Relatives of Danny ( from Los Angeles)
His mother ( came to Israel before the war) was the daughter of Michael Golub and Dishka (daughter of Yehoshua Kur) of Vileika. she was a relative of Nachemia Kur and Breina ( Kur) Rabinovitz.
Golub Sara
Sara Golub was born in Wilejka to Mikhael and Dishka. She was a pupil and single. Prior to WWII she lived in Wilejka, Poland. During the war she was in Wilejka, Poland. Sara perished in 1942 in Wilejka, Poland at the age of 16. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 20-Jul-1999 by her cousin Braeina ( nee Kur) Rabinovitz , a Shoah survivor
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Golub Mikhael
Mikhael Golub was born in Wilejka. He was a tailor and married to Dishka and they had 8 children. Prior to WWII he lived in Wilejka, Poland. During the war he was in Wilejka, Poland. Mikhael perished in 1942 in the Shoah at the age of 60. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 20-Jul-1999 by his niece Braeina ( nee Kur) Rabinovitz, a Shoah survivor
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Mordekhai Golub was born in Wilejka to Mikhael and Dishka. He was a waggoner and married to a woman from Volozhin. Prior to WWII he lived in Wolozin, Poland. During the war he was in Wilejka, Poland. Mordekhai perished in 1942 in Wilejka, Poland at the age of 35. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 20-Jul-1999 by his cousin Braeina ( nee Kur) Rabinovitz , a Shoah survivor
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Golub Nachman
Nachman Golub was born in Wilejka in 1908 to Mikhal and Dusia. He was a house painter and married. Prior to WWII he lived in Wilejka, Poland. During the war he was in Wilejka, Poland. Nachman perished in 1941 in Wilejka, Ghetto. This information is based on a Page of Testimony found in the Pages of Testimony by Nechemia Kur.
Golub Disia
Disia Golub was born in Wilejka in 1896 to Yehoshua and Chaia Sara. She was a housewife and married to Mikhal. Prior to WWII she lived in Wilejka, Poland. During the war she was in Wilejka, Poland. Disia perished in 1941 in Wilejka, Poland. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 14-Oct-1957 by her relative Nechemia Kur
Golub Nachman
Nachman Golub was born in Wilejka in 1908 to Mikhal and Dusia. He was a house painter and married. Prior to WWII he lived in Wilejka, Poland. During the war he was in Wilejka, Poland. Nachman perished in 1941 in Wilejka, Ghetto. This information is based on a Page of Testimony found in the Pages of Testimony
Golub Michael
Michael Golub was born in Wilejka in 1900 to Batia. He was a mechanic and married to Gitel nee Norman. Prior to WWII he lived in Wilejka, Poland. During the war he was in Wilejka, Poland. Michael perished in Wilejka, Poland. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 16-Dec-1956 by his sister-in-law
Yehoshua Golub was born to Mikhael
Rivka Golub was born to Mikhael
Rachel Golub was born to Mikhael
Maltzer Mariasha
Mariasha Maltzer nee Golub was born to Mikhael. She was married to Yosef. Prior to WWII she lived in Wilejka, Poland. Mariasha perished in the Shoah. This information is based on a List of victims from Yizkor books found in the COMMUNITY OF VILEIKA (HEB, YID, ENG), TEL AVIV, 1972 page 315.
Miriam
Miriam nee Golub was born in Wilejka in 1917 to Mikhael and Dishka. She was a painter (artist) and married to Yehuda. Prior to WWII she lived in Wilejka, Poland. During the war she was in Wilejka, Poland. Miriam perished in 1942 in Wilejka, Poland. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 20-Jul-1999 by her cousin Braeina ( nee Kur) Rabinovitz , a Shoah survivor
Lea
Lea ??????? nee Golub was born in Lebedove to Yehoshua and Miriam. She was married to Kalman. Prior to WWII she lived in Kornitz, Poland. During the war she was in Kornitz, Poland. Lea perished in Kornitz, Poland at the age of 45. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 20-Apr-1999 by her daughter Chaia Sheingut, a Shoah survivor
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Kopelevich Bodana
Bodana Kopelevich nee Golub was born in Wilejka in 1902 to Isaak and Masha. She was a housewife. Prior to WWII she lived in Wilejka, Poland. During the war she was in Wilejka, Poland. Bodana perished in 1942 in Wilejka, Poland. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 20-Jan-1999 by her son. More Details...
