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 –…
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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 → 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…
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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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