Recent changes: added photos and list of names from Montefiore Cemetery. Has anyone every walked up to you and said, "My grandfather was from
Dokshitz, and I don't know anything about the place."? It happened to me
in February. Read the story from Mass-Pocha, the journal of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston. aaron ginsburg  photo by Kristian Väisänen just added a page devoted to Dokshitsy cemeteries, including a spreadsheet of the translated tombstones. Just added to Photos from old Dokshitsy Chaim Lipkind, Perla Friedman and their children taken in 1940-killed in the Holocaust. Submit your photos.join our new facebook group The Dokshitsy Diaspora Reunion took place in August , 2010 in Warwick, RI. Below watch Rob Benjamin summing up. Eva Fogelman spoke about "Why Remember Dokshitsy?" Read her complete speech which concluded, "And so, the next time someone asks Fun Vanen Kumt a Yid?
we will not only be able to find it on a map, but we will enrich the
person with the vibrant Jewish life that existed. And hence, there won’t
be room for the ghost stories to take over." Also present were Joel Alpert who posted the English translation of the Dokshitsy-Parafianov Yizkor book online, and Bonnie Erbe, who blogged about the event. Learn more about the reunion, which was covered in the Jewish Herald and Voice.   Double click to enlarge and see 134 stones. The translation are in the comments below each picture. Stone 126 tells the story of Rabbi Yehoshua Zelig Kabakoff and his family. Rabbi Kabakoff was murdered during a pogrom in 1915. pictures by Frank Swartz.
 photo by Aaron Ginsburg
It's human nature to want to do something good. It's also human nature
to want to make a splash, if not on one's own than through someone
else. We often look for experts or celebrities or saints to guide us
so we can be part of their splash, and collectively accomplish
something BIG.We can't all be Elie Weisel or Albert Schweitzer or Gandhi. Thanks to the Dokshitsy District, which started to restore the cemetery and worked with the Friends of Jewish Dokshitsy to finish the job. Joe Polliack was interviewed by the editor of the Portland Jewish Review, Paul Haist who told the story with warmth and interest. Read the article by Grant Slater of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency who accompanied us in Dokshitsy. See Tracing the Tribe, a genealogy blog. | The Friends of Jewish Dokshitsy, Inc., a Massachusetts non-profit organization, was established to preserve the memory of the Jewish residents of Dokshitsy, Parafianov, and nearby villages in Belarus. The organization was created in 2006 when the Dokshitsy District in Belarus sought help to preserve the Jewish cemetery which had been destroyed in 1965. It is surprising how many people can trace their descent to Dokshitsy, a small town now in Belarus.
May,
2008. I just returned from the Dokshitsy. It was an incredible
experience. Unbeknown to us, the town had prepared an all-day
program....read more a video by Mark Izeman (double click to view full screen). On our photo and video page is a description of the video and several slide shows with pictures of our time in Dokshitsy, Minsk, and Moscow. Here is an example: slide show help preserve our history. Watch for future plans. We will be going back, hopefully with more than 14 people.  More than 1/2 of the donations were received from some generous people, primarily from South Africa, who had no connection with Dokshitsy. In January Joe Polliack, a Dokshitsy descendant from Cape Town, realized that our fund raising pace was lackluster. He approached members of the Capetown Jewish community. Sensing that something special was going to happen, they responded generously, .You too can help. Our work is not finished. |
