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From: jesshschein@worldnet.att.net

Searching: Tatarbunar

I just found your pages on Jewish Agricultural Colonies after chiding an
acquaintance of mine for stating, on TV yet, that Eastern European Jews
weren't farmers essentially because they couldn't own land. I am now
able to back up my comments to him with facts and references.  Thanks.
I'm any old JewishGen hand and was surprised that I had missed out on
your site.
But now I have a question for you.  I have been doing genealogical
research on my family.  One of my grandfathers was born in Tatarbunar[y]
in 1882.  If you don't know, Tatarbunar was part of the Bessarabian
gubernia and is now in Ukraine. It is near the Black Sea between Izmail
and Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyy (Akkerman). His family arrived there from
Volkovysk, Grodno not too long before he was born.  Family stories have
it that his parents ran the "general store." They weren't farmers (I
believe tobacco was the main crop there). Some of the family went to
Argentina, some to the US and some stayed in the area and ended up in
Israel.
I am trying to find out as much information as I can about the area.  I
am particularly interested in trying to piece together why the family
ended up there and more precisely when they would have arrived. If they
were farmers it would understandable, but they weren't. My grandfather
had siblings who were over 20 years older, so it is possible that some
of them tried farming.
I have no hope of finding any records as this area was a political
football and went from Russia to Romania between the wars then back to
the USSR and now Ukraine. I believe the Romanians and Nazis destroyed
much of the area during WWII. Also Izmail and Bilhorod have different
dates for final incorporation into Russia and I don't know which one
applies. One bright note-as of 1893 when he applied for a passport, my
greatuncle was still registered in Volkovysk, so those records when they
become available might tell me something.
I've been working my way through references from the NY Public Library,
but there isn't much there and so far my little area of interest isn't
discussed. So, any sources of information you can point me to would be
greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Jessica Schein
NY, NY
 

From: Ron@condoradvisors.com

Searching: Kaminker

Hi
I noticed a Tzipora Kaminker. I am researching KAMINKER and wonder if you
have any contact info for her?
Thanks

Ron Kaminker

From: E-mail: Michael.Abramson@med.monash.edu.au
Web: http://www.med.monash.edu.au/epidemiology

Searching: Abramson from Rozovka

Nancy,

I would like to compliment you and other members of JewishGen who have
contributed to the pages on Jewish agricultural colonies in the
Ukraine.  I learnt quite a bit about the shtetlech from which my family
came.  My grandparents Joseph Abramson (1896-1971) and Tanya Batagol
(1893-1980) migrated to Melbourne, Australia in 1928.  I have attached a
couple of scanned photographs that may be of interest.
There is a picture of my great grandparents Jacob Hessel Abramson and
Hannah (or possibly Chayah) Weissman taken in Rozovka in 1927.  There is
a hard to read Yiddish inscription on the back in which they wish their
children well in their lives in a new land.  My grandfather added an
inscription that his father was 57 and his mother 53 years old at the
time.
The second picture is my grandfather Joseph in military uniform with his
mother just prior to the outbreak of the first World War in 1914.  He
served in the imperial Russian army on the Eastern front.  He told us a
story of being involved in a mutiny in which the officers were shot.
After the revolution, he fought on both sides in the war of the Reds and
the Whites which raged in the Ukraine.
All the people in these pictures have long since died.  I would be happy
for the pictures to be posted on the web, should you wish to do so.

Best wishes,
Michael

Vic 3181 Australia

From: Chaim Freedman chaimjan@zahav.net.il

Searching: Komesaroff, Gordon, Zmood

Nancy,

I seem to recall that my grandfather Zelman Komesaroff sponsored the
emigration of the Abramson family. Rozovka is the nearest station to
Grafskoy. It was from there that my mother with her parents set off on the
first leg of their long journey to Australia in 1913.

Regards
Chaim Freedman
Petah Tikvah, Israel

Dear Nancy,

You site has produced a very exciting result. It was seen by my previously
unknown third cousin Joseph Komissarouk who immigrated to Richmond Virginia,
in 1992 from Minsk. This is the first contact we have had since before the
2nd WW with this branch who were presumed to have perished in the Holocaust.
Joseph's great grandfather was Rabbi Shlomo Zalmen Komisaruk of Vasilkovka
whose photo appears on the site. Joseph's father left a photo album
annotated with the names. He also wrote his memoir which is being translated
into English and may be of interest for the site.

The site is a wonderful source for any of the families mentioned on it who
may do a Google search for their surname. It will take them to the site.

I am starting again to send you more photos and other material.

Regards

Chaim Freedman
Petah Tikvah, Israel
email: chaimjan@zahav.net.il