Baba Tzipa Faktorovitch (nee Katzovskaya)
Malka's mother, my great-great-grandmother. She was born in a shtetl named Makarov and lived there until moving to Kiev after the Communist revolution.
Tzipa's husband was a bookbinder. He printed revolutionary pamphlets calling for the overthrow of the Czarist government.
Pogrom/shtetl stories passed from Tzipa to my grandfather (down to me):
- In the early 1900s in Makarov the daughter of Tzipa's neighbors was killed during a pogrom. The neighbors armed themselves and started killing the perpetrators. They were surrounded by local police and killed themselves after a shootout.
- Tzipa's cousin was a leader of Jewish anti-Pogrom defense gangs. He captured and executed a local sheriff (known to have killed many Jews) and then fled to America.
Baba Tzipa Faktorovitch (nee Katzovskaya)
Malka's mother, my great-great-grandmother. She was born in a shtetl named Makarov and lived there until moving to Kiev after the Communist revolution.
Tzipa's husband was a bookbinder. He printed revolutionary pamphlets calling for the overthrow of the Czarist government.
Pogrom/shtetl stories passed from Tzipa to my grandfather (down to me):
- In the early 1900s in Makarov the daughter of Tzipa's neighbors was killed during a pogrom. The neighbors armed themselves and started killing the perpetrators. They were surrounded by local police and killed themselves after a shootout.
- Tzipa's cousin was a leader of Jewish anti-Pogrom defense gangs. He captured and executed a local sheriff (known to have killed many Jews) and then fled to America.