Rita Ginenskaya
December 12, 2022
Sometimes I cannot believe that a child’s memory can preserve all these memories of what my family and I endured. I was thirteen years old
Sometimes I cannot believe that a child’s memory can preserve all these memories of what my family and I endured. I was thirteen years old
I was born on May 28, 1935, in Kiev, Ukraine, to losif and Rakhil(Blankman) Kogan. My father was a Soviet governmentemployee, and my mother was
We were born Nelli and Rema Goldin on October 20, 1928, in Minsk, the capital of Byelorussia. Our parents were Semyon and Nekhama (Reer) Goldin,
The story of a beloved Ukrainian grandmother, righteous in her deeds, who never was officially recognized for risking her life to save Jewish people. I
Photograph titled “My mother Sarah (1900) and my father Lazav (1897)”, picturing the parents of Mikhail Mirkin. Chereya, Belarus.
Handwritten letter in Russian. Written in black ink by Mikhail Mirkin on June 29, 1944, addressed to his parents in Chereya, Belarus. Mikhail, a Soviet
I came to Chicago from Moscow. I lived my entire adult life in Chicago, but my roots are in Byelorussia. All the relatives on my
Before the war our family lived in Kiev. When the war started and before the Germans occupied the city, some of my relatives left Kiev
Before the war my grandfather, Iosif Shmuel Pikus, his wife, and their three children (it was his second marriage) lived in the small town of
My father, Yefim Moiseyevich Zhidovetskiy, was born in Berdichev in 1912. He had a brother, Iosif. Both brothers were raised by their uncle and aunt
My paternal grandmother, Dvoira Sokolovskaya, had nine children—six boys and three girls. The accompanying photo shows her with some of them. When the war began
In 1931, my father’s family, which included Grandfather Tzal, Grandmother Shlima, Uncle Abraham, and my father, Senya, moved to Kiev, Ukraine. They lived at 116
Before the war, our family lived in the small town of Baranovka in the Zhitomir Region. When the Great Patriotic War started, the Germans drove
