What's New?

LDS records availability
(source version number is stated -
those marked "H" have transcripts from Hebrew only)

• 13 Dec 2009
  • Added captures and Previous-Next links to the 1997 pictures.
• 7 Nov 2009
  • The 1997 pictures of the village were taken by Joan Krotenberg. She was now properly credited.
• 7 Apr 2008
  • More pictures were added to the Detroit Remembrance Center section of the site. There are now 108 pictures in this section.
• 24 March 2008
  • 14 pictures were added to the Detroit Remembrance Center section of the site. There are now 103 pictures in this section, thanks to Ms. Kathy Winston.
• 12 July 2007
  • Litman Mor's book was updated as per the translator's request.
• 8 June 2007
  • The pictures in the middle of Litman Mor's book "The War for Life" are now uploaded
• 5 June 2007
  • The Appendices of Litman Mor's book "The War for Life" are now uploaded
• 26 May 2007
  • Chapters 13 to 19 and the Epilog of Litman Mor's book "The War for Life" are now uploaded
• 25 May 2007
  • Chapters 10, 11 and 12 of Litman Mor's book "The War for Life" are now uploaded
• 18 May 2007
  • The first 9 chapters of Litman Mor's book "The War for Life" are now uploaded
• 14 May 2007
  • The first 3 chapters of Litman Mor's book "The War for Life" were uploaded
• 12 Aug 2005
  • In the past months many new pictures were added to the "Detroit Holocaust Remembrance Center" section of the site.
  • 10 new entries in the Necrology as per Barbara Michael's request.
• 5 Nov 2004
  • Added pictures in the Holocaust Remember Center's section
  • In the Necrology:
    • The name of Beryl Godzak's wife was corrected.
    • Added Cheryl Glassman and Nechemiah Glassman as per the request of Neil Millman.
• 30 Oct 2004
  • In the Detroit Remembrance Center section the search-form was moved to the beginning of the page and pictures were added.
• 10 Oct 2004
  • As per Sandra Ribiat's request the names of Joshua and Rachel Bergman were added to the Necrology.
• 3 Oct 2004
  • A new section on our site: Pictures that will be displayed in the Holocaust Remembrance Center in Detroit. In our site on the left-side menu, under "Photo Albums" click on "The Detroit Remembrance Center". This a continually growing section of our site, so come back often to see what has been added lately.
    We are indebted to Ms. Kathryn T. Winston, who obtained the pictures and prepared them for display both in the Remembrance Center and on our site.
• 11 Jun 2004
  • Steven Gershman's tale "A WEDDING IN DAVID-HORODOK" was updates as per his request. Also his name was corrected in the list of tales.
• 19 Mar 2004
  • The caption of picture #5 in the Pain family series was updated as per Mr. Smoller's request.
• 12 Mar 2004
  • The picture of Velvul Beilin (or Bailin) and his family was added to the Other Photo Album. This image was presented by Mr. Beilin's granddaughter Sara Salzman.
• 26 Feb 2004
  • In the family-album under the letter "D" the name "Davroshin" was changed to "Dobrushin" as per the request of Mr. Steven Gershman.
• 1 Dec 2003
  • The entire site was moved and now is hosted by Netfirms. The new URL is <davidhorodok.netfirms.com>. Many thanks to the David-Horodoker Organization of Michigan, USA who generously agreed to pay for the hosting thus making the site ad-free. Also many thanks to Ms. Kathryn Winston, who was instrumental in the above.
• 10 Sep 2003
  • Pictures of the Pine family, submitted by Mr. Philip Smoller were uploaded under Photo-Album / Other persons and families.
• 27 Sept 2002
  • All existing mormon records, some of them only the Hebrew part transliterated, were uploaded. The table above was updated and some minor changes to the table header was made.
• 25 May 2002
  • An error in the LDS 1887 birth records was corrected. The version is now 05.
  • The LDS 1888 marriage records version 05 were uploaded.
  • The LDS 1888 divorce records version 02 were uploaded.
• 20 Apr 2002
  • Four pictures from pages 192 and 193 from the book were uploaded. Go to the Remembrance book, scroll down the Table of Contents and just before the end of Section I there is the new chapter.
• 5 Apr 2002
  • Members of the Nachmanowicz family were added to the Necrology. Jay Rachmani from New-York, USA requested these additions.
• 14 Mar 2002
  • The picture of the Schurmuch Family from page 322 of the book was uploaded.
