Ukraine SIG - Most Wanted

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Missing Identities - Do you recognize anyone here? These are photos of relatives which your fellow researchers can't ID, but believe that they were from the Ukraine. Please contact any submitter directly. If you'd like to do submit your own photos, contact us. Please include where you think the people are from; which family they might belong to; the possible date of the photo; "submitted by", & your email address, so that you can be contacted.
These three photos were submitted by Rosemarie Cohen, who resides in Switzerland. She can be reached at <cosi@swissonline.ch>

Rosemarie has this photo, but doesn't now any of the individuals. Do you recognize anyone? (Click on photo to see a larger view.)	This is Isaac Kopolovski. Do you recognize him? (Click on photo to see a larger view.)	Back row from left: Mortche Kopolovski, born 1885; Dvore Lopolovski-Shvartsman, born 1885 in Ternovka; her mother Hannah Shvartsman, born in Ternovka. Front row: Baby Edward, born 1924 in USA; boy Avrum Kopolovski, born 1912 in Ternovka. (Click on photo to see a larger view.)

Our Most Recent Mysteries
Of Group One in this table - pictures one through four, Eliana Aizim says "All photos show the VATNICK family, originally from Podolia Gubernia, that in approximately 1922 fled to Toronto, Canada, where the pictures were taken. In Canada they changed their surname to WHITE or variations (WAIT, CHAIT, etc.). They are the descendants of Ratse and Zacharia VATNICK, whose family picture can be seen at the Pischonke Collection Point ."
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	AVERBUCH daughter and son-in-law The daughter and son-in-law of Avrum and Raie AVERBUCH. The wife grew up in Zhabokrich, the married couple lived in Kodyma with the 2 daughters whose pictures are above. The woman had siblings Fischel, Nathan/Nuta and Liova. Submitter Eliana Aizim descends from this woman's brother. Please write with information about this family to Eliana Aizim
	Another picture of Bertha WEINBAUM GREENBERG? Laura Katz is looking for help determining if this is another photo of Bertha WEINBAUM GREENBERG who also appears on the Kamanets-Podolsk page or of her sisters or another relative. The back of the picture says it was taken in a Kamanetz photography studio (see the back on Photographic Database) If it is Bertha it might be from the early 1890s. If it is a relative who you can identify or if you have this picture in your photo album please contact Laura.

The next group of pictures, from the 1890s, is sent by Raymond Cannata. His story of the discovery of these pictures, which were the estate of his great-grandmother Katia POBERJESKY SIEBELEWSKY is told on the Elisavetgrad Collection Point. Katia and her husband Alter were graduates of the University of Kharkov who fled to the United States in the 1890s because they were too radical to be left unmolested in Czarist Russia. Katia kept photos of many friends and family of both herself and her husband. Those searching for DASHEVSKY, SIEBELEWSKY, POBERJESKY and BUDNACHENKO relatives may recognize family members in this group. All were taken in Elizavetgrad studios and all were most likely taken in the 1890s. Please write to Raymond Cannata if any match pictures in your family album; if you are researching any of these names in Elisavetgrad, or you know anything that could help in his research. Please click on any image for a larger view, which will open in a new window or tab.

POBERJESKY? SIEBELEWSKY?From the pictures of family and friends of of Alter and Katia (POBERJESKY) SIEBELEWSKY of Elisavetgrad. See note above table. Contact Ray Cannata	POBERJESKY? SIEBELEWSKY?From the pictures of family and friends of of Alter and Katia (POBERJESKY) SIEBELEWSKY of Elisavetgrad. See note above table. Contact Ray Cannata	Katia POBERJESKY is thought to be the gfirl on the left. Who is the friend or relative with her in the picture? Write to Ray Cannata with information


Anna (daughter of Moshe) 1892 Anna sent this to Roman GERSHOY and signed it your [cousin/sister/spiritual sister?]. She was clearly important to Gittel "Katia" POBERESKY SIEBELEWSKY of Elizavetgrad as not one, but two copies of this photo were among the papers. it was taken in Tagenrog in July 1892. There is more information about this picture and GERSHOY families on the page Elisavetgrad Family Pictures Page 2 and if you have any information on her, other GERSHOY/POBERESKY connections,or GERSHOYs in Elisavetgrad, or if there is a copy of this photo in your family album too, please contact Ray Cannata	Samuel, of Siebelewsky family? to family friend RABINOVICH, taken in Elizavetgrad around 1890?; Ray Cannata

The third group of pictures includes both brand new and long unsolved mysteries from the founder of this page (and of this SIG!), Florence Elman. You all have such pictures in your albums, "Mom's cousin that we saw in the Catskills, Dad's relative who sent pictures from Paris." But those unnamed relatives are the point from which new research could begin. So help Florence, then send your own puzzles and we will help you! Please click on any image for a larger view.

