Latest News -- 19 July 2026

As of Summer 2026, we have deleted links to individuals —mostly fellow researchers— throughout this web site. The original aim was to allow anyone to reach them by email through links provided. We built-in some precautions to avoid making their email addresses too-easily harvested by spammers. Technology has moved on: our precautions are definitely out-of-date. Keep in mind: most of these links were well over 15 years old! If you want to contact any researcher named on the site, use the Contact Form to be in touch and we’ll work together to see if this is possible.

We are a world-wide group of researchers tracing our family roots from Jewish Brisk, now the city of Brest, Belarus, and the surrounding region. Our members live in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Israel, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, and Russia.

Our goal is to share information and resources through this web site, e-mails, forums, newsgroups, visits to Brest, and face-to-face conversations. Inhabitants of the shtetlekh in this area shared many common experiences of schooling, commerce, and marriages. We know that travel among these towns was common for at least a portion of the inhabitants, and that there were strong social connections in some groups of towns. We hope that by studying multiple shtetlekh in the region, we will learn more about specific towns and families.

This site is dedicated to our ancestors, who continued to struggle despite the tragedies of anti-Semitism, economic hardship and many unexpected and uncontrollable political events. We are preserving their memories by remembering the times in which they lived. Many of us would not be alive today had not one of our ancestors emigrated from Brisk.

View individual dedications by group members, here.