family history
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By foo.barstein
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- Titov / Chupin Family in Lugovoye, Tomsk Oblast, Russia — The name Lugovoye in Tomsk region was given by surviving family members, but its exact location is not known. Viktor Petrovich Titov was bo…
- Titov Family in Ust-Labinsk / Усть-Лабинск — Several of Polina Nikitina's (née Titova) siblings and their descendents live in Ust-Labinsk, near the Black Sea, including: Yevgeniy Titov…
- Bogomolov/Kolesnikov Family in Turabovo/Турабово, Yaroslavl, Russia — Nikolai (probably surname Bogomolov or Kolesnikov) received the Cross of St. George) for war service, probably WWI. He married Yekaterina (…
- Bogomolov/Nikitin and Titov/Chupin Familes Combine in Almaty, Kazakhstan — Viktor and Yekaterina (Katya\) Titov came to Almaty, Kazakhstan from the Lugovoye, Tomsk Oblast, Russia. They came with two children born i…
- 8 Darby Avenue — The Bloomberg family moved into 8 Darby Avenue in 1980 and the Bloomberg boys grew up there. Anthony walked to the Croton Harmon station to…
- Ossining — later Bloomberg family home — After work with UNICEF in New York and overseas postings in Sierra Leone, Angola, Vietnam and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tony and Po…
- The Bloombergs and Shallems - Kibbutz Yagur, Israel — Tony Bloomberg met Pooa Shallem, who lived on Kibbutz Yagur, while he was in the Ulpan there in 1968. They married on 19 July 1970 and late…
- Sydney — Edith Ryan and the Bloomberg children — Edith Kessler and Alwyn James Ryan travelled to Australia after their 1940 marriage. In Sydney, Edith did war work making nurses’ outfits a…
- London — refuge, rebuilding and later family life — London became a major post-escape family center. Edith Kessler reached Britain in March 1939 and later married Alwyn James Ryan in Romford…
- David and Pauline Kessler’s escape route — Leo Safran helped arrange David and Pauline Kessler’s escape through the socialist Riverline network. David crossed first at a border gate…
- Romford — Edith’s first English home and marriage — Romford was Edith Kessler’s first English base after arriving in Britain. Hilda Winn had answered Edith’s advertisement offering dressmakin…
- Liverpool Street Station — Kindertransport arrival — Liverpool Street Station was the London arrival point for Edith Kessler after her Kindertransport journey from Vienna via Holland and Harwi…
- Edith Kessler’s Kindertransport route to Britain — After Kristallnacht, Edith Kessler sought documents and visas to leave Austria. She obtained a British domestic work permit but struggled t…
- Baden — Kessler family villa — During the prosperous years after Edith Kessler’s birth, David and Pauline Kessler had a villa in Baden, where they would go to take the wa…
- Vienna — family center before the Anschluss — Vienna became the central family city for both the Kessler and Barber branches. David Leib Kessler moved to Vienna as a teenager and became…
- Pergament Family in Smorgon / Сморгонь, Belarus — Home of the Pergament family, before her migration to Kibbutz Yagur, Israel.
- Drancy — deportation of Lola Wistreich — Lola Wistreich escaped first to Belgium and then into France. After France fell, foreign and stateless Jews were concentrated in camps. On…
- Paris — refuge, resistance and Wistreich-Weill branch — Bronia Wistreich moved to Paris in the early '30s and married Andre Weill. She brought her mother Julia nee Barber to Paris after the death…
- Nowy Sącz — Wistreich family branch — Julie / Jehides Barber married Josef Wistreich and lived in Neusandetz, now Nowy Sącz, southeast of Kraków. Their daughters Helena, Lola an…
- Riga Ghetto and Kaiserwald — Helena and Alfred Schatten — Helena / Hela Schatten née Barber and her son Alfred Simeon Schatten were deported from Vienna to Riga on 6 February 1942. The journey last…