Aminuf family
Right to left: (standing) unidentified, Yusuf Aminuf (holding a self-made “Qafqazi” tar), Mani Aminuf, Tamara Aminuf Gabbay (wife of Musiyu Binua [Monsieur Benoit] Gabbay), Yafa Aminuf (wife of the translator Niʻmat Allah Shakib), Gabrʼil Aminuf, Rubin Aminuf; (seated) unidentified, Manzil (sister of Hizqiya), Hizqiya (Aminuf family elder), Zulaykha Aminuf (mother), unidentified, unidentified; (seated on ground) Liza Sulayman (daughter of Mani Aminuf and wife of Mushah [Moshe] Barukh), unidentified.
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- Date 1919 or 1920
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The Aminuf family was an established upper-middle-class family in Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution, after which all their land and belongings were confiscated by the revolutionary guards. While most of the children were able to escape, Gibri’il (standing, second from left) and his brother Mani (standing, fifth from left) were captured and sent to Siberia. The other two brothers, Rubin (standing, first at the left) and Yusuf (standing, last at the right) took their baby niece Liza (Mani’s daughter, child seated, on the right) and along with Tamara escaped over the mountains to Iran. Well educated and highly knowledgeable in mechanical engineering, they were able to settle in Iran and build a comfortable life for themselves. Before the establishment of the State of Israel, they immigrated to then Palestine. Years later, freed from prison in Siberia, Mani and Gibri’il moved to Israel to join their family. Mani found his daughter Liza married with children. Item information based on source data from CIJOH.
- Collections Center for Iranian Jewish Oral History
- Repository Center for Iranian Jewish Oral History (379-P-1996)
- Restrictions Use of collection materials for publication purposes must cite the Center for Iranian Jewish Oral History as the current repository.
- Accessed 14 February 2012
- Last Edited 31 July 2018
- Record no. 1025A63