• 6 Mar 2002
  • The pictures of Schurmuch, Isra'el and of Schurmuch Zipora an Yosef from page 322 were added to the Family-Album and linked to the Necrology.
• 5 Mar 2002
  • The LDS death records from 1887 were added to the Vital Records section of the site.
  • The display of the Vital Records was changed. Now both the Russian and the Hebrew records are displayed on the same page.
• 2 Mar 2002
  • The link to Moshe Zipporen's site was removed as per his request.
• 26 Feb 2002
  • The 1886 birth records were updated to version 11.
  • The 1887 marriage records were updated to version 04.
• 25 Feb 2002
  • The picture of Shefer, Ze'ev from page 321 was uploaded to the Family-Album.
• 24 Feb 2002
  • The LDS Vital Record part of the site was remade and new records added - see table at the top of this page.
  • The pictures of Shefer, Mordechay and of Susnik, Chanah Gitel from page 321 were added to the photo-album.
• 22 Feb 2002
  • The picture of Shefer, Malkah (the wife of Shalom) and her brother was added to the "Other Images" album.
• 21 Feb 2002
  • The picture of Kolozny, Litman from page 321 was added to the Family Album.
• 11 Feb 2002
  • The picture of Kolozny, Litman from page 320 was added to the Family Album.
• 7 Feb 2002
  • The Kolozny Family's picture from page 320 was added to the Family Album.
• 4 Feb 2002
  • Shoshah Lutzky's picture from page 320 was uploaded to the family album.
• 31 Jan 2002
  • The wording on the main LDS Vital Records page was updated and the formatting of the List of Names pages was changed.
• 28 Jan 2002
  • The main page of the LDS Vital Records were updated.
• 24 Jan 2002
  • The first installment of the Mormon Vital Records was uploaded and linked to the main menu: Go to the home-page, scroll down on the left-side menu and click on Vital Records.
  • A table of the Vital Records availability was added to the beginning of this page.
  • Mr. Boris Gankin and his picture were added to the Acknoledgement page.
  • The picture of Kolozny, Chavah from page 320 was added to the site.
• 21 Jan 2002
  • The picture of the Zezik family from page 319 was added to the Family-Album
• 15 Jan 2002
  • The picture of Schwartzman, Miryam from page 319 was added to the family-album.
• 12 Jan 2002
  • The picture of Schwarzman, Itke and her daughter Maria from page 319 was added.
• 5 Jan 2002
  • The picture of the Kravchick family from page 318 was added.
• 3 Jan 2002
  • The picture of Rashkeh and Ya'akov Rapaport, from page 318 was added to the Family Album.
• 2 Jan 2002
  • The picture of the Precov family from page 317 was added to the Family Album. Their names in the Necrology were linked to this image.
  • Changes were made in the Necrology: the name Dobrushin was correctly written. Mr. Steven Gershman requested this change.
• 1 Jan 2002
  • A typo (Schec_h_ter) in Mr. Steve Gershman's story of a wedding was corrected.
• 25 Dec 2001
  • The story of the Coats of Arms by Zivony Shiffman was added.
• 21 Dec 2001
  • The two upper images from page 317 were added to the site.
• 15 Dec 2001
  • Correction made in the Holocaust list: from Tilchin Michal to Micha'el
  • Some erors were corrected in Steve Gershman's story: "A Wedding in David-Horodok"
  • A picture dated 12-12-88 was added to Maurice Gerow's story: "THE LOVE STORY OF ZELDA & MAURICE"
• 8 Dec 2001
  • A tale by Maurice Gerow and one by Steve Gershman were uploaded to the "Tales" section.
  • Some formatting was corrected in the Shiffman tales and in the "List of Tales".
• 2 Dec 2001
  • The last picture from page 315 and all three pictures of page 316 were uploaded.
• 27 Nov 2001
  • Pictures of Kolozny Le'ah and Magidovich Avraham (page 315) were added to the Family-Album.
• 25 Nov 2001
  • A new section in our site: "Events". It will contain reports of recently held events and of future ones connected to David-Horodok. It is now on the main menu.
  • Mr. Zivony Shiffman (Moscow, Russia) was added to the Acknowledgement page.
  • Mr. Z. Shiffman's report on the 900^th birthday of David-Horodok was added to the Events section.
  • A picture of Prince David's monument was added to "The Village Then and now" section.
  • An additional tale by Zivony Shiffman about his family was added.
