With the decline of the economic situation of Lithuanian Jewry in general and of Rasein Jews in particular, the number of pupils in the gymnasium declined, numbering less than a hundred by the end of the 1930s. High tuition fees that many families could not afford, and the difficulties that the Lithuanian examiners placed in the way of Jewish students at matriculation examinations were among the reasons for this. More and more Jewish youngsters began to study at the government high school, where tuition fees were minimal but some teachers were anti-Semitic.

The Hebrew Gymnasium (1930)

Directors of the Hebrew gymnasium included: Dr. Josef Levinzon; Dr. Refael Rabinovitz, who was also the deputy head of the community; Dr. Tsevi Rolnik; Dr. Yisrael Mehlman (died in Jerusalem in 1990); Dr. Tuviyah Arieli (Leibovitz); Y. Salomon; Dr. Avraham Berkovitz. The last director was Dr. Dov Zilber. Some teachers would converse with students on Fridays evening or on Shabbath afternoon on subjects of correct behavior or on present-day problems concerning world Jewry and Eretz-Yisrael. These included the poetess Leah Goldberg, Dr. Batyah Rabinovitz and Tsevi Levin.

The gymnasium housed a Hebrew library in addition to the big community library named after Mendele Mokher Sefarim (pseudonym of the writer Shalom Ya'akov Abramovitz), with its hundreds of Yiddish and Hebrew books. During its existence the gymnasium was supported by the Folksbank and by the local Hevrah Kadisha. It was closed down after Lithuania became annexed to the Soviet Union in the summer of 1940.

The fourth group of the evening lessons (of Hebrew) in Rasein

Zionist and other activities
During the years of the autonomy, the leftist parties Bund and Poalei Zion Smol had great influence among Rasein's Jews. They established the Kultur Lige (Culture League) and organized evening courses for children and adults. In the course of time only the Folkist (Peoples) movement, which fostered the use of Yiddish and opposed Zionism, remained from the Yiddish speaking camp. Its official propaganda organ was the Yiddish daily newspaper Folksblat which was published in Kovno. At this time the Zionist movement with all its variations conquered the Jewish public, and all Zionist parties had branches in Rasein. Many participated in the elections for the Zionist congresses. The table below reveals the division of the votes for each party:

Congress No.	Year	Total Shkalim	Total Votes	Labor Party Z”S Z”Z		Revisionists	General Zionists A B		Grosmanists	Mizrakhi
14	1925	34	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
15	1927	142	43	18	5	11	5	—	—	4
16	1929	146	62	27	9	14	4	—	—	8
17	1931	159	23	35	23	56	6	—	—	3
18	1933	—	428	246		166	11	2	18	37
19	1935	—	783	405		—	37	99	76	166

A branch of WIZO headed by Mrs. Roza Ziv was also active in town, as were the Zionist youth organizations HaShomer HaTsair, Beitar, Gordonia, HeHalutz, HeHalutz HaMizrahi, Berith HaKanaim, HaNoar HaZioni, and Benei Akiva.

Sports activities were carried out in the Maccabi branch with its 54 members, as well as the Y.A.K. (Yiddisher Arbeiter Klub) of the Yiddishists. There were active Kibutsei Hakhsharah (Training Kibutsim) of HeHalutz and Berith HaKanaim (from 1933), and some Jewish youth belonged to the Communist underground.

A group of Hashomer HaTsair in Rasein, 1924

Religion and Welfare
The eight prayer houses which existed in Rasein before World War I continued to serve the community during this period too. These were the rabbis who officiated: Yehoshua-Mordehai Klatskin (1862-1925); Mosheh Soloveitshik (1878-1941) from 1908 in Rasein, and from 1931 head of the Rabbi Yits'hak-Elhanan Yeshivah in New York. He was one of the leaders of the Rabbinic Association of America and Canada, and died in New York. The last Rabbi of Rasein, Aharon-Shemuel Katz (1871-1941), who published several books on the Talmud, was murdered in the Holocaust.

