descendants' photogallery

Nava Shulkin

Shadeve (Shadova) list made by Yehuda Grodnik, Baruch Gofer and Alter Kaplan

Hebrew version (by courtesy of Pnina Gofer, Baruch Gofer's widow)
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1 At the marketplace corner and Varishky(?) was a hotel. The widow Haya Cohen, her daughter and son in law Goldin, ran it. Their children were Ada and Meir. The hotel was known to be infested with ticks. Business was poor. Goldin burned it down and declared bankruptcy. He tried to jump out of a moving train hoping to collect damages from the government, who owned the train company, complaining that he was pushed out. In vain. He than attempted to impress the family who was not excited of his moneymaking ventures by drinking poison (vinegar…). So much for Goldin.
2 Moshe Itze (Itzhak)  Bret was a well to do lumber merchant. His son Shlomo had 3 children. Moshe Itze Bret is the grandfather of Former Knesset speaker Dov Shilansky. His eldest daughter (Dov’s mother) was the only girl in town who could play the piano.
3

Krum? (Krom?), his wife Vikhne and 2 children.
4 A gentile lived in a tall, 2 story house.
5 Shabtai Halk, a  butcher , crippled in his legs, his wife and 4-5 children.
6 Sidrov – owner of the electricity plant.
7 Velvel (Zeev?) Feifert (Faifert) – Marketplace corner and Shavly, construction supplies store.
8 Cobbler workshop owned by Biilutza who is renting it
9 Biilutza – Judging by the name I (Pnina Gofer) suppose she was not Jewish.
10

Tool shop owner who lived in the town Radivilishok and would arrive to town only on market days, that is Thursdays.
11 Kamber – On 1st floor lather workshop, on 2nd his residence. At some time a gentile lived there.
12 Kaplan Avraham, owner of building supplies shop. Family residence in same house.
13 Was a fabric store. Name of owner unknown.
14 Mirvis.
15 Kirpitchnik – shoe store. Lived in same house.
16

Berl (Dov?) Hirshel Paim, a wheat merchant. Only one in the region.
17 Avraham Shuchman – bicycle repair.
18   Fire station, run by a gentile.
19 Jueznet? (Uzint?) Moshe – grocery. 4-5 children.
20 A grocery owner’s name not remembered.
21 Margolis Shmuel, a clerk and public worker.
22 Abramovitch – owner of a small store.
23 Abba Mer, a merchant of grain and linen . His son Zondel(?)  was employed in the business.
24 Sandear (Sandler?) – construction materials shop.
25

Hirshe (nik named “Ziptze”) – a tiny grain merchant
26

Shmuel Nul – volunteered in the Lithuanian Army – fabric shop.
27 A Lithuanian barbershop, married to Menuha, daughter of Rise (Raise?) the miller (converted to Christianity)
28 Mottel Gershovitz and his wife, Shalom, Nesia. A large construction materials shop. A kind of dept. store, selling wholesale, too.
29 Mer Bomke, fabric shop. The Frid family lived there, a teacher and his wife.
30 Itche, the hat maker. Married, no children.
31 Two story house where an anti-Semitic Lithuanian lived. Ramnauskes. He had an iron shop. His son participated in the “Aktie” of the small ghetto of Kovno. He participated in the murder of the Jews of Shadeve.
32 Faivel Shuchman, fabric store.
33 Five Gidus, eggs merchant. The couple had 4 children.
34 Pinke, Lorner(?)(Lerner?) (crippled barber) – barbershop.
35

  Adjacent to the Gidus house lived Moshe Nissan Niselevitz – livestock merchant, horses, butcher shop.
36 Moshe Swartz (Schwartz). Mother, Sara, Riva, barbershop.
37 Naisa? and her 2 daughters. Moshe married one of Naisa’s daughters. She lived off the support of relatives abroad.
38 Aharon Kushnir, eggs merchant.
39 A widow who had 2 daughters. They had a quarrel with Niselevitz over a pile of lumber on an empty lot next to them.
40 The Khalimouvitch family: 4 daughters, 2 sons. Lived on 2nd floor, grocery on the 1st. It was a brick building, one of few in town.
41 Moshel (or Mottel) – a flower merchant. A Candy (sweets) maker. Taibe-Roche (Rachel?) was the sales person.
42 Hyman Israel – Shneior (Shneier?), eggs merchant.
43 Fleish – 3 sons and a mother, fur merchants.
44 Bantze Bloch – bakery.
45 Arke the tin worker (dumb, can not speak).
46  Lea Kuffer (Koffer?), her husband Shlomo with 6 daughters – butcher shop. The house was owner by Shaie Shneior (the Kuffers rented the building). With them lived the birth helper Bobe Rochel.
46 Guttman –lived off support from abroad.
48 Faivke – married the daughter of Mira Shuchman. Had a clothes shop at the marketplace.
49

 Moshe (Hana Chase’s) Maisel a horse merchant. Before Passover – Bakes matzoth.
50

Fridland Judel, the butcher. This family had daughters only.
51

Davidolvitch Zalman, Failing shoo shop. Lived off some support. Had a single son – Syomka (Shlomo).
52 Noah Mirvis – a shoo shop, in partnership with Kirpitznik, at the marketplace.
53 Pinchas Rabinovitch – Bank manager and grocery shop owner.
54

Brok Kalman. A son and a daughter. Business failing so badly that they wiped out their his daughter's Dowry (“Nedunia”) .
55 Fritz” (a nickname). Was a shoemaker in partnership with “Chaiat”.
3 Families lived in that same building. All had twin boys. All were welfare cases. One of the boys studied at a “Yeshiva” and did not eat at home – he eats at others, as was the custom of Yeshiva boys who studied away from home.
56 A long building housing two families.
57 Gippel? (Gimppel?) Pesia – a widow with 2 boys. Lived off support from abroad.
58 Segal – a semester with 3 sons.
59 Rachmiel the wagon driver and son Velvke – used to sell trinkets.
60 Hiershe – Mende. His son Berke immigrated to Brasil.
(Borochovitch??)
61 Rotshtein Faivke von a lottory of 10000 LIT. (A fortune). פחות מאלף דולר
62 Bere Itzea (son of Rachmiel) a wagon driver with 3 sons.
63 A gentile who repaired harmonicas.
64 Moshe Zaitzer? (Zeltzer?) with a crippled son.
65 A gentile, manager of the fire station.
66 Gentiles.
67 Gentiles.
68 Avraham Kriger – a farm owner Worked in agriculture.

