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Personal data Esther Chwojnik 

  • She was born on October 20, 1918 in Ruzhany.
  • Resident:
    • Kibbutz Gal-On, Israel.
  • (Fact 1) .
    During WWII, Esther fled to Russia. She immigrated to Israel on the famous ship "Exodus".
  • (Fact 2) .
    She was allowed to enter Israel because she was pregnant (with Gadi).
  • She died on December 22, 2001 in Kibbutz Gal-On, she was 83 years old.
  • She is buried in Kibbutz Gal-On.
  • A child of Fishel Chwojnik and Chaya Rosochovsky

Household of Esther Chwojnik

She is married to Jacob Chover.

They got married in the year 1946, she was 27 years old.


Child(ren):

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


Notes about Esther Chwojnik

Fishel and Chaya planned to immigrate to Canada but died before fulfilling this.
Esther and her 3 brothers were distributed among their aunts/uncles.
Esther lived with Cirel. Cirel and her family immigrated to the USA in 1947.
But Esther decided to go on her own and immigrated to Israel with her husband Jacob, who she married in 1946.
Esther's brother Chaim David went to Canada and later immigrated to Israel after a few years, to Kfar Menachem.

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    Historical events

    Birthday October 20, 1918

    • The temperature on October 20, 1918 was between 10.3 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1918: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
      • January 8 » U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
      • June 8 » A solar eclipse is observed at Baker City, Oregon by scientists and an artist hired by the United States Navy.
      • June 26 » World War I: Allied forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince in the Battle of Belleau Wood.
      • November 11 » Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence.
      • November 21 » The Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 is passed, allowing women to stand for Parliament in the UK.
      • December 1 » Transylvania unites with Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28), thus concluding the Great Union.

    Day of death December 22, 2001

    • The temperature on December 22, 2001 was between -3.0 °C and 3.9 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain during 5.7 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
    • In the year 2001: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
      • January 23 » Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, an act that many people later claim is staged by the Communist Party of China to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution.
      • May 27 » Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
      • July 21 » At the conclusion of a fireworks display on Okura Beach in Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan, 11 people are killed and more than 120 are injured when a pedestrian footbridge connecting the beach to JR Asagiri Station becomes overcrowded and people leaving the event fall down in a domino effect.
      • September 11 » The September 11 attacks, a series of coordinated suicide attacks killing 2,977 people using four aircraft hijacked by 19 members of al-Qaeda. Two aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, a third crashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
      • September 14 » Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.
      • October 8 » A twin engine Cessna and a Scandinavian Airlines System jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy, killing 118 people.
    

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