I am seeking information about the First Turover Aid Society (Erster Turover Unt.[erstizung] Verein) that was founded in 1903 in New York. I am also seeking information about the Turover Aid Society (Turver Unterstizung Verein) that was founded on Jan. 24, 1910 in Detroit, Michigan. I am working with Dr. Leonid Smilovitsky of the Diaspora Research Center in Israel who is writing a book on the town of Turov and is including a section on the American immigrants that came from Turov.
Read about the Turov Cemetery Project to restore the cemetery in the town of Turov. There are also pictures of the cemetery on this page.
Related Links:
The Jewish Turov site compiled by Gennady Shlyapintoch.
The JewishGen site for Turov
The ShtetlLinks site for Turov
Photographs of Turov from Radzima.org
Articles written by Dr. Leonid Smilovitsky, who has been writing about Belarus and Turov in particular.
1. Ghettos in Gomel Oblast, Belorussia: Commonalities and Unique Features. Report at the symposium, The Holocaust in the Occupied Soviet Territories: Nazi Ghettos and Jewish Armed Resistance // The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Washington, D.C. November 6, 2003.
http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/newsletter/GomelGhettos.htm
2. A Belorussian Border Shtetl in the 1920s and 1930s: The Case of Turov // Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe, Summer, 1 (50) 2003, pp. 109-137.
www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/newsletter/TurovShtetl.htm
3. History and Origin of the Jewish Last Family Names in Turov // Journal of Federation of East European Family History Societies, Salt Lake City (USA). Vol.11, 2003, pp. 29-35.
www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/newsletter/Turovnameslink.htm
http://www.sinagoga.spb.ru/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=158
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