About Chawa Dawidowna Jankelowna Kauffmann-Melamed
This person is commemorated on a memorial in Oldenzaal. More information on this memorial can be found (in Dutch) on the website of the Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei.
Complied form Ellis Island immigration records, a Lithuanian voting record and oral family histories
Bernhard (also known as Bengel) was the youngest son 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 -(L…