Annie was my great-grandmother, and my other namesake. She was born about 1867 in Sokolievka, Haysin Podolie, Russia.
Her original name was Xapza Kupchinetsky (many, many spellings). Her son immigrated to the US about 1912, and took the name 'Cooper'. She took that name when she arrived in the US.
The Hebrew translation on the stone - Here lies our mother Chana, daughter of Reb Moshe, died on the 19th of Teves 5698. Wife of Avraham Yitzchak, son of Shmuel Ze'ev, who was killed in the year 5679 (1919) in Europe. May her soul be bound with the living.
1919 in Russia was a time of the pogroms. My grandmother told me the story of how the men in her town/village including her father, were rounded up, forced to dig their own graves, and shot. My grandmother and her mother were hidden by a gentile (non-Jewish) woman and then were snuck out.
The inscription on the stone is a tribute that is normally not done. Jewish tradition is to put 'so and so, son/daughter of so and so'.
Her original name was Xapza Kupchinetsky (many, many spellings). Her son immigrated to the US about 1912, and took the name 'Cooper'. She took that name when she arrived in the US.
The Hebrew translation on the stone - Here lies our mother Chana, daughter of Reb Moshe, died on the 19th of Teves 5698. Wife of Avraham Yitzchak, son of Shmuel Ze'ev, who was killed in the year 5679 (1919) in Europe. May her soul be bound with the living.
1919 in Russia was a time of the pogroms. My grandmother told me the story of how the men in her town/village including her father, were rounded up, forced to dig their own graves, and shot. My grandmother and her mother were hidden by a gentile (non-Jewish) woman and then were snuck out.
The inscription on the stone is a tribute that is normally not done. Jewish tradition is to put 'so and so, son/daughter of so and so'.
Annie was my great-grandmother, and my other namesake. She was born about 1867 in Sokolievka, Haysin Podolie, Russia.
Her original name was Xapza Kupchinetsky (many, many spellings). Her son immigrated to the US about 1912, and took the name 'Cooper'. She took that name when she arrived in the US.
The Hebrew translation on the stone - Here lies our mother Chana, daughter of Reb Moshe, died on the 19th of Teves 5698. Wife of Avraham Yitzchak, son of Shmuel Ze'ev, who was killed in the year 5679 (1919) in Europe. May her soul be bound with the living.
1919 in Russia was a time of the pogroms. My grandmother told me the story of how the men in her town/village including her father, were rounded up, forced to dig their own graves, and shot. My grandmother and her mother were hidden by a gentile (non-Jewish) woman and then were snuck out.
The inscription on the stone is a tribute that is normally not done. Jewish tradition is to put 'so and so, son/daughter of so and so'.
Her original name was Xapza Kupchinetsky (many, many spellings). Her son immigrated to the US about 1912, and took the name 'Cooper'. She took that name when she arrived in the US.
The Hebrew translation on the stone - Here lies our mother Chana, daughter of Reb Moshe, died on the 19th of Teves 5698. Wife of Avraham Yitzchak, son of Shmuel Ze'ev, who was killed in the year 5679 (1919) in Europe. May her soul be bound with the living.
1919 in Russia was a time of the pogroms. My grandmother told me the story of how the men in her town/village including her father, were rounded up, forced to dig their own graves, and shot. My grandmother and her mother were hidden by a gentile (non-Jewish) woman and then were snuck out.
The inscription on the stone is a tribute that is normally not done. Jewish tradition is to put 'so and so, son/daughter of so and so'.
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