Feige and Fiszel Chilkowski's Escape from Russia

Feige Chilkowski, the granddaughter of Meyer Bezbrozh and her husband Fiszel Chilkowski had a particularly dramatic escape from Russia. Fiszel owned a tannery in Zvenigorodka. In 1920, after the Bolshiviks took over during the Russian Revolution, they confiscated the tannery. The Bolshiviks kept Fiszel on as an employee and asked him to show them how to run the tannery. One day, a Jewish friend of Fiszel's who was a Bolshivik came to him with a warning. The friend said that now that Fiszel had shown the Bolshiviks all there was to know about running the tannery, that he was to be killed. Fiszel knew that he had to leave Russia that night. He and Feige dug up a small amount of money that they had hidden in the ground and left in the middle of the night. They dressed like peasants and hired a peasant to drive them from village to village through the snow in the night on their way to the Polish border, near Rovna Valinsk...

Feige and Fiszel Chilkowski's Escape from Russia