GJ Tree » Esther Chwojnik (1918-2001)
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):
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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.
- February 25 » German forces capture Tallinn to virtually complete the occupation of Estonia.
- May 14 » Cape Town Mayor, Sir Harry Hands, inaugurates the Two-minute silence.
- July 4 » Mehmed V died at the age of 73 and Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne.
- October 1 » World War I: The Egyptian Expeditionary Force captures Damascus.
- October 28 » First World War: A new Polish government in western Galicia is established, triggering the Polish–Ukrainian War.
- November 21 » The Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 is passed, allowing women to stand for Parliament in the UK.
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 16 » US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War.
- May 6 » During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
- June 8 » Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan.
- June 15 » Leaders of the People's Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
- July 24 » Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
- December 11 » The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization (WTO).
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