Pruzhany Research Project Web Site

This web site was originally created by members of the Pruzhany district Jewish disapora in 1999. These included Herbert J. Maletz of Staten Island, N.Y., Jose Serlin of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Jay Lenefsky of Israel. Many other people helped and contributed material to the site, including Herbert Maletz's brother Leonard Maletz of Massachusetts and Florida (who died 18 June 2009), and David Waldshan. The site was initially was hosted at www.purs.org and was accessible only by subscription. With subscription funds the site's creators managed to finance research in Belarussian archives and build up a good collection of material from the entire Pruzhany district, including Shershev. Highlights include "revision lists" (a sort of census record) and a number of memoirs. From 2005 Jose Serlin maintained the site himself and in 2009 it was opened for free general access at the website pruzhanydistrict.com.ar. Jose Serlin died 8 March 2015. For several years prior to Serlin's death the site was inaccessible. The project has had several names over the years: the Pruzhany Research Project, then the Pruzhany Uyezd Research Society, then the Pruzhany Uyezd Research Organization.

I have reposted the site here in hopes that Maletz and Serlin's work will continue to help those interested learn about the Jewish communities of Pruzhany District. In doing so I have cleaned up a considerable amount of faulty HTML code so that the internal links within the site should be OK. I do not myself have time to maintain or upgrade the site but welcome inquiries from anyone who does.

Besides the main files (accessed below) you can read a few newsletters from the site's founders, dating from 2001-2002, and their initial "About Us" text.

-- Ian Watson, May 2016

PURS INDEX TO EXHIBITS

 

01

 

PEOPLE OF PRUZHANY

 

 

Donors to Rabbinical Seminars System

 

A

Main records

 

 

Pruzhany Uyezd Soldiers

 

 

1795 Revision List

 

 

Yavneh Organization in Shershev

 

 

1804 Census - 1809 Addition

 

 

Emigrated to Argentina From Grodno Gubernia

 

 

1806 RevisionList PruzhanyTowns/Villages

 

 

Members United Pruziner Relief Commitees

 

 

1806- 1811 Revision List

 

 

Index Pruziner Incorporators in New York

 

 

1834 - 1853 Revision List - Males

 

 

Bereza Immigrants to Israel

 

 

1837- 1853 Revision List - Males

 

 

Bereza People in US Cemeteries

    1837 - Voiters List for Rabbi

 

 

Pruziner Landsmen Deceased before 1958

 

 

1850 & 1857 Revision Lists - Males

 

 

Various Lists (up to 100 names)

 

 

1874 Bereza Whole Family Lists

 

 G

People by Shtetl

 

 

1883-1896 Additional Revision Lists

 

 

Pruzhany

 

 

1897 PEREPIS (Russian Census)

 

 

Shereshev

 

 

1852 -1910 to 1915 Real Estate Owners

 

 

Bereza

 

 

1912 / 1914 Payors of Taxes From Estates

 

 

Malch

 

 

1922-1938 Polish Period

 

 

Selets

 

 

1958 Pruzhany Pinkas Names List

 

 

Other shtetls and villages

 

 

1993 Kartuz Bereza Pinkas Names List

  02

 

YZKORS AND OTHER STORIES

 

 

Residents of Bereza Before WWII

 

 A

Yzkors

 

B

Business Directories

 

 

Pruzhany

 

 

Russian Guide 1895

 

Shereshev

 

 

Russian Guide 1897

 

Bereza

 

 

Russian Guide 1899

 

 

Malch

 

 

Russian Guide 1903

   

Selets

 

 

Russian Guide 1911

 

 

Other shtetls and villages

 

 

1913 Owners of Trade-Industry Enterprises

 

 

Holocaust and Liberation

 

 

Polish Guide  1930

 

  B

Holocaust survivors memories and other stories

 

C

Voting Lists

  

 

The Memoirs of Morris Sorid

 

 

1837/1838 Kahal

 

  Kantorowitz Morris

 

 

1881 Pruzhany Municipal Elections

 

 

Harshalom (Frydman) A

 

 

1881-1900 Rabbis & Synagogue Elections

 

 

Alive From The Ashes   Film
   

1906 Russian Duma

    Brydbord A.
   

1907 Russian Duma

    Auerbach  Jacob

 

 

1912 Russian Duma

 

 

Auerbach  Jacob, an interview
    1929 Kahal     Rubinstein Sammuel M.

 

 

1939 Pruzhany - Bereza

 

  Zazulyer Zvi Hirsh
 

D

People Murdered to Honor His Name     Krawczyk Fania
    Symbolic Memorial Stones     Other Stories
    Pruzhany Social Leaders Murdered     The Stones of Sharashova  Film
    Jews evacuated from Pruzhany Ghetto and entered Auschwitz camp     Shereshev. Complete Yavneh Book (in Yddish)
    The Death Books from Auschwitz     Saul Nitzberg "I Choose Life"
   

Pruzhany Ghetto Residents sent to Auschwitz

03   PICTURES AND DOCUMENTS
   

Residents who died in Bereza Ghetto

 

A

Shtetls Scenes
    Bereza: People died in war against nazis  

 

Pruzhany

   

Prisoners of Lineve Ghetto

 

 

Shereshev

 

 E

Survivors of the Holocaust    

Bereza

 

 

Lists of Shoa Survivors

   

Malch

 

 

Members United Pruziner Relief Commitee

 

 

Selets

 

  Where were survivors during the war

 

 

Other shtetls and villages

 

F

People in Other Documents     WWII - Byalistok-Minsk war line actions. Film in German
    Ellis Island Data Base - Name List

  

 

Holocaust and Liberation

 

 

Health Funds 04

 

MAPS AND GENERAL INFORMATION

 

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