The original article in Ukrainian.
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CHECHELNIK – ISRAEL – ARGENTINA – CHECHELNIK
(This is a revised version of the automatic google translation from Ukrainian)
Once I managed to get acquainted, thanks to the Internet, to our native from Chechelnyk Alexander G. Vishnevetskiy, a journalist from Israel. He now supports us sharing photos and stories that he distributes among his friends in the world. Of course, most notably the life of Jews in our area, at different times had gone abroad. The coexistence of two different nations and cultures of his time
Here is an excerpt of the last letter from A. Vishnevetsky: "I send you a significant material in English about Chechelnik. This is part of a large international site in the Jewish towns of the past. Maybe it will be somewhat interesting for the readers of your newspaper.
I would love that more people in the world knew about the town on his current state of affairs. Perhaps it will attract tourists from English speaking countries.
If you have the opportunity to write about this, please contact the head of this site - Ariel Parkansky. He is an artist known in his community and lives in Argentina.
Good Luck. Alexander".
Of course, once wrote Parkansky. It's a shame that I don’t speak English, but in today's correspondence in this case no obstacles (computerization does wonders).
And another letter, which did not make a long wait since Argentina from A. Parkansky where are the answers to questions that interest me:
" Yes, my grandmother's father, Chaim Zukerman, was from Chechelnik. His father, Yosef, had an inn there.
According to a family lore Chaim left Chechelnik escaping the Russian army and after wandering in Europe several years he arrived to Argentina in 1908.
I have few information about my Zukerman in Chechelnik. Alexander Vishnevetsky wrote about a Zukerman in his article of the ghetto and I've found other Zukerman from Chechelnik living in Israel but haven't yet established our relationship.
The purpose of the site is to honor and remember the Jewish life in Chechelnik. The town was home of Jewish people for more than 400 years and now both the people and most of their traces have almost dissappeared.
I was born in France in 1969 from Argentinean parents. I'm Engineer in Information Systems and an amateur artist.
As I told you before, it would be great if you could collaborate with some material for the website http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org. Best regards, Ariel "
Everyone can visit this address, there is much historical information about our area, its people, illustrated by photographs.
The peculiarity of Jewish history is the fact that even dispersed around the world, Jews for centuries kept their spiritual and national identity. They are also interested in collecting data to make everything into a single integral.
That such is Argentinian Ariel Parkansky who created the site, whose our primary attention is on you, Chechelnikers.
So if you have any information, documents or files, or want to share family history, own biographies, censuses and other historical material, related to the life of Jews in Chechelnik - you can contact us, or directly with A.Parkansky.
L. Shabelnik
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