Father
Samuel Gurevich
1898 - 1973
Mother
Elizaveta Gurevich
(nee Simonovskaya)
1900 - 1942
Paternal grandmother
Frida Gurevich
(nee ?)
1865–1941
Maternal grandfather
Arkadi
Simonovski
1870 - 1925
Maternal grandmother
? Simonovskaya
(nee ? )
1871 - 1924
Family Tree
Interviewee
Iosif Gurevich
1924
Spouse
Ludmila Gurevich
(nee Volosova)
1922
Tevel
Gurevich
1864 – 1933
Children
None
Siblings
Arkadi Gurevich
1932
The interviewee and his family
Full name
Where and when were you born?
Konotop, Sumy region, 11th March, 1924
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Where else did you live?
Your educational level?
Graduated from the Heat Engineering Department of Lvov Polytechnic College
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What sort of work do/did you do?
How religious was your parents’ home? How were you raised?
My mother was an atheist and my father was moderately religious: he went to the synagogue on Jewish holidays and prayed at home. My parents didn’t observe Jewish traditions at home. My father celebrated Jewish holidays with his brother’s family.
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What is your mother tongue?
How many languages do you speak?
If you were in an army, tell us which army and the dates
Soviet army, 1942–1947 (at the front until 1945)
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Where were you during the Holocaust?
In evacuation in Margilan, Fergana valley (today Uzbekistan); from 1942 in the army
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Siblings
Their names
Arkadi Gurevich (Jewish name: Aron)
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Where and when were they born?
Konotop, Sumy region, 11th March, 1932
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What is their mother tongue? Their educational level?
Their occupations?
Joiner at the Konotop Plant (for manufacturing of mining equipment)
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Where do/did they live?
Where else did they live?
Do they have children?
Daughter Elizaveta, 1957–1980; granddaughter Yana, born in 1977
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Spouse
Name?
Ludmila Gurevich (nee Volosova)
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Where and when was he/she born?
Kazanka, Nikolaev region, 1922
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Where else did he live?
Is he/she Jewish?
What is his/her mother tongue?
His/her educational level?
Graduated from Odessa Food College
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Occupation?
Engineer (in food industry)
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Children
Their names?
Father
His name?
Samuel Gurevich (Jewish name: Shloime)
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Where and when was he was born?
A village near Konotop, 1898
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Where else did he live?
Where and when did he die?
What sort of education did he have?
What sort of work did he do?
Laborer; miller before 1924 (at his father’s mill), after 1924 in a kolkhoz
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How religious was he?
What was his mother tongue?
Army service: Which army and what years?
Soviet army, 1942–1945 (driver)
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Tell me about his brothers and sisters. (name, date of birth and death, occupation, place of residence, family, etc.)
My father’s brothers and sisters were all born near Konotop (name of village unknown)
Shaya Gurevich (1888–1969): lived in Moscow (today Russia), worker, married, three children, live in Moscow.
Esfir ? (nee Gurevich) (1891–1970): lived in Moscow, moved to Leningrad after she got married, housewife, two children. During WWII her husband perished at the front, Esfir and her children stayed in the blockade in Leningrad. The children starved to death. Esfir lived with the family of her brother Shaya in Moscow after WWII.
Bertha Gurevich (1893–1971): lived in Konotop, housewife, single.
Ilia Gurevich (Jewish name: Ele) (1895–1938) lived in Kursk (today Russia), was the only one in the family with education, married, one son called Ilia. Chief accountant at sugar factory. Died of tuberculosis.
Chaim Gurevich (1896–1931): No information
Ionia Gurevich (1899–1939): lived in Kiev, had a mental disorder and stayed in Kiev Mental hospital, where he died.
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Where was he during the Holocaust?
If he survived, what did he do after?
Lived in Konotop, was a miller
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Paternal grandfather
Your father’s father name?
Where and when was he born?
A village near Konotop, 1864
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Where else did he live?
Where and when did he die? What sort of education did he have?
What sort of work did he do?
Owner of a mill before 1924.
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How religious was he?
He was religious, observed Jewish traditions, prayed at home, went to the synagogue on Jewish holidays, celebrated Sabbath and Jewish holidays and followed the kashrut. He wore a beard and payes, a yarmulka at home and a hat outside.
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What was his mother tongue?
Army service: Which army and what years?
Tell me about his brothers and sisters. (name, date of birth and death, occupation, place of residence, family, etc.)
Where was he during the Holocaust?
Paternal grandmother
Your father’s mother’s name?
Where and when was she born?
Where else did she live?
A village near Konotop, Konotop, Leningrad
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Where and when did she die?
Leningrad, 1941 (died during blockade of Leningrad)
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What sort of education did she have?
What sort of work did she do?
How religious was she?
She was religious, observed Jewish traditions, prayed at home, went to the synagogue on Jewish holidays, celebrated Sabbath and Jewish holidays and followed the kashrut. She also wore a kerchief.
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What was her mother tongue?
Tell me about her brothers and sisters. (name, date of birth and death, occupation, place of residence, family, etc.)
Where was she during the Holocaust?
Died in 1941 during the blockade of Leningrad
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Mother Her name?
Elizaveta Gurevich (nee Simonovskaya)
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Where and when was she born?
Where else did she live?
Where and when did she die?
Margilan, Fergana valley (today Uzbekistan), 1942
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What sort of education did she have?
What sort of work did she do?
How religious was she?
What was her mother tongue?
Tell me about her brothers and sisters. (name, date of birth and death, occupation, place of residence, family, etc.)
My mother’s sisters were born in Konotop Sumy province, Russia
Riva ? (nee Simonovskaya) (1898–1941): lived in Kiev after she got married to a Russian, studied at college, one son, housewife, shot in Babi Yar in Kiev.
Nyunia ? (nee Simonovskaya) (1903–1956): lived in Konotop, typist, married, no children. In evacuation in the Ural during WWII, returned to Konotop after WWII.
Rosalia Shmerkina (nee Simonovskaya) (Jewish name: Reizl) (1905–1992): typist, her husband was a baker, one daughter, Esfir. After she got married she lived in Pryluki, after WWII in Lvov, emigrated to Australia in 1991 with her family.
Sonia Shmerkina (nee Simonovskaya) (1908–1985), lived in Lvov, typist, her husband was a baker, one son, Arkadi. After she got married she lived in Pryluki, after WWII in Lvov.
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Where was she during the Holocaust?
In evacuation in Margilan, Fergana valley (today Uzbekistan)
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If she survived, what did she do after?
Died in evacuation in Margilan in 1942
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Maternal grandfather
Your mother’s father’s name?
Arkadi Simonovski (Jewish name: Aron)
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Where and when was he born?
Where else did he live?
Where and when did he die?
What sort of education did he have?
What sort of work did he do?
How religious was he?
What was his mother tongue?
Army service: Which army and what years?
Tell me about his brothers and sisters. (name, date of birth and death, occupation, place of residence, family, etc.)
Where was he during the Holocaust?
Maternal grandmother
Your mother’s mother’s name?
Where and when was she born?
Where and when did she die?
What sort of education did she have?
What sort of work did she do?
German teacher at Russian grammar school in Konotop
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How religious was she?
What was her mother tongue?
Tell me about her brothers and sisters. (name, date of birth and death, occupation, place of residence, family, etc.)
Where was she during the Holocaust?
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