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The Rubachas were a Jewish family living in pre-WWII Poland. One branch resided in a town of Wloclawek, another branch in a town of Pinsk (Pinsk belonged to Poland between WWI and WWII, but now belongs to the Republic of Belarus). The Rubachas were connected to my family, the Iliwickis (Ilivitzkys), by marriages.

My father's aunt Gite Ilivitzkaya (#389, b. abt 1880) was married to Yeheskel Rubacha (#418). They had six children (my father's cousins): Josef (#419, b. abt 1909), Sonya (#420, b. abt 1911), Chaya (#421, b. abt 1912), Shmuel (#422, b. abt. 1913), Pola (#423, b. abt. 1915) and Shamay (#424, b. abt. 1916).

Gite's (#389) and Yeheskel's (#418) daughters Sonya (#420), Chaya (#421) and Pola (#423) emigrated in the 1930's to Palestine. Sonya Lichtenstein née Rubacha (#420) and Chaya Katz née Rubacha (#421) passed away many years ago in Israel. Pola Kushelevitch née Rubacha (#423) still lives in Israel.

Gite's (#389) and Yeheskel's (#418) sons, Josef (#419), Shmuel (#422) and Shamay (#424), did not survive the war. According to very uncertain information available to me, Josef (#419) was killed by the Soviets when they 1940 murdered thousands of Polish military officers in Soviet captivity. According to the same uncertain source, Shmuel (#422) was killed in battle as a soldier (I don't know when and in what army), and Shamay (#424) was killed in battle as a partisan (guerrilla soldier). I have tried to confirm information about Josef (#419), but I didn't find any Rubacha in lists of Polish officers murdered by the Soviets.

According to another source, the above mentioned Pola Kushelevitch née Rubacha (#423), Josef's (#419) wife Genia Grabowska (#425) seemed to survive the war. Their two sons Leon (#426) and Mark (#427) did survive, and they emigrated to the US, where they married and have their own children. According to Pola Kushelevitch née Rubacha (#423), neither Shmuel's (#422) nor Shamay's (#424) wifes survived the war.

Another connection between the Iliwickis and the Rubachas was Gite Ilivitzkaya's (#389) older sister and my father's aunt Chane-Golde Ilivitzkaya (#388) who married her own uncle Hersh Ilivitzkij (#386). Their oldest daughter Chaye Iliwicka (#396) married Ayzik Rubacha (#406), and they had four children (names unknown). According to my information, no member of Chaye's (#396) family survived the war. I don't know in what way Yeheskel Rubacha (#418) and Ayzik Rubacha (#406) were related.