When my father's family fled Poland at the onset of World War II, they
were transported from Kovel in Ukraine to a city in Siberia that I
couldn't make out from a video testimony. It sounds like "Asiml" or
"Aseemil." I know that while there, my grandfather worked at a wood
mill. I'd just like to know the actual name of the city, and if you
have any more information on it, all the better. Thanks. - David

Hi,

A Soundex search of those two names you provided at the JewishGen
ShtetlSeeker (a geographic database of Eastern Europe) comes up with
no links for Siberian cities. The only place in Siberia that comes up
is Azanel, a very small place in the Tyumen region.

Azanel / Asanil, as referred to by mwalcoff-ga, is located in the
Yamalo-Nenetskiy Autonomous Region:
http://www.fallingrain.com/world/RS/87/Asanil.html

http://www.fallingrain.com/world/RS/a/A/z/

Maps:
http://map.rin.ru/cgi-bin/main_e.pl?Region=yamnen

http://www.roaming.mtsgsm.com/mts/salekhard/

http://www.tageo.com/index-e-rs-v-87-d-9071567.htm

More on Yamalia (Yamalo-Nenetskiy Autonomous Region):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamalia
http://www.tageo.com/tmp/Asanil.jpg

Thanks to you both for piecing this together. I'll check to see if
this is it, but this is much closer than I was able to get.