Trapido/Jachilevich Family
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According to Fay Trapido Morris, the daughter of Israel Trapido, her father took the following photographs on a trip back to Kupiskis in March, 1939. He was fortunate enough to visit just before World War II broke out and to see all his family and friends before the Holocaust in 1941. He had read in a book that the Germans would not start a war before the harvest was taken in, i.e., in September. Towards the end of his trip he was warned that he had to get out of the country. He left and visited the Warsaw Ghetto before the Germans got in on his way home. He said it was an awful place with dreadful poverty even then. He managed to return safely to South Africa, although the ship he sailed on was torpedoed on its way back to England! (Please read Israel Trapido's story of the Trapido Family history.) |
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Cilia "Cipe" bat Yankel Trapido Jachilevich, her baby Pesa Jachilevich, born 1936, her mother-in-law Roche Jachilevich, and her husband Meier-Noach Jachilevich. (Cipe was Fay's aunt) |
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Top row, left to right: Traina Trapido, Israel Trapido; Middle row, left to right: Meier-Noach Jachilevich, his mother, Roche Jachilevich, Cipe Trapido Jachilevich; Bottom row: Yankel Jachilevich, Pesa Jachilevich |
Cipe (Cilia Trapido Jachilevich) and her children |
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Left to right: Yankel Jachilevich, Israel Trapido, Pesa Jachilevich (Israel's niece and nephew) |
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Photo of Yankel and Pesa Jachilevich on a holiday card, sent from Kupiskis to South Africa. The back of the card carries the hand-written message in Yiddish "Unzer lieber bruder un Onkel Yisroel, Vinsht mir fiel glik. Familia Yechilovitsch, " which means "Our beloved brother(s) & Uncle Israel, We wish you much luck. The family Yechilovitsch"
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| Bridge over the River Kupa | Yankel Trapido House |
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This photo was taken circa 1925 prior to Israel Trapido's departure from Kupiskis to South Africa. He is shown with his best friends in a farewell pose. Israel is bottom right. The names of the friends are not known, but they probably would have been born around the 1904-1908 time period. Whether they too left Kupiskis and went to South Africa prior to the Holocaust is not known either. |
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The following photo was
taken at the engagement party for Israel Trapido and Ethel Segal
sponsored by the Kupisker Society of Johannesburg, SA, c.1943. 2nd row, left to right, ?,? (could be Zelda Amoils), Ethel Segal (bride), Israel Trapido (groom), Dvora (Dora) Traub Fleischman, ?, ?, ? 3rd row, left to
right: Hilda Arnold (Mrs.Maurice), ?, ?, Bendit Segal (bride's
father), Sarah Segal (bride's mother), Dina Ribak, Ben-Zion Ribak,
founder Kupisker Society, Johannesburg |
(The previous photos were donated courtesy of Fay Trapido Morris, daughter of Israel Trapido.)