Kopelovich Badana
Badana Kopelovich nee Golub was born in Wilejka to Masha. She was a shoemaker and married. Prior to WWII she lived in Wilejka, Poland. During the war she was in Poland. Badana perished in 1942 in Wilejka, Poland at the age of 45. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 06-May-1956 by her uncle Menachem Adir
Yshaya Golub was born in Wilejka to Mikhael and Dishka. He was a pupil and a teenager. Prior to WWII he lived in Wilejka, Poland. During the war he was in Wilejka, Poland. He perished in 1942 in Wilejka, Poland at the age of 13. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 20-Jul-1999 by his cousin, a Shoah survivor.
Golub Yankel
Yankel Golub was born in Wilejka to Mikhael and Dishka. He was a tailor and single. Prior to WWII he lived in Wilejka, Poland. During the war he was in Wilejka, Poland. Yankel perished in 1942 in Wilejka, Poland at the age of 35. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 20-Jul-1999 by his cousin, a Shoah survivor
Golub Miriam/ Mariashka
Miriam Golub was born to Mikhael and Dishka. She was married. Prior to WWII she lived in Vilieka,. During the war she was in Vilieka, . Mariam perished in 1942 in the Shoah at the age of 25. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 20-Jul-1999 by her cousin, a Shoah survivor
Golub Masha
Masha Golub nee Rudnicki was born in Wileiko in 1874 to Yisrael and Sara. She was married. During the war she was in Poland. Masha perished in 1942 in Wileiko, Poland. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 06-May-1956 by her brother.
Yakob Golub was born in Wilejka in 1906 to Mikhal and Disa. He was a tailor and married. Prior to WWII he lived in Wilejka, Poland. ring the war he was in Wilejka, Poland. Yakob perished in 1941 in Wilejka, Poland. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 14-Jul-1956 by Nekhemia Kur.
Breines' father was Mordechai Kur who's' father was a well-respected scribe (writer of Torah books) in Vileyka; (Yehoshua Koor). Rabbi yakov Landu Z"L ABD Bnai Brak wrote about Yehoshua Kur in the Yizkor book for Kurenets; '…Amongst the shoemakers I must tell about Moshe the Shoemaker from Dolhinov Street. He was a spiritual Jew and would read with excitement from the Torah. HE was also a Kaidanov Hasid. His father was Reb Yoshua, the writer from Vileyka. The son of Moshe, Shlomo Chaim studied Torah in our minyan, and when he arrived at the age where he would be taken to the army, he escaped and went to London. His last name was Koor and from what I heard he became a Hazan in one of the synagogues in London, where he later passed away…"*
I received emails form other members of the family;
Dear Eilat
Wonderful to hear Breines story
My grandfather - Shlomo Hayim, son of Moshe and cousin of Breine had family both in England and in Russia
Shlomo Hayim had 4 children
Marie - married name Coleman - Stephen's mother
Henry- my father
Hanna - married name Mather
Lily/Leah- married name Broza
I moved to Israel from England about 25 years ago. I live in Efrat about 20 minutes from Jerusalem but work in Jerusalem and commute every day. I have an elder brother Shlomo who lives in Petach Tikva near Tel Aviv and a younger brother Jonathan who lives with my mother in Netanya. My parents came to Israel in 1983 to retire. My father passed away in 1988.
Danny Koor
Eilat
My cousin Danny Koor has been in contact with you, and has sent me all the details he has received from you so far.
We share the same grandfather Shlomo Chayim, or Solomon Koor as he was known in England. My late mother Marie, and Danny's late father Henry were brother and sister, together with 2 surviving sisters Hannah and Lily.
The family lived initially in the East End of London, moving to Notting Hill in the 1920's, where
my grandfather eventually became minister of Notting Hill Synagogue until he died in May 1946.
Stephen Coleman
Dear Eilat,
I trust this message finds you well.
Please note that the address of the East European Jewish Heritage Project's website has been changed to www.eejhp.org. I will appreciate it if you will change the listing on your site accordingly. If you require any further information about us please do not hesitate to contact us.
Yours sincerly,
Dr Franklin J. Swartz
International Director
East European Jewish Heritage Project
P.O. Box 100
Minsk
220074
Republic of Belarus
www.eejhp.org
Tel: +375 29 699 4016
U.S. Phone: +1 617 500 8443
U.K. Phone: +44 20 8123 8471
Lithuania Phone: +370 6 703 7805
[Some updates, added in year 2002, are included -- Jason I Alpert]:
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Anya (Mrs Zigmund) Beatus
1130 Brighton Beach Avenue
Brooklyn NY 11235
Anya (nee Ejdelman or Edelman): daughter of Szaja Ejdelman (Shaya Edelman) of Vileyka. She married Ziggie, and they emigrated to the USA before Holocaust.
Szaja Ejdelman owned a large lumber-exporting business in Vileyka. Anya remembers Jason's father, from when he worked for her father Szaja. Anya was about 14 years old when Jason's father left Vileyka, in Dec. 1926, for the USA. Szaja's wife may have been aunt of Jason's father (needs investigation).