Rabbi Mosheh Soloveitshik

During all these years there was a Small Yeshivah headed by Rabbi Roz and later by Rabbi Goldshlag, as well as branches of Agudath Yisrael and of the religious women's organization Beth-Ya'akov headed by pharmacist Mrs. Volpert. There was also a branch of the religious boys' organization Tifereth Bakhurim, headed by Eliyahu Alinik and a Ben Zakai society where gymnasium students were taught Talmud, as well as other societies for studying Judaism, such as Talmud, Mishnah and Ein Ya'akov.

The Ezrah society, which was active instead of the closed Community Committee, operated the Bath House, the Home for the Aged and the Jewish Hospital. Other welfare societies were the Society for Helping Poor Women in Confinement, headed by Mrs. Blokh, Hakhnasath Orhim and Hevrah Kadisha.

For a list of personages born in Rasein see Appendix 1.



During World War II and afterwards
In June 1940 Lithuania was annexed by the Soviet Union, becoming a Soviet Republic. Following new rules, the majority of factories and shops belonging to Jews in Rasein were nationalized and commissars were appointed to manage them. All Zionist parties and youth organizations were disbanded, several of the activists being detained. Hebrew educational institutions were closed. About twenty families whose businesses were nationalized were exiled to Siberia and elsewhere. A Jewish kindergarten with 64 children and a drama circle were established by the new rulers.

On June 23, 1941, the second day of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Rasein was bombed by German planes. Most of the Jews left town and dispersed in the fields and villages. During the night a heavy battle between the German army and the Red Army ensued, and the next morning, June 24, the German army entered Rasein. The Jews returning to the town found most of the houses, including all prayer houses, ruined. Those that were left intact had been ransacked by their Lithuanian neighbors and the returning Jews crowded into those houses. Every day Lithuanian police would take out Jews for various types of work, such as burying dead soldiers of the Red Army, collecting weapons scattered in the fields and roads, cleaning streets and latrines, and so on. The police abused the Jews, hitting them with whips and sticks and forcing them to roll empty barrels over a distance of 15 km. Educated Jewish women would be sent to wash floors in institutions and in the houses of Lithuanian and German officials. They did not receive any food and were already beginning to exchange various items and garments for food.

During the third week of the war, restrictions were imposed on the Jews: the obligation to wear a white patch on the right side of the chest, banning them from walking on the sidewalks, buying products in the market, or leaving their houses during the hours of darkness, and so on.

A week later an order was issued to all Jewish men and women from the age of 15 to 45, to congregate in a monastery half a kilometer from the town on the road to Yurburg. This was a two-storey house with a big yard with stables, pig sheds and barns. The place was encircled by a barbed wire fence and forty Lithuanian guards were stationed around it in order to prevent Jews from escaping. Family members who were not obliged to go to the monastery were allowed to join their families. In a single day about 1,500 Jews were imprisoned here, making it a so-called Labor Camp. The next morning, July 27, 1941, all Jewish men were forced to cut their beards and shave. Later, five cars with ten Germans arrived. The Lithuanian commander read out names from a list which had been prepared the day before, and ordered those named to stand in rows. Some were given shovels and all were led towards Yurburg by sixty armed Lithuanians. Those remaining in the camp were sure that they had been selected for some hard work. But the truth was that the 393 men on the list and another 100 Jews who were brought from the jail were led to a sand quarry, about 5 km. from the town, where pits had been prepared. There they were shot and buried. The murderers were Lithuanians, the Germans standing alongside to observe.

That same evening Lithuanian police arrested the Jewish intelligentsia, among them lawyers Levy and Fridland, Rabbi Katz and others, the sick and the old, and all were brought to the camp in the monastery. On July 29, this group was led to the same pits and murdered there. Before the murders the Lithuanians forced some Jews to write notes to their wives in the camp or in town, asking them to send money, gold and diamonds by way of the police. And indeed some women believed the message with regard to the money and gave the murderers their valuables.

