A Walk in Jewish Seduva
Chapter 3
house 6This house on the corner of the Sporto gatve and the Veriskiu gatve belonged to a Jewish family, name unknown.We return to the centre of Seduva and we arrive at the park where the gravel of the red brick stone synagogue was used for making foot paths.
Nowadays not a trace of gravel anymore.
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houses 7 and 8All these new houses around the square were in the past wooden houses belonging to Jewish families. And in the middle of these houses was the wooden synagogue. At the end of this group of houses we can see the entrance of a shop, house 9.
house 9Here, before 1941 was the shoe shop belonging to the Jewish family Kirpitsjnikas.
Today not any trace left, but Marija remembers very well, her mother bought her in this shop a pair of beautiful red shoes and she was delighted about it. These shoes were so amazingly beautiful!
Kirpitsjnikas tried to escape the Germans by converting to Catholicism, but finally he was caught and shot. The doctor, Paturskis, did the same, but he suffered the same destiny as Kirpitsjnikas did.
We pass the former house of Kirpitsjnikas and we continue our walk straight ahead.