| | | Note : | A fellow researcher suggests the name Chabensky means "From Chabno", a small city in Ukraine. The name of the city was changed in 1958 and its various English spellings are Poliske, Polis'ke, Poleskoye, Polesskoye. Chabno is located approximately 31 miles West of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that exploded April 26, 1986. As a result, the city of Chabno today has the appearance of a post-apocalyptic wasteland. In 1994, photo journalist Elena Filatova documented the condition of Chabno on her web page, "In a Capital of a Wolves Land." http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter42.html
Avraham's place of birth is cited from the 1930 census, in which Joseph Chabensky listed his father as born in Kiev, Russia. Richard Chapin's research in 1974 concluded that Avraham was born in Poland. However, that research was at lest one generation further removed from any primary source, considering his sources were Avraham's grandson and great-grandson. |
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| | Quote: | "These are the words you probably would have heard, had my grandfather, Avrum Itzkhak Chabensky, told about his life previous to his death in Dnieperpetrosk."||"The available facts are unaltered in the material. Some dates are approximate, though. For example, there are four resources which help me to estimate the birthdate of my great-great-grandfather: a photograph taken in 1905, the fact that he was very old when he moved to join his son's family in Dnieperpetrosk, the fact that he was kidnapped into the army of Nicholas I when he was very young, and he was born in Poland. Conscription into the Russian army of Polish Jews was enacted in 1834. Only children in young as twelve were eligible, but frequently children as young as eight were forced to serve. With the age of eight and the year 1834 in mind, I place Avrum's birthdate at 1828. (Also, he must have come from a poor family, because the wealthy Jews had means to save their children from conscription.) This would infer that he was kidnapped into the army about 1836, became an enlisted man in the regular army at the age of eighteen in 1846 and was eligible for discharge as early as 1861, at the age of 33. Coming to Dnieperpetrosk in the early 1890's, he would be an "old man" of about sixty-five years, and the 1905 photograph seems to verify my great-great-grandfather at about age seventy-five. 1828 is probably very close, then, to the actual birthdate of my great-great-qrandfather." |
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