{"id":314,"date":"2021-07-25T17:19:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T17:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kudinsky.ca\/?page_id=314"},"modified":"2021-08-21T23:04:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T23:04:51","slug":"ancestral-home-story-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kudinsky.ca\/?page_id=314","title":{"rendered":"Ancestral Home Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Coodin (Kudinsky) Ancestral Home and Family Life: Belilovka, Ruzhin Country, Zhitomir District, Ukraine (former Soviet Union) <\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Family life in early 1900s, Nissanel and Rachel Coodin lived in relatively nice stone home, with three bedroom, kitchen, dining room, nice furniture, their nine children were well-dressed<\/li><li>Family sources confirm Coodin family were millers or grain farmers, they had farm animals (chickens), and produce (floor, potato and corn)<\/li><li>Family hired farm workers and parents baked food for their workers<\/li><li>Religious family \u2013 observed Shabbat and all major Jewish holidays, laws of kashrut, baked their own challah and matzah, went to synagogue<\/li><li>Both Jewish and Ukrainian Schools during the Revolution\u2013 No discussion of religion<\/li><li>During the Bolshevik revolution, Coodin family was forced to leave their farmland and work in agricultural colonies (possibly near Moscow). While they had enough food for themselves, they were required to provide a portion of harvest and pay heavy tax to the government<\/li><li>During this time, they were poorer peasants, the father built a house with straw and mud and worked with a plow.<\/li><li>Family could not daven (or worship) in synagogues because their were none on agricultural colony<\/li><li>Interviews confirm family suffered from pogrom(s) or violent attack(s), in which a number of family members, Rachel (mother) and children (Shiva) were physical assaulted and wounded. &nbsp;<\/li><li>Alec and other children hid during pogrom(s) and witnessed the event(s), and family hid cousins they feared would be killed by bandits or police. Father and Alec\u2019s older brother were fighting with bandits, trying to protect their family.<\/li><li>Coodin parents wanted to leave imperial Russia\/Soviet Union because they knew their safety and lives were in peril. Father obtained passports and organized their immigration to Canada.<\/li><li>As a young man, Herschel left Bilylivka&nbsp;for the nearby town of Pohrebyshche. He operated a grain mill there. Herschel and Elka&#8217;s children were all born in Pohrebysche.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Razel Rabinovitch (Kudinsky) and here husband Ben Zion Rabinovitch had a hideous experience with one of the pogroms in their village when he was hanged and then cut down and saved by Razel.&nbsp; Also, Razel&#8217;s mother (baba Rachel) had her pierced earrings ripped out of her ears during this pogrom as she was holding her baby Nelly. &nbsp;It is believed that this is why they left Belilovka two years before the other members of the family left for Canada<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Family Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Family Interviews: Alec Coodin (1972), Dr. Pesach Coodin (1972) and Clare McArton\u2019s account of her mother Sarah Meltzer\u2019s life in Ukraine (Shiva Coodin) (2021)<\/li><li>Family Questionnaire (TBC, Coodin Branches) <strong><u><\/u><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><strong><u>CONTEXT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HISTORY OF UKRAINE (PRE-WWII)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>POLISH-UKRAINIAN COMMONWEALTH AND OTTOMAN EMPIRE (1772-1815) (1772-1815)<\/li><li>WORLD WAR I (1914-1918)<\/li><li>BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION AND THE RED ARMY (1917-1921)<\/li><li>UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC (USSR\/SOVIET UNION) (1922)<\/li><li>BOLSHEVIK NEW ECONOMIC POLICY (1920S \u2013 1930S) \u2013 ALL UKRAINIAN AGRICULTURAL PEASANTRY \u2013 MANDATORY HARVEST QUOTAS SHIPPED TO LARGER CITIES AND GOVERNMENT-MANDATED FARMING COLLECTIVES<\/li><li>UKRAINIAN FAMINE (1922-1933) \u2013 6-7 MILLION UKRAINIANS STARVED TO DEATH<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ANTI-SEMITIC POLICY IN EUROPE AND THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>THE PALE OF SETTLEMENT \u2013 RESTRICTED REGION DESIGNATED FOR JEWISH PEOPLE TO LIVE (UKRAINE, RUSSIA, POLAND, LITHUANIA, BELARUS AND MOLDOVA)<\/li><li>DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES AND MAY LAWS (1882-1912) LEGITIMIZES VIOLENCE AGAINST JEWS\u2013 FORBIDDEN TO MOVE TO OTHER PARTS OF