Family Stories and Memoirs

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1. ✦Alex Kopelberg - My first nine years were spent there, it was there I went to the first grade, and learned to write and read...
   

2. ✦Shlapent Memoires - the little town of Emilchino, completely unknown to the rest of the world, was mentioned. This was where the Germans had buried children alive... (in English at www.jewishperson.org/emilchino)
   

3. ✦Bronya (Brantsya) Shargel - Prior to 1937, when the synagogue was operated in the small town had its own rabbi. In those years, Dad drove us to the synagogue... (translated from www.jewishperson.org/emilchino)
   

4. ✦Alex Kopelberg - ... He was taken prisoner by the Germans, and because he knew German, he began working as a translator. (translated from www.jewishperson.org/emilchino)
   

5. ✦Vera Rozenshtein - Beating the Jews in the Ukraine in 1919 (translated from www.jewishperson.org/emilchino)
   

6. ✦Boris Latman - In the 50s years Emilchino population was about 5000 people, of whom about one-third were Jews...(translated from www.jewishperson.org/emilchino)
   

7. ✦Alexander Yaroshevsky -In the New Year's Eve January 1, 1938 we children were awakened by the noise and tramping boots. I saw three soldiers in uniforms, who came to arrest our daddy.(translated from www.jewishperson.org/emilchino)
   

8. ✦Arkady Sachs - In May 1945, or 1946, I witnessed the excavation of the graves of the Jewish community Emilchino. The grave was in a diameter of about 4-5 meters. There were approximately 10-15 corpses.(translated from www.jewishperson.org/emilchino)
   

9. ✦Aron Baru - Bandits split into two groups: one went round from house to house and robbed, the second shot on the streets. They shot 11 Jews (translated from www.jewishperson.org/emilchino)