Klovainiai

A walk through Jewish Klovainiai, the way it was a few years before 1941.

Chapters:  1    2    3        stories from: Elzbieta    Stefa  

chapter 3

Ziske, Stefa, Fredke

In this picture Fredke is shown on the right together with her sister Ziske, on the left, and her closest friend Stefa in the middle.

Ziske emigrated to South-Africa in 1936. She escaped the big tragedy, but Fredke was murdered by the German Nazis and their collaborators in the woods of Pakruojis, Morkakalnis, in July of the summer of 1941.

Emilija Mikolaitiene, our eye-witness from Klovainiai, told us that very soon after the liberation from the German Nazis by the Soviet soldiers, the Soviet government showed people films made by the Germans during the Occupation of Lithuania. Emilija watched such a film in Siauliai in the cinema in1944. She was very shocked when she saw the killings of the Jews of Pakruojis, and recognised Fredke Dermeikaite (one of her friends from Klovainiai). She saw how Fredke calmly and haughtyly undressed herself and silently waited to be shot. Emilija was completely destressed for days.

The other Jewish women of Klovainiai and the Jewish women and children of Rozalimas and some Jewish women and children of Radvilikis were shot in Panevezys, at Kaizerlingas forest on 4-8-1941.

The men of Klovainiai were murdered beforehand in the forest of Rozalimas during the summer of 1941.

The story repeated through Stefa’s eyes: click here