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Personal data Noah (Nathan) Pines 

• He was born on September 10, 1904 in Wolkowysk.
• Profession: Butcher.
• (Fact 1) .

  Immigrated to USA on Oct 13 1923 on a ship from Buenos Aires, Argentina

• (Fact 2) .

  Name: Newack Pines, Age: 19, Single. Occupation: Farm Laborer, Can Read: Yiddish

• (Fact 3) .

  Friend: M. Catlarenco, Calle Naska 342, Buenos Aires

• (Fact 4) .

  Destination: Philadelphia, PA. Going to: Cousin Max Rounick, 27 N. 3rd St., Philadelphia, PA.

• (Fact 5) .

  Nate Geller recalls: Nathan had at least one brother, possibly a sister - perished in the Holocaust

• He died September 1951, he was 46 years old.
• A child of Abraham Pines and Chaja (Chaika) Chwojnik

Household of Noah (Nathan) Pines

He is married to Reba Cohen.

They got married in the year 1928, he was 23 years old.

Child(ren):

1. (Not public)
2. (Not public)

Notes about Noah (Nathan) Pines

SSN: 159-07-8108
In his SSN application, which he signed Nov 27 1936, he provided the following info:
Name: Nathan Pines
Address: 5029 48th Street, Philadelphia, PA
Employer: Penn Beef Co., 5212 Market St.
Born: Sept 10 1904 in Wolkowysk, Poland
Parents: Abraham Pines and Chaja Chwojnik

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According to his daugher Diana, Nathan left Wolkowysk and travelled around the world, and lived in Argentina for a few years until his cousins in Philadelphia helped him come to the USA and settle in
Philadelphia. In 1933 he visited his family in Europe (parents, brother, sister) who all died later in the Holocaust

His grandson Nate Geller writes:

My grandfather left Poland, probably to avoid the army if not to make a better life for himself, and went to Argentina to work the cattle cars for a number of years before making his way to Philadelph
ia, where not too coincidentally he became a butcher, and married a butcher's daughter, my grandmother Reba (Cohen) Pines, who came from Ukraine in 1923 to join her father who had left (K'nahzha a shtetl near Vinnitsa I believe) before the revolution in about 1913 (I think). My grandmother died last year in her 90's, but she worked for most of her life, and even though we did not live nearby, had a strong influence on me and my desire to find my roots and stay connected to them. She spoke Russian and Yiddish like an authentic shtetl Jew and lived her life in that way even in this country to a large extent.

I unfortunately did not know him because he died before my parents were married, and I was named for him (Noach in Hebrew which was his original name and Nathan which he got when he left Europe). Lik
e most people his story was bittersweet. After he came to the U.S. he corresponded with his family back in Wolkowysk, and if fact went back to Poland several times to visit them, but apparently hid in the forest, and visited them secretly so that he would not be conscripted into the Polish army. The sad fact is that he corresponded right up to the time when the Nazis destroyed the Jews of Wolkowysk including my great grandparents and my grandfather's siblings (to the best of my knowledge).

My grandfather apparently was respected even though I do not imagine he had an extensive formal education or was a tremendously successful business man in terms of wealth, but he was supposedly a tran
sitional figure who spoke many languages, and was dedicated to his family, and was insightful enough to leave and travel, etc. Although he died at 46 of a heart attack, my sense is that he died as much of a broken heart because he was not able to get his family out of Wolkowysk in time. He was very active in a Verrine (Yiddish spelling?) which was probably like a landsmanshaft that brought over immigrants from Wolkowysk to resettle in Philadelphia, which my mother remembers vividly as her home was always filled with these folks from Europe who were making their start in America through her father and his friend's efforts. One of the more famous of the group was Mr. Uris, who used to talk about his son the writer, who eventually went on to write Exodus - Leon Uris or more accurately his father was a Wolkowysker
landtsman.

These values were passed down through my mother, and I have tried to continue them in my own work in helping Jews from the former Soviet Union, and olim in Israel.

Abraham Ariel recalls that Nathan Pines sent his family food parcels circa 1948 when the conditions in Israel were harsh.

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