Saul Falikov - I8 - Individual Information

Saul Falikov ‎(I8)‎

Given Names: Saul
Surname: Falikov

Gender: Male

Birth: 14 September 1912 -- Tarutine or Anchokrak, Tarutine Country, Bessarabia
Death: 9 March 1980 -- Moscow, Russia

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Birth

14 September 1912

29 Tarutine or Anchokrak, Tarutine Country, Bessarabia

Education

1937 (Age 24) Doctor of Medicine Iasi, Romania

Address:

http://www.uaic.ro

Corporation / Company: University of "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" Iaşi

Occupation

23 February 1945 (Age 32) Commander of 4th Division Kislovodsk, Stavropolsky Krai, Russia

Agency: Evacuation Hospital # 3177

Residence

3 January 1955 (Age 42) Livadia Palace, Jalta, Crimea, Ukraine

Address:

Sanatorium "Livadia", Corpus 55, Apt. 46

Note: Based on a postcard

Death

9 March 1980 (Age 67) Moscow, Russia

Last Change

27 October 2008 - 08:41:09 - by: volkoff

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Note	When he visited his father in US, he may be was recorded as "SAEL" not Saul, and his mother as Rachele or Rachel or Rahile or Rahele or Rahel or even Raisa
Note	About Jassu ‎(Iasi)‎ pogrom and Germans attack: As this branch of the front became active only on July 3, the Romanian and German soldiers occupied themselves with slaughtering the Jewish population of Jassy on June 29, 1941. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/romania.html#holocaust
Note	Saul ‎(Sael)‎ Falikof was born in Tarutino village, Bessarabia. His father Moses Falikof left family when Saul was two years old ‎(in 1914)‎. Saul gratuated from Iasi ‎(Iaşi, Jassy)‎ University ‎(oldest Romanian university, opened by Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza Alexandru Ioan Cuza. While being student, he with his mohter visited his father once in USA. Moses offered Saul to stay but only without mom and Saul opt to stay with mother and leave US. Once graduated, he moved to Buharest, later to Vienna While traveling, he met his first wife Lika, and funded by her father, he was able to open his own fully equiped medical office and start practicing. Lika was pregnant when the World War II started. Leaving Romania, which overnight became antisemitic state and joined Germany, Saul swam cross the Dnestr river, pulling his wife and some immediate medical instruments. Later, his mother Rosa and sister Dvoira arrived to Russia and joined Saul and Lika in Mineralnue Vodi City (Minvodi)‎. They all got into local getto and one time, while Saul went to Kislovodsk in search for job, germans shot Dvoira and Rosa dead ‎(what happened with Lika is unknown, possibly shot too)‎. Saul ran away and joined russian military forces to fight germans. Not only he was a great doctor, he also spoke seven languages which helped him to assimilate. Besides Romanian and Russian, he also spoke French, Spanish, German, Portugal and English. In 1944 he met Galina ‎(she was 18 and he was 32)‎ and 2 years later they had a daughter Susan ‎(1946)‎, while still being in Kislovodsk. Later ‎(1948)‎ they went to Monino, where Saul was assigned to manage rebuilding of a local hospital ‎(overseen by VCSPS)‎. When Stalin's "Doctors case" started in 1949, Saul didn't wait for arrest and moved far away from the capital - to Crimea. Initially in Evpatoria and later to Livadia. Only years later Falikofs family went back to Moscow. New assignment for Saul was to build Central Republican Hospital. Once hospital was built, Saul remained working there till he died. His last position was director of neuro-physiology laboratory. he was researching encephalography. Saul had doctorate from Romania, among his private clients in Russia were Arkady Raikin ‎(http://actors.khv.ru/r/raikin.htm), Alla Tarasova ‎(http://actors.khv.ru/t/tarasova.htm), Aleksandr Luria ‎(http://psi.webzone.ru/st/139200.htm).
Note	From letters we learned, that at the moment of Feb 23rd, 1945, Saul Falicoff was holding a position of commander of 4th Division Of Evacuation Hospital # 3177 in Kislovodsk, as he was thanked by his revived patient, Michael Milberg, son of Moses Milberg, in his card.
Residence	Based on a postcard

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