When in 1995 my family and I entered the village of Rozalimas for the first time, we were struck by its beauty and authenticity. When we met our hosts (family Birute Maiksteniene), we were overwhelmed by their hospitality and kindness. As years went by we became very close friends. 

Birute Maiksteniene

Birute herself was a teacher at the school of Rozalimas. She taught English to children there .is now retired. We asked her help for accomplishing our knowledge about the Jewish citizens of Rozalimas. She helped us with the interviewing of eye-witnesses of the raid by the Germans against the Jews of Rozalimas. She helped us with the translation of some articles. We are very grateful to her.

We also like to express our gratitude for Algis Gliebus, Aleksandras Olius Jovaisa, , Stefa Klivickiene- Gruodyte, Karolina Mikneviciene, Vanda Vaidotiene, Reda Maikstenaite, Danute Svetikiene-Dvelys, all citizens of Rozalimas.I would like to express our gratitude for Emilija Mikolaitiene, citizen of Klovainiai.

We are thankful for the help we received from Lina van Kesteren who translated some pages from Lithuanian into English for us.We would like to heartily thank Mr and Mrs Kenneth Zucker (England) for the picture of rabbi Yehezkel Zussman Brudno. And our special thanks to Rita Hillel, nee Grevler ( Israel) whose contributions to the descendants photogalleries is of extreme value. And of course we would like to thank also heartily those who contributed to the descendants photogalleries.

Without the help of all these dear people we would have been lost. I would like to thank our eldest daughter, Lina, for her help with the correction.And I would like to thank especially my dearest husband Arnold whose advice and support were of great help to me.

My aim is....

to tell people in general, and especially young people, about the Jews of Rozalimas. In this way I hope to arouse the reader’ interest in the part of history which will be revealed as soon as you’ll turn the page. It will be just a tiny part, because a lot of valuable information, concerning the Jewish community of Rozalimas, was destroyed during the Nazi-German Occupation (1941-1944) in Lithuania. So you’ll understand of course that a lot of questions I asked have still been unanswered till now. By means of this bookletI also hope to reach those people who will be able to answer some of my own questions.

Finally I hope to reach the scientific group of people who are specialized in Jewish history and hopefully to arouse their interest in continuing further research concerning the Jewish community of Rozalimas and Klovainiai

Dora Boom