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Date Posted: 14:48:08 10/17/06 Tue
Author: Gelena Bronshteyn (happy)
Subject: Gnelya Slavina of Belorus

Can I really post a message here without being logged in (I tried to log in here but couldn't)? Well, I'll give it a try. I like this confidence of Lee Nocella called your search is over. What is over? I did not find a squat about my ancestors on the internet, there are a million of questions there that haven't been answered, a million photographs that haven't been seen, and no information on the only Holocaust victim (yes, you've figured whom I am) in our family, Gnelya Slavina of Belorus. She was supposed to be posted on the memorial on-line Yad Vashem database a long time ago but she is not there. I don't even know in that miraculous case, if I ever get my hands on the info about her, whether the Yad Vashem will take it from because from because they have a number of strict rules. For example, they don't care who saved whom during the Holocaust-the information on the righteous gentiles must be submitted to them by those who were rescued I think and the rescue must have taken place during the occupation. For instance, there is on Ukrainian guy who, when the Germans were bombing Kishinev, Moldova, warned my mother's mother and that woman's family about the pending danger and took them to a local railway station from where they went to Uzbekistan, even if not directly there, I am not an expert in the routes of trains from Kishinev to Uzbekistan. I told Yad Vashem about all that, and they weren't interested, on the account of the reasons givem above even though in my opinion that man definitely deserves at least the title of the righteous Gentile. I understand there were people who were throwing themselves under the trains for such rescues, tortured and everything, and I would have given them a million dollars if I could but as for the rest from that category who did not "jump anywhere" but still did something that decent, those people should definitely be honored.

Anywho this is not the first problem for us in that regard. We have failed to locate any info on the ancestors of my mother's mother's mother, Sophya Savelievna Slavina, native of Rechytsa, Belorus, and her three sisters-Gnelya, Dora, and Vera. In the Soviet Union we never communicated with any of the sisters other than my great-grandmother, unfortunately never asked her about her family or copied her family photos (if she had something relevant to our search). Right now Sonia's daughter, Haya, who may die any minute because she's very old, that is if she has not died yet and if she has any material of interest to us (of course, we wish her to live 100 more years), and if it is true that she lives in Moscow, I have to go God knows where to get that material if she talks to me, of course. Yes, I forgot, there are archives, of course, in various parts of Eastern Europe but none of the Soviet archives have expressed an interest in talking to me yet, so I am not really looking forward to going there myself one day and asking them for information.

A few final touches to this "sad" story. Since Sonia was born in Rechytsa, it's possible that all her sisters came into this world in that city as well, possibly arounnd 1900 because Sonia was born there either in 1895 or in 1898, something like that and relocated to Kishinev, Moldova around 1918, roughly the same time when we think her sister Dora went to America (Chicago). In Kishinev Sonia gave birth to two daughters, from Ikhiel Revich, Hannah and Haya, and Hannah is my mother's mother, born in 1919 and died in 1990 from breast cancer, just two years after her mother had passed on in Kishinev.

Why don't you write to the following address if you know anything about the life and death of Gnelya Slavina and her ancestors:

Gelena Bronshteyn,
313 Dulaine Cove,
Birmingham, Alabama 35210,
United states of America.

Thank you for your time.

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