Montreal 1939. This picture taken in 1939 in Montreal is a needed link for Florence NERENBERG Elman.She says "Desperately seeking the identity of this man. The picture was taken circa 1939 in Montreal. He may have been from Ukraine (or Poland). He'd be in his late 80's or early 90's now - if he's still alive. Perhaps one of his children or grandchildren will spot it and we'll learn his name." Please click on her name to email with information.	GOTLIBOVICH & KATSOVICH "Russian cousin" of these families from the Cherkassy area of Kiev gubernia, taken c. 1920.Contact Florence NERENBERG Elman	Rebecca MLOTOK. This picture taken in 1930 New York of cousins to Montreal families of GOTLIEB and SURIS. All families formerly of Ukraine. Do you know her? Contact Florence NERENBERG Elman. Please click to email with information.


Mr. and Mrs. MLOTOK. Parents of Rebecca MLOTOK, cousins of the GOTLIEB family of Kiev Gubernia and Montreal, and cousins to the SURIS family of Montreal. Solve a long-time mystery and write to Florence NERENBERG Elman	Yitzhak Hersh Cohen and wife Taken c. 1930. These were cousins of the GOTLIBOVICH family of Cherkassy, Kiev. Send any new insights to Florence NERENBERG Elman	Emilchino, Zhitomir Oblast This picture taken in 1926 Emilchino. Alex Kopelbergsays "I know only that there are members of the SHAPIRO Family, the sitting woman is Beyla Isaakovna SHAPIRO( 1908?-1982), born in Emilchino, died & buried in Simferopol. The first on the left is her husband Yudko SHAPIRO (1902 ? -1945), born in Emilchino and perished in WW II. The other two men are Beyla's brothers (one is Aron). ...[Beyla] is my cousin's grandmother."


Kovel 1930s, Beytar Organization This picture taken in Kovel in the 1930s includes Pinkhas KOPELBERG. Pinkas is the last to the right in the third row and is the only survivor of his family. He attended the Tarbut Gymnasium in Kowel and if you have any information on him, his classmates, or his Beytar comrades, please send it to Alex Kopelberg's	Kovel 1930s with Khana KOPELBERG This picture also taken in Kovel near the end of the 1930s. Alex Kopelberg says "the only person I know about is Khana KOPELBERG, the girl in a dark dress sitting on the bench. She was killed by the NAZIs. I very much hope , that in somebody's family archive there exists the same photo, and he/she can provide me with more information."

Cold Cases These have been on our page for a long time and they need new energy applied to them, or if the person who has posted them has learned the answers to their questions, we want them to tell us how they have been resolved. We invite each of you who submits a picture to this page to give us progress reports and happy endings. And we will happily move "closed cases" to a permanent place on a site for that town. Please click on any image for a larger view.

	BOGART Family of Odessa This picture sent by Terry McMahon with this note - "I have a picture showing my Great Grandfather Bogart and Grandmother (Maiden name Vosk) along with their family. The young lady on the lower left of the picture is my Grandmother Margaret Bogart. They emigrated from Odessa, Ukraine shortly after the 1905 Pogrom (1906 - 1907). I would like some help if at all possible in identifying the rest of the family and also to find out my Great Grandmothers first name and what her Mother and Father's names are? ... The Bogarts emigrated to Kansas City, Mo. This is where my Grandmother married Mr. Daitch when she was of age."
Robyn Dryen sent the following material on her family from the Ekaterinoslav agricultural colonies at Hoopolov and Ekaterinoslav and said "I have some photographs of family and some others (friends?) that may be of interest to others - and may help me to identify who the unknown ones are. I believe that one set originates at Kolonya Vesselaya (Hoopolov) and the other perhaps from Ekaterinoslav. The other beginning with picture 3 below, are JPEGs of photographs that Leon appears to have brought with him from the Ukraine when he came to Australia. They are of friends and perhaps, family. Some are identified, others not. Some seem to have been Leon's army friends and may not be Jewish, others seem more likely to have been family."

