Medical Personnel 1923 - 1925
compiled by Harold Rhode

This database contains information about 874 Jewish medical personnel, found in two Lithuanian medical directories:

Lietuvos Medicinos, Farmacijos, ir Veterinarijos personalo ir istaigu.

Lithuanian Doctors Pharmacists, & Veterinarians Personal & Official List - 1922-23 . Published: Vld/Relk. Min-jos, Sveikatos Departmento, oficialis leidinys, 1922-23, Kaunas, Lithuania. Found at Library of Congress, Cat. No. [R713 .67 .L5A5 1922]

Lietuvos Medicinos, Farmacijos, ir Veterinarijos personalo ir istaigu.

Lithuanian Doctors Pharmacists, & Veterinarians Personal & Official List - Published: Vld/Relk. Min-jos, Sveikatos Departmento, oficialis leidinys, 1925, Kaunas, Lithuania.

These works can be found at the Library of Congress, Cat. No. [R713 .67 .L5A5 1925]

Both directories are in Lithuanian. They contain much information about the medical establishment, about 85% of whose members were Jewish. People were listed by ethnic/religious group, and this database contains those who were Jewish. It is easy to tell the married women, because the endings on the names in Lithuanian indicate whether a name is a maiden or married name. Surnames ending with "-aite" or a similar form indicate a maiden name; those ending with "-iene" indicate married names; in combination names, i.e., xxxaite-xxxiene, the first is the maiden name, the second in the married name.

Spelling note: The letter "c" in Lithuanian is pronounced like the letters "ts" in English, so "Gurevic" is equivalent to Gurevitz or Gurwitz. The letter "s" with the proper diacritical mark is pronounced "sh". We don't have diacritical marks here, so "Svarts" is equivalent to Shvartz or Schwartz. Moreover, Lithuanians feel impelled to add some sort of a suffix to names, like -ius, -as, or -is. Thus, Sreiberis is what we would write Shreiber or Schreiber.

Fields listed in this database include:

Surname, Married Surname, First Name, Maiden Surname, Profession, Specialty Citizenship, Birth Year, Sex, Town of Residence, Street Address, Source of Degree, Year Degree Granted, Year of the Directory containing the entry (1923 or 1925), Page in Directory, ID# in Directory, Serial Number, added for recovering the initial order. "US Surname" (a stripped version of the Lithuanian surname), Single asterisk = the maiden name of a married woman. Practicing at (sparse)

Towns of Residence:

118 Lithuanian towns are represented in this data. For most towns, there are only a handful of listings. The towns with the most listings are:

Kaunas (281)
Panevezys (68)
Siauliai (46)
Marijampole (30)
Vilkaviskis (28)
Ukmerge (27)
Raseiniai (17)
Sanaiai (13)
Zagare (10)
Jurbarkas (10)
Alytus (10)
Taurage (9)

Please note that Vilna (Vilnius) is not represented since between the two World Wars, Vilnius was not in Lithuania. During this period, this city was in Poland, and was called Wilno.

District Changes:

These are the towns which had districts indicated in the original list (the other towns were district towns) with their current district. Note that there are some that are not changed although many are. The new districts are, evidently, smaller and more numerous.