Web
pages for Mir, Belarus
This web site contains photographs, memoirs and documents relating to the people and the history of the town of Mir. Much of this material has been contributed by survivors from Mir and those of us whose ancestors were born in this small town. Mir is currently in Belarus, but previously had been governed by Lithuania, Russia and Poland.
To contribute photos, memoirs, family histories, etc. or to be added to the Mir mailing list and receive notification when new information added to the site, please contact me. See Researcher and Mir Residents pages for lists of those seeking information on families from Mir.
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Old
Photographs of Mir
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Photos
of Old Mir 1
• Photos of Old Mir 2
• Photos of Old Mir 3
• Beit
Kneset Zh'uchovich
• Photo
of Mir Zionist Socialists' group
from 1905
• Mir
Photos from the1920s and
1930s
• School
children in
Mir 1920-1926
• Group
photos from Mir 1934-1938
• Folk-shul 1937
• Mir Photos from Ghetto Fighter' House Museum
• Mir Photos 1946-47
People
with ancestors from Mir • Names of Former
Residents of Mir and links to contact information
• Alphabetical list of Last Names of People from Mir
Former
Residents of Mir 
Documents, Photographs and Stories
• Buniewicka
Birth Certificate
• Galver
Old Documents
• Reizin and
Pecker Palestine Immigrant Documents
• Simakowsky
Old Document
• Sale near Mir
• Shankin (Cynkin) & Dworkin Families
• Dancig Family
• Eskolsky
Family, Rabbi Mirkes
• Galver
Photos of Family and Friends
• Genenski photos
• Greenberg Photos
• Halpern Family
• Jacobson and Garber Family
• Kamenetsky Family
• Kopelowicz Photos
• Lewin Family
• Lifshitz family
• Marcus, Markiel or
Markewitz Family
• Mazurewitz Family
• Mirsky Family
• Okin Family History
• Paderski Postcard from Shanghai
• Polumbaum Family
• Popok Family
• Postowski Family
• Rabinovich Family
• Reisin and Pecker Family
• Reznick/Rasin Photos
• Simakowsky Family
• Solovachik Family
• StolovitskyFamily
• Avremel Weiner
• Zinkin, Toubes
and Sinaisky Families
Mir
Yeshiva Former Students and Teachers
• Students
and Teachers of the Mir Yeshiva in Mir, Belarus
• Mir Yeshiva 1929 photo
• Mir Yeshiva Students in the 1930s and beyond
• Foreign students who studied
in Mir during the interwar period
• A
Trip Back in Time: The Mirer Yeshiva in 1937-38
• Reb Nachum Aryeh Leib Marcus' 1930s photo album
• Chaim Silver's travels From Kelme to Melbourne
• British Passport and letters of recommendation of Pinkhas Berliner
Businesses in Mir, Overview
• Consolidated list of Mir businesses and owners 1926-1927, 1928, 1929, 1930
• Businesses outside Mir 1926-1927, 1928, 1929, 1930
• Original 1929 Businesses
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History of Mir
• Jewish
History of Mir, Belarus
• The History of the Jews of Mir (translation from Mir Yizkor Book)
Translations
of Photo Captions in Mir Yizkor Book
Memoirs and Letters
• Remembrances
of Mir Yeshiva by Rabbi Dr. Theodore Lewis
• Memories of Mir by
Rabbi Judah Broyde
• From
My Memoirs by Yehudah Dov Goldstein
(Pazi)
• The
Escape by Israel
Shifron (Piernikove)
• Letter
from Mir -
1932 by
Rabbi
Judah
L.
