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Dear friends, if you want to help and to support Saratov Sunday School "Beit-Ohr" please write to the address:
Vika Mokluchenko
Our common genealogy
At our history lessons we were asked to try to make genealogy of our families. And we got down to look for our roots that is to question our parents and grandparents and sometimes our great-grandparents about out genealogy. Then me and other kids told about the history of our families. All these histories proved to be as interesting and original as the life and fate of the people we talked about was. Having discussed these works in class we decided to make a general genealogy of our school family. We invented a Pupil of “Beit-Ohr” who is not included into the list of the class but he is we, each of us is his part. And this is what we got.
Our common great-grandparents were born in different cities and towns of Eastern Europe: in the Ukraine (in Chernigov, Korosten, Berdichev, Kiev, Yampol, Cherkassy, Savran), in Belarus (in Vitebsk and Slutsk), in Moldova (in Bendery and Beltsy), in Poland (in Warsaw, Belostok, Ternograd), in Latvia (in Riga and Dvinsk), in Russia (in Saratov, Pokrovsk, Nevel, Novo-Nikolaevsk). What honest names had the men: Itshak, Shlomo, Abram, Leib, Gedalia, Gerz, Mendel, Mark, Iosef, Victor. And what women character stand behind Miriam, Rut, Dina, Rachel, Khasyam Golda! The family of our Pupil had many kids (from 3 to 8). Many people were rather poor and worked as blacksmiths, draymen, shoemakers, seamstresses, tailors. But also among the family of our Pupil there were rabies, merchants, contractors, chemists, dentists, owners of sewing workshop and of a factory of fruit waters. In later times there came engineers, doctors, bookkeepers, military officer, teacher, actress, playwright. Many of them found themselves in Saratov during war evacuation. Great-grandfathers – war veterans marched battling along the roads of Europe to Berlin, restored the ruined cities and towns. Many of our Pupil's relatives: aunts and uncles, nephews and nieces, brothers and sisters of his grandparents perished. That is how the Pupil learnt about the terrible mischief of the Jewish people – the Holocaust. It was and is spoken about so the perished remain in our memory for ever.
Our genealogy hasn't stopped, we constantly learn that members of our families took part in the events we hear at lessons. Some of our Pupil's relative are now living in the USA, Israel, Germany but they also remember our common genealogy.
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