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Sopockin Cemetery Restoration
A documented account of the restoration effort at the Sopockin Jewish cemetery, including scanned newspaper coverage and photographs of the work.
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Specializing in Eastern Europe
This site is dedicated to the memory of the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe and to the families who came from them. It brings together historical records, family photographs, cemetery documentation, and personal research focused on two main communities:
- Sopockin (Sopotkin, Sopotskin), Belarus — including Holocaust-era death lists, Yiskor book excerpts, the Kilbassino camp, and cemetery restoration records.
- Czestochowa and Petrokov, Poland — synagogue photographs, family research, and historical postcards.
The research is the work of Alfred Neil Kramer. This site is maintained by Ryan Kramer. We hope it is useful to other researchers tracing families from these communities.
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Sopockin, Belarus
WWI and WWII history, Holocaust death lists, the Kilbassino camp, Sopockin rabbis and families, Yiskor book translations, congregation records, and the cemetery restoration project.
Cemeteries & Tombstone Translations
Photographs of the Sopockin Jewish cemetery with Hebrew inscriptions and English translations. A guide to reading traditional Jewish tombstones.
Dartmouth Restoration Project
Correspondence archive (2003–2005) documenting the Dartmouth cemetery restoration project.
Czestochowa, Poland
Photographs of the Czestochowa synagogue and streets, historical postcards, and links to external Czestochowa Jewish community resources.
Petrokov, Poland
Abersman and Ebersman family research connected to Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland.
Historical Records
Scanned pages from an 18th-century census documenting Jewish residents of the region.
