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Mikhail Rivkin, Arkady Shulman
RELATED BY WAR

Memories of Larisa Kaim

Memories of Yelena Zibert

Memories of Inessa Ivanova

Memories of Igor Baranov

Arkady Shulman
I HAVE GONE THROUGH HELL…

Ludmila Khmelnitskaya
FROM THE HISTORY OF VITEBSK SYNAGOGUES

Vera Shufel
ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED…

Irina Levikova
IT SEEMED THAT THIS KIND OF LIFE IS FOREVER

Eduard Menakhin
THE MENAKHINS

Pavel Mogilevsky
MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER

Arkady Shulman
THE KEEPER OF FAMILY MEMORIES

Arkady Shulman
THE LIOZNIANSKYS

Mikhail Matlin
THE MATLINS

Lev Polykovsky
STORY OF A FAMILY FROM VITEBSK

Vladimir Kostukevich
GIRL FROM GHETTO

Polina Falikova
STORY OF A FAMILY

Memories of Raisa Yalova

Vera Knorring
FOLKLORE RESEARCHER FROM VITEBSK

Arkady Shulman
UNUSUAL BIOGRAPHY

Arkady Shulman
MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD IN THE WAR

MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER

My great grandmother, Genia Leibovna (born in 1875), died in Vitebsk ghetto. Unfortunately, we do not know much about her. We know that she and my great grandfather, Moisey Bugakov, lived in Vitebsk and that they had seven children, including my grandfather Lev (leiba) Moiseyevich.

Among the brothers and sisters of my grandfather was Lusia Bugakova – mother of Masha Bruskina, killed by Nazis in Minsk in October, 1941. Great grandfather Moisey died in 1913, when the smallest child was only 2. The children left the house quite early and as a result Genia was left alone in Vitebsk.

From the information we have in our family, Genia married for the second time, and we are not aware of what her family name at the time of the war was. It happens so, that the only information we have about my great grandmother Genia is that she was killed by Nazis in the ghetto in Vitebsk. Actually, today nobody can say for sure where we received this information from. It is known, that one of my grandfather's brothers, Zalman, went to Vitebsk after the war. According to his daughters, during this trip he found out about the death of his mother. He never mentioned it again.

I realize that after so many years there is very little chance that someone remembers a woman named Genia Leibovna. If there are people who have any information about her, please let me know.

Pavel Mogilevsky,
radist2006@gmail.com


Jewish settlements in Vitebsk region

Vitebsk Albrehtovo Babinovichi Baran Bayevo Begoml Beshenkovichi Bocheikovo Bogushevsk Borkovichi Braslav Bychiha Chashniki Disna Dobromysli Dokshitsy Druya Dubrovno Glubokoye Gorodok Kamen Kohanovo Kolyshki Kopys Krasnopolie Kublichi Lepel Liady Liozno Lukoml Luzhki Lyntupy Miory Obol Oboltsy Orsha Osintorf Ostrovno Parafianovo Plissa Polotsk Prozorki Senno Sharkovshina Shumilino Sirotino Slaveni Smolyany Surazh Tolochin Ulla Verhnedvinsk Vidzy Volyntsy Yanovichi Yezerishe Zhary Ziabki

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