מיר — בית החיים

Mir — the old bais hachaim

Mir (Belarus) · מיר

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Practical notes from visitors — access, directions, and the condition of the site.

How to get there

Jewish cemetery, Mir, Karelichy district, Grodno Region, Belarus — no street address is published here; ask in the town

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The exact grave coordinates are not confirmed yet — go by the address and ask locally. We don't publish a coordinate we haven't checked.

1.Mir is a small town about 85 km south-west of Minsk. The yeshiva building and the shul still stand, and the town is used to the occasional visitor, but there is no organised reception — this is not Lizhensk.
2.The bais hachaim carries a plaque naming Rabbi Eliyahu Boruch Kamai. Expect a field with old stones rather than a maintained site, and expect to look.
3.The Mir that most people mean today — Yerushalayim, and Brooklyn — is the continuation of this yeshiva. What is here is where it started, and where the roshei yeshiva who were niftar before the war are buried.
4.We are printing no gate contact and no opening time, because we could not stand behind either. Ask the Jewish community in Minsk before travelling out.

Open rural site with no facilities and no caretaker we can vouch for. Belarus requires most travellers to arrange documentation in advance — check the current position well before booking.

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Who is buried here

Known kevarim

רבי אליהו ברוך קמאי

Rabbi Eliyahu Boruch Kamai

Rov of Mir and rosh yeshiva

Rov of Mir and rosh yeshiva of the Mirrer Yeshiva. The plaque in the bais hachaim calls him that genius of geniuses. His daughter Malka married Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, son of the Alter of Slabodka, who joined the yeshiva's faculty in 1906 and later led the Mir.

רבי אברהם צבי הירש קמאי

Rabbi Avraham Tzvi Hirsch Kamai

Rov of Mir after his father

Son of Rabbi Eliyahu Boruch, and rov of Mir after him.

Verification and source

No public access contact has been verified for this cemetery yet.

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