Most of the Koonan immigrants to the United States and Argentina are accounted for, but on Bertha’s “Brocha” Lazarowitz Kunin’s ship manifest, it states under “closest relative or friend in country whence alien came” was a son: Awrum Konan (likely pronounced Avrum) in Ekaterinoslav [spelling variation], ul. Daernaja 12. But who is this Awrum? Could his line have continued in Russia, now Ukraine?




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