Harbin,
Heilongjiang PROVINCE,
China

Harbin Photographs from the Bach Family

Courtesy of Sandra Bach Hayes, daughter of Al Bach

Fanny Berger Bach came from Far Eastern Russia near Irkutz, where she and her three orphaned sisters were raised by a foster family. Fanny met her husband Morris (Mar) Bach, also from Russia , on a train -- possibly the train to Harbin. They were married in China and had five children: Abrasha, Al (originally Louva), Sarah, Morris (originally Moses) and Mark. In Harbin, Morris (Mar) Bach ran a slaughterhouse.

The whole family moved to California in the 1930s and settled around the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Morris (Mar) Bach	Sarah Bach in 1926	Al Bach

Morris and Fanny Bach shortly after their marriage	From left, Bach children Morris, Sarah and Mark	Mark Bach on a ship to the United States

Fanny and Mark Bach, front row; back row Morris and Sarah Bach	Abrasha Bach	Bach children, from left, Abrasha, Al, Sarah and Moses (Morris)

Bach cousin Leo Rogalsky in Harbin	Bach cousin Elsie in “Ukrainian” costume in Tsingtao , 1927	Mark Bach in student uniform

Mark Bach	Sarah Bach, 2nd row, 3rd from left, in 1920 class photo	Morris Bach, center, with sons Moses (Morris) and Mark

Czar’s Army soldiers on a march, location unknown, in August 1917 -- Harbin family friend Rifkin on far left	Bach family slaughterhouse in Harbin	Bach family slaughterhouse in Harbin

Fanny Bach and cow	Fanny Bach and daughter Sarah	Al Bach

Permission to print these photographs was granted by Sandra Bach Hayes in September 2009.

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