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You know what I, at first, decided to surf the internet only to find out something about our close relatives and their ancestors but then I decided to extend the search a little. After all we knew so many people in Kishinev prior to our departure for the States and heard about many, and here I want to tell you something about one person in my grandmother's life (my mother's mother) who played a very small role in her life but it still might be interesting to find out something about that if his descendants (provided he has any) are still alive (he himself is probably not).
My mother's mother would have never married a man with a huge difference in age with her, and while that man, I don't know why, always seemed mid-aged to me, he must have been no more than 27 in 1941 in a suburb of Samarkand, Uzbekistan. We don't his name but he was Hannah Ihilievna Milyavskaya's first husband (maiden last-Revich), a Jewish refugee from Poland. We know that Hannah showed up in Samarkand or something like that in 1941 but that doesn't mean that he hadn't been there before because Poland was invaded by Nazis two years earlier than Moldova was (where Hannah was born), and probably he left a lot of relatives in Poland of which at least most definitely perished (I don't imagine that people were fleeing with all their brothers, sisters, cousins, uncles, aunts, etc so he must have left at least some relatives there).
You see I am trying to figure all this out as I go along because there are a lot of question marks in this story. My grandmother was unimaginably beautiful then, from a good family, his own Jew, so that is no surprise that they got either engaged or married but they were very different people in one respect: she would have never left the Soviet Union even if you shoot her, he viewed that country only as a temporary refuge. He wasn't the only one of such kind: as weird as it seems the Soviet Union then was crawling with refugees, including a lot of Jews, from Eastern Europe, one of them, the genious psychic Wolf Messing even immortalized himself there.
I heard that my grandmother's first husband (he is not my blood relative, of course) got himself in some trouble with the law in Uzbekistan, nothing serious, perhaps not even a crime according to the Western standards but you know how it was then in the Soviet Union. He must have sold something (tea or something) for high prices or for prices higher than he got them, and it was a war-torn hungry Uzbekistan, my mother might have said that he did that in order to survive. I don't remember whether they imprisoned him for that or not.
In any case by the end of that entire ordeal, he was gone to Israel. My mother's mother did not join him but I just wanted to say this story, to see whether anyone knew him, his name, his birth place in Poland, his line of work in Europe and Israel. Most of my grandmother's photos were burried in her house's wreckage when Nazis bombed Moldova but I don't iomagine they bombed Uzbekistan, hence, if she made any phots of her with him there, they could have survived.
Let me know if you know anything about it, and this subject is certainly as much Polish as it is Israeli.
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