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House of Watchbands.
Sisters Rediscover
Their Soviet Ties
SUSAN GRANT
Staff Writer
F
or 40 years, Sally Lux
and Norma Nolish
wondered about their
relatives in the Soviet
Union.
Both women remember the
letters and packages that
their parents, Harry and
Fanny Shapiro, would send
from Detroit to the Ukraine.
To this day, Mrs. Lux recalls
the $58 it cost to send her
mother's family a package
filled with second-hand ma-
ternity clothes and some old
linen.
"We didn't even know if
they had gotten it," Mrs.
Lux said. "All their letters
were censored, words were
cut out of the letter. But
then my father noticed the
word 'linen' in a margin and
we figured they had received
it."
In 1950, when Harry
Shapiro died, the family lost
touch with their Soviet
"We were in
shock."
Norma Nolish
relatives. The address was
lost after the letters from the
Soviet Union stopped com-
ing.
Then, on erev Yom
Kippur, as she was getting
ready for Kol Nidre services,
Mrs. Lux got a call from
Herbert Kaufman of Ira
Kaufman Chapel. As soon as
Mr. Kaufman mentioned the
Kozlikova family, Mrs. Lux
recognized the name of her
first cousin in the Soviet
Union.
The call marked the end of
months of searching. It had
begun with a simple letter
written in English by Fenja
Lvovna Kozlikova, living in
the Ukraine, and addressed
to the Jewish Community of
New York at the Lubavitch
Foundation World Head-
quarters in Brooklyn. In the
letter, Ms. Kozlikova sought
the two daughters of
relatives who lived in
Detroit.
The note was forwarded to
Rabbi Berel Shemtov,
Detroit regional director of
the Lubavitch Foundation,
who sent a letter to Jewish
institutions hoping to find a
lead.
Using his funeral files, Mr.
Kaufman discovered the
chapel had buried Harry
Shapiro in 1950 and his wife,
Fanny, in 1974. He also
found a Southfield address
for Mrs. Lux and her hus-
band, Nathan, and a Farm-
ington Hills address for Mr.
and Mrs. Bernard Nolish.
"I had goose bumps when I
was able to come up with an-
swers and was able to locate
the two daughters," Mr. Kauf-
man said.
Crying with happiness,
Mrs. Lux called her sister to
tell her the news, but had to
leave a message on the an-
swering machine. Mrs.
Nolish still has the recor-
ding of her sister's voice
shaking with joy.
"We were in shock," Mrs.
Nolish said. The sisters had
lost almost all hope of con-
tacting their relatives. The
Ukrainian town for years
had been closed to outsiders
by the Soviet military and
wasn't open until recently.
While she lost touch with
her relatives, Mrs. Lux, 77,
never forgot about them.
"I was born in the Soviet
Union," Mrs. Lux said. "We
came over when I was 9
years old. I vaguely re-
member most of our
relatives.
"My father left the Soviet
Union for America when my
mom was pregnant with me
in 1913," she said. "My
mother was supposed to
follow him to America, but
the war broke out. After the
war, we were supposed to go,
but I got sick. My parents
didn't see each other for nine
years."
During the separation, her
mother's sister and her hus-
band, Lisa and Lova
Kozlikova, took the family
in, she said. Fenja was one of
the Kozlikova's children.
After receiving a copy of
Fenja Kozlikova's letter, the
sisters wrote a brief note to
their first cousin, explaining
they lost the Soviet address
and that their mother had
died. Rather than write
about themselves, the sisters
wanted to know more about
their relatives.
"We don't know what they
want," said Mrs. Nolish, 67,
who has never met her
Soviet relatives. "I would
imagine they want to im-
migrate. We would be glad
to sponsor them. Our kids
would be glad to sponsor
them."
"We're waiting for a re-
sponse from them," Mrs.
Lux said. "We want to know
all about them, who is liVing
and who isn't and what we
can do for them." [11
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