Ancestors of Yelena Mikhailovna Sorokina
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Ancestors of Yelena Mikhailovna Sorokina
First Generation
1. Yelena Mikhailovna Sorokina [826], daughter of Mikhail Arkadyevich Sorokin [827] and Tatyana Borisovna Filippova [830], was born on 18 Jan 1983 in Kiev.
Yelena married Giovanni Roberto Ruffini [1] [MRIN: 300], son of Giulio Laurenzo Ruffini [2] and Charlotte Ann Quinlan [3], on 22 Jul 2007 in Westbury, Long Island.
Second Generation (Parents)
2. Mikhail Arkadyevich Sorokin [827], son of Arkadiy Issacovich Rivkin [828] and Zinaida Yefimovna Sorokina [829], was born on 17 Dec 1946 in Kiev. Another name for Mikhail is Mikhail Arkadyevich Rivkin.
Mikhail married Tatyana Borisovna Filippova [830] [MRIN: 284].
The child from this marriage was:
| 1 | i. | Yelena Mikhailovna Sorokina [826] |
3. Tatyana Borisovna Filippova [830], daughter of Boris Yosefovich Schindermann [831] and Antonina Mikhailovna Filippova [832], was born on 2 Sep 1948 in Guriev, Kazakhstan.
General Notes: Her birth name was Schindermann.
Tatyana was educated at the Zhitomirsky State Pedagogical Institute, 1967-1971. Her Soviet passport gives an INS refugee permit to enter the USA stamped August 26, 1992, including both of her daughters in the passport.
Tatyana married Mikhail Arkadyevich Sorokin [827] [MRIN: 284].
Third Generation (Grandparents)
4. Arkadiy Issacovich Rivkin [828], son of Itchak Shloymovich Rivkin [844] and Chaya Woolfovna Assimova [845], was born on 17 Jul 1919 in Krichev, Belaruss.
Arkadiy married Zinaida Yefimovna Sorokina [829] [MRIN: 285].
The child from this marriage was:
| 2 | i. | Mikhail Arkadyevich Sorokin [827] |
5. Zinaida Yefimovna Sorokina [829], daughter of Yefim Abramovich Sorokin [837] and Anna (Hannah) Moiseevna Smushkevich [836], was born on 8 Nov 1923 in Lubni, Ukraine.
Zinaida married Arkadiy Issacovich Rivkin [828] [MRIN: 285].
6. Boris Yosefovich Schindermann [831], son of Yosef Schindermann [834], was born circa 1918 in Ukraine? and died on 12 Sep 1988 in Chernehov at age 70.
General Notes:
Death certificate gives his cause of death as "blood receding from brain (arteriosclerosis)". This certificate is the source of his patronymic.
Boris married Antonina Mikhailovna Filippova [832] [MRIN: 286].
The child from this marriage was:
| 3 | i. | Tatyana Borisovna Filippova [830] |
7. Antonina Mikhailovna Filippova [832], daughter of Mikhail Ivanovich Filippov [833] and Maria Ivanovna [835], was born on 10 Jun 1923 in Guriev, Kazakhstan and died on 7 May 2005 in Kiev at age 81.
General Notes: One of her grandfathers was a Cossack.
Antonina married Boris Yosefovich Schindermann [831] [MRIN: 286].
Fourth Generation (Great-Grandparents)
8. Itchak Shloymovich Rivkin [844], son of Shlyoma Rivkin [846] and Unknown [847], was born in 1885 in Krichev, Belaruss and died in 1957 in Kiev at age 72.
General Notes: In WWII, 1943, he changed his name to Issac Solomonovich because he lost his passport and was through Arkadiy’s connections able to change information on the new one. He evacuated from Krichev on 17 July 1941 with his wife to Taishet, where they stayed for a month. Then Arkadiy found them and took them to Lower Tagil, Ural, where they stayed until the end of the war. Issac worked for hire for his father.
Itchak married Chaya Woolfovna Assimova [845] [MRIN: 294].
