Photo of the Borshchagovka survivors in Romania, with Fawel Zitomersky
Late 1920 or January, 1921
(photos courtesy of Ken Sitomer, Susan Ostroff)
List of people in the photo - only 19 have been identified:
4. Sam Olin
5. Dora Zaslow
6. Max Zaslow
13. Jack Olin
14. Moische Leib Matusenko (Morris Matos, husband of #39, Bahsie Zitomersky Matos)
19. Miriam Altman
23. Rose (Rybak) Zitomersky (wife of #24, Max Zitomersky)
24. Max (Mordechai) Zitomersky
26. Dave Altman
29. Nettie Spector
34. Fawel (Philip) Zitomersky
36. Ray Decoveny (mother of #37, Benjamin Decoveny)
37. Benjamin (Benny) Decoveny
38. Tabel (Decoveny) Axelrod (sister of #37, Benjamin Decoveny)
39. Bahsie (Zitomersky) Matos (wife of #14, Morris Matos)
40. Baruch Aron (Benjamin) Shapiro
41. Milke/Mollie (Weisberg) Shapiro (wife of #40, Baruch Aron)
45. Goldie Altman
54. Esther Altman
Marion Zitomersky, daughter of Max and Rose Zitomersky, is almost certainly in the group of children. She would have been about 6 years old.
Eve and Ida Decoveny are almost certainly in the group.
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Exodus from Borshchagovka: Fawel Zitomersky’s Rescue Of More Than Fifty Survivors of the Pogroms
Fawel Zitomersky’s Passport Application File
Benjamin (Benny) Decoveny’s Passport Application File
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