Dora USDIN/ GELLERMAN
( 1886- 1971)

Dora Usdin/ Gellerman
In the  1950 ies

Dora Usdin/ Gellerman

Dora Usdin was one of my Grandfather's sisters and the daughter of Beines Yankelevich Usdin and Sarah Kusievna Alterman. She was born in Vishki in 1886.

Usdin family.Vishki
From the left to the right: Dora Gellerman, Sophia Usdin, her father Vulf,
Leon Gellerman, her father Semen. Vishki around 1960


She married to a Gellerman and they lived in Leningrad. Her husband was killed when she was pregnant of their son Semien, who passed away in 1878 and is buried in the at the Jewish section of the Uzhnoe cemetery. His two sons live in the USA.

Semen Gellerman
Semen Gellerman

Dora remarried to Mr. Kelner (I do not know his first name). Mr. Kelner had kids of his own. Simien and his kids were very close growing up.

Dora died in 1971 and is buried at the Preobrazhenskoe Jewish cemetery of St Petersburg.