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His His Her Her Father mother Father Mother Mikhail Mera Dveira Maron Ester Riva Borukh Kosoi Kosaya (nee 1870s-1920s Maron 1880s-1992 Bolshun) (nee-unknown) 1890-1956 1880s-1940s
Your Father Your Mother
Israil Mikhailovich Maron Galina Borukhova Maron (nee 1905-1941 Kosaya) 1907-1973
Your brothers and sisters You Your Spouse Bronislava Emiliya Israilevna Shulman (nee Mark Isaakovich Israilevna Maron Maron) Shulman 1927-1982 1931- 1933- Anna Israilevna Hersonskaya (nee Maron) 1938- Your Children Emma Markovna Pavlova (nee Shulman) 1955-
1 You and your family
Your full name Emiliya Israilevna Shulman (nee Maron)
Where and when were you born? Chechersk, Gomelsk region, BSSR, 1931
Where else did you live? Nizhnii Tagil, Leningrad, Leningrad Region
Your educational level? 1940-1950 Secondary school Chechersk-Nizhnii Tagil-Chechersk 1950-1954 Geography department of the Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute named after Gertzen (LSPI)
What sort of work do/did you do? geography teacher in secondary school
What was the level of religiosity in your parents’ home? How were you raised? My parents weren’t religious, but grandmother, my mother’s mother, who lived with us, was religious and observed Jewish traditions.
What is your mother tongue? Russian
How many languages do you speak?
Where were you during the Holocaust? In evacuation, first in the Stalingrad region in the village of Dobrinka on Hopr, then in Siberia, Omsk region, Moskalenki station.
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3 Your brothers and sisters
Their names Bronislava Israilevna Maron Anna Israilevna Hersonskaya (nee Maron)
Where and when were they born? Bronislava, 1927 in Chechersk Anna, 1938 in Chechersk
What is their mother tongue? Russian______
Their educational level? Bronislava – Leningrad 1 Medical Institute 1947-1951______Anna – Leningrad Technical College of Light Industry
Their occupations? Bronislava – Kazakhstan, Ust-Kamennogorsk, 1st city hospital, doctor-therapist and head of the department, 1951-1981)______Anna – city of Gomel, city supply base______
Where do/did they live? Bronislava – Ust-Kamennogorsk Anna – Gomel, Belarus
Where else did they live? Bronislava – Chechersk, Stalingrad region, Omsk region, Leningrad Anna – Chechersk, Stalingrad region, Omsk region, Leningrad
Do they have children? Bronislava’s children: Igor, Alexander Anna’s children: Mikhail, Irina, Gomel
Where and when did they die? Bronislava – Ust-Kamennogorsk, 1982.
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Your spouse Name? Mark Isaakovich Shulman
Where and when was he/she born? Leningrad, 1933
Where else did he/she live? Pushkin, Leningrad region; Minsk; cantonments in the Leningrad region.
Is he/she Jewish? Jewish
What is his/her mother tongue? Russian
His/her educational level? 1950-1953: Secondary-technical radio college, Pushkin, Leningrad region 1953-1958: Minsk higher military training school of rocketeering troops
Occupation? Army regular. After demobilization in 1955 - engineer
Where and when did he/she die?
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Your children
Were they raised Jewish/do they identify themselves as Jews? Daughter Emma didn’t receive a Jewish upbringing, but is aware of her connection to Judaism
Where and when were they born? Leningrad, 1955______
Where else did they live? cantonment, Leningrad region______
Their educational level? secondary school, Leningrad, 1962-1972 Leningrad Institute of Railway Transport, 1972-1977 Accounting courses, 1989
Their occupations? Head of the department of major repairs at the institute of Phtiziopulmonology; Head accountant at the firm “Znaniya”.
How many grandchildren do you have? Ilya and Anton
6 Your father
His name? Israil Mikhailovich Maron
Where and when was he was born? Cherven, Belarus, 1905
Where else did he live? Village of Zagore, Chechersk region; Chechersk, BSSR; Knishin, Belostok region.
Where and when did he die? Knishin, Belostok region, 1941.
What sort of education did he have? Hebrew school, secondary school, party-agricultural studies.
What sort of work did he do? Representative of the agricultural commune in the village of Edinstvo, Chechersk region; head of the financial department, Chechersk; party work in the city of Knishin.
