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Radzilow - 19th Century Chanukah Menorah

Radzilow - 19th Century Chanukah Menorah
Taken by Chaim Yosef and Sora (nee Robejko) Niedzwiecki
from Radzilow to Odessa, Ukraine, in 1909

Chaim Yosef Niedzwiecki
Odessa, Ukraine, 1930
Went to Ukraine, 1909

       

The Chanukah Menorah was taken from Radzilow in 1909 by Chaim Yosef and Sora (nee Robejko) Niedzwiecki, when he accepted a position of shochet and chazzan in Odessa, Ukraine.

Chaim Yosef and Sora took their youngest son Eli with them. Their eldest son Yakov stayed behind in Radzilow with Sora's parents, presumably to join them later.

After the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, Yakov had no contact with his parents in the Ukraine. In 1942, Chaim Yosef found out that Yakov had moved in 1920's to Tartu, Estonia, where he also took a position of shochet and chazzan. Yakov passed away in the 1930's, but his wife and children were saved from the Nazi's because they were exiled to Siberia by the NKVD.

Chaim Yosef passed away in Odessa in 1947; Sora in 1976. Their descendants now live in Russia and Israel. Yakov's descendants now live in the Ukraine, Germany and the U.S.

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