Dov Bar's Volchin - Shmuel's Map -- Translated Legend

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Dov Bar's Volchin

Shmuel's Map -- Translated Legend
(Added by the editor.) In the following table, the notation household implies the presence of a family, identified by the head-of-household, typically a male. Where one building serves multiple functions, or where a one feature is adjacent to another, the original notation has been extended with a decimal suffix. For example the original #15 is a house occupied by a Christian family and this table adds an item labeled "#15.1" to designate the adjacent orchard, which was owned by that family.

Loc: (Locations):

N = Northwest Section
C = Central Section
S = Southeast Section.

ref#	loc	type	religion/ enthnicity	description/ family name	given name(s)	comments
1	N	business	Jewish	water mill	---	at Kotera village
2	N	place	---	wooden bridge	---	the other (ref# 123) was stone
3	N	household	Jewish	Berenzon	Moshe & ???
4	N	place	Christian	a stone statue	---
5	N	household	Christian	houses of newVolchin	---
6	N	place	Jewish	Tomb	---	See #131
7	N	public building	---	public elementary school	---	Probably Polish
8	N	public building	Christian	Polish Catholic church	---
9	N	place	---	The palace and court of the Paritz [gentile landowner]	---	Paritz is in Hebrew and Porets is in Yiddish = gentile lord; landowner
10	N	place	---	public park	---
11	N	place	---	bridge over the river	---
12	C	household	Christian	[unknown]	[unknown]
13	C	household	Jewish	Midler	Isar	Re: Andrea Simon
14	C	household	Jewish	fruit orchard of #13	---
15	C	household	Christian	[unknown]	[unknown]	An unusual case of a Christian family living in Central Volchin; owners of the adjacent orchard
15.1	C	household	Christian	fruit orchard of #15	---	Owned by #15
16	C	household	Jewish	Melamed	[unknown]	Melamed is probably a family name; it is a common name. See #74.
17	C	public building	Jewish	school	---	Probably: primary
18	C	public building	Jewish	Synagogue	---
19	C	household	Jewish	Shamush	Rabbi Noakh
20	C	household	Jewish	[unknown]	“Nyohke”	Pronounced "N-yokh-ke" -- probably a nickname.
21	C	household	Jewish	a tin-built storage shed owned by Kaplan	---
22	C	household	Jewish	Ridlevitz/Ritzlevitz	[unknown]	in Hebrew script, D=ד and the combinationTZ=צ look very similar; this is a frequent occurrence.
23	C	household	Jewish	Goldman	Hytshe & Moshe
24	C	household	Jewish	[unknown]	Eli “der balegule”
25	C	household	Jewish	Loyfer	Binyamin
26	C	business	Jewish	roof-tiles workshop -- Dudik family	---	Probably: #41
27	C	household		[unknown]	[unknown]	Probably Jewish
28	C	household	Jewish	Gevirtz	Sheindle and son Michael
29	C	household	Christian	[unknown]	[unknown]
30	C	business	Jewish	slaughterhouse	---
31	C	business	Jewish	bath-house and Mikveh	---	Mikveh: ritual bath
32	C	household	Jewish	Bak (or Bakh)	[unknown]	Note similarity in the script letters K=ק and KH=ך at the end of Hebrew words.
33	C	business	Jewish	Shuster family's horse-stable	---	Probably a business
34	C	household	Jewish	Shuster	Refael (Pulke)
35	C	household		[unknown]	[unknown]	Probably Jewish
36	C	household	Jewish	Zeltzer	Yoel (Yulke)
37	C	household	Jewish	a house in the backyard of Zeltzer family house	---
38	C	household	Jewish	Gevirtz	Shiye
39	C	household	Jewish	Gevirtz	Shiye
40	C	household	Jewish	Gevirtz	Shiye	This family occupied several homes. And the family business, a butcher shop (#48).
41	C	household	Jewish	[unknown]	Dudik Zelig	Dudik: possibly a nickname for David. Or: maybe Dudik is the family name, and Zelig is the given name of the family head. See also #26.
42	C	household	Jewish	Estreich	Akiva
43	C	household	???	[unknown]	[unknown]
44	C	household	Jewish	Bak	Yehoshua Neta
45	C	household	Jewish	Shkolnik	[unknown]
46	C	public building	---	Post Office	---
47	C	household	Jewish	Lehrer	Hayim
48	C	business	Jewish	Butcher shop -- Gevirtz family	---
49	C	household	Jewish	Stoler	Alter
50	C	household	Jewish	Stoler	Eli
51	C	public building	---	Fire department (remiza) + hall for parties	---
52	C	place	Christian	Orthodox Christian Church	---
53	C	place	Christian	A fence around the church	---
54	C	household	Jewish	Nacht	Tevye
55	C	household	Jewish	Gutvackh	Lipa	+ granddaughter Rachel
55.1	C	household	Jewish	Englander	Shmuel
56	C	household	Jewish	Zoberman	Binyamin
56.1	C	household	Jewish	Perl	[unknown]
57	C	business	Jewish	[unknown] tailor	[unknown]
58	C	household	Jewish	Rodevsky	[unknown]	son of Eli Mordekhai
59	C	household	Jewish	Lehrer shoemaker	[unknown]
60	C	household	Jewish	Kaplan	[unknown]
61	C	household	Jewish	[unknown]	[unknown]	Hebrew teacher
62	C	household	Jewish	Gevirtz	Hershl the Butcher
63	C	place	---	a passage to the school and synagogue	---	Mostly used by Jews
64	C	household	???	Volovelski	[unknown]
65	C	household	Jewish	Zeltzer	Natan and Frieda
66	C	household	Jewish	Shuster	Tzvi	Pulke's son
67	C	household	Jewish	Goldman, Mendl	---	until immigration to Palestine
