Ekaterinoslav
Mariupolskii District
Jewish Colony No. 7
Grafskoy
Grafskaya, Proletarsky
Proletarskoe
47° 31' / 36° 49'
View of the Grafskoy Shul looking Northeast.
The sign 1952 dates fro the 1952 renovation of the Shul as a Community Center.
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Silver medal for "service" awarded under the reign of Tsar Nikolai II to Velvel Komisaruk (son of Rabbi Shlomo Zalmen Komisaruk) about 1890. Velvel served as "Starosta" (mayor) of Grafskoy. |
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Berel Komisaruk 's yard |
Mendel Komisaruk's house |
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Photos © Chaim Freedman All rights reserved
Note: Residents called it "Grafskoy" not Grafskaya which may appear in various sources.
1924: colony Grafskaya was renamed Proletarskoe in Staro Kermenchisk region, Mariupol district, Donetsk Gubernia.
PROLETARSKOE, village in Kuibishev region, Zaparozhe Oblast, Ukraine.
Former Jewish agricultural colony Grafskaya, founded in 1852, in Mariupol Uyezd,
Yekaterinoslav Gubernia, Tsarist Russia.
Colonized in 1861. Prayer house, communal bath.
Total area; 556 desyatins in 1897. Crops: Rye, summer wheat (22% of communal crop area), barley, oats, flax, corn, potatoes.
Wheat 910 desyatins.
Livestock: horses 113, cows 83.
Source: Literature: [Does not quote Nikitin]
1. Ossipov "Jewish Agricultural colonies in Novorussiya region" journal 1890.
I.M. Shaykin, Kiev.
Population:
(Hamagid 1858; Jan. 29) 53 families, 249 people.
In 1861, 571 people.
At the end of 1885 there were 26 families in the colony.
In 1897, 67 families, 351 people.
From the Hebrew Press:
Surnames: Bruser, Epstein, Freedman, Golus / Hallis, Gordon, Hayman, Judelson, Kaplan, Komisaruk/Komesaroff, Rokovich / Rocks, Sherr, Vinik,
Revision census list of May 25, 1858: original
Revision census list of May 25, 1858: Golesh
Komisaruk Family Album
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page one Beryl Komisaruk |
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page two Meyer Comisarow |
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page three Mendel Komisaruk |
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page four Barukh Leib Lev and Berel Komisaruk |
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page five Bayla Reeva Komisaruk and family - passport |
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page six Obituary (Hamelitz newspaper) of Rabbi Pinkas Komisaruk |
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page seven Menakhem Mendel Komisaruk (1864-1919) |
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page eight Berel's chilren and their cousin Rose Amiton |
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Revision Lists for Grafsky 1858
From recent
discoveries, the ROCKOVICH family emigrated from Ariogola to
Grafskoy, Ukraine (southeast between Melitopol and Mariupol) in the mid
1800s. My maternal grandparents, Jacob and Esther KAPLAN, are from
Grafskoy. The ROCKOVICH and the KAPLAN families intermarried. There is
also a record that KAPLANs settled in Grafskoy, coming from Raseini,
Lithuania, at that time, too. Would you have any information about KAPLANs
from Ariogola who may have migrated to southeast Ukraine at that time?
I look forward to hearing from you.
Eleanor Lange
Manhasset, NY 11030
Letter from Patricia Gordon-Reedy
Sources: WWWW, Our Father's Harvest Supplement