Lists of Jewish Holocaust Victims from Mazheik
The following lists include names of Jewish individuals or families from Mazheik who were brutally murdered by the Nazis, or their Lithuanian collaborators, in the course of the Holocaust, or fell in action during World-War II.
The First List was compiled from the following private sources (the codes refer to the “source” column in the table):
- NF - List prepared by Nechama
Frid z"l (blessed be her memory) (nee Lipnitzky, native of Mazheik),
Tel-Aviv, 25.6.2004. Nechama was associated with the Irgun Yotzei Lita ('Federation
of ex-Lithuanians, tel.972-3-
- YT - List included in the book: “The Litvak who Survived, Rescued and Went to Eretz-Israel” by Yehoshua Trigor, 2004, Hebrew (pp. 222-224, 227).
- PI - Personal information, mainly from family sources.
The Second List was compiled from Pages of Testimony (PoT) from the Yad Va’Shem Organization.
The Third List includes the names of Jewish students and teachers of the Mazeikiai Governmental Gymnasium who were murdered in the Holocaust.
Note:
Some
of the information included in List 1 is based on memories and personal
information from over 60 years ago. Being unable to verify the accuracy or
completeness of this lists and details, we apologize in advance for possible
inaccuracies and/or incompleteness in the list, including names that were
mistakenly spelled, included or omitted, or any other inaccurate details. Any
corrections will be accepted with gratitude.
Corrections
or remarks concerning information included in List 2 should be referred to Yad
Va’Shem organization.
List 1 of Jewish
Holocaust Victims from Private Sources
|
Surname |
Given names |
Remarks |
Source |
|
Aharonovitz |
Blumeh
and family, incl. elder son Moshe
|
Business
woman |
NF, YT |
|
Aronowitz |
Moshe (Misha) 1902-1945 |
Son
of Blumeh Aharonovitz
, single, businessman, died in |
PI |
|
Avramovitz |
- |
|
YT
|
|
Avrech |
Yitzhak and wife |
Son of Mazheik Chief Rabbi |
YT |
|
Beitz |
Couple and Yehuda |
Yehuda fell in action with the Red Army |
YT |
|
Bernstein |
Yitzhak,
wife and son Feivel |
Also
named R’ Itsche the shoemaker |
NF, YT |
|
Birzansky |
family |
|
NF
|
|
Bro (Bru?) |
Leizer |
Died
in |
YT |
|
Bloch |
family |
|
NF
|
|
Dliatizky |
couple |
Merchant, partner in Shell co. branch |
YT |
|
Gefenovitz |
Bendt, wife and daughter Chana’leh |
|
YT
|
|
Ginzburg |
couple |
|
YT
|
|
Glick |
Leib and wife |
Was grain dealer and/or butcher |
YT |
|
Glickman |
Leib Arieh, wife Blumeh and daughter Koka |
|
YT
|
|
Goldberg |
couple |
|
YT
|
|
Grinberg |
Couple and son Volf’keh |
Lived in a wooden hut in Laisevas Str. Owned a barbershop. |
YT |
|
Gurevitz |
Yehezkel,
wife Dobe (nee Offien) and children, incl. Moishale |
|
NF,
YT |
|
Gusayev |
Zalman, wife and elder son Yasha. Their younger son Shmuel (Shmulik) |
Yasha was possibly murdered by his classmate Williams |
YT |
|
Idelson |
couple |
|
YT
|
|
Iting |
Eliyahu-Faivel,
wife Rashe-Chane and son Dov-Berl
|
Dov-Berl
fell in action serving with the 16th div. of the Red Army |
NF, PI |
|
Itsikson |
Couple
and daughter Chaya |
Perfumery
owners |
NF, YT |
|
Itsikson |
Rachel
Shacham (Rashkeh) |
|
YT
|
|
Kagan |
couple |
Haberdashery shop owners |
YT |
|
Kaganovitz |
- |
|
YT
|
|
Kekst |
Bella,
Rivka, Sarah |
|
NF
|
|
Kekst |
Alter, wife and children |
Sho”b (=Slaughterer and inspector) |
YT |
|
Kalabria |
Leib-Arieh,
Gita, Zipora, Avraham and another relative widow woman |
The
widow was mother of Leizer, who served with Red Army and made Aliyah |
NF, YT |
|
Kelber |
Dobe and daughter Esther |
