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From Eugenia Sheinman
I
have a funny story I would like to share. My
Sheinman’s, my father's elder brother, that were born
and raised in Krasilov, emigrated from the other
places. The first one, Hershel, joined our Proskurov
relatives in the USA in 1913 while he was a young boy,
and two others [Wolf and Moisey] left Krasilov about
1920 and moved to Lvov, from where Wolf Sheinman left
for Philadelphia, USA, to join Hershel, but Moishe
(Moisey) Sheinman had to move to Argentine, and only
after spending two years there he was able to join his
brothers in the USA. Before he left Buenos-Aires for
the USA in fall of 1923, he dropped in to the photo
studio and later sent his picture to his Krasilov
relatives. Now it is in my family album [see photo
above]. For many years we had no idea who was the
second young man in the picture. Once a Krasilov
native, Lena Maizlish found me here in Indianapolis.
We had never met before, and Lena invited me to her
birthday party. As soon as I entered her apartment I
saw several family albums on a small table. I opened
one which looked the oldest, and immediately noticed
the same picture which I also had. "It's my uncle," I
announced. "No, it's MY Uncle", Lena corrected me
nervously, "he was my father's elder brother, Issachar
Maizlish; he immigrated to Argentine in the beginning
of 1920’s and later moved to the USA." So, those two
young Krasilov natives almost at the same time (it
might be, together) left for Argentine, then spent
about 2 years there and entered the USA on the same
ship in 1923 [Vasari, September 9, 1923]. Before I met
Lena I didn't know who the second young man in my
photo was, and she also had no information on the
friend of her uncle.
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