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Recent blog posts
- Finding the Pick Family
- A Call for Folksongs – 1898
- ‘The Most Civic City’
- Aharon Pick’s Memoir
- Documenting the Holocaust
- Tracing the Pick Family
- Aharon Pick, Holocaust Witness
- Searching for Tsemach Pick
- Recalling those who survived the Keidan massacre
- ‘Good Morning, Lithuania’
- The Printed Version
- Another Day to Remember
- A Comment on Hirsh Bloshtein
- Yudel Ronder
- Coming Together for Passover
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The Keidaner Network
Keidaner descendents reside all over the world. Keep in touch, share memories and materials about the community and its diaspora, via the Facebook group “Roots in Keidan.” Click the link to join.
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Recent blog posts
- Finding the Pick Family
- A Call for Folksongs – 1898
- ‘The Most Civic City’
- Aharon Pick’s Memoir
- Documenting the Holocaust
- Tracing the Pick Family
- Aharon Pick, Holocaust Witness
- Searching for Tsemach Pick
- Recalling those who survived the Keidan massacre
- ‘Good Morning, Lithuania’
- The Printed Version
- Another Day to Remember
- A Comment on Hirsh Bloshtein
- Yudel Ronder
- Coming Together for Passover
From the Keidan Archives
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Preface to the 1930 “zaml bukh” of the Keidaner Assn. of New York
Tag Archives: Family history
Finding the Pick Family
Our earlier posts about Tsemach Pick raised questions about his life in the Soviet Union, his 1952 death and his descendants. We knew only that he was the younger brother of Aharon Pick and a friend of B. Cassel; that … Continue reading
Posted in History, Russia, Soviet Union, Uncategorized
Tagged Family history, Pick, Russia
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Hirshel Bloshtein, Yiddish Poet
By Monty Starr (Birmingham, UK) Hirshel Bloshtein 1895-1978 My mother’s uncle was the well-published Yiddish author Hirshel Bloshtein. Hirshel lived in Czernowitz from 1932 until his death in 1978. Hirshel was born in Kėdainiai, Lithuania to Dovid Bloshtein, a poor … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Personalities, Soviet Union, Yizkor Book
Tagged Bloshtein, Family history, Literary, Poetry, Soviet Union, USSR
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Exodus, Interrupted
The story of Keidan’s Sroelov and Smilg families By Tamar Dothan (Jerusalem) My grandparents, Chaya Smilg and Chaim Ber Sroelov, were married before World War I. Chaim Ber was operating the family’s wholesale beer business, as his father had passed … Continue reading
Posted in History, Holocaust, Israel, Memoir, Soviet Union, Zionism
Tagged Economy, Family history, Holocaust, Interwar, Israel, Zionism
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Riva Starr’s Journey
Riva Starr (1904-1993), born Riva Schneider in Keidan, emigrated to the U.K. in the early 1920s. In 1991, her son, Monty Starr, recorded an interview with her in Birmingham, England. The following is a transcription of that interview. M. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, History, Memoir, Personalities, UK, World War I
Tagged Bloshtein, Cuba, Emigration, Family history, Oral history, Paris, Schneider, Starr, Totleben, UK, World War I
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The Road of Suffering
By Rachel Shlapobersky-Ratner (Kiryat Chaim, Israel) Based on testimony from Yad VaShem, IX – 2939 / 252. I was born in Keidan in December 1912. My father, Yudel Shlapobersky, owned a flour mill. My mother was Chasya Rivka Shlapobersky, neè … Continue reading
Posted in Holocaust, Israel, Memoir, Personalities, South Africa, Soviet Union, Yizkor Book
Tagged Family history, gestapo, ghetto, Holocaust, Kovno, shlapobersky
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