Yesterday and today we have been in Lida, where my Grandmother Zlata (Sarah) was born in 1886, and Novogrudok, where her father Shlema-Dovid was born in 1858. His father, Leizer Iliatovitch, obtained permission from the authorities to move his family to Lida in 1863. Both towns had flourishing Jewish populations in the mid-19th century.
The records we have found show that Shmuil, the son of Shlema-Dovid and Mikhlya Levin, was born in Lida in 1881, and their last son known to us, Hirsch (Harry), was also born there, in 1891. In between came Zlata and Myer, though we have not found the records for them.
Granny was born in Lida, not Gomel
Shlema-Dovid must have died at some time between 1891 and 1906, as in that year Mikhlya re-married. Her new husband was Abram-Lieb Shushan, aged 60, and they married in Gomel; she was 48. Presumably he died within a few years of the wedding, as by 1911 we know she was living in London with her sons Myer and Harry.
Mikhlya's family, meanwhile, were from a small shtetl near Gomel called Streshin. Her father Berka got permission to move his family to Gomel in 1867, by which time he had 6 children, of whom Mikhlya was the third. At some point Mikhlya from Gomel met Shlema-Dovid from Lida, but there is no information about their marriage. As suggested above, it appears that all their children were born in Lida. We will be in Gomel on Tuesday and Wednesday, and hope to visit Streshin on Thursday.
Tomorrow (Monday) we go to Pinsk, to chase up my grandfather, Moshe Shraibman.
See photos: Lida - Novogrudok
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