• 11 Nov 2001
  • A tale by Zivony Shiffmann (Moskow, Russia) about Manya Novak and her family was added to the Tales section
• 6 Nov 2001
  • Two more pictures fom pages 314 and 315 were added
• 2 Nov 2001
  • Moshe Ziporen's site on David-Horodok was added to the link page.
• 30 Oct 2001
  • On the Group page a link for those, who are already susbcribed, were added. Until now only new subscriptions could be done from this page. Thanks to Moshe Ziporen, Israel, for drawing my attention to this.
• 20 Oct 2001
  • One more picture from page 314 was added.
• 17 Oct 2001
  • The last missing picture of page 312 and that on page 313 were uploaded.
  • The two upper pictures of page 314 were added.
• 14 Oct 2001
  • An additional picture from page 312 was added.
• 9 Oct 2001
  • The picture from page 312 center was uploaded and linked to the Necrology.
• 8 Oct 2001
  • Some typos in tales 3 and 5 were corrected.
• 7 Oct 2001
  • Tales 17, 18 posted.
• 6 Oct 2001
  • Tales 12 - 16 posted
• 5 Oct 2001
  • Tales 8 - 11 posted
• 4 Oct 2001
  • Footnotes to tales 3,4 were added
  • Tales 5,6,7 posted
• 1 Oct 2001
  • Two more pictures from page 312 were uploaded and linked to the Necrology list.
• 28 Sep 2001
  • A picture from page 312 was added to the site's Family-Album.
• 26 Sep 2001
  • Two more tales added
• 24 Sep 2001
  • Some typos were corrected in the 'Voices' list.
  • The first Tales from Kathryn T. Winston were uploaded. From the Site Map go to 'Tales'.
• 23 Sep 2001
  • 45 voice files in 'mp3' format were uploaded. In these files Kathryn T. Winston interviews persons originally from David-Horodok about their life there. In the 'Site Map' of the homepage they are under "Voices from the Past".
• 13 Sep 2001
  • Pictures from page 311 were uploaded.
• 10 Sep 2001
  • Photo of page 310 (down) was added to the site.
• 8 Sep 2001
  • As per Asher Tilchin's request three Tilchin families were added to the Necrology.
  • This very page was changed to correctly name the persons requesting the changes or additions to the Necrology.
• 28 Aug 2001
  • Pictures of the Memorial Stone in the Cholon-cemetery (Israel) were added to the Memorials section in the Photo-album.
• 21 Aug 2001
  • A picture from page 310 was added.
• 19 Aug 2001
  • More pictures from pages 309 and 310 were added.
• 14 Aug 2001
  • The image from page 446 was replaced with one scanned from the original photo. Thanks to the Nachmanovich family, who contributed this photo.
  • The caption of the "Teachers.." picture (see entry of 12 Aug 2001) was updated to match the Hebrew writing on the picture.
• 13 Aug 2001
  • All the pictures from page 308 and the lower picture on page 309 were added.
• 12 Aug 2001
  • An error in the caption of the picture from page 41 was corrected.
  • The picture of the teachers of the Tarbus schools from 1927 was added. Mr. Gershon Segelman contributed this one.
  • As per the request of Susann Kauffnam, the following names were added to the Necrology:
    • Hechtman
    • Shusterman
    • Worona
    • Fishman
    and some updates were made to this list.
• 11 Aug 2001
  • Pictures fom page 307 were added.
• 10 Aug 2001
  • Two names were added to the Necrology:
    • Bessie Chase requested the addition of Fuxman
    • Debra Feldman requested the addition of Gadzuk.
• 8 Aug 2001
  • Images from page 306 were added.
• 24 July 2001
  • Images from page 305 were added to the family album.
  • Some errors in the family-album pages' title-bar were corrected.
  • The update note from the bottom of this page was removed. It is superfluous information, as the last update is always the uppermost entry.
• 21 July 2001
  • The Homepage and some other pages were updated with a new look.
  • Images from pages 300-304 were uploaded.
• 14 July 2001
  • The Holocaust site of "Shamash" was added to the links page.
  • An error on this very page, in the 6 Dec 2000 entry, was corrected.
• 6 Apr 2001
  • 'Ravnitsky' was changed to 'Ravnitzky'.
  • A map of the area from David-Horodok to Turov was added to Section V
  • The prayer from page 323 of the book was added after the Necrology list. Thanks to Ms. Sara Mendel from Michigan, USA who translated it from Hebrew. Her name was added to the Acknowledgements page.
