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Yulia Meltzer
Yudith "Yulia" Isaakovna Meltzer (russian: Юдифь "Юлия" Исааковна Мельцер; 1911–1968) was a Jewish Ukrainian ballerina. She was the wife of Yakov Dzhugashvili, and the daughter-in-law of Joseph Stalin. She was the mother of Stalin's granddaughter, translator Galina Dzhugashvili. Early life and marriage Meltzer was from a Jewish family in Odessa. She was twice married when she met Dzhugashvili at a reception, who fought with her second husband, an NKVD officer called Nikolai Bessarab, and arranged for her divorce. Bessarab was later arrested by the NKVD and executed. Dzhugashvili then became her third husband. Together they had one daughter, Galina Galina, Halyna, or Halina (russian: Галина; from Greek ''γαλήνη'' "Serenity") is an East Slavic feminine given name, also popular in Bulgaria and Slovenia during the period of Soviet influence. Galina is the standard transliteration fr ... (1938-2007). Meltzer was reported imprisoned by Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish-Ukrainian
The history of the Jews in Ukraine dates back over a thousand years; Jewish communities have existed in the territory of Ukraine from the time of the Kievan Rus' (late 9th to mid-13th century). Some of the most important Jewish religious and cultural movements, from Hasidism to Zionism, rose either fully or to an extensive degree in the territory of modern Ukraine. According to the World Jewish Congress, the Jewish community in Ukraine constitutes the third-largest in Europe and the fifth-largest in the world. The actions of the Soviet government by 1927 led to a growing antisemitism in the area.Сергійчук, В. Український Крим К. 2001, p.156 Total civilian losses during World War II and the Reichskommissariat Ukraine, German occupation of Ukraine are estimated at seven million. More than one million Soviet Jews, of them around 225,000 in Belarus, were shot and killed by the Einsatzgruppen and by their many local Ukrainian supporters. Most of them were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
