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…
Read more → Yurevich in 1881 was known as Jurewicze. It is described in the Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Polish and other Slavic Countries, Volume III. Jurewicz in 1881 1) Jurewicz is a small town in the former province of Minsk,…
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