I believe my grandfather studied at cheder.
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Clara Shalenko
I remember my grandfather’s younger brother Emmanuel Shterbul. He was born in Odessa in 1872 and studied at cheder.
He was a tinsmith.
Clara was a dressmaker.
Emmanuel’s family was religious. They went to synagogue and fasted at Yom Kippur. They always had matzah at Pesach.
Emmanuel and Clara died in evacuation during the Great Patriotic War.
She came from a religious family. She went to synagogue on Sabbath, and on big holidays. There was a number of synagogues in Odessa at that time.
My grandmother got married in 1894 when she turned 16. She was a housewife.
My grandmother celebrated all Jewish holidays and raised her children religious.
He was a baker.
Like other brothers he was a communist. I don’t know for what reason they joined the Party. Perhaps, they were attracted by the idea of equality and justice proclaimed by Bolsheviks. All the communists were atheists.
His wife Manya was a Jew and came from Lithuania. Manya was very religious and celebrated all holidays. She had a menorah and lit candles at Sabbath. She prayed and wore a shawl leaving her ears uncovered. I don’t know whether there were any conflicts due to the spiritual difference since they were a separate family. Abram and Manya had four children. Manya wasn’t raising her children religious. She did not take them to the synagogue, I do not know whether all of them observed kashrut in full extent, but they did not eat pork of course. They did not celebrate Jewish holidays at home but at Pesach they always had Gefilte fish and matzot.
At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War their family evacuated to Fergana where Abram continued to work as a baker.
Two of his sons were taken to the front from evacuation.
After the war Abram became director of a bakery in Odessa. Later he was elected chairman of the regional committee of Trade Union of bakers where he worked until he retired.
Their daughter Sonya is an accountant, she lives in Odessa.
Their older son Lyova and his family live in Chicago.
I know all of them married Jews, while they all always felt themselves Jews.
My father’s brother Obysh was born in Odessa in 1901. He worked for trade unions and was single.
In 1941 Obysh went to the front where he perished.
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He was a shoe modeler at a shoe factory.
Motl went to the front in 1941 and his wife and son stayed in Odessa. Adelia and her son were killed in the ghetto in Odessa and Motl perished at the front.
In 1914 he was recruited to the army. My father didn’t go to the army, but got involved in some revolutionary activities and went underground. Therefore they made forged document for him with the name Finegold. He had this name all his life long. He was hiding at his friend Shymon Barskiy’s apartment. In 1917 my father joined the Bolshevik Party.
During the Civil War he was in the Bolshevist underground movement. In 1919 my father was sent to the town of Galatz in Romania to take money to Romanian communists for liberation of Russian communists from jail. When my father came to the secret address there was an ambush of gendarmes. My father was scared to death. He had a lot of Party money with him. Gendarmes took my father to sigurantza [secret police of Romania] where they interrogated my father where he got such a lot of money from. My father replied that he was going to his father in the US and his relatives in Odessa collected this amount for his trip. He was imprisoned and convoyed to work every day. My father’s job was to wallpaper rooms in a Romanian lord’s mansion. Romanians Bolsheviks sent their messenger to my father. She called herself his fiancée and brought him food to jail. She managed to give him an escape plan. My father escaped at the time when he was at work at that mansion when his convoy dozed off. He met with Romanian communists at a secret apartment and they helped him to get back to Moscow.
In Moscow my father entered the Communist University named after Ya. Sverdlov. His co-students were communists from many countries. My father remembered Anna Pauker [one of the leaders of Romanian communist movement, a Jew] – they were friends.
Clara sent Ilia and Shura to a children’s home that evacuated to the Krasnodar region. On the way there they were captured by Germans. Germans exterminated all Jewish children.
Clara and her baby stayed in Odessa where they were killed in the ghetto.
Clara’s husband perished at the front.
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Of all family only their older daughter Lena survived.
I know little about my mother’s brothers. Her older brother Lyova was born in Odessa in 1910. I don’t know where he worked. He was single. He perished at the front during the Great Patriotic War. Her younger brother Isaac was born in 1912. He was also single. He perished at the front during the war.
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