2002: THE YEAR IN REVIEW: Victims of 9/11: for the record (01/12/03)

2002: THE YEAR IN REVIEW

Victims of 9/11: for the record

Only during 2002 did the names of the thousands of victims of 9/11 become known. Below are the names of victims gleaned from The New York Times website by doing a search for the keywords "Ukraine" and "Ukrainian."

Tatyana Bakalinskaya, 43, arrived in New York City from Ukraine in 1994, and worked as a hostess at the offices of Marsh & McLennan on the 93rd floor of the World Trade Center (WTC).
Marina Gertsburg, 25, emigrated from Odesa and settled in Queens with her family at age 4. She was a junior manager at Cantor Fitzgerald, which she had joined only a week before the terrorist attack and was enrolled in a master's program at Baruch College.
Boris Khalif, 30, moved to the United States from Ukraine at age 10. He was a computer consultant at Marsh & McLennan.
Iouri Mouchinski, 55, arrived in New York City from Ukraine in 1994, and was a civil engineer who worked as a handyman at the World Trade Center.
Vladimir Savinkin, 21, came to the United States almost six years earlier from Odesa. He attended Pace University at age 16, and became an accountant at Cantor Fitzgerald.
Simon V. Weiser, a Jew born in Kyiv in 1936, arrived in Brooklyn in 1978. He was an engineer in the USSR who eventually worked in power-distribution engineering for the Port Authority.
Oleh Wengerchuk, 56, was born in Ukraine, and became a Displaced Person as a result of World War II. He was a transportation designer for the Washington Group International, on the 91st floor of the WTC, and lived in Centerpoint, Long Island.
Igor Zukelman, 29, an immigrant from Ukraine arrived in this country in 1992, and worked at the Fiduciary Trust Co. on WTC's 97th floor.

It should be noted that the name of John Skala, 31, of Clifton, N.J., a Port Authority police officer. did not come up in either search as he was not identifed as being either Ukrainian or from Ukraine. Officer Skala was assigned to the Lincoln Tunnel and was called to the World Trade Center after the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers.

In addition to these nine victims killed at the WTC, there were others on the long somber list that filled two pages in small type in a recent issue of The New York Times, whose last names sound Ukrainian. So the number of victims with Ukrainian roots undoubtedly is higher.

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