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Victims of Stalin

This file lists some of the many Jewish people from Belarus and regions near Belarus who were executed from the 1930s to the  early 1950s in Moscow, during Stalin's reign of terror. Keep in mind that this is just a small portion of a long, sad list of victims.

The administrative divisions in some records represent the Russian Empire system of dividing Belarus into gubernias and uyezds. Other records represent the Soviet system of dividing Belarus into oblasts and rayons.

We have tried, in most cases, to transliterate these records to reflect ordinary Belarus SIG transliteration practices.

Some people here had two sets of names. These include many prominent figures who moved to Moscow to participate in the  revolution, the civil war, and the building of the Soviet state. Many of them changed their traditional Jewish names in an effort to adapt to a new way of life. The names they used as adults in Moscow could be different from the names used in their vital records, or from the names used by their relatives.

This data has been selected and transliterated from a Russian language database available at: http://www.corbina.net/~synrus/shooted_jews.  Besides the fields listed below, the original web site has addition information including: Nationality, place of work, year of arrest, etc. 

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