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Radzilow - 19th Century Chanukah Menorah
Taken by Chaim Yosef and Sora (nee Robejko) Niedzwiecki
from Radzilow to Odessa, Ukraine, in 1909 |
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Chaim Yosef Niedzwiecki
Odessa, Ukraine, 1930
Went to Ukraine, 1909 |
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The Chanukah Menorah was taken
from Radzilow in 1909 by Chaim Yosef and Sora (nee Robejko) Niedzwiecki,
when he accepted a position of shochet and chazzan in Odessa, Ukraine.
Chaim Yosef and Sora
took their youngest son Eli with them. Their eldest son Yakov stayed behind
in Radzilow with Sora's parents, presumably to join them later.
After the Bolshevik
Revolution in 1917, Yakov had no contact with his parents in the Ukraine. In 1942, Chaim Yosef found out that Yakov had moved in 1920's to
Tartu, Estonia, where he also took a position of shochet and chazzan. Yakov
passed away in the 1930's, but his wife and children
were saved from the Nazi's because they were exiled to Siberia by the NKVD.
Chaim Yosef passed away
in Odessa in 1947; Sora in 1976. Their descendants now live in Russia and
Israel. Yakov's descendants now
live in the Ukraine, Germany and the U.S.
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