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- Excerpt of article relating to Pokatilovo during the Holocaust by Alexander Vishnevetskiy
When the war started, and it became known that the Germans were approaching the little town, my father gave the farm horse and wagon, and the family was hastily evacuated. But we've just got to the Dnieper, and by this time of the Dnieper were already in the German paratroopers, cutting off our further journey. I had to go back. Returning home, they visited on their way to the village Pokotilov Kirovograd region, where he lived the father of my mother and her two sisters and their families. They offered my father to stay with them in Pokotilov. But his father refused, and it saved us. Even after the liberation, we learned that all Jews were exterminated in the Pokotilov polls and that the father of the mother specifically mocked the Nazis before he died.
Article appeared on News of week (Israel, Russian-language newspaper), on August 18, 2005. Used by permission. Translated from Russian. Links to entire english translated article and original Russian article. |
- Alexander Vishnevetskiy's mother was born in Pokotilov in 1912. She died at the age of 62 years.This picture was taken about 1930 in the town of New Archangel Pokotilov district of Kirovograd region. My grandfather on his mother's side, Noah Ostrovsky was a religious evreem. He had four daughters. Two of them-Betyaev and Lisa saved during the Nazi attack on the Soviet Union, having evacuated to Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. The other two sisters and their children, some born after 1930 and they are not in this photo, and Noah Ostrovsky were killed by the Nazis, along with other Jews from Pokotilov. One of those killed was her mother's sister's named Charna. Their husbands died one on the front and the other one died immediately after the war because of loneliness and longing for his lost. In the second row from left to my mother's sister and her father (with beard) as well as the husband of one of these sister.Sprava in this series Betyaev mother's sister, over her in the 3rd row, her husband and in the first row under it, her son Victor and daughter in the front row Nina.Sleva son of one of the dead sisters, Also killed, in the third row from left Pokotilovo. The husband of one of the dead sisters, my mother Tanya (Table is her Hebrew name), and with her, her sister Lisa. Immediately after the liberation of Ukraine our mother went to Pokotilov and learned all about the tragedy of her family from the local Ukrainians, who were the witnesses. I am a very bitter and sad to write about it, even though these people, my relatives, I never seen before. I was three years old in 1941 when the Germans attacked the Soviet Union.
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- These pictures of Alexander Vishnevetskiy's mother were made before the Nazi attack on the Soviet Soyuz. They reflect her studies in the Jewish medical college Gysin, where all instruction was in Yiddish.The Pictures below reflect the life time of study of mother and her friends at school, in 1933 she graduated at the medical college. She was sent to work in Chechelnik, where In 1935 she married Hersh (Gregory) Vishnevetsky from Sanevicha rozhdeniya.
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1935 she married Hersh (Gregory) Vishnevetsky from Sanevicha rozhdeniya |
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Odessa in 1940 at the Opera House, among health care workers Conference. His mother is in this picture, seating second from left in the second row.
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Photo taken after the liberation of the Ukraine Red Army. Mama with Alexander Vishnevetskiy's sister Dora visited his father, who after his release, served in the military and the repair train, in Chechelnik, which was in the area of Vinnitsy.
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The Vishnevetskiy family lived in Tashkent. In the photo, Alexander Vishnevetskiy's father, mother, sister and himself.
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Photo somewhere in the region in 1965, they are Alexander Vishnevetskiy's mother and father. |
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