Rabbi Yechiel Michal Berkman

Yechiel Michal Berkman (ben Yitzhak) was a rabbi in Orikhiv (Orikhivs'kyi district, Zaporiz'ka oblast, Ukraine - then part of Russia). He lived in Russia and authored a Hebrew book (http://www.hebrewbooks.org/238) that was published in Vilnius (then part of Russia) in 1898. He had 9 children, one of whom (son) departed for the United States before bolshevik revolution in 1917. Some of his children, after his death, departed with his widow for Lithuania (Vilnius area) where they had relatives and where they all later perished in holocaust. Three of his daughters lived in Saint-Petersburg: Etta (whose son Abram Dridzo was a prominent ethnographer), Basya (who had two daughters Rosa and Etta) and Malka (who had two sons Abram and Mikhail). None of those daughters' children had any direct descendants, unfortunately. One of his sons, Barukh, settled near Orikhiv, in Berdyans'k. He had 3 sons: Mikhail, Evgeni and Alexander.