V6

A walk through Jewish Rozalimas

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Chapter 6

group with Pruchna

This picture shows Pruchna sitting at the left together with the other six men of the firebrigade. When a siren was heard in those days the firemen knew that this was their call for a meeting.
The Jewish family Levinas lived at housenr.18. Levinas rented the house from Raila. Levinas was the owner of a shop selling cloths and fabrics. He and his wife had one son.

group with Levinas

In this picture we see Levinas seated on the first row on the left (encircled), as one of the active members of Rozalimas in 1930. In another picture

group with Levinas

Here Levinas is to be seen on the second row on the right. His picture was taken before the firemen left for Kaunas to assist at the flags parade in 1935. He and his family were killed in 1941. Housenr. 8 on the map belonged to the Jewish family Chaimas Sruolis. In 1939 he sold it to Raila. Therefore housenr. 8 is not shown in a picture.

housenr.14

Chaimas Sruolis moved from house nr.8 to housenr.14 in 1930. He was a men's tailor by profession. Chaimas and his wife had two daughters. All of them were killed in 1941.

It's clear to the reader, I presume, that when I write "All of them were killed in 1941", this means that they were killed in 1941 by the German Nazis and their collaborators in the woods of Pakruojis and Panevezys, except for a few.
Next to the house of Sruolis was housenr. 13

housenr.13

It belonged to the Jewish family Vainoras.Father Vainoras owned a shop in which he sold all kinds of goods. He and his wife had one son who was mentally ill. All of them were shot in 1941.

Karolina Mikneviciene

Karolina: All the Jewish men (except the few who were already shot and for the one who managed to escape) were taken from Rozalimas one night during the summer of 1941 and they have disappeared for ever. Immediately after been taken away, these men were shot in the woods of Pakruojis, Morkakalnis.Very soon afterwards the Jewish women and children were driven out of their homes and were forced to live in a barn (owned by the Klovankis family, housenr.12) in Rozalimas for one week. Fences were put up around the barn, so no one could escape. It looked like a small ghetto. Not only were Jewish women and children of Rozalimas kept there as prisoners, but also some Jewish women and children from a neighbouring village Radviliskis. During the day people from Rozalimas as well as Karolina went to the small ghetto to bring milk ,bread and potatoes to the Jewish women and children. Then, one day, the Jewish women and children were forced to step into a big cart pulled by horses and were taken away from Rozalimas to Panevezys (to the Kaizerlingas forest), where they were shot; murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators, except for two young women who could escape. At the end of the summer of 1941(on 4 August) there were no Jews left in Rozalimas. Karolina is very sad about this. She remembers being offered a bag full of stuff by a Jewish woman to thank her for her kindness, expressing that she believed she wouldn't need the bag anymore, but Karolina refused. Then someone else snatched the bag and ran away.

Aleksandras Olius Jovaisa

Olius: Before their elimination the Jewish men had to work as slaves in the forest of Rozalimas for one day: They had to clear the logs, which were stored there on huge piles. Olius-Aleksandras, by his mother's orders, went to see and to feed them. Other people of Rozalimas did the same.

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