One day the residents of the camp were told that they may go to their families in town and to be ready to be transferred together with their entire family to the camp. They were allowed to bring everything they wanted. The unfortunate Jews collected their possessions which had been accumulated over generations. Their Lithuanian neighbors offered to store things with them for safe keeping till the end of the war.

After their arrival in the camp, crowding became unbearable. From time to time small groups of people would be taken out by the Lithuanians and they would disappear without a trace. At night the Lithuanians would burst into the camp, stealing everything they fancied and raping the young women. The camp at this time housed about forty men and more than a thousand women and children.

In the second half of August 1941 an order was issued to all Jews remaining in Rasein and the villages in the vicinity, to move to the estate of Bilevitz, about 5 km. from Rasein, by August 27. An estimated 2,000 people, mostly women and children, arrived at the estate.

On August 29, 1941 (6th of Elul, 5701) trucks with armed Lithuanians appeared. The women and children were put on to the trucks, group by group, and transported in the direction of Girtegole (Girkalnis). About 2 km. from the town, near the village of Kalnujai, pits had been prepared. The victims were made to stand at the edge of the pit, and were shot and buried in these pits. A Lithuanian eye-witness who hid in a tree, reported later that the women were forced to undress completely before they were shot. The children were thrown in to the pits alive or their heads were shattered on tree trunks. The garments of the murdered were divided up among the murderers and residents of the town.

The mass grave and the monument at the Kalnujai Castle Hill

The monument with the inscription in Yiddish and Lithuanian: “In this place the blood of 1877 Jews, children, women and men, was spilled by the Nazi murderers and their local helpers on 29.8.1941”

Only a few Jews managed to hide with Lithuanian peasants, and survived. Some peasants were murdered for hiding Jews. In the summer of 1941 several Jewish youngsters managed to escape to Russia, from where they tried to get to Eretz-Yisrael but were detained by the authorities.

According to Soviet sources, mass graves of the Jews of Rasein and the surroundings were found in two places: beside the town of Girkalnis, about 1,600-1,650 Jews are buried about 10 km. south-east from Rasein, and a further 1,677 victims are buried near Kalnujai Hill, about 6 km. south-west of Rasein.

After the war, monuments were erected on these mass graves. At the beginning of the 1990s a monument was erected on the Kalnujai mass grave, with an inscription in Yiddish and Lithuanian. Also a wooden tablet was fixed where the Jewish cemetery in Vytautas Street had been, with an inscription in Yiddish and Lithuanian saying: “This was the site of the Jewish cemetery.”

According to the 1990 cartographic survey of Jewish cemeteries in Lithuania, one cemetery was found in the village Uzdubysis in the Rasein district.

Sources:

Yad Vashem archives, Jerusalem, M-9/13(2); M-1/Q-1219/69; M-1/E761/625: M-9/15(60); M-21/5/267
Koniukhovsky Collection; 0-17, files 42-45, 152, 3785/33
YIVO, New York, Lithuanian Communities Collection, files 1149-1184,
1447, 1553, 1554, 1647, 1678
Gotlib, Ohalei Shem (Hebrew), pages 198, 377
Markovitz Mosheh, LeKoroth Ir Rasein VeRabaneha (The History of the town Rasein and its Rabbis), Warsaw, 5673 (1913)
Unzer Lebn (Our Life) (Yiddish), Kovno, 9.10.1938
Kamzon, Yahaduth Lita (Hebrew), pages 145, 147
Barkai, South Africa, September 1969, pages 83-84
Dos Vort, (Yiddish), Kovno,13.11.1934, 7.3.1938
Di Yiddishe Shtime (Yiddish), Kovno, 1.11.1919; 22.3.1929; 11.10.1929; 2.5.1930; 22.5.1930; 22.8.1930; 22.1.1931; 5.5.1931; 3.7.1931; 9.5.1935; 11.9.1938;
Di Tsait (Yiddish) Shavl, 7.5.1923; 10.4.1924
HaMelitz (Hebrew), St.Petersburg, 18.7.1870; 19.1.1879; 19.8.1879; 8.5.1881; 21.6.1881; 13.5.1883; 18.6.1883; 25.6.1883; 5.10.1883; 17.12.1883; 18.1.1884; 29.2.1884; 25.4.1884; 7.2.1886; 30.4.1886; 18.1.1887; 15.6.1887; 31.10.1887; 11.7.1888; 11.12.1890; 2.1.1891; 17.2.1891; 23.1.1893; 12.3.1893; 19.5.1902; 25.12.1902; 8.8.1903
Tog (Yiddish) Kovno, 10.6.1926; 1.7.1926
Yiddisher Hantverker (Jewish Artisan), Kovno, # 5
Folksblat (Yiddish), Kovno, 11.8.1935; 5.10.1937; 6.4.1939; 11.5.1939; 5.11.1940
Funken Kovno, 15.5.1931
Naujienos (News) (Lithuanian) Chicago,11.6.1949
Zukas K. Zvilgsnis; I praeiti (A look in the past) (Lithuanian), Chicago, 1959