Dobe was Shlomo Kelber’s mother |
YT |
|
Krongold |
Dr. Ovsey, wife Zilly, son Bobby (Binyamin), son Rafael (Rafi) |
|
YT
|
|
Krupp |
family |
|
YT
|
|
Lampeh |
sisters |
Owned a bakery |
YT |
|
Levin |
family |
|
YT
|
|
Lipnitzky |
Shlomo
Yitzhak and wife Rachel
|
|
NF,
YT |
|
Lipnitzky |
Dov-Ber Isaac |
Murdered during first "Action" at Kovna Ghetto, 18 Aug. 1941 |
PI |
|
Lubavitsch |
Berre
Lubavitsch, his daughter Esther, married to Yoseph Itzikson, and fam.,
daughter Mirjasha, married to Shapiro |
|
PI
|
|
Lurie |
family |
|
NF,
YT |
|
Mamyoffe |
R'
Yossef, wife, daughters Chaya (wife of a Rabbi) and Tirza and other children |
Last
Rabbi of Mazheik |
NF, YT |
|
Nemtser (?) |
family |
|
NF
|
|
Nemzer |
couple |
Fabric shop owners |
YT |
|
Okmian |
Man and wife |
Tavern owner |
YT |
|
Okmian |
Aharon
|
Fell in action serving with the Red Army |
YT
|
|
Orkin |
Couple
and son Meir |
Meir
was member of ha’Shomer ha’Tzair youth movement |
NF, YT |
|
Peires (Porat) |
Family
(NF) / Moshe (YT) |
|
NF,
YT |
|
Pelz |
family |
Two
families (YT) |
NF, YT |
|
Phon |
family |
|
NF
|
|
Poisner |
family |
|
NF
|
|
Portnoy |
Isarel
and wife |
|
NF,
YT |
|
Rabinovitz |
Gita and Shulamit |
|
YT
|
|
Rachmel |
Family
(NF), Kalman (YT) |
|
NF,
YT |
|
Reiff |
- |
|
YT
|
|
Rubel |
Couple and son David |
|
YT
|
|
Rubinstein |
couple |
|
YT
|
|
Schwabeh |
Couple and son Grisha |
The husband was a pharmacist |
YT |
|
Schwarz |
Eliyahu (Elke) |
Fell in action serving as an officer with the Red Army |
YT
|
|
Shalbi |
- |
|
YT
|
|
Shapira |
Avraham, wife, son Bobby, daughter and younger son Yehuda’le |
Bobby was in Kovna Ghetto |
YT |
|
Shob (Shub?) |
family |
|
YT
|
|
Shulman |
Couple and daughters: elder daughter (no name), Billa, Frida, and younger daughter Pesia |
The father owned watches and bicycles shop |
YT |
|
Shtopel |
Couple and two sons |
Haberdashery shop owners |
YT |
|
Smalk (?) |
family |
Possibly
same as Smoleh (?) |
NF |
|
Smoleh (?) |
- |
Two families |
YT |
|
Trigobov |
Yaakov
Leib and wife Esther (nee Feinberg)
|
Yaakov
Leib died in Vernova |
NF, YT |
|
Turk |
Yossef, wife and two daughters (the smaller named Norma) |
|
YT
|
|
Tuvia |
Moshe and Dora |
Deported
to |
YT |
|
Upin |
Shmuel,
Zipora, Bruria |
|
NF
|
|
Wachs |
Couple
and son Meir |
Husband
was a tailor |
NF, YT |
|
Wasserman |
Rev Chaim and wife Miryam (nee Rabinovitz) |
Miryam killed at Pogrom in Slobodka prior to Nazi occupation |
YT |
|
Windzberg |
man |
Was dentist |
YT |
|
Yaakobivitz |
family |
|
YT
|
|
Zaks |
Yasha and wife |
Was a volunteering fireman |
YT |
|
Zarkinovitz |
Moshe,
wife Hinda, daughter Sarah and son |
|
NF, YT |
|
Zrenda (?) |
Dov and wife |
|
YT
|
|
|
|
|
|
List 2 of Jewish Holocaust Victims
List 2 includes approximately 800 names of Jewish Holocaust victims who were murdered in Mazeikiai.
This list is taken from Yad Vashem’s Pages of Testimony (PoTs), included in the Central
Database
of Shoah Victims' names.
For additional information about a specific victim (including details of victim and his/her
family,
PoT submitter, image of original PoT page, etc.) click here to access Yad VaShem's Central
Database of Shoah Victims' Names.
Jewish Holocaust Victims list: PDF format
Jewish Holocaust Victims list: EXCEL Spreadsheet format
List 3 Names of Jewish Students and Teachers
of the Governmental Gymnasium in Mazeikiai
Who Were Murdered in the Holocaust
Additional List of Jewish Holocaust Victims from Mazheik
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דמם
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