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List of Survivors from Voronovo from Moshe Berkovitz’s Manuscript(1946?)

ABRAMOWITSCH, Nekhama (daughter of Zishle), daughter Chaye survivor
ARKIN, Benjamin ben Aaron Doyneve survivor
ARKIN, Pesach ben Aaron Doyneve survivor
ARKIN, Reuben ben Aaron Doyneve survivor
BALTERISKI, Sholom alive in Russia after war
BERKOWICH, Moshe, wife Rashe, son Eliezer survivor
BIENUNSKI, Isaac and wife survivor but perished after war on Polish border
BIENUNSKI, Moshe survivor
BIENUNSKI, Shmuel survivor
BLECHER, Eliahy (son-in-law of Chaim Olkenitski), wife Bayle, daughter Rose
(born in camp) survivor
BLIACHER, Chayml survivor but, age 6, fell ill among the partisans
BOLTERISKI, Sholom from Kuzye survivor
BOYARSKI, Yekusiel survivor
DRUSKENITSKI, Layzer ben Motl survivor
DUKSTKILSKI, Benjamin survivor
DUKSTKULSKI, Zalmen, new wife, son survivor
EISHISHKI, Gutl ben Chatskl Shloyme Josef survivor
EISISHKI, Berl ben Shloyme Josef survivor
FINKELSTEIN, Hanan survivor
FINKELSTEIN, Hirsh survivor
FINKELSTEIN, Leib, wife survivor
GERHSONOWICZ, Eliahu ben David Menuchah survivor
GERSHONOWICZ, Josef ben Moshe Menuchah survivor
GORBATSKI, Baruch ben Hirsh Peres, married about 1945 to Mariashe,
daughter survivor
GORODETSKI, Baruch alive in Russia after war
HEIFETZ, Berl survivor
HEIFETZ, Itte (married about 1945), husband and son survivor
HEIFETZ, Joel survivor
KALMANOWICZ, Aaron (in Shanghai) survivor
KAMENTSCHKI, Naftoli (grandson of Itse the Kavssnik [Kvass maker]) survivor
KANAPKAN, Yehuda, cantor and shokhet, wife, daughters: Rebecca, Minna, Henye,
Shaindle survivor
KANICHOWSKI, Yacob ben Gottlieb survivor
KAPLAN, Abraham survivor
KAPLAN, Abraham Eliau ben Josef Olekutses, wife and two sons survivor
KAPLAN, Asher, wife survivor
KAPLAN, Leybke ben Josef Elekutsch, survivor but perished after war
KAPLAN, Meyer, wife Sara, daugter Reizl and another daughter born in
camp survivor
KAPLAN, Moshe survivor
KAPLAN, Saul ben Note Eliahu survivor
KAPLAN, Velvke ben Benyamin Elekutsch, wife and daughter survivor
KAPLOWICH, Henoch survivor
KAPLOWICH, Shmuel survivor
LEVINE, Gottlieb ben Layer Hirsh survivor
LEVINE, Simon ben Eliahu, his new wife, his son survivor
LIPNISKI, David ben Chatskl survivor
LISAGURSKI, Sholem, wife Kayle, son Jacob, son Melach (born in camp) survivor
OLKENITSKI, Abraham Isaac survivor
OLKENITSKI, Abraham, wife Bashe, son Hirsh Yidl survivor
OLKENITSKI, Berl ben Pesach survivor
OLKENITSKI, Daniel survivor but perished at Koenigsberg Front
OLKENITSKI, Meyer survivor
PLOTNIK, Ester Malkah, husband and son survivor
PLOTNIK, Rabbi Moshe, wife and daughter survivor
PUPKO, BASHE alive in Russia after war
PUPKO, Bashe bat Rachmiel, her husband, three children survivor
PUPKO, daughter of Josef survivor
PUPKO, Isser survivor but perished after the war: bandits in Voronova
RABINOWICZ from Slonim, wife Alte Ka, daughter Bat Sheva IMANOWICZ (married
about 1945) survivor
ROTMAN, Liebe bat Maerke Minnes (married about 1945) survivor
SALSCHANSKI, Shimcah ben Pesse Breine survivor
SHITNITSKI, Liebe, daughter of Isaac Bienunski survivor
SOLTCHANSKI, Simcha alive in Russia after war
TROTSKY, Leib ben Alter (married about 1945) survivor
TSVILANSKI, Isaac ben Velvl, new wife Elke, daughter survivor
TSVILANSKI, Jacob ben Abraham Eliahu survivor
WOLPIANSKI, Chayah Leah, son Antosh survivor

1929 Business list of Voronovo

Courtesy of  Ellen Renck

Index from Berkowitz manuscript
Name page

Abramiski, 107
Abramowich, 115
Arkin, 116
B/e/iniunski, 41, 43, 115, 117
Balteriski, 117
Baron, 13
Bastonsky 79
Bastonsky of Vilna,
Benunski, 23
Berkoviki, 13
Berkovski/ Berkowski 20, 122
Berkowich, 115
Berman, 41
Bichweid, Bichwaid 13, 42
Bielitski, 113, 115
Blecher, 115
Bliacher, 117
Bolteriski from Kuzye 116
Boyarski, 23, 37, 110, 116
Bronzovski, 13
Charmatsch of Biniakan, 102
Cogan, 36
Daichovski, 24
Danishevski, 63
Derevanik from Zhalitsuk [Zaludok?], 130, 131
Devenis/h/ki, 13
Dickman: see Duktchulski
Dluzin, 28
Druskenitzki, 115
Dubinski 9, 99
Dublianski/Dublanski 45, 59, 82, 89, 91, 92
Duktchulski, 27, 42, 43, 115
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