Zayezdny Family
Photo of 1927
In the centre of the picture my great-grandparents:
Elya Iosevich Zayezdny and Lesya Zayezdny, nee Belorusets.
Their children: Sofia (my grandma), Aron and Leib are sitting.
Ilya Kapelzon (Sofia's husband and my grandpa), Rosa and her
husband Haskel Margovsky,
Mendel and Bella are in upper row.
My grandmother Sofia Kapelzon, nee ZAYEZDNY, was born at Radomyshl, Ukraine
on1900, March 16. I know following information about her parents.
Her father Elya Osipovich(the son of Osip or Iosif/Joseph) ZAYEZDNY died
about 1927 in Radomyshl and her motherLesya (Elisaveta or Luisa) Alexandrovna
ZAYEZDNY, nee BELORUSETS, was born about1865 and died in 1939.My
grandmother's family lived in Radomyshl until 1920th or 1930th. There are
some dataabout their 7 children which were living after 1900. Their names
were Bella, Mendel, Aron,Leib, Rosa, Sofia and Grigory (Sunya) Zayezdny.
I edited The Zayezdny Family Historyabout these people and their descendants.
The tree of the family presently includes 85 personsover six generations,
who live in six countries. They are descendants of these 7 children ofElya
and Lesya. I also know that they had four other children, three of them
died in infancy,and another one, the eldest daughter Charna , died when
she was approximately 18 years old from tuberculosis.Elya and Lesya owned
a book store and printing plant in Radomyshl. Their children helpedElya
in this business. In summer 1969, my uncle Alexander Zayezdny and his wife
Valentina,who lived then in Moscow and now in Israel, visited Radomyshl
and found the original houseof Elya - it was located on streets Pochtovaya
and Prisutsvennaya (former names, they foundthe streets according to the
locals directions). The house was one-storey, fairly large. Theyalso visited
he cemetery and found the tombstone of Elya. They also found one other
tombstonewith the name of A-M (or M-A) Zayezdny, but nobody in the family
seemed to know anythingabout him - not his name, or his relation or whatever.
On this tombstone was death date - 1938.My uncles told me the following
version about origin of surname ZAYEZDNY. In Russian andother slavic languages
"zayezdny" means "visitor", "passer-by". Obviously, Elya was
first withthis surname, because he was a visitor, a new man in the town,
and so had this nick name. In 1861the serfdom was cancelled in the
Russian Empire. Any Jew who hadn't a surname was given one.Evidently, Elya
who only had a nick name was registered by officials as Zayezdny. Anotherreason
they believed that he was the first bearer of this name, was the fact that
our parents andgrandparents never recalled any relatives with this surname
except Elya's descendants. They neverheard this name in any spelling.Another
version exists also. Some of my uncles remembered that origins of Elya
Zayezdny arefrom Czechoslovakia... I searched in ShtetlSeeker of JewishGen
and found there two placeswith name Zajezd. So seems very possible that
it was origin place of Elya's ancestors. Shorttime ago I found also that
exist some small family in US with this surname. I've contacted withthem
and cleared that they origins are also from Radomyshl. But they told me
that almost all the family was murdered by Nazis in 1941. This fact
recalls with my new discoveries. In the Holocaust victims list of 1941
in Radomyshl which was completed by soviet authoritiesin May of 1945, I
found this surname a few times. This part of my family which lived inRadomyshl
also has following surnames: KIPNIS, KHMELNITSKY, PRILUTSKY, ZINDER, FASTAVSKY,
MARGOVSKY... (All of them were spouses of children of Elya and Lesya. But
I am not sure that all of them were from Radomyshl.)
