Beiber Surname Dictionary Yaroker — see Eretskij (Kanev, Kherson) T: from the village Erki (Zenigorodka d.) {Yaretskij, Yarotskij, Yaroker}Source: A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire Yerki is a village in Zvenigorodka District, Ukraine. It is 125km (25…
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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…
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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Bicycling 125km from Kiev, seventeen year old Mihail Yaroker and his friend rode into Kaniv, the birthplace of Shevchenko on the bank of the river Dnieper. The streets of Kaniv were cobblestoneded so the boys rode their bicycles on the…
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Filled and heavy with pennies, my lacquered wooden bank was shaped like a mushroom with a detachable top. I opened the top and poured the pennies into Al Connell’s hands. He was the staff photographer for the Evening Journal newspaper,…
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