MOSHE LEIKIN / LAJKIN
Paternal grandfather:

JAKOB LEIKIN / LAJKIN

Shlomo's story:
Matl Brucker fled from Chelm, Poland to the USSR, probably in 1939 when WWII broke out.

When and where she met and married Moshe Leikin / Lajkin is not clear. Their son Shlomo Brucker was born, probably, on Dec 12^th 1941, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Moshe Leikin fell as a soldier in the Red Army.

It is most likely that Matl Brucker returned to Poland in 1946 on the Repatriacja program with her son Shlomo, but the first document we have found so far, shows that she already in 1946 was in Austria in the DP camp Admont .

On April 27^th 1948 she died in Graz, Austria.

The Jewish community in Graz helped  Shlomo locae the grave of his mother.

Shlomo was brought from Austria to Germany and then to Israel in April 1949.

In Israel he was adopted.

The probable family tree of the Brucker family.
Benzion Brucker and his wife Rifka Brucker lived in Chelm and had at least two sons:
1) Israel Brucker who married Sara Chaja and lived in Lodz
2) Shlomo Brucker, born 1877, who married Feige and lived in Chelm

Shlomo and Feige Brucker had five children:
1)Rifka Brucker, born ca 1907, married,children, killed in Holocaust
2)Sara Brucker, born ca 1913, killed in Holocaust
3)Benzion Brucker, born ca 1916, after the war Yiddish journalist in Argentina
4)Matl Brucker, born ca 1917, married to Moshe Leikin / Lajkin, died in Austria and buried in Graz, Austria in April 1948
5) Mordechai Brucker, born ca 1923, lived in Brooklyn after the war.

The Leikin/Lajkin family.
Where did this family live originally?
Where and when was Moshe Leikin born?
When and where did Moshe Leikin die in the Red Army during World War Two?
Did Moshe Leikin have brothers and sister, uncles, aunts and cousins who may have survived?

DP Camps in Austria.
DP Camp Admont: There is a photo of Shlomo taken in this camp in 1946.

DP Camp Ebelsberg - Linz: Benzion and Mordechai Brucker stayed in this camp, probably till 1949. Did Shlomo also stay in this camp?

Any information that may help Shlomo know where he was from the time he was born till he came to Israel in April 1949 is greatly appreciated.

Any confirmation of the family information written here will be most helpful.