Photogalleries and/ or stories from descendants
Nava Pincus Englander Ludmer Gabriela
Nava Shulkin:
A memorial tribute to my parents Moshe Shulkin and Hanna Girsovicine- Shulkin
At that time, my father was just a few months old.
Later two
of the children, girls, died of typhoid fever.One child, a son - Notel - had to serve in the Russian army. Nobody knows what happened to him.
Three children survived. One child was my father, named Moshe who emigrated to Israel in 1935. Another child, named Cemach ( Hebrew for plant) and born in 1909, emigrated to Johannesburg in South Africa. The third child, named Meyer and born in 1905, emigrated to the USA. He arrived there on 13 October 1923. He lived in Baltimore Maryland. Moshe, Cemach and Meyer got married at their new homeland.
Moshe
married Hanna, daughter of Boruch and Pessa Rivka Girsovicine, born in Veksniai, Lithuania. She emigrated to Israel on 12 September 1938 on the last legal ship arriving to the promised land . They had 1 child. During the war, my mother Hanna was enlisted to the ATS ( British Army Women Troops). She served for three years in Egypt, from 1941-1944.The name of Cemach’s wife was Cecilia Pearl Wolfsohn. They
had two children. Meyer and his wife had one daughter, named Shirley.My grandmother Hanna had a grocery store which was actually a department store where she sold all kinds of products to the inhabitants of Seduva.
Hanna Shulkin ne Ber, grandmother from father's
sideMy father Moshe
was a devout Zionist and always talked about making an Aliya to Israel . For that purpose he attended the Hachshara- a training period in which you could learn how to become a farmer. There was such a Hachshara in Seduva. He not only attended this one, but also the one in Memel. ( nowadays called Klaipeda). His future wife, my mother Hanna, went to Hachshara as well, but in a different town.Before the Germans entered Seduva, in June 1941, my grandmother still lived in her house, accompanied by her son Jacob ( Yaakov), born in 1903. They worked in the grocery
store .
my uncle Notel
on the left: Moshe Shulkin
on the left:
Moshe Shulkin