Nahum Yaroker, my father, was drafted into the Red Army a few days after Germany invaded the Soviet Union on Sunday June 22, 1941. Basia, my mother and a medical doctor, was summoned to the draft office the same day….
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This is a list of World War II Orders and Medals awarded by the U.S.S.R. to Yaroker soldiers. There were two types of decorations in the Soviet Union – which were called “Орден” and “Медаль” (“Order” and “Medal”). Officially, “Order”…
Read more → This is a list of individuals with the Yaroker surname that were killed in World War II. The source documents sometimes show names and addresses for fathers, mothers or wives. Ярокер Зельман Мойсеевич Yaroker Zelman Moiseevich Details Source 1899 –…
Read more → Aaron Dubrovsky was born in Yurevichi, Belarus. He is the grandson of Itzhok Yankiv Schwartz. His mother is one of the Schwartz sisters. On the 1922 passenger list at Ellis Island, Aaron listed his father Chamon Lew Dubrovsky, living at…
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Boarding the S. S. Campania in Liverpool, Yossel Atlas sails alone to New York in May 1904, leaving behind his wife Bessie and children. The Ellis Island ship manifest lists him on line 11 as “Josef Atlas”, a 30-year-old merchant…
Read more → Sailing on the steamship George Washington from the German port of Bremen, eighteen year old Feige Kolik arrived in New York on the 8th of June 1914. Ellis Island immigration officials recorded Abram Kolik from “Yurevics, Minsk” as her nearest…
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Fleeing Kiev one month before the city fell to the Nazis on 19 September 1941, Hana Yaroker, her two year old son Michail and seven year old daughter Hasia become part of the Soviet evacuation to central Asia. Traveling by…
Read more → The Kupchik family emigrated from the USSR in 1957 as part of the Soviet Union’s forced repatriation of ethnic Poles. Chava Kupchik‘s (née Yaroker) husband, first name unknown, was born in Poland, permitting the entire family to leave. They first…
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