Gerschn (Grigoriy) Avrum(ovich) Rahman

• Individual Picture Notes
  • Gersh Rahman, Malin

• Death Notes
  • Killed in a Malin ghetto, aged in his nineties, together with his wife

• General Notes
  • My great great grandfather Gerschn Rahman was born around 1850 (or earlier).  He lived in Malin, Ukraine.
    
    Gerchn Avrum Rahman was a man of might, good looks, very clever and energetic.   He loved the good life, good food. A childhood memory of Moisei Rahman: G.R. roaring at his wife, Sheindl (a great beauty in her youth), "you must only buy the best produce!  For 3 rubles, I eat a pear and I enjoy it.  For 3 kopeikas, let ------ eat it!"  And this was in the WWI years...
    
    According to Moisei, Gershn always wore a skullcap, although he was not particularly religious.  He loved the Jewish holidays, for the table laden with festive food, with himself at the head, as the king.
    
    G.R. continued his father's skin business, trading with shoemen in Kiev.  He travelled to Kiev often and either owned or rented an apartment there.  This was despite the "cherta osedlosti", the restrictive settlement policy for the Jewish population.  Only traders of the first rank were allowed to live in capital cities.  It follows then, that G.R. was a trader of first rank.
    
    He moved from Ushomyr to Malin when he was quite young. There he built (in 1871) and owned the Malin paper factory.
    
    The history of the Malin paper factory is an enigma.
    In 1917 the paper factory, like all factories, was nationalised.  In 1918 it was, according to historical source, burnt down by its former proprietors.  It was rebuilt in the early 1950s....
    
    Did Gerschn Rahman burn down his  factory?  A plausible alternative explanation is that the factory was burnt down by revolutioneers ("beat down the bourgeois jew"), who then blamed it on the proprietors. 
    But (and here I relay Nina's musings on the matter) - considering G.R.'s character, it is also possible that he himself burned down the factory.  Firstly, why should someone else get his baby.  And secondly would he entrust this inheritance to his children?  His eldest son Evsei is clever enough, but soft - and moreover, a revolutioneer!  The younger children - also not the right characters perhaps. (???)
    
    After the revolution G.R. worked as a cashier in "Tabaktrest".  His son, my great grandfather Evsei was later the manager, then commercial director and chief accountant of "Tabaktrest".

Evsey Grigorievich Rahman
Evsey was born on May 6th, 1885.  He died, at the age of 63 years, 11 months and 3 days, on April 9th, 1949.

• Death Notes
  • According to Moisei Rahman, Evsei probably died on the 8th of April, but that Roza (Evsei's wife) changed the date so as not to coincide with the birthday of their grand-daughter Nina.

Sheva Rahman

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Naum Rahman
He died in year 1950.

Bella Rahman
She died in year 1941.

• Death Notes
  • Babiy Yar

Bluma (Liuba) Rahman
She died in year 1983.

Ilya Rahman

Mark Rahman
He died in year 1983.

• Death Notes
  • Many members of the Rahman family had died in that year:
    My grandmother's brother Moisei Rahman, then Mark, then Mark's sister Liuba, then my grandfather, Lev Stanislavsky.

Runya (Raya) Rahman