Directory of Towns, Villages and Hamlets Past and Present of Missouri Compiled by Arthur Paul Moser http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/lochist/moser/index.html Example: Raytown Raytown occupies a central location in what is called the "Blue Prairie," --- being on the ridge between Big and Little Blue, eight miles from Independence and ten from Kansas City. It had a Masonic Hall, one meeting-house, one store and saddler's shop, one blacksmith shop and a doctor's office, also a post-office and a school house. (--History of Jackson County, 1881, p. 308.) The Brest Ghetto Passport Archive .. You can see the actual page where your folk might be listed. At 6:00 am on the morning of October 15th 1942, one of the non-Jewish neighbors informed the Jews of Brest that the ghetto was completely surrounded by the Nazis. Some of the Jews tried to hide in predetermined hiding places, but they were found by the soldiers and taken to the Brest train station at gun point, loaded into cattle cars and transported to the village of Bereza Kartuzka (68 miles, 114 km northeast of Brest). Upon arrival, the Jews were unloaded and marched to an area where a large trench had already been excavated. The entire group was forced to remove their clothes. They were then pushed into the trench and machine gunned by the Nazi soldiers who surrounded the trench. The action continued all day and it is estimated that 50,000 Jews were killed that day, most of them from the city of Brest. http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/brest.htm