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Motol (Motele, in Yiddish) was a Shtetl located about 20 miles west of Pinsk on the Yasolda River. It was the birthplace of Israel's first President, Chaim Weizmann. The town was in the Grodno Guberniya in the Kobrin District. A shtetl or shtetele, Yiddish: , derived from German: , meaning little town/city) was typically a small town or village with a large Jewish population in pre-Holocaust Central and Eastern Europe. ...
Chaim Weizmann and Harry S. Truman, May 25, 1948 Chaim Azriel Weizmann (×—×™×™× ×•×™×¦×ž×Ÿ) (also: Chaijim W., Haim W.) (November 27, 1874 – November 9, 1952) chemist, statesman, President of the World Zionist Organization, first President of Israel (elected May 16, 1948, served 1949 - 1952) and founder of a research institute in Israel...
Location Motol, 52'’ 19' N 25'’ 36' E, was in the Kobryn Uezd (district) of Grodno Gubernia (province) until the collapse of the Russian empire in 1917. Between WWI and WWII it was in the Drohiczyn district of the Polish Gubernia of Polesie. It is near the center of Polish Polesie which constituted an irregular rectangle of roughly 110 miles from east to west and 50 miles from north to south.
In 1937, Motol had 4,297 inhabitants, of whom 1,354 were Jews. (Reinharz, 1985).
The Destruction of Motele(Hurban Motele) was published in Hebrew by the Council of Motele Immigrants in Jerusalem in 1956. It was edited by A.L. Poliak, Ed. Dr. Dov Yarden. The book has 87 pages and contains memoirs and events leading up to the destruction of the Jews of Motele in 1942. An English Transaltion is available on the website of the JewishGen project.[1]
Sources - Jehuda Reinharz, Chaim Weizmann: The Making of a Zionist Leader (1985).
- Itzhak Epstein, Jewish Motol: Genealogical and Family History Bibliography[2]
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