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…
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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…
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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An eyewitness account of Yurevich in August 1941 was recorded by Arkady Shulman with Valentina Hotkina. This interview states that the Holocaust Memorial in Yurevich fails to mention Jews from Polotsk, is in the wrong location and lists the wrong…
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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…
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