ASIMOV, Ephraim (Afoim) (Avram)^{[1, 2]}

1907 - Abt 1943  (36 years)

• Name	ASIMOV, Ephraim (Afoim) (Avram)
  Birth	1907	Russia   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Education	graduated from Technology Institute in Leningrad, chem major   [2]
  Occupation	Chemist   [2]
  Cause of Death	Gas chambers in Maykop  [1]
  Death	Abt 1943	Missing in action   [2]
  Notes	Graduate of the Technical Institute in Leningrad. Fought in WWII "Was quite successful in his work," wrote his niece, Serafima Asimova, in her letter to Isaac Asimov from Leningrad in 1979. "My father tried to get any news about him (after he disappeared during the war) but he did not manage." In her 2006 email, Serafima wrote that Ephraim "played on a violin, a balalaika, a guitar, without notes, on hearing. As well as many young people, he has left to study for Borovichi. There he has arrived in "rabfak" where accepted workers...Afroim has perfectly well finished "rabfak" (college) and has left for Leningrad. A has acted and has finished perfectly well Leningrad an institute of chemistry & technology. He dealt with a problem of research and introduction of artificial rubber. By this time he has already been married. His wife called the Rose, (she was from Petrovitchi) at them was two children. "On scientific development Afroim should receive a degree of the doctor, but it was 1939-1940 Year He has received a direction in the city of Maikop and has left there with the family. My father was going to go to us to holiday, but war begery quickly to Caucasus there came fascists. All family was lost in gas chambers about what to my father employees of a factory informed In many years in Petersburg State University of Chemistry and Technology institute I have redeemed the private affair of student Asimov. I shall scan it and I shall send." Serafima wrote on Facebook that “Afroim, his wife Rose Khaldei together with children died during the occupation in the gas chambers in Maykop.”
  Person ID	I8	Hugh Byrne and Nanette Asimov Lines
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2022

  
  

  Father	ASIMOV, Aaron Menachem,   b. Abt 1865, Petrovichi, Smolensk, Russia d. 1939, Russian hospital, St. Petersburg (Age 74 years)
  Mother	LEIKIN, Hanna,   b. Abt 1870, Hislavichi near Petrovichi, Russia d. Abt 1936, Petrovichi, Russia (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1893	Petrovichi, Russia
  Photos		Aaron Asimov
  Family ID	F7	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	KHALDEI, Rose,   b. Abt 1900   d. Nazi gas chamberP
  Marriage	Abt 1925	Petrovichi, Russia
  Children	1. ASIMOV, Daughter1 of Ephraim,   b. Abt 1926   d. Abt 1942, Nazi gas chamber (Age 16 years)   2. ASIMOV, Daughter2 of Ephraim,   b. Abt 1928   d. Abt 1942, Nazi gas chamber (Age 14 years)
  Photos		Samuel & Ephraim Asimov 20 years, Petrovitch (6)
  Family ID	F12	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Dec 2024

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 1907 - Russia Education - - graduated from Technology Institute in Leningrad, chem major Marriage - Abt 1925 - Petrovichi, Russia Death - Abt 1943 - Missing in action  = Link to Google Earth
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• Photos		Ephraim Asimov, Petrovitch
  		Monument to more than 300 Petrovichi and Khislavichi Jews burned to death on July 22 1942, inclu 43 Asimovs
  		Ephraim Asimov
  		Moshe Haim Asimov (grandson of Serafima) and his great-uncle Ephraim Asimov

  
  

  Documents		The chemistry of synthetic rubber that Ephraim Asimov was working on.
  		Ephraim Asimov document

  
  

• Sources

  [S73] Serafima Asimova. [S118] Serafima Asimova's 1979 correspondence to Isaac Asimov. [S852] .