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The four Chulak children. At the top Isak, who was killed on the front.		Manya Tsalis and Roza Blechman

Moshe Chichilnitsky, 1941		Shlomo and Ester Chichilnitsky and three children, one of the first families to come to Israel

Borya Fidleman, Riva Rozental, Chana Zusevich, and Aba Dubin		Rachel Chichilnitsky, z”l, next to David Shwartsman

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David and Feiga Konstantinovsky and their son, Liusya (Member of the Soviet Writers Association). David was a religious man; he studied Talmud in Kiliya. They were both killed on the way to Bogdanovka.

Liusya and his aunt Idis visiting Moscow		David and Feiga Konstantinovsky and Yokhevet (Goldenberg family). Yokhevet was a relative and also helped in the store. Standing is Dov (Berko). In the background are the door and window of the store with an issue of the Romanian Jewish newspaper Renaṣterea, 1933.

Dov and Miriam, got married together with cousins Vova and Yehuda, November 1933		Dov Konstantinovsky, in Romanian army uniform

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Michael and Galya Kupchik and between them Roza Boltiansky, in Kiliya

Tova and Idis and her husband (Berkovich) with Galya Gurvits (Kupchik) Berl Konstantinovsky, his wife, Brana, and daughter, Malka. Farewell visit from Dov and Miriam before they made Aliyah (1933)

Brana Konstantinovsky and her two daughters, Tova and Idis, and the two sons-in-law, Yosef Berkovich and M. Goldman

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The three daughters of Berl Konstantinovsky Sitting from right to left: Yehudit Berkovich, Tova Goldman, and Malka Trostiantsky Standing: Yosef Berkovich, Boris Berkovich, Milya Goldman, Mark Berkovich, and Leibish Trostiantsky. 1965

The Story of Sonya Kogan (Konstantinovsky), her husband, Moshe, and their daughter, Tsila, z”l

Kiliya resident Sonya Kogan (Konstantinovsky), born in 1909, her husband Moshe, and her 8-year-old daughter Tsila died in the Holocaust in Russia. When the war started in 1941^[1], they gathered their belongings (whatever would fit in the wagon), left their little village of Gặnceṣti (Bessarabia), and fled eastwards. In one of the Moldavian villages, they were attacked by robbers, who stole all their belongings, including the horses and the cart. What could the defenseless family do? They had to give over everything they had and beg the robbers for mercy. The robbers tied them up and threw them in a shed. After a few hours, Moshe succeeded in escaping from his confinement and ran toward a retreating Soviet Army unit to ask for help. A Soviet officer sent a few soldiers to help them, and the soldiers got their belongings back to them and helped them get back on the road. The Kogan family traveled with the unit, and they went eastward. We do not know their exact route, but according to Moshe Kogan's sister-in-law Polly, who learned about their fate from a townsman who was also traveling with the retreating Soviet army, the refugees, including the Kogans, ended up in the Stavropol region, where they were killed by Fascist beasts.^[2]

We never saw our dear sister Sonya ever again. On the monument erected for our mother, Brana Konstantinovskaya, in Akerman, we put a plaque to remember our sister Sonya, her husband Moshe, and her daughter Tsila.

By TABA GOLDMAN^[3] (KONSTANTINOVSKAYA), December 1990, Haifa

To our deepest regrets, Taba Goldman only lived six months in Israel. She passed away from a heart attack in March 1991.

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Aharon and Olya Konstantinovsky a few months before Lionya left for Eretz Israel. Aharon was the third son of Volf Konstantinvovsky. In 1910, still very young, he brought to Kiliya the first printing press. In the same year, together with Nesya Kogan, he brought the first silent movie projector. In 1912, he married Olya Berson from Odessa. He stayed in Odessa from 1917 to 1924, when he returned to Kiliya. He was elected to the Jewish Community Council four years in a row. He had a great voice and was invited to sing the prayers on High Holidays at the synagogue. His style was very original. He was inspired by the great cantors Cabertin and Pini Minkovski and by the operas he saw in Odessa. He used the opera music in the High Holiday prayers.		1924: Aharon and Olya Konstantinovsky and their two sons, Liusya and Lionya, on their way from Odessa to Kiliya. In July 1927, half a year after his Bar Mitzvah, Liusya drowned in the Danube.		Aharon and Olya were born in 1885 and 1890. In this picture, they are in their fifties. After their son's tragic death, they became sick, and in this picture, they look much older than their ages. They were murdered in the fall of 1941. The Nazis found them in a village near Nikolaev and killed them. They were not brought to rest in Israel.

Idis Belnek (Konstantinovsky), the only daughter of Volf Konstantinovsky, married Baruch Belnek from Chimishliya (Cimiṣlia). In this photo from 1936 with sons: Meka and his wife, Yziya, who was killed on the Stalingrad front and daughters Polya and Chana. Another daughter, Tova, went to Eretz Israel.

1. Hebrew text addition: with the Nazi and Romanian aggression Return
2. Hebrew text in place of the previous two sentences: They joined the unit, and after many months of retreating to the East, they arrived in Stavropol, not far from the Volga River, and to North Caucasus. They were killed there by the Nazis who were advancing towards Stalingrad. Return
3. Hebrew text: Tova Goldman Return

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