Shalom and Pesia (previously Kuperman) Margulis resided in Lunna where they had a coffee house. They had three sons and a daughter: Yaakov (b. 1892), Shmuel (b. 1901), Aba (b. 1909), and Chaya.
Yaakov Margulis was an enthusiastic supporter of the Bolsheviks. In 1916 he left Lunna for Moscow where he had a family. In 1958 Yaakov visited Lunna which was then under Soviet rule. He took photos in Lunna and sent it to his brother Aba who lived in Tel Aviv. Several photos taken by Yaakov Margulis are posted on Under the Polish rule/Urban life page.
Shmuel Margulis was married to Frida.
Chaya married someone whose name is currently not known; they had children.
Aba (Margulis) Margalit left Lunna for Eretz Israel in 1933. Two years later he was married to Henie, daughter of Hershl and Chaya Yogiel, whom he knew from Lunna. Aba and Henie Margalit have family in Israel.
Shalom Margulis died in Lunna before the Second World War. His wife Pesia, their son Shmuel, their daughter Chaya, and their families perished in the Holocaust.

Note: Shalom Margulis had a brother, David, who came to Eretz Israel before the Second World War.

(From the collection of Aba (Margulis) Margalit
(Photos submitted by Mira Feingold (Aba's daughter))

Yogiel Family

Zimel and Basha Yogiel lived in Lunna sometime between the second-half of the 19th century and the first-half of the 20th century. Zimel died in Lunna in 1917 and Basha, daughter of Avraham Moshe, died there in 1934. Zimel and Basha Yogiel had three sons named Hershel, Kalman, and Kopel; and three daughters named Ida, Shayne-Rachel, and Sarah.

Hershl Yogiel married Chaya. They lived in Bialystok and had had two daughters who were born there: Henie (born 1911) and Devorah (born in 1908 or 1909). After the death of Hershel, Chaya Yogiel and her two daughters lived in Wolpa. Chaya Yogiel remarried a person whose last name was Mass. Later on, they moved to Lunna where Henie met Aba Margulis. In 1933 Henie Yogiel and Aba Margulis left Lunna for Eretz Israel; two years later they got married. The family of Henie and Aba Margalit resides in Israel. Devorah Yogiel married Yehuda Yelin and lived in Bialystok.
Kalman married Fannie; they had four children.
Kopel married Toibe; they had children.
Ida moved to America in the 1920s where they lived with her aunt Ester Averbuck, Zimel Yogiel's sister.
Shayne-Rachel married Moshe Galinsky from Lunna; they had three sons.
In 1925 Sarah married Eli (Elias) Shalachman.

Shalachman Family

Leib-Ber (Leo) Shalachman was born in 1872 to Betsalel and Hanna née Itskowicz. Leib was a woman's tailor. He married Rachel, who was born in 1874 to Mendel Yedwab and Rivka née Cohen. The house of Leib-Ber and Rachel Shalachman was located in Lunna at the Third of May Square across from the Russian Orthodox Church. The house was divided into two parts. A barber shop and an ice-cream, candy, coffee shop that was located downstairs. The residence and Leib's Ladies Tailor shop were located upstairs. They had nine children; all were born in Lunna: Devorah, Eli (Elias), Haim, Josef, Mendel, Miriam, Shaindel, Shifra, and the youngest Reuben.

The Children of Leo and Rachel Shalachman
Devorah married Yudel Pinchosowicz. They had two young boys.
Elias (b. 1898) married Sarah Yogiel in 1925. After the wedding, Sarah and Elias lived with Basha Yogiel (Sarah's mother). Elias converted half of their home into a business — a restaurant and cocktail lounge called the Piwiarnia. After several years, Sarah and Elias moved to Mexico. Before her marriage Sarah had filed papers to enter the United States. While in Mexico, she received a letter from her family in Lunna that told her that she could enter America. Her husband, who had not filed, was unable to enter until 1938. Sarah and Elias Shalachman have family in the States.
Haim died in his childhood.
Josef , too, died in his childhood.
Mendel was born in 1910. The name of his wife is not known. They had two girls. Mendel had a Taylor shop.
Miriam also died in her childhood.
Shaindel. The name of her husband is unknown.
Shifra married Moshe Kaplan. They had a daughter. Moshe Kaplan had a furniture store.
Ruben was born in 1912. He served in the Polish Calvary from 1935 to 1937. Reuben went to Bolivia in 1937. In 1950 he married Mina Rinzler, a war refugee from Romania. They have a daughter who lives in Chile. Ruben died on 19 August 2007 in Santiago, Chile.

Elias and Reuben were the only two Shalachman family members not killed during The War. Leib-Ber and Rachel Shalachman, Mendel Shalachman, Devorah Pinchosowicz, Shifra Kaplan and their families perished in the Holocaust.

Note: The information about the Shalachman family is based on the booklet Mishpachti ("My Family") written by Jason Gaber, a grandson of Sarah and Elias Shalachman (1973) and also on lists prepared by David Rinzler, brother-in-law of Ruben Shalachman.

From the Collections of Sarah Yogiel, Eli Shalachman, and Henie Yogiel Margalit (Sarah's niece)
(Photos submitted by Shelley Novoselsky (Sarah and Eli Salachman's granddaughter) and Mira Feingold (Henie's daughter))

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