Aron is remembered as being tall and handsome.  He was in the Czar’s army.  He married Leah Edelman (possibly Edlin) who was born in Chornobyl, Ukraine.

The Dubrovsky family emigrated to Jaffa Palestine sometime before March 1921.  Their emigration may have been related to the Russian Revolution (1917 – October 1922).  Harry, being part of the Czar’s army, probably fought in the White Army and needed to leave the country.

Lea and Aaron’s daughter Shoshana was born in Jaffa Palestine on 10 March 1921.  Palestine was under the British Mandate during this time.  Between 1920 and 1921, Jaffa experienced many Arab attacks against Jews.  These riots probably led to the family’s emigration in 1922.

The Dubrows arrived in Ellis Island in June 1922.  Their host was Lea’s brother, Morris Edlin, a grocer living in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.  Morris would be a witness on Aaron’s naturalization application in 1929, at which time Aaron changed his name to Harry Dubrow.

The Dubrow family operated a grocery store in Philadelphia, then a small poultry and egg farm in Toms River, New Jersey, near Maple and Vermont Avenue.  This was near the family farm of Sarah and Nathan Suchman.  The Dubrows later moved to California.

Providence

The “Dubronwsky” family arrived in New York from Naples Italy on the ship Providence.

Built for Fabre Line, French flag, in 1915 and named Providence. Mediterranean-New York service. Scrapped in Italy in 1951.

Feige’s timing was good: World War I started on 28 July 1914. Feige arrived a few months before transatlantic commercial services from Germany stopped. Her ship, the SS George Washington, was at its Hoboken NJ terminal when war started and remained there until seized by the United States upon its entry into World War I in April 1917.

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Immigration Record

Did 18 year old Feige Kolik make the journey from Yurevichi alone?

Yurevichi was a very small town in Imperial Russia, but on line 7 of the same manifest we see 17 year old Yurevichian Frume Kaufmann.  Frume’s father was Mottel Kaufmann and her host was cousin Mase Landerboun of 31 Morgan Ave Hartford, Connecticut.  Very likely, they were friends who made the journey together.

Feige Kolik is listed on line 29 of the SS George Washington’s manifest.

S.S. George Washington

Feige departed Bremen, Germany, on 30th of May 1914. In the 19th and 20th centuries, Bremen was the busiest port for embarkation for emigrants from Central Europe traveling to America.

The SS George Washington was build in 1907-1908 for North German Lloyd and launched under the German flag on 10 November 1908. Half of its 2,700 passengers sailed in steerage class.

Historic Ship Photos

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Source

Шульман, Аркадий. “Проект «Голоса еврейских местечек. Витебская область».” Мое местечко Полоцк. Аркадий Шульман, 2009. Web. 17 Apr. 2013.

Copyright and Photo Credit: Arkady Shulman, 2009.  This story is used with permission from Arkady Shulman.

Yurovich Holocaust Memorial
To the everlasting memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. 46 Jews from Yurovichi were brutally murdered here in August 1941.

Yurovich Cathedral c. 2006
Built from 1726-1758 by Jesuits. Transferred to Bernardine monks in 1820. Closed in 1831 after an 1830 rebellion. Closed again under “Russification” orders from Moscow in 1864. Transferred to Orthodox Russian church and renamed “Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin” in 8 September 1865. An additional 12 dome baroque building was constructed from 1873 – 1876. Partially disassembled in 1958.

Yurovich Cathedral after 1873
The Yurovich cathedral as it would look to Abraham Kolik. From 1873 to 1876, the twelve-dome baroque building was constructed. See also: http://ais.by/story/1026

Yurovich in 2006

Landowners placed orders for items such as French perfumes, silverware and fine fabrics.  He owned horses and traveled Poland to purchase these items.

Jurewicz in 1881

1) Jurewicz is a small town in the former province of Minsk, near the Rechitsa district.  The river Pripyat runs on the left bank with tributaries Brahin and Chojnik flowing to Mozyr.  Lithuanian Jesuits settled in the area in 1726 and built a magnificent temple.  Jesuits were moved to Bernardine.  A Catholic parish was then established in 1866 belonging to the Mozyr-Rechitsa deans with a chapel in Hliniszczu.  The village has about 140 houses, 900 inhabitants, a police station and a rural school.  The municipality is comprised of 18 rural areas, 43 villages and has 2,335 peasants.  Jurewicz is beautiful, an oasis amount the marshes of Rechitsa.  Stanislaus August [gave privileges?] to the town in 1778.  Jesuit historian Rostowski does not mention the city although it is important to his order.

2) Jurewicz is a small farm village in the Poleska municipality. [Shumen State] north of the city Ihumonia.  In the fifteenth century, the village belonged to the Kieżgajłłów family. Stanislaw Kieźgajłło in 1447 gave the property to Vilnius bishops.  After 1795, Empress Catherine II [received/took?] several Szewiczowi manors. The Jurewicz municipality consists of 7 townships, 42 villages and has ?? 1960. There is a parish church, school and country [mail?]. The Szewiczów ownership comprises 30000 mr of sandy soil farmland.

3) Jurewicz is found in the Ihumenskim area north of Ihumenia town on the road. It was owned by the former bishops of Vilnius and now owned by the Szewicza officer [??].

4) Jurewicz community numbers 1,137 souls.

Transcribed Document

This translation from Polish to English was made by Jon Jaroker, who does not read Polish, using a combination of machine character recognition, machine language translation and personal interpretation.  Improvements to the translation are requested and may be submitted using the contact form.

Reference

• Resources > Geographical Dictionary of the Polish Kingdom
• http://dir.icm.edu.pl/pl/Slownik_geograficzny/Tom_III/630

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