Only two survived the holocaust. The two girls in the midle row; Riva nee Gordon (married Shimon Zimerman of the Kurenets Landmanshaften in Israel. for their story go to;
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/kurenets/kur315.html
Michla nee Gordon married the son of Alter Zimerman and lived in Israel.
The boys as well as their parents hid from the Germans but they were found and killed in Kurenets on 9- 9- 1942
Poet, critic and journalist, a key spokesman of the Haskalah, Judah Leib Gordon was born in Vilna, and after a brilliant student career, became a teacher in various Jewish government schools. His first major poem -- The Love of David and Michal, an epic, was published in 1857, and was followed two years later by Mishlei Yehudah ("Judah's Parables"), translations and adaptations of works by Aesop. Phaedrus, La Fontaine, Lessing, and Krylov. While serving a prison term for alleged anti-Czarist activities, Gordon wrote Zidkiyyahu be- Veit ha-Pekuddot ("King Zedekiah in Prison" 1879), a historical biblical poem reflecting his prison experiences. On his release from prison Gordon became editor of the St. Petersburg Hebrew daily Ha-Meliz and also science editor of the Russian Jewish monthly Voskhod (1881--82). His poem Kozo shel Yod ("The Point on Top of the Yod") was a protest against the oppressed situation of Jewish women of the time. Gordon at first blamed the troubles that plagued Russian Jewry on the traditionalism of the rabbis. He urged Jews to stop speaking Yiddish, to participate more in Russian life. He advocated universal general education and the translation into Hebrew of all literature of general interest, denouncing those who opposed this as wishing "to drive out our Hebrew language from the land of the living." But Gordon's faith in the ability of Russian Jewry to adapt happily under Russian liberalism proved shortlived. After the 1881 pogroms in southern Russia he came to regard emigration to western Europe and America as the only solution to Jewish oppression. Although he actively upheld the Zionist cause, he believed that true redemption could come about only after "our spiritual deliverance."
Sources: The Jewish Agency for Israel and The World Zionist Organization.
I am interested in the Gordon family from Krasne. My father and all the family always said they came from Vilna but his papers said Krasne. His father was Reb Oizer HaKohain. His mother .Rochel nee Kunin (can't find any Kunins). My father was Israel, changed to Lowell Israel or Irwin here. His brother was Samuel, later Sidney. Dad had uncles Isaac, Max, Joseph?, and at least 2 aunts-Anna Plotnick and Hanna Maalla Kunin. They all ended up in Stamford, CT.
Gail
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Leslie Gordon testifying at the trial of Adolf Eichmann in the
District Court of Jerusalem
Laurie Gordon (chiwawa@sympatico.ca)
: Hi,
My now deceased father Leslie Gordon (Eichmann Trial witness) last name
was not really Gordon as he is listed here on this website. His last name was
Freedman (sp?). He changed his name to Gordon during the war as not to "sound
Jewish". The reason I mention this is in case anyone who is a Freedman may look
for him (me his daughter Laurette - Laurie) and never find him under Gordon.
Attorney General: I call Mr. Leslie Gordon. He was deported
from Budapest to Poland. He was one of the 1941 deportees
to Kamenets-Podolski, of whom we have heard; subsequently,
he returned to Budapest and saw the Accused. The witness at
present resides in Canada. He will testify in English.*
{*No grammatical corrections have been made in the evidence
given by the witness}
[The witness is sworn.]
Presiding Judge: What is your full name?
Witness: Leslie Gordon.
Attorney General: Mr. Gordon, do you now live in Canada?
Witness Gordon: I live in Canada, in Montreal.
Q. You were born in Budapest?
A. Yes.
Q. Your parents had come from Poland?
A. My father was born in Poland.
Q. Hence you were regarded as Polish citizens?
A. According to the Hungarian laws, we were Polish citizens.
Q. What happened to you in June 1941?
A. In June 1941, when the Nazi hordes overran Poland, we
heard rumours that the Polish citizens will be taken out of
Hungary.
