Melamed Family
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Thanks to son Fima Gilman
and granddaughter-in-law Tanya Gilman, we now have some lovely photos of Fira
(Esther) Melamed Gilman, who comes from Poninka. Fira, daughter of
Haim Aron and Sosya Melamed, was born in
Poninka in 1915 and worked in the paper factory before getting married
and moving to Murafa in 1936. (Murafa is about 163 kilometers or 100
miles southeast of Poninka.)
Haim Aron died before World War II and Sosya, along with her daughters Genya Melamed and Basya Rasputnaya, died during the war, in the Poninka/Polonnoye area. (Basya's family, husband and children, survived but have lost contact with the Melamed family.) Fira's husband, Leib Gilman, born in 1909 in Chudniv, died while serving in the Soviet Army in June, 1944 and Fira and her two sons survived the war in the Murafa ghetto. Fira died in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1990 and her remaining family moved to Israel and the United States in the 1990's. |
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| Fira
Melamed Apr 1, 1933 |
Fira
Melamed, in ~1934-1935 |
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| Fira Melamed, Jan 22, 1936 | Fira
Melamed, Mar 9, 1936 |
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| Fira
Melamed is second from the left in the second row. |
The
inscription on the reverse side: “Group
photo of our IIB class” Melamed
Esfir Feb 18, 1932 In
the lower left corner stamp “Photo KIR_NER Poninka” (a letter T, Zh
or S is missing between Kir and Ner). |