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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 |
From: Martin Liebman <pmartyl@...> .... Standing in the back row, second from the left: Sheva (Bas-Sheva) BESHKIN (BESZKIN). She was my great aunt. She moved to Canada in the early 1930's, married David MATLOW (MATLOVSKY), and died in 1988. Back row, 4th from the left (in the middle): Rivka BESHKIN (BESZKIN), Sheva's sister. She was married to Moshe TABOLSKY, who became a cantor in Derechin (after Rivka's father, the cantor, Tsvi Hirsh, died). Rivka was killed in the Holocaust. Back row, 2nd from right: my great aunt, Teme ORZHECHOWSKY. Her husband's name may have been ZELVIANSKY. She died in the Holocaust. (Teme's sister, Sora Golde, was my grandmother. She moved to Canada in around 1929 and died in Detroit in 1973.) Great site! Thanks, |
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