IN PART ONE, I made clear that only one name that had previously been included in the various lists that have been discussed thus far did not make it into the 68 name "Orthodox Victims of 9/11" list attributed to Fr John Erickson - and this was a certain "Eskedar Melaku" (who first appeared on a list in 2011). She was present on the lists for five years, from September 9, 2011 up until September 9, 2016. The next day the Erickson list was posted on Fr John Peck's blog, and "Eskedar Melaku" was gone.
As a reminder - the list that was first posted on the OCA website in 2011 remained unchanged, for a full five years, containing only 25 names (one of which was a non-Orthodox name) out of the eventual 68 names included on the 2016 Erickson list.
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| https://livingmemorial.voicesofseptember11.org/eskedar-melaku |
So it stands to reason that (1) if one non-Orthodox name could be included on these lists, for a full five years, with no one noticing, and (2) if 44 names could be excluded from these lists, for a full five years, with no one noticing, and (3) if each and every single one of the 39 names from the "Greek-American victims" list issued by the New York City Coroner's office ended up on the "Orthodox Victims of 9/11" list, then it may be possible that there are still other non-Orthodox names on the list.
So I decided to see what I could find out.
I found evidence that there are 20 names at least (possibly 22) on the "Orthodox Victims of 9/11" list that are probably/definitely not Orthodox. This is roughly one third of the names. There almost certainly are more. Moreover, three of the names seem to be of non-existent people. I could find absolutely no information about these three people anywhere on the internet, except on the 2010 "Greek-American victims" list and on a couple of old outdated victim lists. They do not appear on any of the 9/11 memorial sites, on any of the official lists, and none of them have their names inscribed on the bronze panels at the 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero.
It is difficult to say for 100% sure, of course, who is Orthodox and who is not from the information we are provided on the memorial sites. I have decided that, rather than giving a thousand disclaimers throughout this process, I will just for the most part present the information I uncovered without offering endless speculations about details of their lives which remain unclear.
1. Yelena Belilovsky
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| http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/people/3412.html |
Belilovsky was an immigrant from the Ukraine, and a Jew. Posted on one of her online memorial pages, I found the following photograph:
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| https://livingmemorial.voicesofseptember11.org/yelena-belilovsky-helen |
I found an article as well, indicating that she was a member of a "conservative synagogue." Later in the same piece, it is mentioned that one of the reasons she immigrated here in 1993 from the Ukraine with her husband and son was "a desire to escape anti-semitism."
2. Gennady Boyarsky
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| http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/people/1775.html |
Boyarsky was a Russian-speaking Jew. On his gravestone, there is a "star of David" symbol in the upper right-hand corner. This would be a strange feature on the gravestone of an Orthodox Christian man. There is no Orthodox Cross, or any type of Cross, or any indication he was Orthodox at all.
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| https://www.flickr.com/photos/imjustwalkin/9804437156/in/photostream/ |
3. Alexander Braginsky
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| http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/people/3461.html |
Braginsky was an immigrant from the USSR, from Odessa, and a Jew. His mother Nelly Braginsky has established a memorial park in Haifa, Israel, that includes a stone pillar inscribed with Braginsky's name.
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| http://www.memorialmapping.com/memorials/alex-park |
In image 27 below we find the following statement - "Braginsky has also planted a memorial tree in the southern port of Ashkelon [Israel] and has dedicated a balcony to her son at the headquarters of the Aish HaTorah Orthodox outreach group near the Western Wall in Jerusalem."
In image 28, we learn that after arriving in America, among other occupations, Braginsky worked as a counselor at a Jewish summer camp.
In image 29 below, we find the following - "Instead, every room in her cozy apartment is adorned with photographs of Alex and electric yahrzeit candles. 'I have lights nonstop, everywhere,' she said."
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| https://livingmemorial.voicesofseptember11.org/alexander-braginsky-shurik |
"A yahrzeit candle, also spelled yahrtzeit candle or called a memorial candle is a type of candle that is lit in memory of the dead in Judaism." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahrzeit_candle
Braginsky is buried at a Jewish cemetery called the Beth-El Cemetery in Ridgeway, Queens. I have provided translations here of a few quotes from a Russian-language article published in December, 2011 about the 10th anniversary of Braginsky's funeral -
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| https://www.arikagan.com/aleks-braginskiy-9071.html |
"On Sunday, December 11, at the Beth-El Cemetery (80-12 Cypress Hills, Ridgewood, NY 11385) in Queens, the opening ceremony of this unique monument took place. This is a smooth granite stone on which the name of Alex Braginsky is inscribed in bronze letters."
