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Statement of Laura Kandro

Polish mausoleum in Kupel, 2005. Laura Kandro's photo.

   Laura Kandro, Yanina Malinovska, Kupel 2005

Nina,

S. Boris Spizel and his family cow

 Shpizel,  Boris

           Boris Spizel – one spared (by serving in the Soviet Army in the War time) member of the big family, all murdered in Kupel (including his father Motl Spizel), came into Kupel in 1945 to find smoked ruins of his family house. One Ukrainian woman told him that another woman named Marynya, got his family cow when his relatives were murdered. It was a very good milky cow. 

Teacher Veksler: death and avenge

School mates, 1928. Купельская школа, 1928 год

 

Physics Teacher Veksler was murdered in Kupel in July 1941. When Germans occupied Kupel, all Ukrainian anti-Semites went to torture, rob and murder the Jews. One day  local Ukrainian policeman was dragging teacher Veksler on the Kupel’s streets and beating him. Young Ukrainian woman, one of Veksler’s former students, , spat in the Veksler’s face along the way; than that policeman shoot old teacher. 

Statement of Manya Boim

Bence Boim (Бенце Бойм) – born in Kupel on March 5, 1886. Father’s name was Itzhak. Married Elke Kesel (Елке Кесель). They both were murdered in Kupel.  Elke and Bence had a daughter Manya Boim, who lived in Birobidgan, USSR after the war.  Manya stated, that on June 30, 1941 Germans forced more than 50 Jewish men into small storage room, even put some people on top of the others, and blocked door and window. All Jews were dead next morning. Germans made local women to bury all bodies by the Lenin’s statue, in the middle of the shtetl.

Gitl Perelman, wife of I.M Glaser. Murdered in Kupel

Gitl Perelman, wife of I.M Glaser. Murdered in Kupel

Rav Itzhаk Meir Glaser, last Rav of Kupel. Murdered in Kupel (buried alive).

Rav Itzhаk Meir Glaser, last Rav of Kupel. Murdered in Kupel  (buried alive).

Rav Itzhаk Meir Glaser, last Rav of Kupel. Murdered in Kupel (buried alive).

 

Gitl Perelman, wife of Rav I. M Glaser. Murdered in Kupel on May 5, 1942

Gitl Perelman, wife of Rav I. M Glaser. Murdered in Kupel on May 5, 1942

Old Kupel and the mill. Photograph submitted by Laura Kandro, who got it from her grandmother

Old Kupel and the mill. Photograph submitted by Laura Kandro, who got it from her grandmother

Old people in Kupel said, that Jewish mass grave was digged by the old mill in the fall of 1942, after the last massacre. This photograph was made in 1920th, long before the War.

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