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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The guesses in the “Who were the Atlas Family” story were correct and Bassie Atlas is a daughter of Itzhok Yankiv Schwartz. Bassie Atlas passed away in Connecticut in September 1952. A photograph of her tombstone is on a website…
Read more → 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 –…
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Returning to the U.S.S.R. after emigrating fifty years before, Harry Dubrow and his wife Lea land at Kiev’s Boryspil airport. They are looking forward to seeing their family such as Harry’s cousin Hana Yaroker. Harry has money for Hana that her…
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…
Read more → Yossel Atlas made ladies hats that he sold from his Madison Avenue store in New York City. drafting Mayer Hofstein started life in America in the milliner trade. Mayer lived a few blocks away from the Atlas family. Feige Kolik…
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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 → Feige Kolik’s 1914 ship manifest shows “Uncle Yossel Atlas” as her host in America. Who were the Atlas family? (See Update to this Story) Facts The 1915 New York State Census show the Atlas family residing at 1562 Madison Avenue…
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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