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| https://www.arikagan.com/aleks-braginskiy-9071.html |
"The host of the opening ceremony of the monument dedicated to Alex Braginsky was Rabbi Yitzhak Shimunov, who praised the efforts of Nelly Braginsky to perpetuate the memory of her son and other victims of terrorism. As you know, a park named after Alex Braginsky was opened in Haifa, Israel; and in Queens, there is a street named after him; in Jerusalem - a hall in one of the museums ... But the most important of all is that Nelly always keeps the image of her son in her heart. She actively fights against any manifestations of radical Islam; she intransigently opposes anti-Semitism, neo-Nazism, the enemies of Israel and America."
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| https://www.arikagan.com/aleks-braginskiy-9071.html |
4. Michael J. Elferis
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| http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/people/2185.html |
Elferis was a firefighter with the NYFD, and a former police officer with the NYPD and, as it would seem, a Roman Catholic as well.
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| https://nypost.com/2001/11/28/firefighter-sacrificed-self-at-27/ |
5. Alexander Filipov
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| http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/people/1341.html |
As you can see in the above image, from the CNN online memorial, under "occupation" is listed "church deacon." When I saw that, I thought, I can't believe that wasn't mentioned on the Erickson list. Well, the reason it wasn't mentioned is because he was a deacon not in the Orthodox Church, but at a "Trinitarian Congregational" church.
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| http://www.alfilipov.org/node/2.html |
Here we arrive at the first of our three "non-existent" individuals on the list. Grekiotis is not listed on any of the official memorial lists. You can go to the online memorial sites for yourself and see if you can find him anywhere. I couldn't.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/lists/by-name/
http://www.legacy.com/Sept11/Home.aspx
https://livingmemorial.voicesofseptember11.org/
Grekiotis is not even listed on the physical memorial at Ground Zero, where the names of the victims of 9/11 are all inscribed on bronze panels. Preceding the list of the victims on their website we find this explanation - "These are the nearly 3,000 names as they appear inscribed in bronze on the Memorial. Every name can be located by the panel on which it is inscribed. A panel address is comprised of the letter N or S (N for north pool, S for south pool) followed by a number 1 through 76."
But Grekiotis isn't there. See for yourself -
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| https://www.911memorial.org/names-memorial-0 |
I searched the internet for an inordinate amount of time looking for a "Jimmy Grekiotis" and the only places I could find the name were on the 2010 "Greek-American victims of 9/11" and on the Erickson list - and on a couple of old lists such as this one - http://mywikibiz.com/Casualties_of_the_September_11,_2001_attacks#Gre-Grz
On that website we find the following information:
The following list is based on the August 19, 2002 list released by the City of New York; seven people have since been found alive, including Albert John Vaughan and George V. Sims. The list thus has five names that are not casualties, and will be removed when they are known.
One name on that list, Jeffrey Montgomery, 23, was found later to be apocryphal, made up by the woman who claimed to be his sister."
So was "Jimmy Grekiotis" found alive, and subsequently removed from all the lists - except for the "Greek-American" victims list, which was made public (and issued by the New York City Coroner's office) in 2010, and subsequently found its way onto the Erickson list (Grekiotis is not on any Orthodox list until the 2016 Erickson list)?
So is "Jimmy Grekiotis" an actual living person? I could not find any information about any "Grekiotis" at all, no photos, no references, nothing except a name on some old list. Is he a fake name, a truly non-existent individual? That's how it certainly seems. One thing is for sure - he doesn't belong on the "Orthodox Victims of 9/11" list.
7. Peter Hanson
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| http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/people/1571.html |
The Erickson list misspells his name as "Hansen."