01/20/85: Jason visited Anya and Ziggie (both lx) at above Brooklyn address. They gave Jason a copy of an English translation of a Yiddish article that was printed in the Vileiker Yizkor-Book ("Memorial Book of the Kehillah of Vileika").
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This article described the travails of Ejdelman family under Soviet exile in Siberia. (Szaja died there, but the rest of family survived. In effect, the exile to Siberia saved them from extermination by the Nazis, who invaded Vilejka in 1942.)
08/18/89: TelCom with Anya. Randy Daitch was also on the line. [Note: This is the Randy Daitch of the "Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex" at http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/database.html]
SEE: File of CORRESPONDENCE-Current with Edelman family. (2002 Note: This file was ALSO lost at 100 Forsyth Street on March 14, 1997.)
On this photo, the person sitting on the floor, first from the right, is my grandfather, Lazar Zalmanowicz Kopelewicz. He was rescued from the Krasna labour camp by the Frunze regiment partisans and served with them untill the end of the war. He died in 1950 in Vieleyka.
I have forwarded to you his son's, David Lazarowicz Kopelewicz, translated partisan story which was published in Vileyka Yizkor book.
With best regards,
Ludmila Kopel(ewicz)
From: Alex J. Kay <alexjkay@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 3:55 AM
Subject: Photograph of Vileyka from your website
To: egl.comments@gmail.com
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am a historian of the crimes committed by Nazi Germany in the former Soviet Union. I have just written an article on the massacres committed by an SS commando in the Belarusian town of Vileyka in July 1941. I am now searching for appropriate images and came across your website.
On the website, at http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/vileyka/vileyka.html, there is a photograph (#vil-12) that I would be interested in using for my article, which is to be published in the prestigious journal "Holocaust and Genocide Studies". Does the photograph show, as I assume, the city of Vileyka? Could you tell me in which year the photograph was taken?
According to the caption on the photograph, the copyright is owned by Tomasz Wisniewski. Would it be possible for me to receive an electronic copy of the photograph for use in my article (in high resolution, preferably as a TIF file)? I would be happy to cite your website and/or Mr Wisniewski, or whatever other information you would like.
I look forward to hearing from you.
With thanks and kind regards,
Dr Alex J. Kay
From: lkcomposer <lkcomposer@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 8:34 PM
Subject: Vileyka - Koplewitz
To: egl.comments@gmail.com
Greetings, my family is from Romania (Yasi / Yassy? ) and may also
have roots in Vileyka... my father is Martin Koplewitz, his father was
Herman (Hymie) Koplewitz. I am Laura Koplewitz. I am a
professor in the USA. I believe my grandparents came over
to the USA from Romania and/ or Poland in the 1880s and 1890s.
I wonder if there are other Koplewitz family members who may
wish to be in contact to explore roots.
All best,
(Prof. ) Laura Koplewitz
From: Yarin Elena <elena5712@yahoo.>
My name is Yarin Elena. I live in Israel. My grandmother is from Vileyka.
We have a book about Vileyka at home, now we found out that there's also a website. We visited this town several years ago, walked through the street where the Jews lived before the war, saw Tarbut Gymnasium, the 3 ghettos, the former prison where in the courtyard they were killed, the local museum where they have the lists of the murdered people with the dates of murder, the Jewish cemetery which is in an awful condition.
I want to ask you,If it's possible, to add the photos of my family to the website.
David Rudnitsky - my greatgrandfather who survived. The photo was made after the war in Moscow where he lived with his daughter Sofia.
Children David Rudnitsky ( photo from Vileyka ): Rosalia ( my grandmother - the oldest one ), Boris ( the 2nd one ), Sofia and Michail ( the youngest one ). They all survived as they left the town before the war to continue their studies at the university either in Poland or Russia.
We also have photos of Zukoborsky and Gutman families - my grandmother's cousins. Some of them survived, the others were killed in Vileyka. If you are interested to add more families, we'll email the materials we have.
Thank you.
Regards,
Elena
I study the Jewish history of the town of V/Wileyka http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/vileyka/vileyka.html, and especially the Koidinovs Hasidic sect who lived there.
I would be very happy to receive any material related to document photographs and the like.
Sincerely
Shalom Erlich, Bnei Brak
Israel Please see picture at Old Scenes #7 click to enlarge from the Vileyka Yizkor book http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/vileyka/vil_pix/vils_7_b.gif It is of Rabbi Alter Parlov ( Sitting second from the right) and rabbi Meir Karlitz ( Sitting third from the right) visiting Vileyka for a Mitzvah party with the local Koidnov Chasids
Rabbi Shalom Alter Parlov;