What was his level of religiosity? Not religious
What was his mother tongue? Russian
Army service: Which army and what years? None
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Tell me about his brothers and sisters. (name, date of birth and death, occupation, place of residence, etc.) Miron Golberg (Mote Maron): 1898-1973. Specialist in timber marking and timber rafting. Director of a timber cutting factory; married three times, four children; lived in Chechersk, died in Gomel. Zalman: date of birth unknown, perished in the Holocaust in 1942 along with his wife and 2 children in the city of Cherven. Anna (Yanka): 1902-1974. Housewife, husband was a public prosecutor; one son died at the front, the second lives in St. Petersburg. Evsei: 1905-1992. Teacher; director of a boarding school for difficult youth in the Minsk region; director of a secondary school in Kazan; five children. Evdokiya: 1912-1976. Head of the storehouse of the expedition to the North Pole in Leningrad; didn’t marry. Alexander: 1912-1957. Economist, professor at the Leningrad Polytechnical Institute (LPI) lector- internationalist.
Where was he during the Holocaust? Died during the Holocaust. At the beginning of the war, he was killed in the bombings.
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Your father’s family
His father
Your father’s father name? Mikhail Maron
Where and when was he born? Place of birth unknown, 1870s
Where else did he live? Cherven, Belarus______
Where and when did he die? Cherven, 1920s
What sort of education did he have? No information
What sort of work did he do? Forestry specialist
What was his level of religiosity? Religious, Orthodox
What was his mother tongue? Yiddish
9 Army service: Which army and what years? None
Tell me about his brothers and sisters. (name, date of birth and death, occupation, place of residence, etc.) No information
Where was he during the Holocaust? Died before the Holocaust
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His mother
Your father’s mother’s name? Ester Riva Maron (nee unknown)
Where and when was she born? Place of birth unknown, 1880s
Where else did she live? Cherven, Chechersk, Sminsk region, Leningrad, Kazan______
Where and when did she die? Kazan, 1943 or 1944
What sort of education did she have? None
What sort of work did she do? Housewife
What was her level of religiosity? Religious, Orthodox
What was her mother tongue? Yiddish
Tell me about her brothers and sisters. (name, date of birth and death, occupation, place of residence, etc.) No information
11 Where was she during the Holocaust? Died in evacuation, in Kazan
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Your Mother
Her name? Galina Borukhovna Maron (nee Kosaya)
Where and when was she was born? Village of Zagore, Chechersk uyezd (administrative unit), 1907
Where else did she live? Chechersk, Stalingrad region, Omsk region, Gomel, Ust-Kamennogorsk_____
Where and when did she die? Ust-Kamennogorsk, 1973
What sort of education did she have? Hebrew School, secondary school, agricultural college
What sort of work did she do? Accountant
What was her level of religiosity? Not religious
What was her mother tongue? Russian
Tell me about her brothers and sisters. (name, date of birth and death, occupation, place of residence, etc.) Emmanuil (1910-1955): worker in the komsomol, director of Leningrad Sewing Factory #5, Leningrad. Esfir (1913-1922): Perished in the pogrom in the village of Zagore.
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Where was she during the Holocaust? In evacuation, first in Stalingrad region, in the village of Dobrinka-on-Hopr, then in Siberia, in Omsk region, station Moskalenki.
If she survived, what did she do after?
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Your Mother’s family
Her father
Your mother’s father name? Borukh Kosoi
Where and when was he born? Place of birth unknown, 1880S
Where else did he live? Village of Zagore, Chechersk Uyezd______
Where and when did he die? Village of Zagore, 1922. Perished in the pogrom.
What sort of education did he have? No information
What sort of work did he do? Marked trees for cutting and rafting on the Sozh river.
What was his level of religiosity? Religious, Orthodox
What was his mother tongue? Yiddish
Army service: Which army and what years? None 15
Tell me about his brothers and sisters. (name, date of birth and death, occupation, place of residence, etc.) His brothers left in the 1920’s for America, and there is no information about them. Abram returned, lived in Chechersk. His son Naum worked in the Ministry of domestic industry in Minsk. Naum’s son – Vilem lives with his family in the USA, in the city of Denver.
Where was he during the Holocaust? Died before the Holocaust.
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Her mother
Your mother’s mother’s name? Mera Dveira Kosaya (nee Bolshun)
Where and when was she born? Chechersk, Gomel province, 1980
Where else did she live? Village of Zagore, Chechersk region, Stalingrad Region, Omsk region.
Where and when did she die? Chechersk, 1956
What sort of education did she have? None
What sort of work did she do? Housewife
What was her level of religiosity? Religious, Orthodox ______
What was her mother tongue? Yiddish
Tell me about her brothers and sisters. (name, date of birth and death, occupation, place of residence, etc.)
17 David Bolshun, date of birth unknown: Specialist in forestry. His wife perished in the pogrom in Zagore; three children; lived in Chechersk; died in evacuation in 1948, in Kazakhstan. No information on other brothers and sisters.
Where was she during the Holocaust? In evacuation, first in Stalingrad region in the village of Dobrinka-on-Hopr, then in Omsk region, station Moskalenki
If she survived, what did she do after?
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