Only a few Jews managed to hide with Lithuanian peasants, and survived. Some peasants were murdered for hiding Jews. In the summer of 1941 several Jewish youngsters managed to escape to Russia, from where they tried to get to Eretz-Yisrael but were detained by the authorities.

According to Soviet sources, mass graves of the Jews of Rasein and the surroundings were found in two places: beside the town of Girkalnis, about 1,600-1,650 Jews are buried about 10 km. south-east from Rasein, and a further 1,677 victims are buried near Kalnujai Hill, about 6 km. south-west of Rasein.

After the war, monuments were erected on these mass graves. At the beginning of the 1990s a monument was erected on the Kalnujai mass grave, with an inscription in Yiddish and Lithuanian. Also a wooden tablet was fixed where the Jewish cemetery in Vytautas Street had been, with an inscription in Yiddish and Lithuanian saying: “This was the site of the Jewish cemetery.”

According to the 1990 cartographic survey of Jewish cemeteries in Lithuania, one cemetery was found in the village Uzdubysis in the Rasein district.

Emanuel Soloveitchik lived in the nineteenth century, was a doctor in the Russian Navy and together with Pinsker established the periodical Zion (in Russian).
Meir-Faivel Getz (1853-1932), director of the Hebrew high schools in Moscow and Riga, published books and organized pedagogic courses for Tseirei Yisrael and for teachers of the Yavneh chain in Kovno.
Yisrael-Yits'hak Volf (1861-1926), publisher of Zionist periodicals in the United States.
Eliezer-Lipman Zilberman (1819-1882), founder of the modern Hebrew press, established the HaMagid newspaper and published it till 1880.
Adolf Landau (1841-1902), established the monthly Voskhod (Sunrise) and the weekly Cronika of Voskhod, published nine volumes of the Hebrew Biblioteka in Russian, and more.
Hayim Rafalovitz (1882-1928), publisher and writer, editor of the Yiddish periodical Unzer Tsait (Our Time), activist of the Yiddishists Folkspartei in Kovno, established the publishing firm Likht (Light), wrote a few plays.
Yehezkel-Faivel Rotshtein – lived in the nineteenth century, a teacher and writer in Germany.
Yosef Cohen (1890-?), lawyer, legislator in Quebec Province in Canada, active in Jewish issues.
Rabbi Menahem-Mendel Aharonson, one of the activists of Mizrahi in South Africa.
Rabbi Josef Yehudah Blokh (1849-1930), Rabbi of Telz and head of its Yeshivah.
Dr. Tsemakh Tsemerion (Halperin), writer, educator, researcher. Died in Haifa in 1988.
Emanuel Fortuna, Engineer in Chemistry and Physics, one of the pioneers of the chemical industry in Israel, was a director of the military physical industry, also a member of the delegation of industrialists to the reparations agreement with Germany.