Gordon
• Girls
send letter from Mir
• From Mir to Montreal by Simcha Itzkowitz
• The Life of Tzila Zakheim by Amy Cohn
• Memoir by Harry Mirsky
Maps of Mir
Books relating to Mir
• Book
review: History of the Mirrer Yeshivah
• Book Review: Lettres de Mir
Mir
Landsmanschaft
• Mir Yizkor 5774/2014
• Mir Landsmenschaft in Israel 2012
• Mirers at Yad Vashem 2011
• Mir
Landsmenschaft in Israel 2009
• Mir Yizkor 5767/2007
• Mir
Landsmenschaft in Israel 2003
• Mir Landsmanschaft
in Israel
• Survivors
Return to Mir
• Mir Landsmen Return to Mir August 1992
• Living
Survivors of the Mir Ghetto
• Mirrer
Society in South Africa
• Mir
Memorial site by Zvi Reshef
Oswald Rufeisen
• A Mir Commentary by Israel Shifron
The
Mirer Young Men's Benevolent Educational Society
Founders
1903, Officers and Members 1953
Lists of Names on Mirer Society Cemetery
Plots
• Mount
Zion Cemetery, Queens, NY
• Beth David
Cemetery, Elmont, NY
• Mount
Hebron Cemetery- block 65,
Flushing, NY
• Mount
Hebron Cemetery
- block 67, Flushing
, NY
• Mount
Hebron
Cemetery
-
block
5,
Flushing,
NY
Mir
Congregation in New York
Mir in recent years
• Mir
Autumn 2012
• Mir
Summer 2003
• Mir September 2002
• Mir 2002: center
of town, festival
• Mir 2001: roads,
cemetery, store and farm yard
• Mir 1998
• • Mir
Houses
• • Mir Large
Buildings
• • Mir
Castle
• • Mir
Memorials
• Visit
to Mir 1997
• • Mir
Jewish Cemetery 1997
• Audio Tour of Mir 1997
• Mir
1990s (cemetery project)
WWII era in Mir, Documents
• 1945 Soviet Report-translated
• 1945 Russian Report
• Mir Jewish Partisans List- translated
• Mir Jewish Partisans Missing or Killed
• Mirers executed during war-translated
• Mirers executed during war -Russian |
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Surnames
in the 1811, 1834, and 1874 Mir Revision Lists
Ellis Island Records of People
last residing in Mir
A-F G-L M-R S-V W-Z Notes
Yad Vashem Lists
• Overview of Yad Vashem Lists relating to Mir and files to request
• List of People born in Mir, whose names have been extracted
from the Pages of Testimony at Yad Vashem
A-F G-L M-Z
Mir
Castle
• Mir Castle Museum Complex
• A
Brief History of Mir Castle
• Mir Castle history 2
• Mir Castle photos 2009
• Mir
Castle Winter 2003-4
• Mir Castle Restoration 2002
• Images of Mir Castle on Postage
Other Sites
with information about Mir or Mirers
• Mir in ShtetlRoutes
• Belarusian
Castles
Towns near Mir
• Towns
near Mir
• Nesvizh web site (Nesvizh is 18 miles from Mir)
• Nesvizh Study Group
• Lyakhovichi web site (29.7 miles SSW of Mir)
Related
web sites
• Yad Vashem-Story of Mir
• Mir 1816 Revision List
• Belarus SIG web site
• JewishGen Kehilalink for Mir
• Timeline of Belarus border change
• Mirer Young Men's Benevolent And Educational Society - 35th
Anniversary - 1940 Membership
List
• Mir
Yizkor Book translation on the JewishGen Yizkor Books web pages
• Complete Mir Yizkor Book pdf to download
• Mir
Yizkor Book digital copy can
be viewed at New York Public Library
web site
• Photo captions from Mir Yizkor book
• Mir in US Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia -Search for Mir. See - Resistance plans and escape from the Mir ghetto and
- Testimony on the escape from the Mir ghetto by Eliezer Breslin
• Mir Yeshiva in USHMH Encyclopedia - several video interviews describing Yeshiva members experiences
• Mir Yeshiva students and teachers moved to Keidan before Shanghai
• Jewish Heritage Research Group in Belarus - introduction and links to Belarus history
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