• 29 Mar 2001
  • An image of the David-Horodok Memorial Plaque in The Holocaust Museum of kibbutz Lochamei Hageta'ot was added as the last image in the List of Images
• 24 Mar 2001
  • The fullsize pictures of pages 37, 38, 39, 41, 47, 85, 108, 110, 118, 131 and 132 were updated: the names of the depicted persons were added to the captions.
• 14 Mar 2001
  • The David-Horodok Necrology was posted.
• 10 Mar 2001
  • As the site of our counter ceased to allow me to see the statistics, a new counter was installed. We start from zero again.
• 24 Feb 2001
  • A small addition to the Table of Contents: It now says that it is the Table of Contents of the Memorial Book of David-Horodok
• 9 Feb 2001
  • Pictures from pages 373 to 446 were uploaded.
  • In the List of Images a note was added about the order of the images and the images of the book were collected into a sub-list.
• 2 Feb 2001
  • Added to the Site the pictures from pages 369 to 372
• 26 Jan 2001
  • Pictures on pages 366 to 368 - added.
  • A typo in Section 4 was corrected.
  • A small aesthetical correction to this page: now all year-numbers are 4 digit ones.
• 24 Jan 2001
  • Added to the Site the pictures from pages 331 to 365 of the Yizkor-book and a picture taken by Joan Krotenberg in 1977.
• 16 Jan 2001
  • Broken links of picture from page 43 were repaired
• 14 Jan 2001
  • Picture of page 237 uploaded
• 13 Jan 2001
  • Pictures from the original Hebrew book pages 271 to 274 were added. List of images updated accordingly.
• 6 Jan 2001
  • A rudimentary search engine was added. It will find the page on which the requested phrase is, but you will have to search the page itself to find the phrase on it. Scroll down the home-page to see the search-form. There are also brief instructions how to use the search-machine.
• 4 Jan 2001
  • Pictures from pages 147, 229 - 236 were added
  • Home page got facelift.
• 3 Jan 2001
  • Added picture of the Memorial Stone in DavidHorodok, as photographed by Mr. Amos Baruchin on 1 Sept 2000.
• 31 Dec 2000
  • A typo in a name in the Acknowledgment page was corrected.
• 28 Dec 2000
  • Added link to the pictures of the Israeli David-Horodok Organization's Channukah celebration on 26 Dec 2000
• 27 Dec 2000
  • Moving the site to its new address (see 8 Dec 00 below) caused the previous counter to be removed. The new counter now added with a starting count of 1
• 21 Dec 2000
  • Retrofitted the pages to include the caption of a picture in its fullsize link (see 6 Dec 00 second item).
  • Pictures from the original book pages 112 to 142 added
  • Correction of a "" tag on page <4b.html> which caused one of pictures to be positioned incorrectly.
• 16 Dec 2000
  • Some update to the Table of Contents
• 15 Dec 2000
  • Pictures from the original book pages 85 to 110 added
• 9 - 11 Dec 2000
  • Pictures from the original book pages 43 to 84 added
• 8 Dec 2000
  • New address for the site: <http://davidhorodok.tripod.com>. The visitors to the previous addresses are redirected to this one.
  • The homepage updated accordingly.
• 6 Dec 2000
  • Pictures from Hebrew section pp. 37 to 42 added
  • Now the captions of the thumbnails in the text are also a part of the link, i.e. you can click either on the thumbnail, or on the caption to display the full-size image.
  • List of Images updated accordingly
• 13 - 14 Nov 2000
  • Some typos corrected
  • More pictures added from pages 34, 35 and 36 in the Hebrew original
  • List of Images updated
  • Additions to the "Links" page.
• 10 Nov 2000
  • Links added
  • DavidHorodok discussion group promotion added to the Home Page
• 5 Nov 2000
  • Added pictures (pages 25, 33 in the Hebrew original)
  • A few pages in Chapter 1 were updated.
• 3 Nov 2000
  • Middle Initials added in Acknowledgement Page
  • Image of Brian R. Kaye added. Click on his name in the Acknowledgment page.
• 2 Nov 2000
  • The footers of some pages were changed.
  • Link to the mirror site was added on the Home Page
• 1 Nov 2000
  • This page added. It will be removed when the site will be stable. (Will it ever be?)
  • A "Links" page is added. See near the end of the Table of Contents.