Surname	Given Name	Comments
ABELMAN	Yakov
ANZIL	Abba
ASHER	Simcha
ASHER	Yosef
AVKAWSKI	Yehuda Leib
BERMAN	Shlomo Zalman
BERMAN	Zev
BLOCH	Moshe son of Rabbi M
BLUMBERG	Mordechai Eliezer
BLUMBERG	Binyamin
BOMHAN	Nechama	woman
BROIDA	Boruch
DOVIDOW	Aharon
FEIN	Yerechmiel
FRIDMAN	Mendil
GAR	Eliahu
GAVRIELOWITZ	Shmuel
GAVRILOWITZ	Tzvi
GEIWIDEL	Beinish
GETZ	Shimon
GIN	Moshe
GORDON	Eliezer
GRINBERG	Shmuel Yosef
GRINBERG	Yosef
GRINBERG	Zalman
GRINBERG	Zondil
GRINBLAT	Yisroel Katz
GROSMAN	Tzvi
HELMAN	Nachum
KAPLAN	Avraham Zev
LANDA	Zalman
LAPIDOS	Shalom Yakov
LEWIN	Dov Ber
LEWIN	Nachum
LEWINSKI	Leib
LUNZ	Eliezer Getzel
LUNZ		Doctor
LURIA	Moshe	boy
MANISHEWITZ
MANKOWSKI	Yakov
MERKIL	Moshe
MILDET	Etil	woman
NADIL	Mordechai Meir
PA"TZ	Yakov Asher
PLUNGIANER	Tzvi
RACHAWITZKI	Eliezer
RACHAWITZKI	Malka	woman
RACHAWITZKI	Yosef
ROZENFELD	Nechemiah	boy
SHA"TZ	Yisroel Isser
SHAMSHINAWITZ	Yosef Meir
SHAPIRO	Meina
SHASHKALSKI	Moshe	Rabbi Gaon
SHMATRITEL
SHOHAM	Reuven
SHU"B	Ari
SHU"B	Gershon Mendil
SHU"B	Yosef
SHULMAN	Moshe
TERESPOLSKI	Yehuda Yitzchok
TRACHTENBERG	H	businessman visiting Riga
WARSHAWITZKI	Shmuel Leib
WEINBERG	Lima
YERUZLIM	Moshe Yakov
	Ever ben Yona
	Meir ben Chaim
	Mina Mere	woman
	Moshe son of Rabbi B
	Shalom Tuvia
	Shaul son of Rabbi H
	Shlomo ben Tzvi
	Yakov ben Chaim
	Yakov son of Rabbi y tz"a Galeis
	Yehuda ben Tzvi

