Dunsky, Yehudah

1877 - 1945  (68 years)

• Name	Dunsky, Yehudah  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Alt. Birth	1874	Golynka, Grodno, Belarus   [6, 7, 8]
  Born	1877	Golynka, Grodno, Belarus   [6, 8, 9, 10, 11]
  Gender	Male
  Emigration	29 Nov 1912  [12]
  	London-Capetown
  Name	Yudel Dunsky
  Died	2 Nov 1945	Germiston, Gauteng, South Africa   [8, 11, 13]
  Buried	Primrose Cemetery, Primrose, Gauteng, South Africa   [14]
  Person ID	I17269	Our Family
  Last Modified	2 May 2025

  
  

  Father	Dunsky, Zelig,   b. Abt 1840, Russia ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	[Dunsky], Temme,   b. Russia ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F6244	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Butcovsky, Miriam,   b. 1889, Radzilishki, Lithuania ,   d. 27 Jun 1966, Kfar Shmaryahu, Israel  (Age 77 years)
  Married	1906	Lithuania   [15]
  Children	1. Dunsky, Sarah   2. Dunsky, David   3. Dunsky, Israel   4. Dunsky, Isidore   5. Dunsky, Mina   6. Dunsky, Sidney
  Last Modified	2 May 2025
  Family ID	F6423	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Alt. Birth - 1874 - Golynka, Grodno, Belarus Born - 1877 - Golynka, Grodno, Belarus Died - 2 Nov 1945 - Germiston, Gauteng, South Africa  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Yehuda Dunsky had travelled to South Africa in 1914 or 1915 to earn money for the family. Miriam would sell items in the market place. At some point, Israel [aged 11] wrote to his father, and told him to send for them, that Lithuania [Europe] was no place for Jews. Sarah was the eldest, then Israel, then Minnie, then Dave. I think that they emigrated in 1919 by ship. Minnie's parents - Rachel and Abraham Butcovsky - came with them.... unless these were Yehuda's parents... I have to check up on that. I just know that they were one set of grandparents. Abraham was very strong, fearless, a chazan who wrote his own music and a shochet. At one point during the Russian Revolution [this story is from Dave who told it to me when I sat with him one night in the hospital just before he died], soldiers came to the house, rummaged thru and found Abraham's shochet knives and wanted to confiscate them. He refused to let the soldiers take them away to Rachel's intense distress. She was petrified that the soldiers would kill them all. Minnie remembered the Jews being thrown out of Rotsvalishki. They buried the family silver in the backyard, and had to travel to Odessa by ox cart. When they came back to Rotsvalishki [an undentified time later], the neighbors returned the goods and silver taken from their home during their absence [they respected the grandfather]. from Sally Esakov Yehuda Dunsky had travelled to South Africa in 1914 or 1915 to earn money for the family. Miriam would sell items in the market place. At some point, Israel [aged 11] wrote to his father, and told him to send for them, that Lithuania [Europe] was no place for Jews. Sarah was the eldest, then Israel, then Minnie, then Dave. I think that they emigrated in 1919 by ship. Minnie's parents - Rachel and Abraham Butcovsky - came with them.... unless these were Yehuda's parents... I have to check up on that. I just know that they were one set of grandparents. Abraham was very strong, fearless, a chazan who wrote his own music and a shochet. At one point during the Russian Revolution [this story is from Dave who told it to me when I sat with him one night in the hospital just before he died], soldiers came to the house, rummaged thru and found Abraham's shochet knives and wanted to confiscate them. He refused to let the soldiers take them away to Rachel's intense distress. She was petrified that the soldiers would kill them all. Minnie remembered the Jews being thrown out of Rotsvalishki. They buried the family silver in the backyard, and had to travel to Odessa by ox cart. When they came back to Rotsvalishki [an undentified time later], the neighbors returned the goods and silver taken from their home during their absence [they respected the grandfather]. from Sally Esakov

  
  

• Sources

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