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Posted by David on August 20th, 2010 
Thanks to “Cousin” Moshe in Israel, we now know cousins Hannah and Ava’s G-G-G-G-Grandparents !
Leibus Werber (b 1770) + Faiga
..Abram Werber + Gitla Rybak
….Chiam Wolf Werber + Perele Lehrer
……Goitel Werber + Herszek Blusztajn
……..Murry Blustein + Evelyn Semmel
……….Daniel Blustein + Melanie Chan
…………Hannah & Ava
Posted by David on August 15th, 2009 Ev Blustein 11/2001
 Danny and Melanie The Chan Family originated in Canton, China. When the family migrated to Vietnam, they took Vietnamese names so as to blend in with their neighbors. The family came to the United States in 1981. The eldest brother preceded the family and settled in San Francisco, California. The rest of the family live in the San Gabriel Valley, east of Los Angeles, California. The surname reverted to “Chan” and English given names were adopted by most of the family.
The Chan Family is linked to the Semmels by way of the marriage of Melanie (nee Hao Chan) to Daniel Blustein on December 19, l987 in California. The couple met when Melanie and her sisters were attending an English language class taught by Danny.
Melanie’s mother, Huynh Xuong was born in Vietnam in 1921 and died there in November 1980, one month before the family was able to leave for Thailand in December and then, in January 1981 to the United States. Melanie’s father, Dieu Tran, born in Canton in 1919, emigrated to Vietnam in 1928 where he met and married Huynh Xuong. Together they had eleven children, ten of whom survived; one male, born in 1945,died in infancy.
The Chan Family now consists of Dieu Tran, his seven sons and their wives, three daughters, two of whom are married, and thirteen grandchildren.
Posted by David on August 15th, 2009 By: Ev Blustein
Sala Sura Blusztajn ( Sala or Sara Blustein-Kimchi)
Sala was born August 7, 1917 in Radom, Poland. Her parents were Icek Mendel Blusztajn and Estera Lender. Her grandparents were Mordka Wolf Blusztajn and Cyna Wahnsztat (married in 1876) and Izrael Leib Lender and Tauba Gruszkiewicz. She was married and divorced from Moshe Kimchi.
Sala’s brothers and sisters who were killed in the Holcaust were: Shmuel (1919-1942), a carpenter, Bajla Pesa (1918-?), Rajzla Gitel (1921-?), a student, and Mojzesz ( 1923-1943), a student. Her mother, Ester, died in Treblinka 1, Camp in 1941.
In early Sept. 1939, the Germans bombed Radom, on Sept. 6, the Polish army withdrew and the Germans occupied Radom. On or about Sept. 1, Sala departed Radom on a transport organized by the Jewish Agency for Palestine aboard a Hagannah owned ship, the Tiger Hill. There were 800 aboard, including many children.
En route to Palestine, the Tiger Hill was contacted by another ship bearing 650 refugees from Czechoslovakia , a transport organized by a group of wealthy young men when the Germans marched into Prague on April 30,1939 and known as the Black Rose Transport. Beset by many problems, The Black Rose transport had had an arduous journey of 127 days and arranged for the transshipment of is passengers onto the Tiger Hill swelling the number aboard to 1417. The Tiger Hill reached Tel Aviv on Sept 3,1939 and were met by thousands of people assembled to help them escape imprisonment by the British who would not authorize a landing of refugees from Europe. Some from the ship were arrested and detained in camps but they were released shortly thereafter as World War II had begun. The Tiger Hill was the last ship to leave Poland before the horrors of the German occupation ; Sala was the only one in her family to escape.
In Palestine, Sala was instrumental in founding Kibbutz Mizra , near Afula in the Jezreel Valley in northern Israel. She married Moshe Kimchi (later divorced) and had three children there: Amir (1944), Joshua (1948) and Edna (1952). They live in Israel. Sala lived in Mizra until her death on October 1, 2004.
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