Karelichy, Belarus

Berl Damesek and wife Boze nee Kagonovitz, taken in Korelitz, dated November 26, 1918.  Berl wrote a personal message in Russian on the back to his younger brother Lazar (Eliezer).  Berl and Lazar were born in Nesvizh, which is 25 miles from Korelitz.  Berl, son of rabbi Shmuel Damesek of Nesvizh, was a teacher in Korelitz, where he, wife Boze and their Korelitzer children perished.  Lazar went to Canada in 1920 and arrived in the U.S. in 1921.

(From the collection of Ken Domeshek, JewishGen researcher 354384, grandson of Eliezer Domeshek, and grandnephew of Berl.)

Berl Damesek and wife Boze nee Kagonovitz

Berl Damesek in back, then right to left, wife Boze nee Kagonovitz, son Shaul (Soleh), daughter Yehudit, and an unidentified man that could be a Damesek brother of Berl.  The message on the back was written in Yiddish to his two brothers, Joseph and Lazar, who were in New York.  Dated Summer, 1935.  This was one of the last known correspondences from Berl, but there are other photographs of Berl, Boze and/or their family in Korelitz, on pages 183, 341, H-2, H-3 and I-2 in the updated 2018 version of the Yizkor Book for Korelitz. 

(From the collection of Ken Domeshek, JewishGen researcher 354384, grandson of Eliezer Domeshek, and grandnephew of Berl.)