The Generations of Moises Ville

HISTORY

Origin and Destiny

1889 - Podoliers' Adventure

1894 - Grodno Group

1900-1902 The colony grows up

Register Office

CONTACT comments information

LINKS

AGJA- Jewish Genealogical Society of Argentina

Moises Ville's Historical Museum

Moises Ville in Jewish Encyclopedia

THE GROUP OF GRODNO

Inauguracion de la Kadima - 1929

Inauguration Building Kadima, Library and Theater, 1929

Aaron Goldman Museum collection

In 1893, two years after the Jewish Colonization Association (JCA) was founded by the Baron Maurice Hirsch, a group of applicants for settlement in the colonies met in the city of Grodno, White Russia, nowadays Belarus. They were natives from different towns and villages of the Grodno Gubernia (province). In that meeting it was decided that the group would travel to Argentina the following year, and its destination would be Moises Ville.

Among the applicants was Mr Noe Katzovits, later on Cociovich in Argentina. Many years later, between 1930 and 1932, Cociovich wrote a book of memoirs, in which he carried out a colorful description of the Jewish life in his village of Russia, and told how the group of colonists was gathered, the story of his travel to Argentina, and with sharp vision he wrote the history of the first years of the Moises Ville colony. The book, Genesis of Moises Ville, was published in Buenos Aires in 1947 in its original version in Yiddish, and translated to Spanish in 1987 by Mila Editors (AMIA). That book is an important source for this publication.

In the meeting in Grodno were present Hirsch Kaller, Noe Cociovich, Jose Trumper, Jose Ber Rejovitzky, Abraham Leib Kaplan, Samuel Trumper, Samuel Bloj, Elias Kohn, Hertz Berezovsky and others. All of them came from Amstibove (Mstibovo in Russian), a little town located to the south of Grodno (Hrodna), near the city of Volkowisk (Vawkavysk), and later on became inhabitants of Moises Ville.

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Northwest area of the current Belarus that embraces the old Government of Grodno

Other people mentioned by Cociovich as assistants to that meeting were Jose Staravolsky, from the town of Ruzahny (see map), Moises Malajovich, Mordejai Teitelbaum, and Zelig Wapniarsky as representative of the district of Brisk (Brest) that took many colonists to Argentina. Other places where several members of the group were originated from: Liskowo (Liskevet), Slonim, Vysokoye, Kamenets-Litovsk, Masty.

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Southwest Area of Belarus

See a map of the former Government of Grodno, limits of 1894.

The Group of Grodno boarded the S.S. Corania in Libau (Liepaja), Latvia, on November 11 1894, and arrived in Buenos Aires on December 24. A few of them traveled separately the following year.

The Travelers: Last Name, Name, age.

Departure Nov 11, 1894, Libau. Arrival Buenos Aires Dec 24, 1894
AMBASCH	Froim	34	RADOVITZKY	Jose	27
BEREZOVSKY	Herzel	31	RADOVITZKY	Berg	38
BLOJ	Shajne	44	RADOVITZKY	Samuel	65
BRESTOVITZKY	Benjamin	54	RUPNIK	Simsel	27
BURSTEIN	Zelik	55	RUPNIK	Jaskel	45
DISHKIN	Gdalie	42	RADOVITZKY	Boiraj	29
DOLINSKY	Markel	46	SINAI	Aaron	32
DOLINSKY	Iurich	29	SINAI	Mordke	59
EPSTEIN	Isaac	59	SINGER	Abraham	32
FUKOVSKY	Abraham	24	SINGER	Ziskel	29
GLEMBOVSKY	Yankel	31	SINGER	Isaac	58
GARBULSKY	Mahus	42	SKIDELSKY	Hersch	46
KATZOVITZ	Noa	33	SKIDELSKY	Moises	25
KALLER	Hirsch	33	SPINER	Nojim	27
KAPLAN	Abraham	43	STARAVOLSKY	Bernardo	51
KAPLAN	Sholom Isaac	42	STARAVOLSKY	Getzel	26
KIVATINETZ	Hirsch	39	TARLOVSKY	Jose	48
KIVATINETZ	Abraham	55	TEITELBAUM	David	25
KOHN	Elie Moses	30	TEITELBAUM	Mordejai	47
LEVIN	Faivel	44	TRILNIK	Shmerko	43
MALAJOVICH	Moises	41	TRUMPER	Samuel	43
OLSCHANSKY	Mendel	36	WELLER	Hirsch	31
OLSCHANSKY	Jose	58	WELLER	Jose	56
POMERANTZ	Hirsch	30	WAPÑARSKY	Zelig	64
POMERANTZ	Isaac	34	WERBIN	Aaron	42
PRESS	Isaac	41	WERBIN	Berko	69
RABINOVICH	Hirsch	41	WOLGEL	Israel	43

Dep. May 26, 1895-Arr. Aug 1,1895
GALAGOVSKY	Moises	35
GALAGOVSKY	Abraham	19
REJOVITZKY	Jose	45
SILBERMAN	Shaia	36
TRUMPER	Jose	46
NOVIK	Froim	60
NOVIK	Jose	30
Dep. Jun 21, 1895-Arr. Aug 25, 1895
HALPERIN	Israel	41

Grodno Group Photo Gallery

The members of the Grodno group settled down in sub-colonies surrounding Moises Ville. They were divided into four groups that took the names of the quantity of houses (families) were they settled: The Twelve Houses, The Twenty-four Houses, The Six Houses, The Four Houses (Las 12 Casas, Las 24 Casas, Las 6 Casas, Las 4 Casas). See Map.

The pioneers that arrived on the S.S. Weser in 1889 were those that opened the door and showed the path to those that would come after them. They also suffered in their tragic adventure many desertions and many deaths. The Group of Grodno arrived in better circumstances, with the support of the JCA, and it stayed almost intact in the colony for many years. It is necessary to highlight the importance that this contingent had for the establishment and growth of the colony. Not only did it add more than 300 inhabitants to the settlement's population, more than doubling the size of the settlement; they were those that began the social and cultural activity, setting up the institutions that later would grow and make Moises Ville famous. They were the promoters of the creation of the cooperative La Mutua Agricola, the Cultural Society and Theater Kadima, the Baron Hirsch Hospital and the Hebrew School Yahadut.

    Baron Hirsch Hospital

Gentileza Museo Aaron Goldman

La Kadima & Square, years 1960

Kadima today

Gracias, Nelda Marquez Becker



       Iahaduth School

        Gentileza Javier Beker

Ferreteria de La Mutua - 1938

Hardware store of La Mutua Agrícola - 1938

Aaron Goldman Museum collection

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