Plunge, Lithuania

Boyd Family

Our thanks to Maxine Boyd for the photos and notes.

Notes on images above:

Maxine writes: my cousin Sydney Boyd in Israel wrote to me as follows some years ago

This photo is taken before 1937 because Anne Kaplan (nee Bod) came to Cape Town, in 1937 aged 21 or 22 on a tourist visa.  Her parents sent her to Cape Town to her brothers Joe Boyd (Bod( (my father in Law) and his brothers Zelig and Julius Boyd. Anne Kaplan is in the picture in the middle.  The girl standing in the front is Rivka, the youngest Esther Bod is the tall girl on the right behind Grandfather Velvel Bod.

Previously I said that Esther Bod's husband Matus survived and landed in Israel, but from notes that I have found from Sydney Boyd, it seems that one of the other sisters husband, Nochie Minster may have  survived and went to Israel - not quite sure of this..

Son of Esther (Bod) and Matus Zive killed in Plungian.

This was a picture taken of the Bod House in Rietavas Street some years ago by a Ted Margulius of USA and sent to Sydney Boyd

Photo of Plungyan nursery school about 1937 and class teacher Miss Scher. Child in centre is Zalman Zive killed in the Holocaust with family. We heard that Matus Zive survived and went to Israel – not sure if this is correct

Eliezer Bod, taken in 1938. Died 1942 fighting, apparently somewhere in Russia.

Esther Bod, killed in Plungian.

Zalman Zive, son of Matus and Esther (nee Bod) Zive

I think this was Binyamin, another son.

Two Bod sisters from Plungian, killed in Holocaust

It is difficult to know who the family member in the picture is. If this picture was taken in 1925, it could either be Maxine’s father or Julius (Yudel). Julius and Annie were the two shortest members of the family, the rest all had height.