Surname	Given Name	Comments	Source	Year
AGUSHEWITZ	Yitzchok		Hamelitz #80	1901
AKS	Yisroel Chaim		#27	1901
ANUSHEWITZ	Yitzchok		#27	1901
ANUSHEWITZ	Yitzchok		#80	1901
ARENZOHN			#224	1903
ARONSON	Aba		#80	1901
ARONSON	Yehoshua		#80	1901
ATZORKIN	Yechezkel		#80	1901
AVROMSOHN	Heshel		#80	1901
BEHR	Fishel		#80	1901
BEHRMAN	M		#218	1901
BEILOWITZ		government teacher	#218	1901
BEKER	Olga		#80	1901
BERGSHTEIN	M		#218	1901
BERLOWITZ	Dovid		#80	1901
BERNSHTEIN	Moshe		#80	1901
BIRMAN	Yisroel		#224	1903
BLAT	Yosef		#224	1903
BLAT	Yosef		#27	1901
BLECH	Chaya bas Shlomo wife of Chaim Avraham Shailski	wed	#288	1897
BLECH	Mirl wife of Shlomo	wed	#288	1897
BLECH	Shlomo husband of Mirl father of Chaya		#288	1897
BLOCH	Leib		#80	1901
BLOCH	Pinchos		#80	1901
BLOCH	Yakov		#80	1901
BLOCH	Yakov Antzel		#80	1901
BLOCHER	Nechemiah		#224	1903
BRUCHZOHN			#224	1903
BUATZ	Boruch		#27	1901
CHANOCH		lawyer	#218	1901
CHWEIDAN	Z		#80	1901
COHEN	Yakov		#80	1901
DAWIDOWITZ	Y		#80	1901
DAWIDOWITZ	Yosef		#27	1901
DORFMAN	L		#218	1901
DORFMAN	Sh		#218	1901
DORFMAN	Shmaya		#80	1901
FEIBUSH	Yitzchak husband of Feiga Goldberg	wed 1901	#218	1901
FEIN	A		#218	1901
FEIN	Aharon		#80	1901
FEIN	Avraham Aba		#224	1903
FEIN	Brocha		#224	1903
FEIN	Yerachmiel		#80	1901
FISH	Meir		#80	1901
FLOIM	Yona husband of Nechama Leibowitz	wed in Shavel	#27	1901
FRIDMAN	Chaim Tzvi	in N(G?)irtenole	#218	1901
FRIDMAN	Chaim Tzvi		#27	1901
FRIDMAN	Nochum		#80	1901
FRIDMAN	Sh K		#218	1901
GALIBRODSKI	Heshil		#80	1901
GEL	Yakov		#80	1901
GIN	Yosef Chaim		#80	1901
GOLDBERG	A		#218	1901
GOLDBERG	A		#27	1901
GOLDBERG	Avraham father of Feige	in Tzitenan	#218	1901
GOLDBERG	Elchanan		#203	1900
GOLDBERG	Elchanan		#27	1901
GOLDBERG	Elchanan		#80	1901
GOLDBERG	Elchanan nephew of Avraham Goldberg		#218	1901
GOLDBERG	Feige wife of Yitzchak Feibush	wed 1901	#218	1901
GORDON	Yisroel		#80	1901
GRINBERG	Ester bas Zalman wife of Yitzchok Markus	wed 1903	#224	1903
GRINBERG	Mordechai		#224	1903
GRINBERG	Zalman		#80	1901
GRODNIK	Y		#218	1901
GROFMAN	Tz		#218	1901
HENOK		doctor	#80	1901
HERTZMAN	Chaim Halewi		#197	1895
HERTZMAN	Chaim husband of Ester Horwitz of Taurage	wed 21 May in Taurage	#120	1893
HERTZMAN	Sh		#218	1901
ISERLIS	Zalman		#80	1901
KALMANOK	Anna wife of Moshe Yafe		#247	1895
KAMBER	Yakov Zondil		#224	1903
KAMBER	Yitzchok		#224	1903
KAMBER	Yitzchok		#80	1901
KAPLAN	B		#214	1895
KAPLAN	Leib		#27	1901
KAPLAN	Leib		#80	1901
KAPLAN	Pinchos		#80	1901
KAPLAN	Shmaryahu		#80	1901
KARNOWSKI	Note		#224	1903
KATZAV	Dov Leib		#80	1901
KATZAV	Eli Menachem		#80	1901
KATZAV	Mordechai Yakov		#80	1901
KATZAV	Pesach		#80	1901
KATZAV	Shmuel		#80	1901
KATZAV	Yisroel Leib		#80	1901
KLEIN	Eta wife of Mordechai Shoboshewitz	wed 1903 in Kapshtat, South Africa	#224	1903
