Boris Kushner and his Maharash family

Forgotten Alter Rebbe's Einiklach

This is Boris Kushner, he wrote an article in Russian about his family. He also published the picture Devora Leah Schneerson Ginsburg from his archive.

Father of Boris in 1933.

The parents of Boris Kushner in 1941. The mother is the einikel of the Maharash.

Grandmother Sofya Moiseevna Meerovich with great-granddaughter Yulia, 1967. She is the granddaughter of the Maharash, AKA Sheina Ginsburg.

Boris Meerovich, the husband of Sofya Moiseevna and Boris Kushner’s grandfather:

“the family whispered about my grandfather, my mother's father, who disappeared before the war. Grandfather's portrait hung on our wall – a biblical-looking beard, an inspired face. Mom and Grandma said I looked a lot like him. And that was the secret object of my pride. And they called me Boris in memory of my grandfather.”

פחד אלוהים!

This is the arrest photo of Меерович Борис Яковлевич Meerovich Boris Yakovlevich. I am not sure Boris Kushner knows about this photo. This photo reminds us of the photo of a different Boris who met the same fate: Post No. 3 - The Startups of Boris Markovich Schneerson.

Date of birth: 1882
Place of birth: Mogilev
Citizenship: USSR
Social origin: from handicrafts
Education: higher
Profession/place of work: head of the shop, chemistry plant
Place of residence: Moscow, Markhlevsky str., 6, apt. 11
Where and by whom he was arrested: Molotov r/o NKVD
Date of arrest: September 14 , 1937
Accusation: counter-revolutionary agitation, Trotskyist statements
Conviction: October 8, 1937
Sentence: 10 years without the right to correspondence

This is the same sentence as in the case of Anatoly Abramovich Schneerson, AKA Natan Alexandrovich Schneerson. “10 years without the right to correspondence” means he was shot.

A new photo of Sheina Ginsburg, the granddaughter of the Maharash. Allegedly found by Nissen Rufo, out of all places, in Kostroma.

A new photo. On the left, Meerovich Boris Yakovlevich with his wife Sheina Ginsburg and her bother, Aron the revolutionary. We wrote about this man Ginzburg Aron Movshevich (Moiseevich). Aron is wearing Kosovorotka, to show that he is part of the Russian folk. Leo Tolstoy used to wear this shirt, for the same reason Aron is wearing it, to show that he is part of the people, not a rich aristocrat. Still, Aron’s nickname in prison was “Baron”.

Aron demonstratively showing the newspaper Голос труда, Voice of Labor, an anarchist newspaper. Boris is holding a newspaper MысльThought. Don’t know what this newspaper is. There was a publication called “Russian Thought”.

Devora Leah Schneerson Ginsburg the daughter of the Maharash with her family. Perhaps Sheina is the girl on the left of her mother. We tried to speculate which one is Aron. Not clear. Maybe the boy on the very right of the photo. He has a distinct no bridge nose. The father, Moshe Ginsburg, is not in this picture.

Moishe Ginsburg.

Rabbi Shmuel of Lubavitch, the "Maharash” photo is famously censored.