Family Histories and Memoirs

• Tybel (Tessie) Freedman, nee Komesaroff/ Komisaruk Ancestry from Colonist Families
• Article about the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the Komesaroff family in Australia, written by Yossi Aron and first published in the Australian Jewish News 20 December 2013
• "The Progress Of My Migration". Jacob Leib Mendelson (formerly Komesarook), Melbourne, Australia, 1919

  Personal memoirs of Yaakov Leib, the son of Menakhem Mendel Komisaruk,
  Born 1888 Grafskoy, Yekaterinoslav, Ukraine.
  Died 1952 Melbourne, Australia.
  Donated by his grandsons Roger Mendelson and Vann Fisher (Melbourne).
  

  4 parts in PDF format: part1, part2, part 3, part 4


• Rokhel Luban's Memoirs (Trudolubovka)
• Memoirs of William Comisarow updated July 2022 by Mel Comisarow
• Rokhel's Map of households in Trudolubovka
• Sehaidak memories: Haim Cohen; Tziporah Kaminker; Yisrael Seltzer; Avraham Toren
• Israelovka memories: Haim Cohen
• Memoirs of Yaakov Yelishevitch
• Life story of Shmuel Yelisheitch
• Memories of two Generations: Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz 'Nechaevka' by Moshe Avigal (Beigel)
• The Diary of Joseph Epp 1860-1880
• Memoirs of Mordekhai (Mottel, Mark) Komisaruk
• My Lineage By Abram Markovich Komissaruk
• Contorer (Berislaw) Lavut (Romanova)
• Memoirs of Grafskoy 1907-1921, by Rabbi Yehudah Leib Chiel Shifrin, son of a rabbi of Grafskoy
• Rabbi Pinkhas Halevi Komisaruk

  Born 1830, Rassein (now Raseiniai), Lithuania.
  Died 26th Adar Rishon, 5697/1897 Grafskoy, (now Proletarsky), Ukraine
  Son of Rabbi Shlomo-Zalman Halevi (1798-1853) and Yokhved Komisaruk.
  Great-Great-grandson of the Vilna Gaon."

• Our Fathers' Harvest" Chaim (then Keith) Freedman 1982

  In 1982 Chaim (then Keith) Freedman wrote a history of the Komisaruk family entitled "Our Fathers' Harvest" which included material about the Jewish colonies. https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Colonies_of_Ukraine/Chaim%27s%20Introduction.htm

  PDF images of:

  Part 1 (https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Colonies_of_Ukraine/Our%20Fathers%20Harvest%201.pdf)
  Part 2 (https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Colonies_of_Ukraine/Our%20Fathers%20Harvest%202.pdf)
  Part 3 (https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Colonies_of_Ukraine/Our%20Fathers%20Harvest%203.pdf)
  Part 4 (https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Colonies_of_Ukraine/Our%20Fathers%20Harvest%204.pdf)
  Part 5 (https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Colonies_of_Ukraine/Our%20Fathers%20Harvest%205.pdf)

  In 1990 a supplement appeared with additional material, some of which appears on this colony site: https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Colonies_of_Ukraine/Colonization.htm

  https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Colonies_of_Ukraine/russian_geography.htm

  https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Colonies_of_Ukraine/russian_sources.htm

  https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Colonies_of_Ukraine/from_the_hebrew_press_1958.htm

  https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Colonies_of_Ukraine/memoirs_of_rokhel_luban.htm

  In 1997 the genealogical information from the previous books was updated and published in Freedman's "Eliyahu's Branches, The Descendants of the Vilna Gaon and His Family" (Avotaynu 1997)
  http://www.avotaynu.com/books/gaon.htm
  http://eliyahusbranches.blogspot.co.il/

  Those sections of "Our Father's Harvest" which are relevant to the colonies have been scanned for this site. Some of that material has been considerably updated as it became available from Ukrainian and Lithuanian archives after the fall of the Soviet Union.

  Such material did not appear in the original book provided here. Nevertheless the information in that book provides valuable material particularly that obtained from interviews of Freedman's great-uncle William Komesaroff (Melbourne) who had vivid memoirs of the colony Grafskoy.

• Komisaruk family
• Komisaruk Zmood Grinblat Yovel interelationships
• Chaim Freedman, memoirs of his grandparents Zalman and Chanah Raizel Kaye (Komesaroff)