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After the war Nuska’s family returned to Odessa. Their older daughter Bella finished a medical college after the war and worked as a doctor. She married her cousin brother Grisha. They had two children: Petia and Roman.
Nuska died of infarction in Odessa in 1962. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery. I don’t remember when Rukhl died.
Nuska’s daughter Lisa was single. She moved to the USA in 1989. She worked as a medical nurse for eight years and then she returned to Odessa due to her health condition. She stayed in Odessa for a few years and then went back to the USA in 1999. She could live on her pension there.
Misha got married in evacuation in Tashkent. After the Great Patriotic War he worked as a shoemaker. Misha moved to Australia with his family. He died in 1999.
My father’s youngest half-brother Abram was born in Mayaki in 1900. He disappeared during the Civil War in 1919.
My father, Leizer Klinger, was born in Starokonstantinov, Khmelnitskiy region, in 1877. He studied in cheder and could read and write in Yiddish and Russian. In his teens he began to help Grandfather Itzyk in his cabinetmaking business, after Grandfather remarried. My father was raised in a Jewish family. He went to the synagogue, wore a kippah and fasted at Yom Kippur, but he didn’t have a beard. This is all I know from my father’s childhood.
In 1897 my father left Mayaki for Odessa looking for more prospects with regards to finding a job. He stayed in his brother Motka’s lodging. He got a job as a cabinetmaker for some construction subcontractor. In 1900 he was recruited to the tsarist army. He went to serve in Starokonstantinov. I don’t know whether he observed Jewish traditions there. I don’t think there was a ban for traditions. After his military service term was over my father returned to Odessa. He worked as cabinetmaker at the jute factory.
Nuska died of infarction in Odessa in 1962. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery. I don’t remember when Rukhl died.
Nuska’s daughter Lisa was single. She moved to the USA in 1989. She worked as a medical nurse for eight years and then she returned to Odessa due to her health condition. She stayed in Odessa for a few years and then went back to the USA in 1999. She could live on her pension there.
Misha got married in evacuation in Tashkent. After the Great Patriotic War he worked as a shoemaker. Misha moved to Australia with his family. He died in 1999.
My father’s youngest half-brother Abram was born in Mayaki in 1900. He disappeared during the Civil War in 1919.
My father, Leizer Klinger, was born in Starokonstantinov, Khmelnitskiy region, in 1877. He studied in cheder and could read and write in Yiddish and Russian. In his teens he began to help Grandfather Itzyk in his cabinetmaking business, after Grandfather remarried. My father was raised in a Jewish family. He went to the synagogue, wore a kippah and fasted at Yom Kippur, but he didn’t have a beard. This is all I know from my father’s childhood.
In 1897 my father left Mayaki for Odessa looking for more prospects with regards to finding a job. He stayed in his brother Motka’s lodging. He got a job as a cabinetmaker for some construction subcontractor. In 1900 he was recruited to the tsarist army. He went to serve in Starokonstantinov. I don’t know whether he observed Jewish traditions there. I don’t think there was a ban for traditions. After his military service term was over my father returned to Odessa. He worked as cabinetmaker at the jute factory.
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Isaac Klinger