Age 29. 27 Milford Street, Room #23, Boston. Born (as Alexander Dashevskaja) on 10/15/1913, Kiev, Russia. Died of burns (death certificate). Union waiter, employed part-time at the Grove. Also known by the popular-use surname "Dashev" (surname shown in era street listings). His unidentified remains were on display for four days at Northern Mortuary in Boston. The Boston Herald, 12/02/1942: "Dozens...inspected the charred body in the lonely pine box on the garage floor...but none could identify him." Corpse was described as, "...grotesquely unlike the...black-haired boy he had been..." (The Boston Herald, 12/02/1942). A non-Grove pay envelope containing $11.33 was located in a pocket, but bore no name. Identity was established the following Wednesday by the landlady of the room where he boarded for the past 19 months: "Keys found on the body proved to be door keys of the Milford street house" (The Boston Post, 12/03/1942). Was reported by friends as, "...a dependable young man with good habits who was devoted to his invalid mother confined to a Boston Hospital..." (The Boston Post, 12/03/1942). Was single. To the U.S. with his mother in 1923, birth surname spelling modified at the time to "Dashevsky." Occupation (1940 federal census): file clerk, insurance company. Was the last fire victim at Northern Mortuary (of 140) to be identified. One of five Grove table waiters killed (also Sam Dowaliby, age 33, Mario Marzano, age 26, Christes Roumeliotis, age 25, and Harold Snyderman, age 32), plus headwaiter Frank Balzarini, age 37. Unusual surname was ironically similar to that of the final identified casualty of the tragic 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire in New York, NY (which claimed 146 lives), which was "Dashefsky" (no relation). Popular-usage surname was misspelled as "Dashen" (with an "n" at the end) on his death certificate and on the 1943 official list of casualties. Parents Mrs. Rachel (Glickman) Dashevsky (formerly Dashevskaja) and the late Mr. Ilya Dashevskaja. Infirmed mother died in 1943. Burial at Fuller Street (Beth Israel) Cemetery, Everett, MA.

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