Valozhyn or Volozhin (Belarusian: Валожын, romanized: Valožyn, IPA: [vaˈɫoʐɨn]; Russian: Воложин; Lithuanian: Valažinas; Polish: Wołożyn; Yiddish: וואָלאָזשין)...
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Valozhyn District or Valožyn District (Belarusian: Валожынскі раён; Russian: Воложинский район) is district (raion) of Minsk Region in Belarus. Its administrative...
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The Valozhyn-Tarasovo Death Road refers to the compelled evacuation of inmates from the prison in the city of Valozhyn, located in occupied Poland (present-day...
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Haim Hillel Ben-Sasson (Hebrew: חיים הלל בן-ששון (1914 in Valozhyn – 16 May 1977 in Jerusalem) was professor of Jewish medieval history at Hebrew University...
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Chaim of Volozhin (category People from Valozhyn)
Volozhiner" or simply as "Reb Chaim", he was born in Volozhin (a.k.a. Vałožyn or Valozhyn) when it was a part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He died there...
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Vishnyeva (category Valozhyn District)
Vyšniavas; Yiddish: ווישנעווע, romanized: Vishneve) is an agrotown in the Valozhyn District of Minsk Region, Belarus, near the border with Lithuania. The...
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prisoners died at the hands of guards. Valozhyn-Tarasovo Death Road: in late June, the NKVD evacuated prisoners from Valozhyn (Wołożyn in pre-war Poland). After...
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Zaslawye Nyasvizh Fanipal Byerazino Lyuban Staryya Darohi Kletsk Lahoysk Valozhyn Chervyen Kopyl Uzda Krupki Myadzyel Orsha Novopolotsk Polotsk Pastavy Hlybokaye...
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Smalyavichy District Staryya Darohi District Stowbtsy District Uzda District Valozhyn District Vilyeyka District Population of cities and towns in Minsk Region...
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Ashkenazi Jewish toponymic surname after the village of Pershai in today's Valozhyn Raion, Belarus. Variants include Perski and Perske. Notable persons with...
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Novaya Mysh, Nyasvizh, Radun, Slonim, Stowbtsy, Shchuchyn, Vasilishki, Valozhyn, Voranava, Dzyatlava, Zelva and Zhaludok. In 1944, the region was diminished...
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Chaim Berlin (category People from Valozhyn)
Chaim Berlin (1832, Valozhyn – 1912, Jerusalem) (חיים ברלין) was an Orthodox rabbi and chief rabbi of Moscow from 1865 to 1889. He was the eldest son of...
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Felix Dzerzhinsky (category People from Valozhyn District)
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (Russian: Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский; Polish: Feliks Edmundowicz Dzierżyński [ˈfɛliks ɛdmundɔvʲiʈ͡ʂ d͡ʑɛrʐɨj̃skʲi]; 11...
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Volozhin Yeshiva (category Valozhyn District)
Lithuanian yeshiva located in the town of Volozhin, Russian Empire (now Valozhyn, Belarus). It was founded around 1803 by Rabbi Ḥayyim Volozhiner, a student...
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Lithuanian used to be in the shape of zigzags through Grodno, Shchuchyn, Lida, Valozhyn, Svir, and Braslaw. Such eastern boundaries partly coincide with the spread...
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[Maścišča is a forest village]. Newspaper "Працоўная слава" (in Belarusian). Valozhyn. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 11 June 2018. Стараверства...
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Shimon Peres (category People from Valozhyn District)
Shimon Peres (/ʃiːˌmoʊn ˈpɛrɛs, -ɛz/ shee-MOHN PERR-ess, -ez; Hebrew: שמעון פרס [ʃiˌmon ˈpeʁes] ; born Szymon Perski, Polish: [ˈʂɨmɔn ˈpɛrskʲi]; 2 August...
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Diana Arbenina (category People from Valozhyn)
ambassador for Gibson and the World Wildlife Fund. Arbenina was born in 1974 in Valozhyn, Minsk Region, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union to...
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Haskalah in Russia, he forged a close alliance with Rabbi Yitzchak of Valozhyn, a major leader of the misnagdim, which led to warmer relations between...
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Island. Her father was born in New Jersey to parents who were born in Valozhyn, at that time a predominantly Jewish community in present-day Belarus....
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