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Grozovo
BELARUS


 



THE TZVIK FAMILY
Grozovo, Belarus
1897


Left to right: Yente Yerolovsky Tzvik, Yitzhak Tzvik and Shlomo Tzvik.

 

Shlomo Tzvik was a grain farmer in Grozovo, Losha and Barkovtze, Belarus, and was the ancestor of approx. one-hundred and ninety Americans named Zwick, Wick and Mandelzweig. Yitzhak Tzvik was a soldier in the Russian Army and was killed on the Russo-German front in World War I. Yente Yerolovsky was Shlomo’s second wife of three.

Grozovo, a former shtetl in the Slutsk District of Minsk Province, had 929 inhabitants in 1897, of whom 765 were Jewish.


 


 

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