Where the family lived
Berdyansk
A port on the Sea of Azov with an active Jewish community. Felix and Malke married there around 1896, the family lived there, and Alejandro and Aida were born there.
Berdyansk was a port on the Sea of Azov, with an active Jewish community and a great deal of trade. Malke and Felix met there and married around 1896.
The family lived there and the children were born there: Alejandro in March 1897 and Eide —Aida— in the last week of July 1904. Malke left Berdyansk with the three of them in early August 1904, bound for the port of Bremen.
In Chaim Freedman’s reconstruction, Koppel’s son Yerakhmiel Falik is also listed as being from Berdyansk: a soldier and a butcher. He is Felix.
What happened here
- c. 1896
Felix and Malke marry in Berdyansk
Felix marries Malke Noel in Berdyansk, a port on the Sea of Azov.
- 1897
Alejandro is born
On 11 March Alejandro is born in Berdyansk.
- 1904
The war with Japan and Aida's birth
War breaks out between Russia and Japan and Felix is mobilised. In the last week of July, Eide —Aida— is born in Berdyansk.
- August 1904
Malke leaves Berdyansk with the three children
Malke leaves Berdyansk with the three children. They cross southern Russia and central Europe to the port of Bremen, by cart and probably by train for some stretch.