Memoirs of Reuben Ruch - Family Photos |
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Teoli (Tevic) Teddy Ruch with
his niece Sonia and nephew Shabsie (Sasha) Ruch before he left Rokiskis
for South Africa in 1926. Sonia and Shabsie are Reuben's sister
and brother.
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From left to right” Aunt Beile, who was deaf, mute, and single. She lost her parents in 1905 during a pogrom and spent her whole life living with us. When we left home on June 25, 1941 for Russia, Beile together with my grandparents Motel and Hinda-Rasha Gurwitch were sitting at home. On August 15 to 16, 1941, they were murdered by Lithuanian collaborators, together with the rest of the 3,973 Jews in the town; Sonia Ruch; Mother (Henna Gurvitch Ruch); me (Reuben Ruch) asking the Four Questions; Father (Rachmiel Ruch); Grandfather (Motel Gurvitch); Grandmother (Hinda-Rasha Dubovskaya Gurvitch); Shabse (Sasha) Ruch |
Holiday dinner – Passover – 1937
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Pesach Ruch
and his family in Left to right:
1. Leibe Ruch (he died in Kfar Chabad); 2. Gita, Leibe’s wife – she
also died in Kfar Chabad; 3. Pesach Ruch – he died in Children: Rachmiel Ruch (now living in Israel) and Pinchas Ruch (now living in Israel)
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Mordechai (Motel) Hurwitch and Hinde-Rashe Dubowsky Hurwitch Reuben's maternal grandparents lived in Kamai, a shtetl 16km south of Rokiskis. In 1936, they moved to Rokiskis to live with Reuben's family, when their daughter and her family left Kamai for South.Africa. They were murdered on August 15, 1941, along with all the other Jewish people in Rokiskis. They had five children : Hassel Hurwitch Segal, died in 1916 in Kamai; Meier Hurwitch, died in 1947 in Johannesburg; Haya Hurwitch Eliason, died in 1964 in Johannesburg; Henna Hurwitch Ruch, died in 1974 in Riga Latvia; and Haim-Elia Hurwitch, died in 1981 in Cape Town.
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The Ruch Family before Luba
and Chanan Shneiderman left Rokiskis for Aliyah to Palestine in 1935.
L to R, standing: Reuben's brother Shabse
(Sasha), his Aunt Luba (Ahuva) Ruch Shneiderman, her husband
Chone (Chanan) Shneiderman, Reuben's sister Sonia.
Sitting: Reuben's mother Henna Gurwitch
Ruch, Reuben Ruch, Reuben's father Rachmiel Ruch.
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