JewGenPEDIA (Milenky)

MILENKY (Миленький)

Jevna MILENKY (1798-1837) (Movsha Meier {Leiba Gotlib} & Reiza Liba) Jenta	Movsha
	Abram (1821-1882) Lea	Jevna (1837) Itka ROTHSTEIN (Jevna & Sora)	Toba Gitel (1868), Luba (1874), Chana (1879), Ester (1887), Sarah, Gotlib
		Zelick (1841)
		Genya (1843)
		Perla (1849)
		Elia Frida-Rachel (Wolf)	Abraham, Mordechai, Cypa, Malka, Hirsh (1889), Sora-Mera (1890), Ita (1895)


Gita (Milenky) Kaufman	Jevna Milenky

Jevna MILENKY (born 1798), son of Movsha Meier (1775, son of Leiba Gottlib (1756-1809), son of Wigdor) and Reiza Liba, married Jenta and had at least two sons, Movsha and Abram (1821), in Ivenets, a village outside of Minsk, Russia (now Belarus). He died in 1837.

Abram MILENKY married Lea and had at least five children: Jevna (1837), Zelick (1841), Genya (1843), Perla (1849), and Elia. He likely died in 1882.

Jevna MILENKY married Itka ROTHSTEIN from Kamen, daughter of Jevna and Sora, and had children: Gita (1868), Luba (1874) [likely]^[1], Chana (1879), Ester (1887), and, likely, Sarah and Gotlib. Around the mid to late 1870s, the family moved to the small village of Staroje Siało where they rented land and ran a tavern. By 1910, they also owned a home with farmland in Antonovka, a formerly separate area of Minsk city. When Jevna was about 90 years old, he married 70 year old widow Feiga KOVINSKY.^[2] Jevna died around 1934.

Toba Gitel "Gita" MILENKY married David KAUFMAN from Sloboda, son of Josel and Chava nee ALPEROVICH, and had children, likely in Staroe Selo: Josel (1887), Jacob (1890), Sonya (1892), Chana (1896), and Abram (1898). David died in 1921 (presumably in Staroe Selo) followed by Gita in Leningrad in 1939.
Luba MILENKY married Aron "Lev" SACKERMAN and had a son, Al (1902).


Ester (Milenky) Lubetzky	Chana (Milenky) Rubin

Chana "Anna" MILENKY married Mendel RUBIN from Kraisk, son of Keifman and Itka nee GITLIN, in about 1899 and had four children in Minsk: Toba Gitel, Fanya (1905), Abram (1907), and Edith (1912). She immigrated to America in 1923 with her three surviving children and met up with her husband Max (changed from Mendel) who had come three years earlier. Anna died shortly thereafter in Brooklyn in 1925 and Max married Sarah RAPPORT (nee RABINOWITZ), daughter of Harry and Dina nee CRACKOW.
Ester "Ethel" MILENKY married Gesel LUBETZKY, likely from Turets, son of Hirsch Ber, and had children: Rachel (1906), Abram, and Fima.
Sarah MILENKY married Wolf ALLOY and had children: Fanya (1895), Lazar (1897), Fima, and Berta.
Gotlib MILENKY married Eta-Reyzlya, daughter of Shmerko, and had at least one daughter in Minsk, Sonya (1906). He also likely had a daughter, Chana (1900-1977), who married Jankel "Jasha" SHVEYDEL (1893-1980).

Elia MILENKY married Frida-Rachel, daughter of Wolf, and had at least seven children: Abraham, Mordechai "Motel", Cypa "Tzirel", Malka, Hirsh "Tzvi" (1889), Sora-Mera (1890), and Ita (1895).

Abraham MILENKY had at least one daughter, Elka (1916).
Malka MILENKY married Avraham GRINHOLTZ, son of Moshe and Ester, and had at least five children in Rakov: Chaya (1907), Chaim (1909), Sara (1918), Shmuel (1920), and Eliahu (1922). She and several of her family were killed in the Holocaust.
Sora-Mera MILENKY, from Ivenets, married Berka KUDEVITSKY, son of Nesanel from Gorogishe, in Minsk in 1912. They had at least one daughter, Elka (1914).

Research Notes

1. It is hypothesized, but not confirmed, that Luba is a daughter of Jevna. The Sackermans are known cousins of the other Milenkys. Charles/Al Sackerman immigrated to the United States and lived in Youngstown, Ohio, with his wife Sue nee Metzger. His marriage record shows his parents as Aron and Bella nee Levine and his gravestone shows his Hebrew name as "Yishayahu ben Eliyahu Aharon." Nevertheless, the Levine maiden surname is suspect. Sonya Kaufman's letters refer to an aunt and uncle Sakharman, with the uncle implicitly named Aron. Therefore, since there's no Sackerman's in the family, the connection must be through Aron's wife. A recently discovered evacuation list from Leningrad lists Lev and Luba Sakharman evacuated in August 1942, with, most importantly, Luba's patronymic as Ionovna (daughter of Jona or Jevna). Together with the other evidence, this likely suggests that Luba was a daughter of Jevna Milenky (i.e., she and Sonya's mother were sisters).

2. Aaron SKIR (1913) from Minsk, son of Jacob and Rachel nee KOVINSKY (Feiga's daughter from her first marriage), wrote a book "Еврейская духовная культура в Беларуси" (Jewish Spiritual Culture in Belarus), which includes several fascinating anecdotes about Jevna.

Thank you to Yuri Dorn and Maxim Mill of the Jewish Heritage Research Group in Belarus (http://www.jhrgbelarus.org) for their help in uncovering the history of this family.