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Descendants of Meyer Danemann




Generation No. 1


1. MEYER1 DANEMANN He married FRUMA UNKNOWN.

Notes for M
EYER DANEMANN:
Czar Nicholas I, renowned for his cruelty, assumed the Russian throne in 1825. Life under his rule marks a particularly dark and somber chapter in the life of Jews living in the Russian Empire. Nicholas I instituted the "Cantonist system" which called for the conscription of 12 year-old boys into military service. These youngsters were first taken away from their families and enrolled in schools, far from their homes, dedicated to coerced re-education and religious conversion to orthodoxy until the age of eighteen. Quotas were set and none were anxious to leave their families and serve under the deplorable and inhumane conditions that awaited them. In order to assure that the quotas were met "khapers" (snatchers) were employed by community leaders. The khapers often struck by night snatching the youngsters from their beds while their parents slept. At age eighteen the young boys were taken from the schools and enlisted into the Czars army where they would spend the next ten to fifteen years subjected to even harsher conditions and continued coercion to convert to the state church. With the inception of the Crimean War cantonist quotas were increased threefold and as a result much younger children were being snatched and handed over to the army. The reign of Nicolas I ended in 1855 and memory of those dark times still linger.

Czar Alexander II repealed the cantonist system in 1861.

Meyer Danemann began his life during the dark times on a date unknown, in a place long forgotten. Hoping to earn a place as a respected citizen of the Czar, with all the rights and privileges afforded to a "useful" Jew, Meyer had settled with his wife in the port city of Odessa and began a career as a chandler of ships goods.


More About M
EYER DANEMANN:
Nationality: Russian
Occupation: Ship Chandler
Religion: Jewish

More About F
RUMA UNKNOWN:
Nationality: Russian
Religion: Jewish
     
Child of M
EYER DANEMANN and FRUMA UNKNOWN is:
2. i.   ABRAM2 DANEMANN, b. April 15, 1864, Odessa, Odessa uyezd, Kherson gubernia, Russia / Odessa, Ukraine; d. May 29, 1930, Hartford, Connecticut.


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