We continue following the Darius ir Girėno gatvė street and see on our left House 12.
Here lived Sreider who kept a shop selling linen and cloths. In 1888 he sold the shop to Grimskis and in 1935 in this house  lived  Jozuas Grimskij.

We look at our right and we see:

On his small piece of ground there were two houses: one for him and one for his wife.  She ran a small shop, selling e.g. herrings, honey and sugar. She kept a goat.

He and his wife had two sons. They lived in a wooden house. Irsji Sjenkman had a chalk factory and sold grit from the Italian Dolomites.

Tevya was a roofer and his wife Sheina  was a seamstress. The mother of Tevya lived with them, her name was Nechama and she kept a small grocery. Actually, the house was divided into  some  rooms and a small store. The house had belonged to Minaida Sherman who was, after the first years of her  marriage,  already a widow . Minaida Sherman  died before the massacre. Minaida and her husband Shalom had four children: three daughters and one son.

The names of the daughters were: Sheina, Sorka and Rochka. ( as profession: all were seamstresses).

The name of the son was Orka who emigrated to Uruguay before the war. Sheina and her husband Tevya, and her mother-in-law were shot at Morkakalnis, Sorka survived, because she and her husband Herska ( Hirs) Resnick, ( also from Pakruojis), had emigrated to South Africa before the war.

Rochka was in Kaunas, at the outbreak of the war. At the same time as Rivka Shapiro and Chanka Shapiro. These two sisters were accompanied by Musa Kagan, Tevya’s sister. Rivka, Chanka and Musa became prisoners in the Kaunas ghetto.

Rochka became, also a prisoner and met William Sands in the Kaunas ghetto.The two married and fled. They became partisans. Unfortunately, William Sands was caught and taken to the Kedainiai ghetto. William and Rochka survived and emigrated to the U.S.A.

house 19; Kiršonniene Čerina (Erika)lived here. She was an elderly lady and she kept a small shop where she had all kinds of products.

The red door is still the original door.

Čechovskis Ošeris. - Tsjechanovskij - was a Rabbi. He died a natural death in 1940, during Soviet rule and before the German occupation. He and his wife had three sons.
The youngest son was Fishel, but that was not his real name. He walked with a limp. He emigrated to South Africa. He and his wife had a son. They got divorced. Fishel died in the 1970´s in Israel.           

Monty Kramer assisted at Fishel´s wedding. He had the honourable task of pole holder of  the chuppa.

Rivka remembers him as a kind man, sometimes pinching her cheeks and asking her how she was that day.

In a part of house 18 was kept a pharmacy by Sher. He rented this part from Rabbi Čechovskis Ošeris (After the war, Shmuel Sher testified as  a witness on the massacre at Morkakalnis and at the Kunisgiai forest).

In the stone house nr.21, lived Lieke Furmoniene.

At nr. 23, in a wooden house,  lived Mera Furmonaite. She rented a room to Tachmen, an agronomist.

Nechama late 1920's