Next came an alley leading to the cemetery. There was the slaughter-house and than the railway station. Gentiles lived there
69 Bartkinski – A flower mill.
70 Glike, wife of Yoske Flot.
71

Moshe Avraham, supported by Shmuel Ber. Was blind in one eye, had a walking stick received from the Rabbi of Shavly. This person married 6 times!
72 Two sisters of Avraham Kriger, both single.
73 The “Melamed” (teacher) Hillel with his wife and a retarded son.
74 Levit Yankel – Ropes maker, soft drinks maker. Blind in one eye, had 3 sons and 3 daughters. His nickname was Yankel the “Pachter” ( פאכטער ).
75 Rozovski Hyshel (Hirshel?)– family with many children.
76

A Lithuanian gentile, Blezis, schoolteacher related to Jews killer. Was a ringleader?
77 Two women lived at that building.
78 Abba Mer – linen and seeds warehouse.
79 Milchman Moshe.
80 Lazarov Gutke and Shalom, and a son and a daughter.
81 Zaal (Zel?), a new house. The wife used to tell baggers that the men are not at home.
82 A Jewish family, name not remembered.
83 Gershovitz Shalom.
84 Meltz Yankel.
85 Avraham Shmuel the “Melamed” (school teacher). A widower raised 3 daughters and 2 sons by himself. Was a very fine teacher.
86 Shulkin. Daughter Hana, mother Sara, grandmother Mira’s (Miriam, Mira?).
87 Sara Beratchik’s and son.
88 Shtein Faivel, a wagon driver with wife Libshe + 4 kids.
89 Rag-dealer (“Shmates”) that kept a goat in his house.
90 Itzik the hat maker. His wife Batia was a seamstress.
91 Kaile and son Berke Sadovitch (he immigrated to Israel).
92 Flit Avraham – Itche – Butcher.
93 Bloch Bentche, sons Misha and Israel. They had a bakery and a construction material shop.
94 Liebe (Leibe?) Matis, flower and groats, grits(??) merchant.
95 Mira Suchman – fabric shop.
96 Mer Raise – grocery.
97 Druski(n?) Yankel, sons Shimke and Hirshke.
98 Fleish Mottel and Dvorah – pub.
99 Mira Suchman and the sister in law, Hana.
100 Simche Hak.
101 Menuche Hak + 6 sons.
102 A tin worker with wife Hana.
103 Berel the Melamed (teacher) , wife Sara, a crippled daughter, living off the support of Shmuel Ber.
104 Arke Stein.
105 Kamenitz Israel and his son Maisi who was the tin worker.
106 Hirshe Druskin, butcher.
107 Lebe Fucks – Hazan (prayer leader).
108 Leibke of Peisa’s.
109 Pinke
110 Krenke
111 Raise the flower miller and son Leibke (retarded or mentally ill). The flower mill was next to the house
112 Old butchery. Road from there lead to the wood where Jews where massacred at.
113 Yehiel Shtein, his son in law Bentzel who transported the dead to the cemetry.
114 Moshe Zelig? the synagogue secretary (Shamash). Was chazzan, and shochet, too. An exceptionally honest and fair person.
115 Kaplan Nachum, farmer. Had a vegetable garden. Used to sell seeds, wine for Passover. Owned a grocery too. Had 6 children: Sara, Zelde, Mile, Nathan, Yankel and Shalom.
116 Berel (Dov) Friedlander, wife Paya and girls Rinke and Fridke.
117 Sara Riva.
118 Iser the wagon driver and Velvake Flit.
119

Israel Hayman and Mashlean??. The only one who sold men’s contraceptives, and Red Cross lottery tickets. In the same house lived Rochel Taibe.
120 Hatzkel (nicknamed “Mazal u-bracha”).
121 Yossi – Reuven (nicknamed “baal hashever).
122 Teitelman, synagogue secretary (Shamash).
123 Haya Reize (blind) and her household.
124 Yankel Leavit. At same house live the ??? with 3 daughters.
125 Shmuel the water carrier. Was very poor. Was asked to read the “Tochecha” (prair??) and receive a pair of boots in reward. Had a married daughter.
126 Lemel Baruch and family. With Moshe Eliyahu and Berta. There was an Inn there.
127 Rabbi Hankin, and on 2nd floor the Jewish bank – the Folks bank.
128 Braine Diamant. The grocery that she owned was sold to single-handed Leizer.
129 Haya Goldin.
130

The Grodnik family. Father Hanoch died at the “Aktie” of the small ghetto of Kovno. Son Yosef Leib (was a Rabbi at Telz) was murdered with his wife Hasia (daughter of Rabbi of Kelem).

 

Baruch Gofer recorded their names at the witness pages of "Yad Vashem".

This is probably a partial list – an unfinished job. I have nobody to ask… Arranged and printed by Pnina Gofer, widow of Baruch.

Translated into English – Anat and Eitan Rosen.

 “Eyzegeber” Dov Levin

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