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The Vegotsky & Solomon Families
The following pictures of the family are
from the records of Dora Vegotsky Pitkowsky,
mother of Sarah
Platt, aunt of Edith Vegotsky Taylor, Co-coordinator of the
Ruzhany Yizkor Project. |
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This is Edith Vegotsky
Taylor's father's family: Grandparents
Moshe Cherna Vegotsky, and
unidentified great-aunt, Uncle Philip
Vegotsky, who emigrated to the US after
World War I, and aunts Leah and Chaya
Vegotsky, who married, had children and
perished in Treblinks. |
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Chaya |
Leah (above) and Chaya
(below),
sisters of Dora Pitkowsky and Abraham Vegotsky
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Edie's Aunt Leya with a
guitar. She and her family lived in
nearby Volkovysk. She was married to
Moshe or Maise (last name maybe was
Weinstein). They had two boys. |
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Yirshele, son of Leya,
age 10 months in 1939. |
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Chaim, son of Leya,
age 3 1/2 years. |
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A postcard from Michael Pitkowsky's second trip to
America. Michael was married to Dora Vegotsky, aunt
of Edith Taylor. |
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Edith Taylor's maternal
grandfather Herschel Solomon (died before World War
II),
her maternal grandmother, Hinde Mirel,
the taller daughter, Aunt Bella, married and
emigrated to Argentina.
The younger daughter, Aunt Minne, married and
remained in Ruzhany. |
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On the left Minne & Avremal (Abraham,
possibly) Aberstein and on the right their 3
children
Itzrah (L) Henye (C) and Michel (R). Minne was the
sister of Edith's mother, Ida Solomon Vegotsky.
The parents' photo was taken in 1928; the children
in 1936. All perished in Treblinka. |
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Updated by RAF Dec 2009 |
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