The only information I could find is the following -
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| http://www.legacy.com/Sept11/Story.aspx?PersonID=91695 |
As we are told, Hanson was on board "UA Flight 175" with his wife and daughter, but the two of them have never been included on any Orthodox list. The information in the screenshot above makes it sound like the family were members of a "Con-gregational church of Easton" since this is where their services were held, and at the non-denominational Marsh Chapel at Boston University. Certainly no reference anywhere to suggest Hanson was Orthodox.
8. Steven M. Hagis
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| http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/people/3752.html |
I definitely found references to Hagis' faith in God, and the fact that he was a Christian, but no references to Orthodoxy. Only the "Gateway Cathedral" church.
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| https://www.silive.com/september-11/2010/09/steven_hagis_31_vice_president_1.html |
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| https://rantingsofheather.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-remember-steven-hagis-man-of-faith.html |
So he definitely could have joined the Church towards the latter part of his life, but again, there is no mention of that anywhere. Just two references to "Gateway Cathedral."
9. Daniel Ilkanayev
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| http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/people/4021.html |
Ilkanayev was a Russian-speaking Jew, an immigrant from Azerbaijan. Of course, he could have been a Jew that converted to Orthodox Christianity at some point after arriving in the US. However, the following pieces of information make it seem likely he probably was not Orthodox.
A photo of a "memorial bench" with information about Ilkanayev written in English, Russian, and Hebrew -
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| https://livingmemorial.voicesofseptember11.org/daniel-ilkanayev |
In the following screenshot (from a brief article about Ilkanayev in Russian) it is stated that he comes from a family of Mountain Jews ("Даниил Ильканаев вырос в семье горских евреев...") and that he was a member of the World Congress of Russian Jews ("Участник Всемирного конгресса российских евреев.")
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| http://nyjewishimprints.info/I/Ilkanayev.htm |
An image of what appears to be a Jewish yahrzeit memorial candle, under Ilkanayev's photograph -
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| https://livingmemorial.voicesofseptember11.org/daniel-ilkanayev |
10. Suzanne Kondratenko
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| http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/people/3923.html |
From the information I could find, it would definitely seem that Kondratenko was a Catholic. This quote was taken from the following article about Kondratenko, posted on the Detroit Catholic website:
"Following the attack, a memorial service for Kondratenko was held in Chicago and at Sacred Heart, where Sr. Bearss said her memory continues to live on."
https://detroitcatholic.com/news/daniel-meloy/never-ever-forgotten
"Children climb and play inside “Suzanne’s Nest,” the day care room at the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Bloomfield Hills, which is named after Suzanne Kondratenko, a 1992 graduate of the school who died trying to help a woman in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.A plaque near the chapel of the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Bloomfield Hills honors Suzanne Kondratenko, former student body president at the school who died in the 2001 terrorist attacks."
11. Thomas Kuveikis
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| http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/people/2264.html |
Kuveikis was given a Memorial Mass service at St Aiden's Roman Catholic Church in Williston Park, NY.
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| https://livingmemorial.voicesofseptember11.org/thomas-joseph-kuveikis |
Kuveikis attended a Catholic school called "Blessed Sacrament School" and did personal charity work at a local Catholic church.
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| https://livingmemorial.voicesofseptember11.org/thomas-joseph-kuveikis |
"For the last four years, members of Squad 252 visited a priest at St Barbara's Roman Catholic church in Bushwick around Christmas, and asked for the name of the poorest family in the parish. They would contact the family, set up a Christmas tree in their home, and present them gifts. 'That was Tom's idea,' Sweeney said. 'He was the type of guy you could always count on.'"
12. Edward Joseph Mardovich
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| http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/people/2040.html |
Mardovich was given a memorial service as part of a "Remembrance Mass" at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Church in Centerport, NY (a Roman Catholic church).
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| https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/23/classified/paid-notice-deaths-mardovich-edward-j.html |
13. Philip William Mastrandrea, Jr.
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| http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/people/2665.html |
The evidence shows that Mastrandrea was a Catholic.
He had a memorial service and "memorial Mass" held for him at Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church in Chatham Township, NJ.
