The Beychok Family is a family tree occasioned by my regret over not having known  many of my relatives.  This I attemted to excuse because my father, Morris Beychok,  moved our family south from New York (where all of the rest of the Beychoks had come  from Russia to escape the Russian Revolution and the Stalin regime), but it wasn't  really a valid excuse.  So I have tried to find all the descendents of Benjamin Jacob  Beychok and his wife Chanah (Anna).  As Beychok is an Americanized version of  whatever the real Russian family name was, I reasoned that all Beychoks are their  descendents.  In addition to their four sons, Morris (Moshe), Harry(Herschel), Abraham (Avraham)  and Mechial (Michael), Benjamin and Chana also had one daughter, Manya (Minnie), so all  descendents of Minnie and her husband George Serotta are also in the Beychok Family Tree.  I  would have liked, had I the years left to live and the resources, to have made this  a "meshpuchah" tree, and included the extended members, that is the relatives of all  the spouses, but this was simply not possible.  So spouses themselves are included if  they are current, and past spouses are included if their union with a descendent  resulted in a child, but otherwise they are not included and the relatives and  forebearers of spouses are not included.

We are certain that Jacoob Benjamin Beychok's family family lived in Kupel, a small  Jewish "shtetl" in the Ukraine, which at times was part of Poland and at times part of Russia.   There were perhaps five hundred or so families, with between one-thousand to fifteen hundred  Jewish souls living there.  Kupel was the site on numerous occasions of bloody pogroms carried out  by Russian military factions and hostile surrounding Ukranians.  Behind the Old Mill that still  stands in Kupel is one of the mass graves of the victims of one such mass murder.  Those of us-- the Beychok descendants--living free today--are indeed indebted to our forebearers who struck out  for America in search of a new life for themselves and their children.     
     This is still a work in progress.  Some bios are sorely lacking. I am sure there  are errors, and I hope those who view this site will point them out to me as well as  provide me with any additional information they have, such as first or last names  where I have indicated they are unknown, birth and/or death dates, current addresses,  and any items of interest relating to anyone on the tree.  Additional biographical  material, photos, preferably dated, with persons identified, etc., emailed to me will  be greatly appreciated. (As administrator of this site, I am the only person who can   edit it or enter new material.)

Irving Beychok, M.D., youngest son of Morris and Sarah Beychok