsky, Meyshl - 6 Sofeyr, Alte - 4 Sandler, Moyshe - 2 Sandler, Leyb - 3 Sragavitsh, Khaye - 2 Sragavitsh, Shmuel - 2 (from village of Yoshavitsh) Saltan, Leybl - 4 (from village of Yoshavitsh) Sragavitsh, Rokhl - 1 (from village of Yoshavitsh) Saltan, Elye - 4 (from village of Saltanove) AYIN Epshteyn, no first name given - 3 kedoshim (additional martyrs - see editors' note above) Epshteyn, Helye - 3 Epshteyn, Shlome - 2 PEY Fogelman, no first name given - 1 kedoshim (additional martyrs - see editors' note above) Perelman, no first name given Fabrikant, Berl - 6 Fogelman, Dovid - 8 Fridman, Moyshe - 11 Portnoy, Dovid - 3 Fintshansky, Noakh - 5 column 2: Portnoy, Yitskhok - 2 Funtus, Yosef - 4 Perlman, Shmuel - 7 Farfel, Moshke - 7 Floskovitsky, Shmuel - 5 Polyatshek, Yisroel - 5 Frensky, Yisroel - 5 Farfel, Shime - 1 Farfel, Yehoshue - 3 Potashnik, Tsivie - 6 Farun, Yeshayohu - 5 Frostak, Motl - 3 Frostak, Yisroel - 3 Pomerants, no first name given - 4 Farfel, Feyvl - 4 Fiderman, Aharon - 4 Pupka, no first name given - 2 Firovsky, Avro(ho)m - 5 Fish, Yirmiyahu - 6 Fialko, Avro(ho)m - 3 Fialko, Itshe - 3 Fialko, Hershl - 2 Farfel, Zelig - 6 Farfel, Yankel - 8 Farfel, Shmuel - 3 Farfel, Khane - 1 Farfel, Itke - 2 Perelman, Ziml - 5 Feyans, Moyshe - 2 Fintshansky, Yosef - 5 Farber, Gisl - 2 Feynberg, Sheyme - 6 Fridshteyn, Shee-el - 3 Perets, no first name given - 1 Perelman, Yitskhok - 3 Fonshteyn, Tsire - 4 Frensky, Yidl - 7 Fiker, no first name given - 3 Fialko, Tevl - 3 Fialko, no first name given - 2 TSADEE Tsekhanovitsh, Yosef - 4 kedoshim (additional martyrs - see editors' note above) Tsekhanovitsh, Barukh - 2 Tsekhanovitsh, Mikhal - 4 Tsekhanovitsh, Feytl - 3 Tsodik, Yisroel - 3 column 3: Tsinman, Zalman - 5 Tsinman, Yeshayohu - 2 Tsinman, Aharon - 2 Tsitron, no first name given - 3 KOF (See also note at "Moyshe-Roim, Katsev") Klatshkin, Khave - 2 kedoshim (additional martyrs - see editors' note above) Kelevitsh, Golde - 2 Kulesh, Henye - 2 Kulesh, Dovid - 3 Kaplan, Moyshe - 5 Kalmanovitsh, Hirsh - 3 Krasnoselsky, Arel - 3 Karpatsky, Rive - 4 Kretshmer, no first name given - 4 Kantarovitsh, Sholem - 4 Kantarovitsh, no first name given - 4 Krasnosielsky, no first name given - 5 Krasnosielsky, Avro(ho)m - 5 Kliatshkin, Solye - 2 Kranits, Khayim - 6 Kagan, Motl - 6 Kovaltshuk, Nakhman - 5 Kornas, Sheye - 8 Klitsenik, Hershl - 5 Kaplan, Yankl - 5 Kraviyets, Shmuel - 6 Kraviyets, Velvl - 4 Kraviyets, Yehoshue - 5 Kivelevitsh, Hersh - 1 Katshanovsky, Leyzer - 3 Kliatshko, no first name given - 5 Kasovsky, no first name given - 2 Kopel, Khane - 2 Kobrinsky, Yisroel - 2 Koyfman, Aba - 2 Koyfman, Leybl - 3 Koyfman, Rokhl - Hinde - 1 Koyfman, Lipe - 5 Kletskin, Avro(ho)m - 7 Kletskin, Melekh - 4 Klezkin, Yerukham - 5 Katshanovsky, Avro(ho)m - 4 Kahan, Nakhum - 1 Kahan, Yashke - 4 Kuritsky, Avro(ho)m - 4 Katshanovsky, Yisroel - 9 Page 505: Kantorovitsh, Ben-Tsion - 4 Kavalertshik, Motl - 7 Kagan, Pesakh - 7 Knor, Feyvl - 4 Kuts, Yosef - 4 Kunovsky, Dovid - 2 Katshanovsky, Brokhe - 6 Koran, Dovid - 3 Kirzshner, Grine - 4 Dr. Kesel, Sholem - 3 The letters qof"tsadi (Kohen Tsadik), Zelig - 5 Dr. Kagan, Nakhum - 4 Kaplan, Bashke - 2 REYSH Rivin, Avro(ho)m - 4 kedoshim (additional martyrs - see editors' note above) Rozentsvayg, no first name given - 3 Razin, Avro(ho)m - 10 Reznik, Kopl - 6 Rashes, Merke - 3 Rozovsky, Kive - 4 Rekheles, Shlome - 2 Radunska, Sore - 5 The rov (Rabbi) Rabinovitsh, Aba - 2 Rozovsky, Yosef - 3 Rozovsky, Yoeyl - 3 Rozenblum, Feyvl - 3 Remes, Zelig - 5 Rashkas, Zlatke - 2 The rov (Rabbi) Rabinovitsh, no first name given - 3 Rabinovitsh, no first name given - 1 column 2: Riklin, Dov - 1 Riklin, no first name given - 3 SHIN Shnitser, Yankl - 6 kedoshim (additional martyrs - see editors' note above) Shriftsetser, Rokhl - 1 Shpiro, Sore - Beyle - 4 Skuler, Avro(ho)m - 3 Shabat, Ruve(y)n - 4 Shakhnovitsh, Dov - 3 Shuster, Herts - 8 Shpiro, Ester - 5 Shkolnik, Leyzer - 8 Shats, Motle - 3 Shifres, Zalman - 4 Shpiro, Nosn - 4 Shprintser, Nekhe - 2 Shteynberg, no first name given - 4 Shusterman, Yedidie - 4 Shlomovitsh, Note - 3 Shulmeyster, Isak - 6 Shusterman, Barukh - 3 Shabos, Kushe - 3 Shabos, Motye - 3 Shabos, Khayim - 3 Shabos, Zindl - 4 Shabos, Yankl - 2 Shved, Pesakh - 4 Shkolnik, Helye - 6 Shteynhoyz, Brokhe - 1 Shkolnik, Moyshe - Aharon - 3 Sheyn, Leybl - 4 Shvarts, no first name given - 4 column 3: Shusterman, Moyshe - 5 Shabos, Khayim - 1 Shpiro, Leyzer - 4 Shtshefurzitsky, Motshe - 8 Shpilberg, Khave - 2 Shpilberg, Kheytshe - 6 Shmerkovitsh, Velvl - 5 Shusterman, Meyer - 6 Shuster, Khayim - 6 Shusterman, Leyzer - 5 Shmerkovitsh, Berl - 5 Shmerkovitsh, Sane - 3 Shabos, Zalman - 5 Shabos, Yitskhok - 3 Shelevetsher, Velvl - 6 Shabos, Kreyne - 3 Shtshekolshtik, Yisroel - 7 ADDENDUM (actual section title is "shonim" or "equals," as in "last but equal"): Hillel the teacher - 3 kedoshim (additional martyrs - see editors' note above) The mute shoemaker - 6 Nishke the blind one - 4 Elke the cripple - 2 Perle the gabai's wife - 4 Tsiklioneh from Romanoveh - 2 Itshe the baker - 3 The Kozimer Rov - 3 Faltshikhe the baker's wife (or the female baker) - 5 Dovid the garbage man (?) - 2 (See also note at "Moyshe-Roim, Katsev")
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