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| http://www.legacy.com/Sept11/Story.aspx?PersonID=100785 |
He has a burial plot at the St Mary's cemetery, which belongs to the St Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Watchung, NJ - https://stmaryswatchung.org/cemetery
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| https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30535788/philip-william-mastrandrea |
14. Stylianos Mousouroulis
Mousouroulis is our second of three "non-existent" persons on the list. I found a similar situation here that I did with "Jimmy Grekiotis" - Mousouroulis is not on any of the official lists and does not have his name inscribed in a plaque at Ground Zero, but is on the same old list I found before - http://mywikibiz.com/Casualties_of_the_September_11,_2001_attacks#Mos-Mow
I also found his name in a notice about a real estate transfer published in the Riverhead News Review from July 4, 2019. Riverhead is a town on Long Island, NY:
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| https://riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.com/2019/07/94342/real-estate-transfers-july-4-2019/ |
It must be the same "Stylianos Mousouroulis" unless there are two of them living in New York state. So again, we have the question - is "Mousouroulis" a man that was presumed dead, placed on an early victims list, but then found alive and removed (although remaining on the "Greek-American victims" list), or is "Mousouroulis" a fake name?
15. Nikos Papadopoulos/Papas
Here is our third "non-existent" Orthodox victim of 9/11. Same story - on the Greek list, but not on any official memorial. He is on the old list with "Grekiotis" and "Mousouroulis" here - http://mywikibiz.com/Casualties_of_the_September_11,_2001_attacks#Pab-Pap
"Nikos Papadopoulos" is an apparently rather common Greek name, so when I did an internet search for him, unlike "Jimmy Grekiotis" I found all kinds of weird people - an artist in Athens, a Greek footballer, a "guest judge and photographer" on an episode of "America's Next Top Model", a professor of oncology at John Hopkins, etc.
So what's going on here? I have no idea. But again, doubtful that the name should be on the "Orthodox Victims of 9/11" list.
16. Stephen E. Poulos
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| http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/people/2957.html |
According to the stories told about his life, Poulos was somewhat of a disgruntled opera singer. He abandoned a lifetime of training as a baritone to pursue a career in "information technology" with Aon Corp. - http://www.legacy.com/Sept11/Story.aspx?PersonID=129455
He would apparently towards the end of his life, according to several sources, hire himself out to sing in synagogue choirs for "the holy days."
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| http://quiltofmanycolors.blogspot.com/2009/09/tribute-to-stephen-e-poulos-victim-of.html |
When I found this information, I thought that perhaps he was a Jew. After all, would a Christian in his spare time, and for money, go to sing in a synagogue choir for the Jewish "holy days"? But then I found the following, which would seem to indicate that he was a Catholic. He had a memorial service at the Church of the Holy Family, which is a Roman Catholic parish in Manhattan.
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| https://www.legacy.com/guestbooks/lake_houston/stephen-poulos-condolences/129455?&page=5 |
17. Gregory Sikorsky
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| http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/people/2378.html |
Sikorsky was a firefighter with the NYFD, and a Roman Catholic, as evidenced by the information we are given in the screenshots below. Sikorsky apparently took his dog to Mass at the St Boniface Roman Catholic Church in Wesley Hills, NY with him, where it would wait for him outside. His funeral was held at the same church: http://www.angelfire.com/ny5/sikorsky/funeral3.html
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| https://www.imao.us/index.php/2006/09/gregory-sikorsky/ |
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| https://www.imao.us/index.php/2006/09/gregory-sikorsky/ |
18. Timothy Patrick Soulas
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| http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/people/3388.html |
Soulas was a Catholic, as evidenced by the fact that he had two memorial Masses at two separate Catholic churches - a St James church, and a St Francis of Assissi church.
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| http://www.legacy.com/sept11/lvrj/story.aspx?personid=136303 |
A photo of the memorial booklet from one of the services -
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| https://livingmemorial.voicesofseptember11.org/timothy-p-soulas |
19. Michael Theodoridis
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| http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/people/1390.html |
Theodoridis was allegedly on "AA Flight 11", together with his wife Rhama who was seven months pregnant. She is not included on the Erickson list or any other Orthodox victims list. She was a Muslim, and so we are told, Theodoridis converted to Islam "before they married in 1998."
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| http://www.legacy.com/Sept11/Story.aspx?PersonID=93200 |
So here we have our first and only Muslim on the list. Of course, "...with a name like Michael Theodoridis, you would not necessarily expect that." This information is plainly displayed on one of the most accessible and mainstream 9/11 memorial sites on the internet.
