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 → 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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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 → Abraham Kolik lived in the town of Yurevichi of the Russian Empire and sold luxury goods to wealthy landowners in neighboring districts. Landowners placed orders for items such as French perfumes, silverware and fine fabrics. He owned horses and traveled…
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