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One sister, married name Revzin (reference: Yelena Kalyan, geni.com)
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Biographical information:
Born Buda Koshelevo, Belarus. Possibly around 1880, very roughly.
Blacksmith, Bobruisk, a big and powerful man. Meir Kuznetz&emdaash;Meir the blacksmith. Lived on Oktyabrskaya St., Bobruisk, next to Minskaya St. (2nd house from corner). Minskaya St. was the location of the public baths, a central location.
The smithy was in the yard behind the house. On Minskaya St. there was a well known banya (sauna).
According to a family tradition, Meir's first wife died after being frightened by traditional Shrovetide mummers (Maslenitsa ryazhenye).
In the mid 1930s two relatives came from America to visit Meir in Bobruisk. Tzinya corresponded with American relatives until the late 1930s, when it became dangerous. Then she hid the letters behind the wallpaper.
Meir died in 1942 after being evacuated to a collective farm in the Samara region (Timashevo, Nei Leben (New Life)).
Note. Samara, called Kuybyshev from 1935 to 1991, is a city on the Volga river. It was selected on the outbreak of WWII as the temporary administrative capital of Russia in the event that the Germans took Moscow, through Summer 1935.
Sources:
Vladimir Malinsky, email, 2020;
family tree on www.geni.com: https://www.geni.com/people/Meir-Tsirlin/6000000000227707141
Created 2020