KLIBANSKI	Aba nephew of Aharon Shtreibman		#27	1901
KOHN	Y		#218	1901
KOHN	Y		#218	1901
KRASNASTOW	Yakov		#80	1901
KRASTANOW	Yakov		#224	1903
KRAZER	Yitzchok		#80	1901
LEIBOWITZ	Nechama wife of Yona Floim	wed in Shavel	#27	1901
LESHEM	Rivka Rochel ben Mordechai wife of Yosef Yuzl Magilnitzki	wed Philadelphia (America) 10 Sivan	#147	1893
LESHEM	Shachna ben Mordechai		#147	1893
LEWI	Maks		#80	1901
LEWIASH	Boruch		#80	1901
LEWIN	Shlomo Zalman husband of Fruma Rik	wed 1903	#224	1903
LEWINSKI	Ephraim Yehuda		#80	1901
LEWITAN	Alter		#208	1895
LEWITAN	Alter		#72	1899
LEWITAN	Alter		#204	1900
LEWITAN	Alter husband of Devorah Rosenfeld	wed	#27	1901
LEWITAN	Alter husband of Devorah Rosenfeld		#80	1901
LEWNER	Boruch		#80	1901
LEWNER	Chaim Bune		#27	1901
LIPSHITZ	Menachem		#80	1901
LIUBIN	Yehudis		#224	1903
MAGILEWSKI	Heshil		#130	1900
MAGILEWSKI	Yehoshua		#27	1901
MAGILNITZKI	Yosef Yuzl husband of Rivka Rochel Leshem	wed Philadelphia (America) 10 Sivan	#147	1893
MAITZ	Zelig		#80	1901
MAKS (ZAKS?)	Hinde		#229	1902
MANKOWSKI	L		#80	1901
MANKOWSKI	Yosef		#80	1901
MANKOWSKI		doctor	#80	1901
MARKUS	Gitel		#224	1903
MARKUS	Sh		#224	1903
MARKUS	Yakov		#224	1903
MARKUS	Yehoshua		#224	1903
MARKUS	Yitzchok husband of Ester Grinberg	wed 1903	#224	1903
MEIROWITZ			#224	1903
MICHELEWITZ	Ch		#224	1903
MILER	M		#80	1901
MOGILEWSKI	Heshil		#80	1901
MOHILEWSKI	H		#224	1903
MOHILEWSKI	Y		#218	1901
MOTZ	Moshe father of Shmuel		#218	1901
MOTZ	Shmuel ben Moshe		#218	1901
MOW	Tzvi Yakov		#80	1901
NETANELIS	Sfia wife of Shmuel Sudak	wed 1903	#224	1903
NETANELIS	Yosef		#224	1903
NOBAWSKI	Rochel		#224	1903
OLIAN	Chana Gitl wife of Aharon Rubinshtein	wed 1 Marcheshvan in Libau	#214	1895
OLSWANG	Yehuda Dovid	Rabbi Gaon in Koltinen	#218	1901
PAK	Shlomo		#187	1900
PARIZ	W		#224	1903
PASEL	Avraham Eliahu		#27	1901
PERLMAN	Sh R		#218	1901
PERLOW	Mordechai		#80	1901
POSEL	A Y		#218	1901
PRESS	Pinchos		#224	1903
PULEROWITZ	A		#214	1895
RABINOWITZ	Tzadok		#80	1901
REMEZ	Yehoshua		#80	1901
RIK	Fruma bas Reiza wife of Shlomo Zalman Lewin	wed 1903	#224	1903
RIK	Reiza		#224	1903
ROSENFELD	Devorah wife of Alter Lewitan	wed	#27	1901
ROTSHTEIN	Meir Yosef		#27	1901
ROZENBLUM	A P T		#224	1903
ROZENBLUM	Dovid		#27	1901
ROZENBLUM	Dovid	apothecary	#80	1901
RUBINSHTEIN	Aharon husband of Chana Gitl Olian	wed 1 Marcheshvan in Libau	#214	1895
SADOWSKI	Boruch		#224	1903
SADOWSKI	Boruch		#80	1901
SEGAL	Eliezer		#80	1901
SEGALOWITZ	Dov Ber husband of Reina Shamshanowitz	wed 1903	#224	1903
SHABASHEWITZ	A Y		#224	1903
SHABASHEWITZ	E		#224	1903
SHABASHEWITZ	Nochum		#80	1901
SHABASHEWITZ	Tzvi		#80	1901
SHAGAM	Moshe		#224	1903
SHAGAM		Mrs.	#218	1901
