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My great-grand father Salomon (Shlomo) BERLIN travelled by foot and railway from Rostov on the Don to Paris when he was 15, around 1880. He eventually settled in Paris and married a catholic girl( his neighbour). He was alone, his parents had remained in Russia. The family was originally from Grodno guberniya (Slonim and Derechin, now Belarus). He lived by working on the way. I have little idea why he headed to Paris.
That is something I would be very interested to learn. I know that his father was an " enlightened jew". Maybe there was a group of them in Paris? after all, Theodore Herzl dreamed of Israel in Paris at that time, the time of Dreyfus affair. Nicole BERLINE, Paris |
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