Dancig Family from Mir

Chaim is thought to be the oldest brother. He left Mir to work in a Jewish rural colony, probably in the Ukraine. He. married Marysia in the Soviet Union. They lived in Dnepropetrovsk and had three sons (born in the Soviet Union). Two of their sons were named Nison and Genia.

Chaim Dancig, his wife Marysia and their sons in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine.

Chaim and his family left Russia for Israel at the end of the 20th century.

Lazar left Mir and went to a rural Jewish colony in the Ukraine called Fraileben, which was in the Dnepropetrovsk area. He was married to Sonya. Lazar died in September 1941 in Sofiyevka, Dnepropetrovsk. His death was recorded in Yad Vashem by his nephew Nison.

Lazar, on left, during his military service

David (1895-1987) During the First World War he was in the Polish Army and was a prisoner. By the time he came back to Mir, his two brothers had already left for the Soviet Union. David inherited the cabinet making business from his parents and married Chaya BELSKY.

David Dancig, his wife Chaya, her mother Bashe Kamenetsky Belsky holding granddaughter Brocha Dancig

The photo above was taken the day before David left Mir for South Africa in 1928.

David posing on the ship Llandovery Castle, on the way to South Africa

One year later his wife, mother-in-law and daughter Brocha (born. 1927) joined him in South Africa, where descendents live today. David and Chaya had two more children, Israel Louis, known as Danny, and Sonia, who were born in Benoni, a city on the East Rand in the South African province of Gauteng.