My father''s mom''s aunt staying with her brother and father My father''s mom''s grandmother Kenya (áîáå Êåíÿ) My father''s mom''s grandfather Shloyme Drapkin (Mogilev, 1900s) My father''s mom''s mom (my greatgrandmother) Leye (Liza) Drapkina, Mogilev, 1900s Leye Drapkina. Mogilev, 1932 Leye and Iosif Drapkin (they had had the same surname before they got married) and their 2 sons (appr. 1909). Iosif was red-head and played clarinet (like me!). My father''s mom Freyda (Frida) Drapkina, born Dec. 12, 1914. Mogilev, 1928.
Frida with her brothers in Leningrad, 1936. My father''s dad, Samoil (Shmulke) Shayevich Slepovitch (born in Nemirov, Ukraine, July 25, 1925). Moscow, 1932. A part of my mother''s dad''s family (Sara and Evsey Idelchik, their niece Klara and my granpa Yankel). Smolevichi (Minsk region), early 1930s. Nella Levina, my mother''s cousine (daughter of her mother''s brother Misha). Was killed in the getto of Kerch, Irina (Ira) Levina, Nella''s sister. She was also killed in the getto of Kerch. My Mom was given her name after that cousine of hers. My mom''s father Yankel Idelchik (left) with brother Abram My mom''s father''s mom Sore (Sarah)
My mom''s father''s dad Yevsey Idelchik Greatgrandma Sore, her niece Klara and son Max Idelchik Grandpa Yankel at the time of WWII (1942) Grandpa Yankel in Berlin, 1945. By that time, he was the only survivor of his big family. Granpa Shmulke (Mihail) at the time of WWII in Kuibyshev (now Samara) - working at a factory My mother''s father''s Mom with her children, nephew Mark, and niece Klara (killed by nazis) My mother''s parents and her two brothers (before she was born)

Mayn yikhes - My lineage

Like a tree cannot grow without its roots, a man cannot live a full life without knowing his roots, his lineage, or YIKHES in Yiddish/Ashkenazic Hebrew.
Here are my ancestors, my MISHPOKHE (Family), a part of which I luckily am.
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