DRUYAN familyWe think this image is of Pincus/Pinchus DRUYAN, his wife Rachel,their son Leon, and two daughters whose names are unknown.Help us find the name of Leon's sisters! Leon was born in 1885 at Kolonya Vesselaya (Hoopolov) so this picture would be early 1890s. Leon migrated to Australia in 1908 where he became Leon DRYEN. Email Robyn Dryen	Samuel Jacob KRANTZ? We think this image is of Samuel Jacob KRANTZ, born about 1838, died February 1912, in Australia. Samuel's eldest daughter, Sonia was born in Ekaterinoslav in 1861 so we assume the family was there at that time. Email Robyn Dryen	Unidentified person. Please send any information to Robyn Dryen


Unidentified person. Please send any information to Robyn Dryen	Unidentified person. Please send any information to Robyn Dryen	Unidentified person. Please send any information to Robyn Dryen


Unidentified person. Please send any information to Robyn Dryen	Unidentified person. Please send any information to Robyn Dryen	Unidentified person. Please send any information to Robyn Dryen


Front and back of photo of unidentified woman, taken by studio of M. Oppitz in Kremenets, Volhynia. The family story, uncorroborated, is that my great-grandfather Shimon/Sam BAKER (1883-1916) (possibly surname name was BIK in Russia) brought this photo when he immigrated to New Hampshire, USA, around 1907, and it was a woman he loved in Russia. Sam came to the United States to marry Annie GOLD [nee KLOTZ], an earlier immigrant whom he had known in Russia, but this is not Annie in the picture. See BAKER and KLOTZ family trees at: http://www.ltolman.org/index.html More photos at http://www.ltolman.org/photos.htm Please contact Lynne Tolman at LTolman@LTolman.org

	Malka, a Mystery Woman. Who is she? Possibly one of Gershon Goldsman's 3 wives - Tzizeh/Susan ???, or "Wife #2", or Rose Geller. Photo probably taken in Khotin or Podolia 1900. Arthur Halpern arthurh@bezeqint.net

	Reitzen Nieces and Nephews This photo was labeled on the back in my Great Aunt's handwriting "Reitzen Nieces and Nephews". It was taken somewhere in the Ukraine and it is believed to be either Semyanovka, Starodub or Chernigov. Their Grandfather would have been Rabbi Yitzhok Reitzen. They would be related to Rabbi Reitzen from Koidanov who would be an uncle or great uncle. Their Grandmother would have been Frumeh Khesheh Ginsburg or Ginsberg who was the daughter of Rabbis and who married Rabbi Yitzhok Reitzen. The family name appears to have several spellings, and could be Reicin or Reitzen. If you have any information, contact Charlotte Showel Las Vegas, Nevada - samchar@lvcm.com
	HALPERN-ROSENTHAL? I have reason to believe that this might be my father's sister (given name unknown) in Kamenets, and that she may have married Gordon Rosenthal's Arthur Halpern arthurh@bezeqint.net


The young woman in the first picture was a sister to my grandfather, Perets MILLER. In the second photograph there are her children. Unfortunately we have a little information about them, and we don't know her name. Her maiden name is Miller. Her parents were Shulim and Haya-Dvoyra MILLER. She was born in Poland, and she immigrated to the USA before 1939. All her relatives who stayed in Poland perished during War II. Only her brother Perets who lived in the USSR survived. Initially he lived in Ukraine; in 1932 he moved to Azerbaijan, Baku. At first, they wrote each other letters, but then the writing stopped. If you can identify these people, please contact me at Sonia Baskin vadim_baskin@hotmail.com

The following pictures were probably taken in Balta, Ukraine, ca. 1905. The names could be ZWANG or ECHTER. Contact Shel Bercovich: scanner_1998@yahoo.com

		This woman may have been a doctor, and a ZWANG. This photo was taken in Odessa.


		Reitzen Nieces and Nephews This photo was labeled on the back in my Great Aunt's handwriting "Reitzen Nieces and Nephews". It was taken somewhere in the Ukraine and it is believed to be either Semyanovka, Starodub or Chernigov. Their Grandfather would have been Rabbi Yitzhok Reitzen. They would be related to Rabbi Reitzen from Koidanov who would be an uncle or great uncle. Their Grandmother would have been Frumeh Khesheh Ginsburg or Ginsberg who was the daughter of Rabbis and who married Rabbi Yitzhok Reitzen. The family name appears to have several spellings, and could be Reicin or Reitzen. If you have any information, contact Charlotte Showel Las Vegas, Nevada - samchar@lvcm.com

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