My grandmother told me that it was said that we used to "go to sleep as Lithuanians and wake up as Russians" - she was brought up in Lithuania during the Great War. And there are a number of shtetls that were in the Novo Alexandrovsk Uyezd ["NAU"] and are now in Belarus. These seem to include Braslaw, Dubinovo, Okmyanitsa, Opsa, Plyussy, Slobodka, Vidzy, Zamoshye, and Zarachye. Vidzy has 46 resarchers listed on JGFF and Braslaw 22.
There are records listed at www.rtrfoundation.org for NAU, the older Braslaw Uyezd and at least some of these shtetls at the Vilnius archives. Most of the Zarasai district shtetls were in the Braslaw Uyezd.
Perhaps we need some sort of cross border project to work on these records?
My thanks to Batya Olsen for prompting these thoughts to-day with an enquiry about Vidzy. Batya is the Disna district co-ordinator.
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