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The
Druch/Dritch family originated in Yurovschina (Labun), Russia, now
Ukraine, 22 km or 13.7 miles from Poninka.
We don’t know when or why the Druchs, Efroim (born in
Yurovschina 1860 and died in Poninka c. 1922) and his wife Rochel
Shereshevsky (born in Yurovschina c. 1860 and died in Poninka 1922)
moved to Poninka. However,
all of their children were born there, so we will consider them to be a
Poninka family. (And we don’t know why some family members used Dritch
while others used Druch.) Their
children were
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Druch, who became Samuel Dritch, came to the U.S. in 1909.
According to the federal census and his naturalization papers, he was a
'shoe worker.' He married Rose Bazman in 1914 in Lynn,
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Icek Druch lived in Poninka and had 3 children that we know about - daughter Ljubov (Lubov) Dritch who was born in Poninka in 1907 and moved to Gothenberg, Sweden, where she died in 1980; Fania who married Grisha Unk; and Borish who married Xenia and had children Ilya and Valdek. |
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Hersch Druch was married to Tonia Zorne and had a son Joseph. Tonia was killed in the Holocaust in Dubno ( about 100 miles from Poninka) while Hersch died in Haifa, Israel.
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Hersch Druch |
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(Sarah Druch), arrived in New York on the President Grant,
having departed from Hamburg, Germany on July 19, 1911 and stating that
Poninka was her hometown. She married Louis Faneuil (Fayn), son of
Faiga and Dov Ber and grandson of Ester and Girsha Fayn), born in
Volhynia, Russia in Boston in 1914. (Most of this information comes from
Robert Faneuil, grandson of Louis and Sarah) |
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Louis and Sarah Druch Faneuil |
Sarah Druch Faneuil, later in life |
| Tillie
(Tyla Druch) arrived in New York on June 17, 1922 on the S.S.
America from Bremen, stating that she was a dressmaker, from Poninka,
leaving her brother Icek behind in Poninka and going to her brother Sam
Dritch in Lynn, Massachusetts. She married Hyman Weisman in 1923
in Lynn, Massachusetts |