The child from this marriage was:
| 4 | i. | Arkadiy Issacovich Rivkin [828] |
9. Chaya Woolfovna Assimova [845], daughter of Reb Woolf Assimov [848] and Bluma [849], was born in 1892 in Klimovich, Belaruss and died on 30 Jan 1947 in Kiev at age 55.
General Notes: Her surname was Rivkina after marriage; she became Chaya Vladimirovna Rivkina in 1943.
Chaya married Itchak Shloymovich Rivkin [844] [MRIN: 294].
10. Yefim Abramovich Sorokin [837], son of Abram Sorokin [838] and Unknown, was born on 10 Dec 1895 in Kanatop, Ukraine and died on 8 Nov 1979 in Kiev at age 83.
Yefim married Anna (Hannah) Moiseevna Smushkevich [836] [MRIN: 289].
Children from this marriage were:
| 5 | i. | Zinaida Yefimovna Sorokina [829] |
| ii. | Rita (Riva) Sorokina [853] was born on 10 Nov 1924. |
11. Anna (Hannah) Moiseevna Smushkevich [836], daughter of Moisei (Moisha) Aronovich Smushkevich [839] and Haya (Chaya, Khaya) Abramovna Smushkevich [840], was born on 10 Mar 1902 in Lubni, Ukraine and died on 19 Jun 1964 in Kiev at age 62.
Anna married Yefim Abramovich Sorokin [837] [MRIN: 289].
12. Yosef Schindermann [834] .
Yosef married someone.
His child was:
| 6 | i. | Boris Yosefovich Schindermann [831] |
14. Mikhail Ivanovich Filippov [833] .
Mikhail married Maria Ivanovna [835] [MRIN: 287].
The child from this marriage was:
| 7 | i. | Antonina Mikhailovna Filippova [832] |
15. Maria Ivanovna [835] .
Maria married Mikhail Ivanovich Filippov [833] [MRIN: 287].
Fifth Generation (Great Great-Grandparents)
16. Shlyoma Rivkin [846] was born circa 1852 in Krichev, Belaruss and died in 1925 in Krichev, Belaruss at age 73.
General Notes: He owned a flour mill (pulled seeds from the stem).
Shlyoma married Unknown [847] [MRIN: 295].
The child from this marriage was:
| 8 | i. | Itchak Shloymovich Rivkin [844] |
17. Unknown [847] died before 1919.
General Notes: Died before Arkadiy was born.
Unknown married Shlyoma Rivkin [846] [MRIN: 295].
18. Reb Woolf Assimov [848] was born circa 1852 in Klimovich, Belaruss and died circa 1927 at age 75.
General Notes: Reb is short for rabbi or respected person. He was rich, owned a store, bread, etc. Gave his gold to his son, Chaya’s brother, who buried it to keep it safe and when he was killed during WWII, all the gold was lost. This brother gave Chaya’s family 20 rubles to buy a house and kept everything else for himself.
Reb married Bluma [849] [MRIN: 296].
The child from this marriage was:
| 9 | i. | Chaya Woolfovna Assimova [845] |
19. Bluma [849] was born circa 1842 in Klimovich, Belaruss and died circa 1927 in Klimovich, Belaruss at age 85.
General Notes: Her birth date was "about 10 years before Reb Woolf." She was very nice and said to Arkadiy and his siblings, "Children, someday there will be so many doctors that they will knock on windows and ask, ’Are there any sick people in here?’"
Bluma married Reb Woolf Assimov [848] [MRIN: 296].
20. Abram Sorokin [838] died from circa 1928 to 1928 in Lubni, Ukraine.
General Notes: Lived in Lubni, Ukraine.
Abram married someone.
His child was:
| 10 | i. | Yefim Abramovich Sorokin [837] |
22. Moisei (Moisha) Aronovich Smushkevich [839], son of Aron Smushkevich [843] and Unknown, was born in 1873 in Brusi Poltavsk (Poltavia), Ukraine and died from 1941 to 1942 in Kharkov Ghetto at age 68.
