Genya Kishinevskaya Safyanova

Balta, Ukrainian SSR

1936 - 2024

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Genya Kishinevskaya. Circa 1938-39.

Genya Kishinevskaya as a young girl.

Zina Kishinevskaya, age 16. Balta 1954.

Parents: Isaack and Faina Kishinevsky. Balta 1930s.

Genya Kishinevskaya, circa 1954.

Genya Kishinevskaya. working as a nurse.

Genya Kishinevskaya, circa 1957=59.

Genya and Viktor with son Viktor, circa 1970.

Genya Kishinevskaya Safyanov. Birmingham 2019.

Profile

Personal & Family

Name in US
Genya Kishinevskaya Safyanova

Name at Birth
Genya Isaakovna Kishinevskaya

Married Name
Genya Kishinevskaya Safyanova

Date of Birth

08/17/1936

Country of Birth
Ukrainian SSR

City of Birth

Balta

Parents

Faina (“Frieda”) Moiseevna Koshina
(1912 Balta, Russian Empire – 1982 Balta, Ukrainian SSR)

Issack Grigorivich Kishinevsky
(1913 Odessa, Russian Empire – 1998 Birmingham, AL)

Sibling(s)

Zinaida “Zina” Isaakovna Kishinevskaya (Spouse: Lazar Iosifovich Golubov)
(12/12/1938 Balta, Ukrainian SSR)

Igor Isaak Kishinevsky (Spouse: Ludmila “Mila” Bronshteyn)
(06/1951 Balta, Ukrainian SSR)

Spouse(s)

Viktor Safyanov
(Born in Azerbaijan – 1987 USSR)
Married 1966 in Balta.

Children

Viktor Safyanov
(Born 1968)
To US 02/08/1993, sponsored by the Birmingham Jewish Federation

Religious Identity (Prewar)
Orthodox Jewish

Religious Identity (Postwar)
Conservative Jewish

Dates Lived in Alabama

1993-2024

Alabama City(s) of Residence
Birmingham

Date and City of Death
05/16/2024 Birmingham

City of Burial / Cemetery
Birmingham / Elmwood Cemetery

Holocaust

Ghetto(s) / Year(s)

Balta Ghetto, Transnistria (administered by Romania)
(09/1941 – 03/1944)

Liberated By / Date

Russians / March 29, 1944 / Balta Ghetto, Transnistria

Immigration & Postwar

Year / Ship to US / Arrival City
1993 / Birmingham, AL