In 1991, I received a letter from a researcher in Minsk, telling me he could search the archives there for records of my Krasner-Dvorkin family. I was skeptical but excited. We exchanged letters through his New York-based daughter and arranged onsite research at the Central State Historical Archives for the Republic of Belarus in Minsk (now the National Archives). I had been told that no vital records existed for the district and town of Borisov, my family’s home...
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