His name is even plainly displayed on a "Muslim Victims of 9/11" list.
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| https://www.learnreligions.com/muslim-victims-of-911-attack-2004638 |
20. Jennifer Tzemis
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| http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/people/3432.html |
Tzemis was a Catholic, a parishioner of Holy Child Roman Catholic Church on Staten Island.
In the image below we see a "memorial quilt created in memory of the parishioners at the Holy Child Catholic Church in Staten Island who died on 9/11, including Jennifer Lynn Tzemis."
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| http://collection.911memorial.org/Detail/objects/118152 |
When I saw this, I thought, that's a lot of names. Are all the names on the quilt really names of parishioners from this one church that were victims of 9/11? Apparently so - according to the NY Times, this one parish on Staten Island somehow on 9/11 "lost more than two dozen members." I don't know how this is possible, but that's what it says.
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| https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/11/nyregion/nyregionspecial3/11sermons.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=D52D499D991EB45B14F026244912483A&gwt=pay&assetType=PAYWALL |
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I feel that the evidence is pretty strong for the above 20 persons to make a case that they are not Orthodox, and do not belong on the "Orthodox Victims of 9/11" list. There are four more, that while I could find no explicit reference to them, as individuals, belonging to any religion exactly, I have decided to mention below.
The first three of these four names:
Evgeny Knyazev
Lyudmila Ksido
Iuriy Mouchinsky
These three are included in a specific listing I found while doing this research. There is a non-profit organization called the "September 11 Family Group" which set up a memorial in Asser Levy Park, in Brooklyn, dedicated to 18 "Russian-speaking victims" of 9/11. However, upon closer inspection, I found that most of these individuals also happen to be Jewish. Indeed, the four Jewish victims that have been previously identified are all also on this list - and so I found that 8 of the names on the Erickson list are also listed on this memorial. Here is a photograph of the memorial, with the 18 names -
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| https://nyjewishimprints.info/K/Ksido.htm |
Here is a US Forest Service website that provides details about the memorial: https://www.fs.fed.us/nrs/livingmemorialsproject/registry.php?myID=217200523409PM_681
So why only 18 names? According to this news clip about the "September 11 Family Group" from the RT network, there were "at least 26 Russians" among the victims of 9/11.
A screenshot from the RT video, showing a table full of Jewish yahrzeit candles:
The names from the memorial that are included on the Erickson list -
1. Helen Belilovsky
2. Gennady Boyarsky
3. Alex Braginsky
4. Daniel Ilkanayev
5. Evgeny Knyazev
6. Lyudmila Ksido
7. Elena Melnichenko
8. Iouri Moushinski
I have already provided evidence above which indicates that the first four names on this list were Jewish. Are there three others as well? I did find positive evidence indicating that "Yelena Melnichenko" was in fact, Orthodox, so she is being excluded from this inquiry.
To help answer that question, it is important to read the following article For 9/11 Families, a Bittersweet Anniversary Falls on Rosh Hashanah. The information in this article states plainly that the "September 11 Family Group" is absolutely centered around Judaism. The two men who set up the non-profit group are Roman Gertsberg and Valeriy Savinkin, both of whom lost a child on 9/11, and both of whom are Jewish.
"But for one particular group of families it will be a time of intense, mixed emotions. The night the holiday starts, on September 9, they will gather together in Brooklyn’s Asser Levy Park to memorialize their loved ones, as they have been doing since 2005. They call themselves the [September 11 Family Group,] and they usually celebrate Rosh Hashanah together."
"They get together for family celebrations. They gather to mark the birthdays of loved ones who perished 9/11. Many of them met recently at a summer cookout in Westchester, and they spend Passover together, too."
