My Family and Its City - JewishGen KehilaLinks
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<strong>My</strong> <strong>Family</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Its</strong> <strong>City</strong>:<br />
50 Years in Harbin 19091959
Groundbreaking ceremony 1897<br />
Chinese<br />
Eastern<br />
Railway<br />
Harbin Station<br />
Tsitsihar Station
Multicultural Harbin<br />
St Sophia &<br />
market<br />
Russian Harbin<br />
Old synagogue Tatar Mosque<br />
Fujadian <br />
Chinese town
Gita <strong>and</strong> Motya Zaretsky<br />
1929
Zaretsky <strong>Family</strong><br />
Ruvim Parents Abram & Rachel Motya<br />
Ruvim & wife Chaya Anna & son Joseph Zalmanov
Jews<br />
14000<br />
12000<br />
10000<br />
8000<br />
6000<br />
4000<br />
2000<br />
CER<br />
0<br />
10<br />
Jews in Harbin<br />
RussoJap War<br />
500<br />
Collectivisation<br />
1917 Rev & Civil War<br />
1400<br />
5000<br />
10,000<br />
13,000<br />
5000<br />
2000<br />
178 1<br />
1898 1903 1905 1913 1919 1931 1935 1945 1958 1994<br />
Year<br />
+ 2000 elsewhere in CER Zone<br />
Manchukuo<br />
Soviets<br />
Chinese Rev
Japanese Occupation 19321945<br />
Japanese soldiers on a main street in Harbin
Exit Harbin mid 1930s<br />
Photographs at<br />
Harbin Station<br />
Jews<br />
14000<br />
12000<br />
10000<br />
8000<br />
6000<br />
4000<br />
2000<br />
0<br />
13000<br />
3000<br />
1000<br />
187 1<br />
1931 1937 1948 1958 1994<br />
Year
Abram<br />
19071941<br />
Yasha<br />
19141985<br />
Onikul<br />
<strong>Family</strong><br />
Manya<br />
19111938<br />
Gita, Inna & Motya<br />
Zaretsky with<br />
Girsh & Chesna<br />
18751938 18811961<br />
photographed in 1936
Stalin’s Terror<br />
Abram 1938
19321945<br />
Manchukuo
Soviet Red Army in Harbin 1945<br />
Soviet troops at St Nicholas<br />
Cathedral<br />
“Long Live the Red Army!”
Chinese Communist Revolution 1949<br />
Chairman Mao Tsetung
Harbin<br />
Polythechnical Institute<br />
Harbin in the 1950s<br />
Happy New Year!<br />
Sungari River
<strong>My</strong> family in Harbin 1957<br />
Motya & Gita Zaretsky, Inna, Alec & Mara Moustafine<br />
with Chesna Onikul on her visit from the USSR
Exit China for Australia 1959
Return to Harbin May 2000<br />
Alec, Mara <strong>and</strong> Inna Moustafine at the site of Zaretsky apartment<br />
block in Harbin where they used to live
Our apartment block has made way<br />
for a bank….<br />
1986 2000
1907<br />
Old Synagogue – a Workers Guesthouse
1918<br />
New Synagogue – Public Security Bureau<br />
Club – soon to be Jewish Museum
<strong>My</strong> parents’ schools
Jewish Cemetery
Secrets <strong>and</strong> Spies: The Harbin Files<br />
by<br />
Mara Moustafine<br />
published by<br />
R<strong>and</strong>om House Australia<br />
www.r<strong>and</strong>omhouse.com.au<br />
You can email Mara on:<br />
mara.m@bigpond.net.au<br />
Copyright © 2004 Mara Moustafine
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