Dvinsk New Scenes


#dos-1: This is the synagogue in Dvinsk. It was built in 1900, but taken away from the community during Communist times. It recently was returned to the small Jewish community. Howard Wolinsky	#dos-2: Orthodox church

#dos-3: The old Jewish neighborhood	#dos-4:

#dos-5:	#dos-6: Speaking in Russian through our guide Simon, this lady, who heads the JCC, gave me current locations of streets. The archives listed addresses with streets from Czarist times.

#dos-7:	#dos-8: Lots of mass transit in Dvinsk

#dos-9: Shot in the Jewish Community Center.	#dos-10: gates of the synagogue

#dos-11:	#dos-12: The synagogue in Dvinsk was built in 1900. I was there a year ago ( 2007). My grandfather came from there. Here are some of my photos.

#dos-13: In 1897, according to the Latvian archives, the family of Leib Slivkin, son of Zelik, lived near here	#dos-14: The grave of Ditza Ita Shapir, daughter of Shlomo Leib

#dos-15: Bowling alley in Dvinsk	#dos-16: Internet cafe up the street from one of the houses where the Slivkins lived

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#dos-19: Shot from the window at the JCC overlooking a street in a neighborhood, where the Slivkins lived.	#dos-20:

#dos-21: A Jewish cemtery in Dvinsk. Headstones from an earlier cemtery were used in construction	#dos-22: This is the synagogue in Dvinsk. It was built in 1900, but taken away from the community during Communist times. It recently was returned to the small Jewish community. Howard Wolinsky

#dos-23: Daugavpils is named after the Daugav river, Latvia's largest, running from Dvink to Riga. The Pils part refers to a castle	#dos-24:

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