EUROPE (EXCEPT WITH SPECIAL PERMISSION OR CONVERSION), EXCEPTION FOR JEWISH AGRICULTURAL COLONIES, COULD NOT OWN PROPERTY, QUOTAS FOR NUMBER OF JEWS ADMITTED TO HIGH SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITIES, HEAVY TAX FOR JEWS TRANSFERRED TO POLICE<\/li><li>CONSPIRACY THEORIES, RESENTMENT ABOUT ECONOMIC STANDING OF JEWISH PEOPLE AND RUSSIAN INDUSTRIALIZATION BROUGHT ANTI-SEMITIC VALUES FROM CITIES TO VILLAGE COUNTRYSIDE<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>POGROMS IN THE UKRAINE AND RUSSIAN EMPIRE \u2013 A PRELUDE TO THE HOLOCAUST <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>POGROM DEFINITION AND MAGNITUDE \u2013 LARGE-SCALE, TARGETED AND REPEATED ANTI-JEWISH RIOTING ACROSS THE UKRAINE WITH TACIT SUPPORT FROM AUTHORITIES<\/li><li>COMPLEX NATURE OF ANTI-SEMITIC VIOLENCE \u2013 COSSACKS, RUSSIAN WHITE ARMY, PETLIURA\u2019S ARMY OF UKRAINIAN REPUBLIC, BOLSHEVIK RED ARMY, THE \u201cVOLUNTEER ARMY\u201d, BANDITS AND PEASANTS<\/li><li>AT LEAST 200 ANTI-JEWISH POGROMS IN KIEV, WARSAW AND ODESSA (1881-1884) AND BRUTAL WAVE OF AT LEAST 2000 DEAD AND MANY WOUNDED (1903-1906)<\/li><li>AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR I (1918-1921) &#8211; ESTIMATES OF JEWISH PEOPLE MURDERED WERE APPROXIMATELY 50, 000 -200,000, MANY MORE JEWISH PEOPLE SUFFERED FROM VIOLENCE, RAPE AND LOSS OF PROPERTY<\/li><li>SPURRED JEWISH PEOPLE TO POLITICAL ACTION (E.G. ZIONISM AND UNION MOVEMENT) AND TO DEVELOP DEFENSE LEAGUES TO TAKE UP ARMS TO DEFEND THEIR FAMILY AND PROPERTY<\/li><li>MASS EXODUS FROM EUROPE \u2013 JEWISH PEOPLE RE-ASSESSED THEIR NATIONAL STATUS<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BELILOVKA VILLAGE\/SHTETL<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>JEWISH SCHOOL AND A COUPLE SYNAGOGUES IN BELILOVKA, JEWISH POPULATION OF AT 2,223 (IN 1897 CENSUS), SMALL BUT ACTIVE JEWISH COMMUNITY REPRESENTED 46% OF THE VILLAGE POPULATION.<\/li><li>JEWISH POPULATION WORKED IN TRADES (TAILORS, COBBLERS), MERCHANTS, FARMERS, DENTISTS AND PHARMACISTS, ETC.<\/li><li>RUZHIN COUNTY, ZHITOMIR DISTRICT AND KIEV WERE CENTRES OF JEWISH LEARNING AND YIDDISH CULTURE<\/li><li>ONE JEWISH CEMETERY WITH LAST KNOWN BURIAL IN EARLY 1900S<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HISTORY OF UKRAINIAN JEWS \u2013 WORLD WAR II (1939-1945)\u2013 THE HOLOCAUST IN THE UKRAINE AND POST-WWII DECLINING EUROPEAN JEWISH POPULATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>IN 1941, NAZI GERMANY INVADED AND OCCUPIED UKRAINE AND BEGAN THE SYSTEMATIC MURDER, TORTURE AND ANNIHILATION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE POLICE.<\/li><li>TESTIMONY OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, BORIS LISIANSKY FROM BELILOVKA.<\/li><li>IIN BELILOVKA, SS KILLING UNITS FORCIBLY ROUNDED UP JEWISH RESIDENTS, SHOT THEM TO DEATH AND LOOTED THEIR HOMES AND VALUABLES.<\/li><li>ON SEPTEMBER 10, 1941, 850 PEOPLE WERE KILLED NEAR A RAILWAY STATION AND IN THE SPRING OF 1942, AT LEAST 500 JEWISH RESIDENTS WERE KILLED IN THE VILLAGE OR TAKEN TO THE NEARBY FOREST.<\/li><li>IN 1941, APPROXIMATELY 300 JEWISH PEOPLE REMAINED IN BELILOVKA AND THE LAST JEWISH PERSON THAT LIVED THERE WAS IN 2017.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/li><li>DESTRUCTION OF KIEV JEWRY, BABI YAR, SITE OF EXECUTION OF 60,000 JEWISH PEOPLE.<\/li><li>LIBERATION OF UKRAINE BY THE RED ARMY AT THE END OF 1943.<\/li><li>MASS EXODUS OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE OUT OF EUROPE DUE TO ON-GOING CONCERNS ABOUT ANTI-SEMITISM AND DECLARATION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL IN 1948.<\/li><li>IN 1939, 9.5% OF THE EUROPEAN POPULATION WERE JEWISH DOWN TO 1.4% IN 2010, REPRESENTING A DECLINE FROM 57% TO 0.2% OF WORLD\u2019S JEWISH POPULATION, MOST DRAMATIC DECLINE IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background\">This is a draft outline of the Kudinsky\/Coodin Ancestral Home Story.  <br><br>Please direct comments and additional information to Caithlin McArton at <a href=\"mailto:caithlin1@yahoo.com\">caithlin1@yahoo.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kudinsky.ca\/?page_id=443\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/kudinsky.ca\/?page_id=443\">The Kudinsky Family Milling Tradition<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coodin (Kudinsky) Ancestral Home and Family Life: Belilovka, Ruzhin Country, Zhitomir District, Ukraine (former Soviet Union) Family life in early 1900s, Nissanel and Rachel Coodin lived in relatively nice stone home, with three bedroom, kitchen, dining room, nice furniture, their nine children were well-dressed Family sources confirm Coodin family were millers or grain farmers, 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