We know of just a few Kudinskys who didn’t emigrate to Canada.
We acknowledge Herschel, Miriam, Leib, Nisan and Raful as the patriarchs and matriarch of the Kudinsky descendants who have dispersed across North America. Their sister Feiga was the oldest of the Kudinsky siblings. She did not emigrate. She was born in 1859. Feiga married Itzko Khazan, a scribe. They had 6 daughters and 2 sons. When Feiga’s sister Miriam and her niece Freda Bakalinsky left Russia, they listed Feiga on their immigration declaration forms as their nearest relative in their home country. We do not know if any of Feiga’s descendants ever left the old country.
All four of the adult offspring of Hershchel and Elka emigrated. But Herschel and Elka had nine other children who did not survive their childhood in the old country.
Nisan and Rachel had a daughter Sura born in about 1908. She died at the age of three, about seventeen years before her parents emigrated with five of her sisters and brothers.
Nisan and Rachel’s son Herschel (aka Grischa) did not emigrate. A descendant of Nisan remembers being told that Herschel was not permitted to leave the Soviet Union because, as a doctor he was too valuable to the Soviets. He died between 1965 and 1981. Herschel had a daughter, Fanya and a son, Yasha. Fanya had a son and Yasha had two daughters. Yasha died in the Soviet Union. Fanya and her son, and Yasha’s daughters eventually made their way to Israel.
The emigration of Peisach Coodin, a son of Leib and Sarah turned out to be a round trip. Peisach arrived in Canada at age 27 in 1928 with Tauba Pearl. Peisach and Tauba married each other in Winnipeg. Their son Arnold was born in 1931. In the old country Peisach had been a teacher, a profession which conveyed status. In Winnipeg he worked in his father’s buckwheat mill. Tauba was discontent with the family’s decline in status. She convinced Peisach to return to Ukraine. Peisach, Tauba and Arnold made their journey back to the old country in 1934. Peisach, at the age of 43, died a soldier’s death fighting in the Red Army against the Nazis.