68	C	household		[unknown]	[unknown]	Probably: Jewish
69	C	business		Bread-bakery -- ??? family	---	Probably: Jewish
70	C	household	Jewish	Rodevski	Eli Mordechai
71	C	household	Jewish	Goren (widow + 2 daughters)	[unknown]
72	C	household		[unknown]		Probably: Jewish
73	C	household	Jewish	[unknown]	Brantche
74	C	household	Jewish	Lufman/Lofman	Aharon	With #74.1
74.1	C	household	Jewish	Melamd	Rachel	With #74. This Rachel is the granddaughter of Lipa Gutvakh, #55
75	C	household	Jewish	Kostitzki	Tantshe
75a	C	household	Christian	[unknown]	[unknown]	Shares house w/ Kostitzki?
76	C	public building	---	Gmina Administration	---	Gmina =~ town
77	C	public building	---	Gmina jail	---
78	C	public building	---	Gmina offices	---
79	C	public building	---	Parsonage of Orthodox Christian priest	---
80	C	household	Polish	Kozlovski	[unknown]
81	C	household	Jewish	Fruit Orchard belonging to #71 (Goren)	---
82	C	household		Kozshenyovski	[unknown]
83	C	household	Jewish	Vysman	[unknown]
84	C	household	Jewish	Mandelbloom	[unknown]	(tailor)
85	C	household	Polish	Home of Polish police commander	---
86	C	household	Jewish	Stavsky	Rachmil	Dov's Grandfather; see also #91
86.1	C	business	Jewish	shop belonging to Rachmil Stavsky	---
87	C	household	Jewish	Goldfarb	Benny
87.1	C	business	Jewish	Beitar Club	---
88	C	business	Jewish	Shenk (tavern) -- Kupershmit	---
88.1	C	business	Jewish	unspecified shop -- Kupershmit	---
89	C	household	Jewish	Sobelman	Gavriel Leib
90	C	business	Jewish	merchandise storehouse	---	Belongs to #89?
91	C	household	Jewish	Stavsky	Rachmil	Dov's grandfather. A wooden house
92	C	household		[unknown]	[unknown]	Probably: Jewish
93	C	household	Jewish	[unknown] the blacksmith	[unknown]
94	C	business	Jewish	smithy	[unknown]	Probably: belongs to #93
95	C	place	Jewish	Jewish cemetery	---
96	C	place	Christian	a small Christian Cemetery	---
97	C	household		[unknown]	[unknown]	Probably: Jewish
98	C	household	Jewish	Reif	[unknown]
99	C	household		[unknown]	[unknown]	Probably: Jewish
100	C	household	Jewish	Shulkleper	[unknown]	the town Shochet – ritual slaughterer
101	C	household	Jewish	Reif	Yoself
102	C	household	Jewish	Englander (bakery)	Yitzchak	Home store
103	C	business	Jewish	Kiosk -- Reizke Englander	---	Kiosk: a stand for light drinks and sweets
104	C	household	Jewish	Englander	[unknown]	Another Englander residence
105	C	household	Jewish	Bach	Alter
106	C	household	Jewish	Kupershmit	Avraham
107	C	place	---	water well	---	-
108	C	household	Christian	Mrotshek	[unknown]	Or, possibly a family of unknown name from a place called Rotshek. The family business was selling pigs.
109	C	household	Jewish	Kobil	Yisrael
110	C	business	Jewish	blacksmith -- Kobil	---	Probably #109
111	C	household	Polish	Syenkevitch	[unknown]	Polish policeman
112	C	household	Jewish	Gotlieb	Gutl
113	C	business	Jewish	Club Freiheit Dror	---	Freedom; a Zionist organization.
114	C	household		[unknown]	[unknown]
115	C	household		[unknown]	[unknown]
116	C	household		[unknown]	[unknown]
117	C	household		[unknown]	[unknown]
118	C	household	Jewish	Mandelblum	Yudl
119	C	business	Jewish	food store -- Tabashnik's son in law	---
120	C	household	Jewish	Tabashnik	[unknown]
121	S	place	Provoslav	houses of old Volchin (Stary Wołczyn)	---
122	C	public building	---	Polish Police Station	---
123	S	place	---	the stone bridge (over the Pulva) next to the Tsuprik's mill	---	The other (ref# 2) was wood
124	S	household	Jewish	Tsufrik	[unknown]	shared by 3 families
125	S	business	Jewish	water mill -- Tsufrik	---
126	S	place	---	road to Brest through Łyszczyce and Motykały	---
127	C	place	---	Pulva river leaving Volchin, flowing toward the Bug	---
128	C	place	---	water well in market place	---
129	C	place	---	market place	---
130	C	place	Christian	(The Large) Christian cemetery	---
131	N	place	Jewish	the common grave/pit of murdered Jews	---	See #6
132	C	place	---	alfalfa (lucerne) field	---
133	C	place	Jewish	entrance to the ghetto	---	north-most
134	C	place	Jewish	main entrance to ghetto	---
135	C	place	Jewish	entrance to ghetto and passage to a water well	---	at marketplace
136	C	place	Jewish	entrance and exit to and from ghetto	---	south-most

Notes:
1. Placenames corrected to inter-war Polish spelling.
2. All orchards assumed to be private gardens, attached to households, though some fruit could have been sold.
3. Public buildings are not identified with an ethnicity or religion unless use by such was likely exclusive.
4. For businesses, the description is often followed by the family or full name of the proprietor.

Translator's Note: In the original, the family-name appears first and then the first-name. Iin Hebrew the abbreviation of the word משפחה= family appears as .משפ and would be in English: "fam." followed by the family name. When Shmuel did not remember the family-name, he omitted this abbreviation. Dov's handwritten rendition is most beautiful.

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