After a few days in Kiev, we set out with a driver and a guide to find traces of David's ancestors who left Ukraine in 1904-05.  This is the town of Karyukovka which is where David's family on his father's side came from.  The green house with blue trim belongs to one of the few remaining Jews in the town.  She was able to steer us to another family who had known a family by the name of Kaufman who lived in Karyovka before and after the war.  We learned that the Kaufman family, and many others were evacuated to the area near Tashkent, on the border between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, before the Germans arrived here.  Once the Germans did arrive they massacred some 7,000 people.  An impressive monument in the main square commemorates this event.

The Jewish Cemetary is located in the town of Sh'ors, a few kilometers away.  There we found this grave.  It reads, "Kaufman Sholom-Dovid Naftolevich, 1898 - July 20, 1970 from his grieving wife, children, and grandsons."  Based on the patronymic (son of Naftoli) and dates, it is possible this man was David's grandfather's half brother.  The very un-grandiose building is, according to the locals, the house where the Kaufman's lived.  We were told he managed a liquor warehouse.  The house is just down the street from the former beet sugar factory (now converted to a paper factory, and currently being modernized by a German company) where David's great-grandfather was employed.