Q. When you say the Germans occupied Poland, which part of
Poland do you mean?
A. That was the east part of Poland.
Q. If I may lead you with a few questions, Mr. Gordon. You
were interned by the Hungarian authorities?
A. Yes, we were interned by the Hungarian authorities.
Q. You were brought to the then Polish border?
A. Yes, we were taken first to the Budapest synagogue.
There we have been told that orders came from the Germans,
since the Hungarians had no authority over the German
occupied territory, and these orders came strictly from
Germany.
Q. What happened then?
A. We were taken from the synagogue next morning, to the
Hungarian rail station, where we have been placed in
passenger cars, and we have been taken to the border of
Koeroesmezoe.
Q. And to whom were you handed over at the border?
A. At Koeroesmezoe, we were handed over to the Hungarian
gendarmerie until overnight. But next morning, we were
loaded up on German trucks - clearly visible German licence
plates on them.
Q. Who drove these trucks, and who were the guards?
A. We could not see the drivers until we arrived to the
place where we have been taken, but then they turned out to
be Germans.
Q. What Germans?
A. SS.
Q. How did you recognize them as being SS men?
A. From the skeleton (skull) on their caps - `Totenkopf'.
Q. Where did the Germans take you to?
A. We were passing close by several small villages, and then
we were passing through Kolomea until we came to about two
or three miles - or kilometres - outside of Kolomea, where
we had been told: "Schweine-Juden, herunter!" (Jewish Pigs,
get down).
Q. So you got off?
A. Yes.
Q. Where did you go?
A. We got down. Some of our luggage was left in the trucks
- which we were not allowed to take down - so the fifty
kilogrammes which was allowed by the Hungarian authorities
to take with us - some of them left in the truck which the
Germans have stolen from us.
Q. So where did you go?
A. Once we got down from the trucks, they put up two machine-
guns each side of the road and told us: "Go eastwards. Don't
come back or don't even look back." Some of the people had
to do their hygienic doings on the side, and they were shot
right on the spot.
Q. By whom?
A. By the SS.
Q. What did you do? Tell us just what you yourself did.
A. Well, we were together. My father was 58, my mother -
she was 43. My brother was 22, I was 21, my sister was 19,
my brother was 16, another brother was 14, a sister was
eight, and my little brother was five. We were trying to
keep together and go along on the road - as has been told by
the "brave" SS.
Q. Who, of all those members of your family, remained alive?
A. Only myself. One of my sisters, she got exempted from
the deportation because she was married to a Hungarian
citizen, and she is in Canada with me.
Q. But of those who were sent on their way there, you are
the only survivor?
A. As far as I know, yes.
Judge Halevi: Are you referring to the members of your
family or to the whole transport?
Attorney General: We shall still come to the whole
transport. How many people were there in that transport,
together with you yourself?
Witness Gordon: In this group, we were about three to four
hundred, approximately. I cannot say the exact figures, but
it was three to four hundred. I remember we occupied about
eight trains, eight cars, and on each from forty to sixty
people were in, most of them children. Like our family - we
were seven children. Other families had eight or nine
children; it consisted of two-thirds children under fourteen
years of age.
Q. How many people, of those who were with you in the group,
survived?
A. As far as I know, all by myself.
Q. So I understand, you went northwards from Kolomea to a
town called Tluste?
A. That's right.
Q. How did you live on the way?
A. On the way, we have been exchanging our clothes and
little remaining jewellery. My mother took off her ring, my
father took off his ring and his watch, and we exchanged
clothes with the people of the district.
for the rest go to;
http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/e/eichmann-adolf/transcripts/Sessions/Session-062-06.html
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Aharon Gordon, an officer in the Lithuanian Division of the Soviet
Red Army.
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Gordon (first name unknown), a Jewish boy in Mlawa.
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Lea - Ester Gordon, a Jewish Holocaust survivor in Lublin.
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Gordon (first name unknown), a Jewish teacher in Mlawa.