Liba Melamed family

Siblings and Parents

By: John D. Millane, MD

Comprised using Ellis Island Immigration Recods and ship's passenger manifests, Lithunian voting records and surviving family oral histories.

Liba (also known as Lina) was daughter to David and Sara/Sure Malamudov (also spelled Melamedoff and others) from Kusernai (Kushan) Lithuania - then part of imperial Russia - in 1895. She had nine siblings. He brother Leib emigrated to USA in 1903. Her brother Abram followed 7 months later in 1904. The brothers took the last name of an uncle, Jacob Blumberg, in New York City -(Louis Hillel Blumberg and Abraham Blumberg). Her sister Sophie came to the USA in 1906. Her sister Fannie also came to the USA. Her mother Sara/Sure (age 58) and her three younger sisters - Toba/Tillie (age 19), Selde/Selma (age 15) and Golde/Goldie (age 13) came to the USA in 1922. Her brother Bengel/Bernhard came to the USA in 1934 but soon returned to the Netherlands and later perished in the Shoah. The sister Chava/Chawa married Moritz /Morris Kaufman in the Netherlands and lived in Oldenzaal. Both Chava and Morris perished in the Shoah. They were survived by at least two children (Olga Kaufman Peerbohm and Johana Kaufman Bonn)