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Smela

Chergassy district, Kiev gubernia

(history of Smela)

There is still a community of several hundred Jews in Smela, and several thousand in nearby Cherkassy.

Smela Residents

Ida DannLipitz, abt 1897

Ida DANN LIPITZ (1887-1977)
Probably taken around age 20, so c. 1907 in Smela.
Photo courtesy of Laura C. Katz

Boruch and Asne Lipitz, in NYC abt 1910

Boruch and Asne LIPITZ of Smela,
around 1910 in NYC.
Photo courtesy of Laura C. Katz.