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Date Posted: 19:46:27 04/21/07 Sat
Author: Gelena Bronshteyn (happy)
Subject: Sonya, Gnelya, Vera, and Dora Slavins of Rechitsa, Belorus

After more than one year of searching information about these four women one of which, Sonya, is my great-grandmother or my mother's mother's mother, I am "happy" to report that I found nothing, and one of them, Gnelya, is a Holocaust victim. She was murdered, possible with her own family, if she had one by that time, on the territory of Belorus during the war but what year, in what city, and under what circumstances, we have no idea. Sonya had been born in Rechitsa in mid or late 1890s, graduated from Russian gymnasium in that city, and moved to Kishinev, Moldova, around 1918 to create a family with Ikhiel Revich from whom she bore twto girls-Hannah (my mother's mother) and Haya. Dora moved to Chicago, maybe around the same time, we don't know, and Vera, of course, outlived the war, a mother of three girls one of which, Sonya, renounced her Jewish heritage and her family: she simply never admitted what her real nationality and family were although her husband knew who she was, of course but she did have some contacts with my mother and Hannah a very long time ago. We appealed to many organizations in Belorus asking them to help us find out something about Sonya Slavina's three sisters, especially Gnelya, pointed out that there are already three million names of Holocaust victims on the list of Yad Vashem but not a word about Gnelya, and we want to correct that but no one responded to us: not government in Rechitsa, their archives, Jewish organizations, archives in Gomel or Minsk. Our family lived in Rechitsa, virtuallly, during the entire 20th century.

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