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The following information might help you re-establish contact with relatives or friends you lost track of long ago or with those whose existence you may not even be aware of. Please contact HIAS if you think you are the person we are trying to locate, if you might belong to their family, or if you have any information regarding the family in question. We will make sure that information from both sides is relevant and, with the permission of both parties, we will help to bring you together. Again, the consent of both parties is required for establishing contact.

If you are unsure about your decision to make contact with an inquirer listed below, please do not hesitate to contact the HIAS Location Service. We will provide any additional background information available to us; we may also contact the inquiring party in order to obtain further information.

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In search for a person, whose name is unknown

We are receiving increasing numbers of search requests and these listings will be updated periodically.

Please note that spelling of last names are approximate and may have been changed over time. We advise that you search for variants of the names you are looking for (e.g. Kohan, Cohen, Cohn).

Abramovich, Bentsin

In search of descendants of Bentsin Abramovich, born in Ismail, Ukraine in 1892. His father’s name was Leyb; his mother’s name was Riva. He had two brothers, Shabsa and Yakov, and a sister, Slanakova. Leyb had a house with four apartments in the center of Ismail. Bentsin immigrated to the United State in 1915.
The inquirer is niece of Bentsin
Alexandrovskaya, Sura-Genya

In search of descendants of Sura-Gennya Alexandrovskaya, was born in village Chicherin, Ukraine approximately in 1898. She immigrated to the United States before revolution around 1916. She got married to Schmilek and resided in Brooklyn, NY.
The inquirer is nephew of Sara-Gennya
Ant, Isaak

In search of descendants of Isaak Ant, was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1907. His father’s name was Kalman. In the beginning of WWII Isaak was drafted into Army from Podolsk Sewing Machine factory and missing in action in April 1944.

The inquirer is a daughter of Isaak.
Asnin, Eshe

In search of descendants of Eshe (Iosif, Josef) Asnin, was born approximately in1872-1874 in Lyady, Mogilev Gubernya, Byelorussia. His father’s name was Chaim-David; his mother’s name was Bruma-Mina. There was a big religious family with 14 children. Only the oldest son Eshe immigrated to the United State in 1890-1893.
The inquirer is nephew of Eshe