Shimon
Shimon Treistman was born in 1898 in Bessarabia. Shimon married Riva Geyzer in 1923.

Shimon and his family lived in Tarutino, Bessarabia, ( part of Romania at the time, today in the Odessa Oblast, Ukraine ). Tarutino, at that time, was a provincial town of mixed German-Jewish population ( 1546 Jews reported on the eve of the World War II ) with the Germans mostly involved in agriculture and the Jews in commerce.

Shimon was a technician at the soap factory and his wife Riva was a housewife active in volunteer work for the Jewish poor. The family rented a four room apartment and kept moderately religious life style. They had a son Yosef and two daughters: Sara and Sonya. Life was quite comfortable until June 1940 when the region became part of the USSR. They ( 5 individuals ) were moved into one room of their four room apartment, Shimon lost his job and family fell on hard times.

On the 21st of June, 1941 the Soviet Union was attacked by the Nazi Germany and on the 12th of July, 1941 the family left their home and moved East. First they stayed in the village of Kalach ( on the Don river ), but as the Germans were approaching the family continued East. That was an arduous and dangerous journey, just ahead of the advancing German army. Constantly under attack, on one occasion they missed the train they were assigned to and, when continued on another one, saw their train bombed with most of the passengers killed or severely wounded. In Stalingrad they crossed the Volga river and in the late autumn of 1941 arrived in Zhanybek, Kazakhstan. Shimon and his son Yosef were transferred to the city of Chkalov and Riva, together with her daughters Sara and Sonya, worked on the local collective farm.

In the early November, 1942 by pure luck and coincidence, the family was able to unite in Chkalov ( today Orenburg ) - a city on the Ural River in central Russia.

In 1948 the family returned back to Bessarabia. By that time his wife had passed away ( in 1944 ) and his son Yosef was studying in Kishinev. Shimon and his daughters Sara and Sonya settled in Izmail - a town on the Danube river in the Odessa Oblast of south-western Ukraine.

Shimon Treistman passed away on January 1973 in Izmail.


Yosef

Yosef Treistman was born on January 14 1924 in Tarutino, Bessarabia, ( part of Romania at the time, today in the Odessa Oblast, Ukraine ) to the Jewish family of Riva ( née Geyzer ) and Shimon Treistman. Tarutino, at that time, was a provincial town of mixed German-Jewish population ( 1546 Jews reported on the eve of the World War II ) with the Germans mostly involved in agriculture and the Jews in commerce.

He grew up in a middle class family - his father was a technician at the soap factory and his mother was a housewife active in volunteer work for the Jewish poor. The family rented a four room apartment and kept moderately religious life style. Yosef attended Jewish school Tarbut.

Life was quite comfortable until June 1940 when the region became part of the USSR. They ( 5 individuals ) were moved into one room of their four room apartment, Shimon Treistman lost his job and family fell on hard times.

On the 21st of June, 1941 the Soviet Union was attacked by the Nazi Germany and on the 12th of July, 1941 Yosef and his family left their home and moved East. First they stayed in the village of Kalach ( on the Don river ), but as the Germans were approaching the family continued East. That was an arduous and dangerous journey, just ahead of the advancing German army. Constantly under attack, on one occasion they missed the train they were assigned to and, when continued on another one, saw their train bombed with most of the passengers killed or severely wounded. In Stalingrad they crossed the Volga river and in the late autumn of 1941 arrived in Zhanybek, Kazakhstan. Yosef and his father were transferred to the city of Chkalov and his mother and sisters worked on the local collective farm.

In the early November, 1942 by pure luck and coincidence, the family was able to unite in Chkalov ( today Orenburg ) - a city on the Ural River in central Russia.
In Chkalov Yosef was working on a military factory. Later during the war he begun to study in the college of agriculture in Chkalov.


In the late 1940's Yosef came to Kishinev. By that time his mother had passed away ( in 1944 ) and his father and sisters also returned to Bessarabia and settled in Izmail - a town on the Danube river in the Odessa Oblast of south-western Ukraine.
In Kishinev Yosef continue to study at the local agriculture college but later transferred to the biology department of pedagogical college graduating in 1951.


On October 1950 Yosef was introduced to Gita Dascal and on January 14 1951 the couple married. On October 23, 1951 Rita, their daughter, was born.


Yosef was working as a biology and math teacher in a school in Kishinev. At the same time he was studying at the mathematics department of pedagogical college graduating in 1956.


From the late 1950s and till 1979 Yosef was teaching mathematics in Kishinev's school #36.


In 1977 Yosef and his family applied for permission to emigrate to Israel. They were refused the permission becoming refuseniks for 2.5 years.

They eventually came to Israel in 1979 settling in Rehovot ( a city in the Central District of Israel, about 20 kilometers south of Tel Aviv ).

Yosef Treistman passed away on June 14 1981 in Rehovot.


Sonya

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