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Vawkavysk

Also written Wolkowysk · Volkovysk · Wolkowisk

This early Yiddish memorial book commemorates Vawkavysk, historically in the Lithuania-and-Belarus region and now in Belarus, with emphasis on its destruction during the Second World War. Published in Tel Aviv in 1946 by the Vawkavysk immigrants’ organisation in Israel, its 107 pages reflect an early, concise record of communal loss and remembrance.

Tel Aviv : Ṿaad irgun yotsʼe Ṿolḳovisḳ be-Erets-Yiśraʼel

Published: 1946
Language: Yiddish (Latin script)
Pages: 107
Region: Lithuania & Belarus
Country today: Belarus
Archive id: nybc314099

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