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Page 1: 50 Years in Harbin 19091959 - JewishGenJews in Harbin 10 500 1400 5000 ... Club – soon to be Jewish Museum 1918. My parents’ schools. Jewish Cemetery. Mara Moustafine

My Family and Its City: 50 Years in Harbin            1909­1959

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Chinese Eastern Railway 

Tsitsihar Station 

Harbin Station Groundbreaking ceremony 1897

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Multicultural Harbin Old synagogue  Tatar      Mosque St Sophia & 

market 

Fujadian ­ Chinese town Russian       Harbin

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Gita and Motya Zaretsky 

1929

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Zaretsky Family 

Ruvim  Parents Abram & Rachel  Motya 

Ruvim & wife Chaya  Anna & son Joseph Zalmanov

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Jews in Harbin 

10 500 

1400 

5000 

10,000 

13,000 

5000 

2000 

178  1 0 

2000 

4000 

6000 

8000 

10000 

12000 

14000 

1898  1903  1905  1913  1919  1931  1935  1945  1958  1994 

Year 

Jews 

CER Russo­Jap War 

1917 Rev & Civil War 

Manchukuo 

Soviets 

Chinese Rev 

+ 2000 elsewhere in CER Zone 

Collectivisation

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Japanese Occupation 1932­1945 

Japanese soldiers on a main street in Harbin

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Exit Harbin mid 1930s 

13000 

3000 

1000 187  1 0 

2000 

4000 

6000 

8000 

10000 

12000 

14000 

1931  1937  1948  1958  1994 

Year 

Jews 

Photographs at Harbin Station

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Onikul Family 

Manya 1911­1938 

Abram 1907­1941 

Yasha 1914­1985 

Gita, Inna & Motya Zaretsky with Girsh & Chesna 

1875­1938    1881­1961 photographed in 1936

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Stalin’s Terror 

Abram 1938

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Manchukuo 

1932­1945

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Soviet Red Army in Harbin 1945 

Soviet troops at St Nicholas Cathedral 

“Long Live the Red Army!”

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Chinese Communist Revolution 1949 

Chairman Mao Tse­tung

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Harbin in the 1950s 

Harbin Polythechnical Institute 

Sungari River 

Happy New Year!

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My family in Harbin 1957 

Motya & Gita Zaretsky, Inna, Alec & Mara Moustafine with Chesna Onikul on her visit from the USSR

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Exit China for Australia 1959

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Return to Harbin May 2000 

Alec, Mara and Inna Moustafine at the site of Zaretsky apartment block in Harbin where they used to live

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Our apartment block has made way for a bank…. 

1986  2000

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Old Synagogue – a Workers Guesthouse 

1907

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New Synagogue – Public Security Bureau Club – soon to be Jewish Museum 

1918

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My parents’ schools

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Jewish  Cemetery

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Mara Moustafine 

Secrets and Spies: The Harbin Files 

published by 

by 

Random House Australia www.randomhouse.com.au 

You can email Mara on: [email protected] 

Copyright © 2004 Mara Moustafine


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