"The ceremony has been taking place since 2005 and is funded by the City Council along with some private donations and contributions from the families. Family members, dignitaries and a local rabbi address the attendees, but no prayers are recited. Some also attend a synagogue service on the date of September 11 according to the Hebrew calendar. It fell on September 3."
https://forward.com/news/409923/for-9-11-families-a-bittersweet-anniversary-falls-on-rosh-hashanah/
The conclusions of this inquiry -
I could not find any specific indications that "Evgeny Knyazev" or "Iouri Mouchinski" were Jews, or belonged to any religion in particular. I am mentioning them here because they are included in the "Russian-speaking victims" list which is predominately Jewish, which indicates they also may have been not only Jewish, but adherents of Judaism (which is the case for at least 11 of the 18 names on the list). However, "Yelena Melnichenko" is also on this list, and she is one of the 7 persons on the Erickson list that I was able to positively identify as Orthodox.
Therefore I am not assigning a number to Knyazev or Mouchinski.
Our last two names:
21. Lyudmila Ksido
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| http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/people/4344.html |
Ksido came to the US from the USSR, specifically from Odessa, Ukraine in 1979. According to the information in the screenshot below, she came "from a Jewish family." Certainly Jews have converted and do convert to Orthodoxy. However, I could find no reference at all in my extensive search for information on this individual to Judaism, or to Orthodoxy. Perhaps she was a Buddhist. In my view, the fact that this brief biography mentions that she was born "в еврейской семье" (in a Jewish family) but does not say "was Orthodox Christian" etc. is grounds enough to question if she was Orthodox, or not.
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| https://nyjewishimprints.info/K/Ksido.htm |
22. Alena Sesinova
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| http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/people/3832.html |
Sesinova was an immigrant from Czechoslovakia, who arrived in the US in the early 1970s. I could find no reference to her being a member of any religion, but I did discover that she had been in a homosexual relationship for the last 22 years of her life with a woman named Barbara Cattano.
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| https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/30/classified/paid-notice-deaths-sesinova-alena.html |
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| https://www.911memorial.org/blog/remembrances-told-loved-ones-911-victims-part-1 |
So maybe she was baptized into the Church in Czechoslovakia, or converted after arriving in the US in the 1970s. But based on the above information, it seems highly unlikely that Sesinova was an Orthodox Christian.
I think that for the most part the results of this inquiry speak for themselves. It's pretty clear that there are quite a few non-Orthodox names on the "Orthodox Victims of 9/11" list. Is it possible to determine how they ended up there?
Well, 10 of the 22 names first appeared on the 2010 GOA list published in the "Orthodox Observer." These ten names were on the "Non-Greek" list. With the exception of Peter Hanson, none of these names were on any other list until they re-appeared in 2016 on the Erickson list. Also, 5 of these names appeared on the "Russian-speaking victims" list discussed above.
1. Yelena Belilovsky
2. Gennady Boyarsky
3. Alexander Braginsky
4. Alexander Filipov
5. Peter Hanson
6. Daniel Ilkanayev
7. Suzanne Kondratenko
8. Lyudmila Ksido
9. Alena Sesinova
10. Gregory Sikorsky
Also, 11 of the 22 names were on the (not specifically Orthodox) "Greek-American" list from 2010. These 11 names did not appear an ANY Orthodox list until the 2016 Erickson list:
1. Michael J. Elferis
2. Jimmy Grekiotis
3. Steven M. Hagis
4. Thomas Kuveikis
5. Philip William Mastrandrea, Jr.
6. Stylianos Mousouroulis
7. Nikos Papadopoulos/Papas
8. Stephen E. Poulos
9. Timothy Patrick Soulas
10. Michael Theodoridis
11. Jennifer Tzemis
The remaining one name (Edward Joseph Mardovich) is one of the four brand new names, never before seen on any list, until the Erickson list. Why suddenly is he included in 2016, when it appears that he was not even Orthodox, but a Roman Catholic?
So we find that the list of 25 names posted on the OCA website from 2011 to 2016 was fairly accurate - only two identifiable "non-Orthodox" persons on there - "Eskedar Melaku" and "Peter Hanson." All the other "non-Orthodox" names come from the GOA list and the "Greek-American" list.
Now, is it possible that out of the 46 or so remaining names on the Erickson list, that some of them are also not Orthodox? Yes, it is in fact very possible, and not only that, extremely likely. For most of the names on the Erickson list I could find nothing about their religion whatsoever. There are only seven names that I found that referenced Orthodoxy at all. I'll go over this information, and provide some additional minor corrections to the Erickson list, along with some other points of concern and interest I uncovered during this procedure, in Part Three.
