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Motka’s son Isaac was born in 1912. He finished a lower secondary school – seven years, and worked in nickel plating in a shop in Odessa. He got married before the Great Patriotic War. His wife’s name was Raya and their daughter’s name was Asia. During the Great Patriotic War his wife and daughter were in evacuation in Tashkent. Isaac was in the ghetto in Odessa during the war, and a camp in Domanevka 7.
After the war he worked in the nickel-plating business. I don’t remember where exactly he worked. Isaac died in Odessa in 1993. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery. Motka’s children observed Jewish holidays and fasted at Yom Kippur, but they were not religious.
My father’s second brother, whose name I don’t remember, was born in Starokonstantinov in 1873. All I know about him is that he moved to the USA in 1893 to avoid military service in the tsarist army.
My father’s sister Reizl was born in Starokonstantinov in 1875. She had no education. She married a widower. Her husband was a clerk in a timber storage facility in the village of Zeltsy, Odessa region. This was a German colony 8. Her husband had a daughter from his first wife. They didn’t have children of their own. Reizl was a housewife. She died of diabetes in 1929. I don’t know when Reizl’s husband died. He probably lived with his daughter after Reizl died.
I know little about my father’s stepsister Chova: she was born in Mayaki in 1885. She got married and lived somewhere near the Turkish border – perhaps in Armenia. She had one son that drowned.
After the war he worked in the nickel-plating business. I don’t remember where exactly he worked. Isaac died in Odessa in 1993. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery. Motka’s children observed Jewish holidays and fasted at Yom Kippur, but they were not religious.
My father’s second brother, whose name I don’t remember, was born in Starokonstantinov in 1873. All I know about him is that he moved to the USA in 1893 to avoid military service in the tsarist army.
My father’s sister Reizl was born in Starokonstantinov in 1875. She had no education. She married a widower. Her husband was a clerk in a timber storage facility in the village of Zeltsy, Odessa region. This was a German colony 8. Her husband had a daughter from his first wife. They didn’t have children of their own. Reizl was a housewife. She died of diabetes in 1929. I don’t know when Reizl’s husband died. He probably lived with his daughter after Reizl died.
I know little about my father’s stepsister Chova: she was born in Mayaki in 1885. She got married and lived somewhere near the Turkish border – perhaps in Armenia. She had one son that drowned.
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Isaac Klinger