General Notes: Moisei was a merchant and owned a big bakery (bread factory) before the Russian Revolution. He was born in Brusi Poltavsk, and moved to Kharkov after his children moved there with their families. After the Russian Revolution, he worked as a cashier in a gastronom (a food store). He was murdered in the ghetto. The Jews were all told to gather at Kharkov’s tank factory to be moved to another location, and that those who did not show up would get in trouble. Everyone who came was shot and buried in mass graves in the Drobitsky Jar, including Moisha, his wife, and their daughter Golda.
Moisei married Haya (Chaya, Khaya) Abramovna Smushkevich [840] [MRIN: 291].
Children from this marriage were:
| 11 | i. | Anna (Hannah) Moiseevna Smushkevich [836] |
| ii. | Golda Moiseevna Smushkevich [841] was born in 1912 and died from 1941 to 1942 in Kharkov Ghetto at age 29. | |
| iii. | Rakhil (Raisa) Smushkevich [854] was born on 10 Sep 1910 and died on 27 Aug 1983 at age 72. | |
| iv. | Abram (Arkadiy) Smushkevich [855] was born on 24 May 1913 and died on 13 Dec 1997 at age 84. |
23. Haya (Chaya, Khaya) Abramovna Smushkevich [840], daughter of Abram [842] and Unknown, was born in 1872 in Poltava and died from 1941 to 1942 in Kharkov Ghetto at age 69.
General Notes: She was a homemaker, and was murdered in the ghetto.
Haya married Moisei (Moisha) Aronovich Smushkevich [839] [MRIN: 291].
Sixth Generation (3rd Great-Grandparents)
44. Aron Smushkevich [843] .
General Notes: Nelli Medvinsky’s compilation of genealogical notes say that Moisha’s ancestors were from Lithuania, and came from there to the Ukraine in the mid-19th century.
Aron married someone.
His children were:
| 22 | i. | Moisei (Moisha) Aronovich Smushkevich [839] |
| ii. | (Levi Strauss?) Smushkevich [850] | |
| iii. | Wolf Smushkevich [851] |
46. Abram [842] .
Abram married someone.
His child was:
| 23 | i. | Haya (Chaya, Khaya) Abramovna Smushkevich [840] |
Name Index
(No surname) Abram, 7 Abram [842], 7 Bluma [849], 3, 5, 6 Maria Ivanovna [835], 3, 4, 5 Unknown [847], 3, 5 ASSIMOV Reb Woolf [848], 3, 5, 6 ASSIMOVA Chaya Woolfovna [845], 2, 3, 5 FILIPPOV Mikhail Ivanovich [833], 3, 4, 5 FILIPPOVA Antonina Mikhailovna [832], 2, 3, 4 Tatyana Borisovna [830], 1, 2, 3 QUINLAN Charlotte Ann [3], 1 RIVKIN Arkadiy Issacovich [828], 1, 2, 3 Itchak Shloymovich [844], 2, 3, 5 Shlyoma [846], 3, 5 RUFFINI Giovanni Roberto [1], 1 Giulio Laurenzo [2], 1 SCHINDERMANN Boris Yosefovich [831], 2, 3, 4 Yosef [834], 2, 4 SMUSHKEVICH (Levi Strauss?) [850], 7 Abram (Arkadiy) [855], 7 Anna (Hannah) Moiseevna [836], 2, 4, 6 Aron, 6 Aron [843], 6, 7 Golda Moiseevna [841], 6 Haya (Chaya, Khaya) Abramovna [840], 4, 6, 7, 8 Moisei (Moisha) Aronovich [839], 4, 6, 7 Rakhil (Raisa) [854], 7 Wolf [851], 7 SOROKIN Abram, 4 Abram [838], 4, 6 Mikhail Arkadyevich [827], 1, 2 Yefim Abramovich [837], 2, 4, 6 SOROKINA Rita (Riva) [853], 4 Yelena Mikhailovna [826], 1 Zinaida Yefimovna [829], 1, 2, 4
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Introduction to the material on this site about the Smushkevich family.
