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The unforgettable parents Leizer and Rivka Zilber the sister Tzviah Zelikman, husband, and two children who perished in the Destruction of Dvinsk The brother Leibe Zilber who fell as an heroic fighter with the Red Army in Stalingrad May this be a memorial [from] Yehudit and Pineh [Pinyeh] Merkel and children

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We express our deep and great sorrow over the death of our mother Nechama-Sheine Mikel who died in the Ponevezh hospital. Prior to her death she sighed the following words: “Where are you my far flung [flown far away] children?” She was buried in the Jewish cemetery [by Judaic rites] in Ponevezh on Shemini Atzeret 1927. Over the death of our brother Choneh Mikel who died in the 1st World War in the Ukraine in the year 1916. We will remember you forever! [from] Yitzchak and Yisroel Mikel [Michalewitz], Johannesburg Schimon Yosef Mikel-Michalewitz, Pretoria, with their wives and children

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We, children and grandchildren, will remember you forever dear and precious parents Yerachmiel and Peseh Maliyeh Saltuper We will remember our Father and Zaida, who lived all the years in agony, as an invalid without legs. The image of our mother will always appear before us. Even though she was also a sickly [weak] woman, she looked after our father with great love and devotion, and in the final minutes [moments] going to the Nazi pyres [bonfires], to the slaughter, she never abandoned him even for a moment, and together they underwent the gruesome fate of their cruel death. May their bones rest in the communal graves [brothers' graves] of Ezhereni–Novo Aleksandrovsk. [from] Moshe Israel and Mina Sharp-Saltuper and children, Johannesburg. Henye Silver, husband, and son, Vilna Yehoshua Shal and Eli Sharp Saltuper and daughters in Nairobi, Kenya

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Noach Zvi and Matleh Shapiro and of my brother Hertzl Shapiro and his wife Rocheh-Gittel and their children, who perished due to the Nazi Executioners [hangmen] in the Rakishok Holocaust. In honour of their memory. [from] son and brother Morris Shapiro with his wife and children Johannesburg, South Africa In eternal remembrance of my parents Noach-Zvi Shapiro who died 4th Teivet 1935, Matleh Shapiro who died 7th Teivet 1915 Herzl and Rocheh-Gittel Shapiro and children

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We will remember and never forget our father Abba, the son of Ya'akov Sacks who died in Johannesburg on 29th April 1941 2nd Iyar Tashä, and our mother Chana, daughter of Tzvi Sacks, who died in Johannesburg 10th October 1938 the 2nd day of Sukkot Tartzät. Your memory is holy and precious to us. [from] Soreh-Rochel and Yitzchak Reef and children Yosheh Sacks and wife Sheineh and Kalman Yudelowitz and children Zalman [Solly] Sacks and children Baruch [Benny] and Dolyeh Sacks

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In illuminated memory of our father Avraham-Koppel B'R Leib Ruch who died in Rakishok 1st Tishrei Tarsäh, of our mother Liebeh Bat Ya'akov Wolf who died in January, 26th Shevat Tarpäv, for our brother Michal-Yitzchak Ruch who died in Johannesburg 27th Sivan 1942, for our brother, husband and father Yudel Ruch who died in Cape Town 2nd day Adar Bet 1932. We will not forget you and you will live forever in our hearts! [from] Toiveh Shneider and children Asnah and Abraham Furman and children Vitell and Faivush Klein and children Soreh Ruch [wife of Yudel Ruch] and children Liebeh-Viteh and Chayim Leib

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On the tombstone: Our Dear Father Reb Yitzchak Ben Shaul Halevi died 1st Shevat Tarpäg In memory of our father Yitzchak [Alter] Bacher who died 1st Shevat Tarpäg, for our mother Chayeh Soreh Ita daughter of Reb Abraham Koppel who died 29th Av Tashäg 28th August 1943. We will remember you forever. [from] Chayim Shual [Ze'ev] Bacher, wife, and children Koppel Bacher, wife, and children Frieda Aron, husband, and children Ella-Etel Scop, husband, and children Meier-Moshe Bacher, wife, and children South Africa Debra Charney and husband and children, Bulawayo, Rhodesia

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May this be a holy sanctifying and unforgettable remembrance for our extended family: father Dovid Moshe Beder who died Yom Kippur night 1937, mother Esther Rochel Beder perished [murdered] by the Nazis in Rakishok Dovid Moshe and Esther Rochel Beder sisters Chaya Gofanowitz, husband Moshe Yitzchak, and children, Soreh, Reizeh, Taibeh, Frida, and son Aryeh Leib Rasiah – Beileh Abramowitz and husband. Abraham, originally from Antalept – a son of the famous Antalepter Maggid [preacher] and their children Hershel, Zelig, and Yechiel, who perished together with the Jewish population in Rakishok in 1941 by the hand of the German murderers, brothers Pinye Ya'akov Beder , wife Liebe, and daughter Asna, perished in Posvel, Chayim Beder, wife Shifra, and children, perished in Kovno, Karpel Beder, wife Soreh, and children Rivka, Ya'akov, Yechiel, Yehuda, Yitzchak and Dovid-Moshe, perished in Rakishok. And in memory of all the relatives and friends who perished cruelly by the hand of the Germans in Lithuania, we will remember you forever [From] your children, brothers, sisters, and friends Rivka and Ya'akov Miller and children Shlomo Beder and family Binyomin Beder and family Yitzchak Beder and family

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Our brother the martyr Nottel Gordon Nottel Gordon Who perished in Dachau together with 10,000 other Jews. We erect hereby a memorial [headstone] for his eternal memory. [from] his brothers Berel, Michal, and Yeshayahu Gordon and their families

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With these lines we erect an eternal memorial to Necha, our dear one who passed away at the age of 49 on 18 Sivan Tashyäg 1st June 1953. Necha [Nechama] Bakalczuk –Tabachowitz She devoted her best years and exceptional talents to teaching in the public primary schools in Poland, in the displaced persons camps after the Holocaust, and in South Africa. She was a wonderful personality, noble and aristocratic in her strength of character, in the beauty of her pure and innocent soul, and in her love of our nation and its culture. You, dear Necha, were saved from the flames of the furnaces, from the inferno of the Nazis, but you enfolded into yourself the period of horrors that were stuck in your flesh like burning needles, and the tempest of nightmares that you experienced always floated before your eyes – together with the terrible tragedy that your children, Yosseleh and Devoreleh, were destroyed in the death chambers of Auschwitz. All these horrors, of the extermination camps, the tortures, the threats of death and conflagration that were organized by the wild animals, the accursed Germans, impoverished and weakened your health. Those who remain are in sorrow and deep mourning. Your husband, your friend and companion Meilach Bakalczuk Your brothers Simon and Yosef Tabachowitz and families

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