(1889-1971)
My Grandfather in about 1910. Photostudio Rembrandt. Dvinsk
In the Czarist army during WW1
In the Czarist army during WW1
In the Czarist army during WW1
In the Czarist army during WW1
In about 1925 in Paris
In about 1930 with wife and children(my father is the youngest boy)
In the 1970 in Paris
Zalman Eliokim Usdin was my Grandfather who was born September 15, 1889( September 27,1889 according to the Gregorian calendar.Second day of Rosh Hashana 5650.A friday). His parents were Beines Yankelevich Usdin and Sarah Kusievna Alterman, both were born in 1862. Beines's Father, Yankel (also Eliokim) was born in 1821. Khaim who was Yankel's Father was born at the end of the XIIIth century. Kusiel Alterman was Sarah's Father who was born in 1833. Kusiel's Father was Guerten (also known as Gersen or Gershon).
My Grandfather joined the Tzar Army during WWI, as according to what he told, he was in love with his 1st cousin and the both parents didn't accept the marriage. The girl poisoned herself.
I think, she was Nachman Yankelevich Usdin's daughter Khaya, born in 1896 and who died 3 Cheshvan 5674 ( Monday. November 3, 1913).
Khaya's tombstone in the Vishki cemetery
He never returned to Russia,never saw his parents,brothers and sisters again but escaped the holocaust .He died in 1971 of cancer at the age of 82 in Paris.
See my site about him and Vishki here.