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| Dr. Yaakov Trosman with daughter Dina and Russian speaking interpreter, Nelly Rubinov |
The eldest child in a family of
medical professionals, many of them doctors and nurses, Dr. Yaakov Trosman
(101) of Denver, Colorado was born on March 20, 1913 in Luginky, Ukraine. Tragically
in the fall of 1941 his parents, Dina and Natan, his grandfather, Chaim Gersh,
his uncle Shmulik Trosman, grandmother Nechama Shapirstein, and many others
from the Trosman family and town of Luginky were murdered in multiple actions
carried out by the Germans throughout Ukraine. After serving in the Red Army,
Trosman was eventually allowed to continue his medical studies in Alamaty,
Kazakhstan and after the war, he was able to complete his schooling at the
University in Odessa. In 1996, at the age of 83, Dr. Trosman immigrated to the
United States, first to New York and later to Denver, Colorado.
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| Dr. Yaakov Trosman (101) of Denver, Colorado was born on March 20, 1913 in Luginky, Ukraine |
Dr. Trosman and his daughter Dina (named after
his mother), recently contacted Yad Vashem’s Shoah Victims' Names Recovery in
Israel for assistance. Names Project staff then connected them with Tami
Ellison of the YIZKOR project, a partner project in the greater Denver area.
Trosman provided Ellison with a list of names of people from Luginky who were
murdered in the Holocaust. Working with Russian speaking interpreter, Nelly
Rubinov, they learned that the family had previously submitted Pages of
Testimony to Yad Vashem to honor the memory of loved ones and friends. Ellison
verified that the names the Trosman family, along with additional documentation
Dr. Trosman obtained from Ukraine with details of his parents' murders, are
indeed part of the permanent record in the Hall of Names and accessible through
the online Names' database. Now they wanted to add a photo of his parents, Natan
(Nutka) and Dina (Dunka).
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| The photo of Dr. Trosman's parents: Natan (Nutka) and Dina (Dunka) added to the online Names' database |
"We were able to access the historical
record and print out material for the Trosman family who did not have copies of
the material they had previously submitted," noted Ellison who has worked
for several years to help collect names and photographs, and to update
submissions from survivors and their descendants. "Working with survivors
has been profoundly rewarding," adds Ellison.
As a result of their efforts, The Pages of
Testimony were printed and presented to Dr. Trosman and his daughter, and the
photograph of Dina and Natan Trosman forwarded to Yad Vashem to complete the
family's memorial Pages of Testimony.
For more information about the Shoah Victims’
Names Recovery Project please contact: names.outreach@yadvashem.org.il
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