Topographic Maps of Eastern Europe
This site is intended as a repository of detailed maps of eastern Europe. The original inspiration for this came from the series of maps at "lazarus". The scale of the series is 1:200,000. Thousands of the smallest villages can be found in these images. However, the series has a distinct northern and eastern limit. For the genealogist or Holocaust historian maps of this detail can be critically useful. People all over the world are becoming more keenly interested in the origins of their families genealogically, historically and geographically. Maps are part of reconstructing one's origins. Topographic maps for nearly all of eastern Europe at a scale of 1:100,000 exist in U.S. Libraries. Our goal is to offer interactable indices for most of the regions of eastern Europe, particularly the lands that once comprised the Pale of Jewish Settlement.
AMS M651
The first series is one produced by the U.S. Army Mapping Service from WWII known as AMS M651. It covers most of (inter-war) Poland and includes East Prussia. The scale is 1:100,000. It is not an original survey but a compilation of information from other sources, described on the right side of the index map. Town names are in Lithuanian, German, or Polish depending on the region. A glossary and guide to Polish pronunciation can be found near the middle of the legend.
Source: Map scans courtesy of the U of O Map Library. Index map courtesy of Mapywig.
Karte des westlichen Russlands (KdwR)
Region maps of Western Russia during the 1910's. This full index covers nearly all of Lithuania and Latvia, and includes parts of Poland, Belarus, Ukraine and Estonia.
Sources: Map scans courtesy of Mapywig. Index map courtesy of the Earth Sciences and Map Library, University of California, Berkeley
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