Records of jewish victims of pogroms - 1918

Question

My grandfather - Lazaro Dain - was born Jul 24 1898 in Kyiv (Ukraine).  Him and one of his brothers (Wolf) were put on a boat to Argentina at the age of 14 and 12.  He was never able to find any information of what happened to his parents and siblings.  He even worked with the Red Cross at the time but came out empty.  He died in Buenos Aires on Feb 24, 1981.  He never talked about his family so I don't even know how many siblings he had. Digging into the country's history and fate of the jews, it's possible they were killed during one of the many pogroms, or sent to the USSR.  I don't know this for sure but I thought it would be a good place to start.   However, I haven't found any good information.  If you have any ideas of where to look, my family would be very appreciative!

Answer 1

Anonymous, if you have not yet joined jewishgen.org, I highly recommend it.  It is free, although they will pester you often asking for donations.  It has a huge amount of data, but often has big holes, where records simply don't exist, having been destroyed by the persecutors or wars or sometimes because governments did not permit Jewish records to be registered in the first place.

Good luck with your search - from my experience researching my family, you are starting down an extremely difficult road.  Be sure to ask questions here whenever you are stumped.  There are WikiTree members in most of the Eastern European countries who can sometimes find information that eludes us and they are very generous with their assistance.

Comments

At jewishgen.org, I found what may be a 1907 voter record for what may be a relative of his.  It shows Leizor Dain, whose father was Mordkov, and shows that was Jewish, lived in Cherkassy, Ukraine and had property worth 300 Rubles, which qualified him to vote.

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Thanks for the info.  I did see that, but he would've only been 9 years old then, probably not old enough to vote.  I'll keep looking!

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I realize that it's too young to be him.  I am suggesting that it is likely to be a relative of his.  Families often used the same first names over and over.  Your Lazaro might well be a nephew or cousin of the Leizor Dain who voted in Ukraine in 1907.  That's the kind of thing that I'd try to follow a trail to find the rest of the family members to see if I could connect Lazaro and Leizor.

Answer 2

I second Gaile's advice to help find your people. I subscribed for awhile and it was extremely organized for my research. It's definitely worth the investment at jewishgen.org.