Word: vilkomir
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...year-old Sir Basil Zaharoff, European munitions tycoon (TIME, Oct. 16), filed claims in London and Paris to compel Sir Basil, now lying ill in his Paris home, to recognize him. He asserted that Sir Basil was Russian-born, submitted an affidavit from the town council of Vilkomir, Lithuania (formerly part of Russia), and marriage and birth certificates establishing that one Manel Sahar married a Russian girl named Haia Elka Karollinski, had a son named Haim Manelevich Sahar. The marriage was dissolved in 1877 and both parents remarried.* Hyman Barnett Zaharoff asserted that Zaharoff was the Little Russian form...
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