50 Years in Harbin 19091959 - JewishGenJews in Harbin 10 500 1400 5000 ... Club – soon to be...
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My Family and Its City: 50 Years in Harbin 19091959
Chinese Eastern Railway
Tsitsihar Station
Harbin Station Groundbreaking ceremony 1897
Multicultural Harbin Old synagogue Tatar Mosque St Sophia &
market
Fujadian Chinese town Russian Harbin
Gita and Motya Zaretsky
1929
Zaretsky Family
Ruvim Parents Abram & Rachel Motya
Ruvim & wife Chaya Anna & son Joseph Zalmanov
Jews in Harbin
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CER RussoJap War
1917 Rev & Civil War
Manchukuo
Soviets
Chinese Rev
+ 2000 elsewhere in CER Zone
Collectivisation
Japanese Occupation 19321945
Japanese soldiers on a main street in Harbin
Exit Harbin mid 1930s
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1931 1937 1948 1958 1994
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Photographs at Harbin Station
Onikul Family
Manya 19111938
Abram 19071941
Yasha 19141985
Gita, Inna & Motya Zaretsky with Girsh & Chesna
18751938 18811961 photographed in 1936
Stalin’s Terror
Abram 1938
Manchukuo
19321945
Soviet Red Army in Harbin 1945
Soviet troops at St Nicholas Cathedral
“Long Live the Red Army!”
Chinese Communist Revolution 1949
Chairman Mao Tsetung
Harbin in the 1950s
Harbin Polythechnical Institute
Sungari River
Happy New Year!
My family in Harbin 1957
Motya & Gita Zaretsky, Inna, Alec & Mara Moustafine with Chesna Onikul on her visit from the USSR
Exit China for Australia 1959
Return to Harbin May 2000
Alec, Mara and Inna Moustafine at the site of Zaretsky apartment block in Harbin where they used to live
Our apartment block has made way for a bank….
1986 2000
Old Synagogue – a Workers Guesthouse
1907
New Synagogue – Public Security Bureau Club – soon to be Jewish Museum
1918
My parents’ schools
Jewish Cemetery
Mara Moustafine
Secrets and Spies: The Harbin Files
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