SHAILSKI	Chaim Avraham ben Mordechai husband of Chaya Blech	wed – from Yanova	#288	1897
SHAMSHANOWITZ	Reina wife of Dov Ber Segalowitz	wed 1903	#224	1903
SHAPIRO	A		#218	1901
SHAPIRO	Shmuel		#224	1903
SHAPIRO	Yosef		#80	1901
SHEINFELD	Dov	Rabbi	#80	1901
SHEMESH	Dovid		#80	1901
SHINDELBEKER	Tzvi		#80	1901
SHNITKIN	Yakov Meir		#80	1901
SHOBOSHEWITZ	Mordechai husband of Eta Klein	wed 1903 in Kapshtat, South Africa	#224	1903
SHOGAM	Moshe		#224	1903
SHOGAM	Yisroel		#224	1903
SHROLOWITZ	Yakov		#80	1901
SHTILMAN	Tzvi		#218	1901
SHTREIBMAN	Aharon father of Chanah uncle of Aba Klibanski		#27	1901
SHTREIBMAN	Chanah bas Aharon wife of Mlatdowitz	wed 10 Teves	#27	1901
SHUB	Ezriel		#218	1901
STRASBURG	Meir		#224	1903
SUDAK	Eliahu		#224	1903
SUDAK	Shmuel husband of Sfia Netanelis	wed 1903	#224	1903
TANOR	Chaim Hillel		#80	1901
TELEM	Gavriel		#80	1901
TELM	Gavriel		#218	1901
TEREMPOLSKI	Tzvia		#80	1901
TERESPOLSKI	Dov		#218	1901
TERESPOLSKI	Yechiel		#224	1903
TOIBMAN	Chaim		#27	1901
TOIBMAN	Kopil		#80	1901
TOW	Tz Y		#218	1901
TZIMANT	Chaim		#80	1901
WIGODSKI	Yehuda		#27	1901
WIGODSKI	Yehuda		#80	1901
WILENTZIK	M L		#224	1903
WILENTZIK	Yosef		#224	1903
WINIK	Yitzchok		#80	1901
WINNIK	Yitzchok		#27	1901
WINOK	Yisroel	in N(G?)irtenole	#218	1901
WOLF	Yisroel Yitzchok	in Louisville, America	#85	1899
WOLFE	Avraham		#80	1901
WOLFE	Tzemach		#218	1901
WOLFE		Mrs.	#218	1901
WOLK	W		#80	1901
WOLPE	Avraham		#27	1901
YABLONSKI	Miriam		#224	1903
YAFE	Avraham	government rabbi	#80	1901
YAFE	Avraham father of Moshe	government rabbi	#247	1895
YAFE	Moshe ben Avraham husband of Anna Kalmanok	wed 9 Marcheshvan	#247	1895
YASHPE	Avraham		#80	1901
ZACHER	Uriah		#80	1901
ZACHS	Yisroel		#137	1900
ZACHS	Yisroel		#137	1900
ZAKHEIM	Chaim Tzvi		#27	1901
ZAKHEIM	Chaim Tzvi		#80	1901
ZAKHEIM	Noson		#224	1903
ZAKS	Chaim Yisroel		#229	1902
ZAKS	Chaim Yisroel		#285	1900
ZAKS	Chaim Yisroel		#27	1901
ZAKS	Chaim Yisroel		#80	1901
ZAKS	Chaim Yisroel		#80	1901
ZAKS	Shalom		#229	1902
ZAKS	Shalom		#80	1901
ZAKS	Yitzchok		#80	1901
ZALTZBERG	Boruch		#80	1901
ZALTZBERG	P		#224	1903
ZIW	Yissachar		#80	1901
ZIW	Yitzchok		#80	1901
ZIW	Zalman	from Kelm	#218	1901
	Chanoch Zondil ben Moshe Betzalel husband of Elka Margolis of Wishnewe	wed	#142	1898
	Moshe Betzalel father of Chanoch Zondil	Rabbi Gaon ABD	#142	1898

The above article is an excerpt from “Protecting Our Litvak Heritage” by Josef Rosin. The book contains this article along with many others, plus an extensive description of the Litvak Jewish community in Lithuania that provides an excellent context to understand the above article. Click here to see where to obtain the book.

http://yurburgfriends.com/Rosin/Heritage.html

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