Felix's father
Koppel Zhmood
Born in Ludza, he came to the colonies as a boy with his parents. In the 1858 census he is 20 and already married. His name reappears in 1899, in his grandson's birth record.
Documentedc. 1838 – c. 1900
In the 1858 census he is 20 and already married to Dvorka, Aba’s daughter, of the same age. He died around 1900, in Andreyevka.
There he is written Koppel; in the 1899 Mariupol birth record, which names him as the paternal grandfather of the registered child, he appears as Kopel. That second mention, forty-one years after the first, is what made it possible to join the Russian branch to the Argentine one.
Koppel and Dvorka had several children: Moshe, Pesach, Hinda Ana, Manyik, Tybel and Yerakhmiel Falik. The last of them is Felix.
In the timeline
- c. 1850
The family settles in the colony
The family is now settled in Novy Zlatopol, a Jewish agricultural colony in Ekaterinoslav province.
- 1858
The colony census
On 26 May the colony census is taken. It records David, aged 40, and his whole household: his sons —among them Koppel, aged 20— and Koppel's wife, Dvorka. It is the oldest document we have.
- 1899
The Mariupol birth record
On 25 January Meyer —later Marcos— is born, and his birth is recorded at the Mariupol synagogue. The record names three generations: the child, his father Falik and his grandfather Kopel.
- c. 1900
Koppel dies
Koppel dies in Andreyevka.