SHIMON RUBINSTEIN

   Personal Tragedies as a Reflection
     on a Great Tragedy Called

  STRUMA


Drawing by
Gretty Rubinstein

THE JEWS FROM THE TOWN OF BARLAD AND THEIR RELATIVES
WHO PERISHED DURING THE STRUMA TRAGEDY

3. The Leibovici Family

The husband was a chemist by profession and he was a manufacture dealer’s son living at Barlad. His pharmacy was located in Strada Paloda. His wife was the daughter of a wealthy Jewish merchant from the town of Vaslui. They didn’t have children. The husband’s brother called Jonas had left for Bassarabia that was annexed by the Soviet Union following the August 1939 Ribbentrop-Molotov agreement. Jonas Leibovici who held Communist views acted like all the young Jewish people from Barlad who were affiliated with the Communist Party and in 1944 when Romania became free from the fascist regime he returned to Barlad and started to learn for a law degree.

Eventually Jonas and his two sisters (it is known that one of them was called Sheli) emigrated to Israel.