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Alternate names: Skidel [Rus, Pol, Yid], Skidal' [Bel], Russian: Скидель. Belarusian: Скідаль. סקידל-Hebrew. 53°35' N, 24°15' E, 18 miles ESE of Hrodna (Grodno), 137.2 miles W of Minsk. 1900 Jewish population: 2,222. Shtetlink.

 

Cemetery: Only one headstone survives. All others were stolen to build roads and houses. Ilya Alexandrovich Borisov of Skidel located one and restored it to the site of the former cemetery