The Jewish family Mark Sreiberis settled in Pakruojis in 1924. He was a descendant of a Jewish family who lived in Trakai. ( near Vilnius).
Mark Sreiberis was a doctor and his wife a dentist. They had two children.
In the beginning they lived above the hospital of Pakruojis.
Soon they moved to an own house, where they stayed till the massacre in the summer of 1941.
Doctor Mark Sreiberis opened his own outpatients clinic in 1935. It contained two rooms. In one of these rooms he had placed an x-ray machine. In the other room his wife practised as a dentist.
In 1937 he published an article in a scientific magazine called: Medizina. ( nr. 11).
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In this article Sreiberis describes some symptoms of pneumonia. According to him the frequency, the amplitude and the problems of breathing are very important.
About this family being murdered in the summer of 1941, there are three different versions:
The first version is:
The family was shot on the doorsteps from the church of Pakruojis,
except for the father Markus who was murdered at Morkakalnis.
The second version is:
The whole family was shot at Morkakalnis.
The third version is:
The town's J. doctor and his family were spared until april 1942, when
they were murdered together with 20 other Jews who had been in hiding.
Source: The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust, by Shmuel Spector, Geoffrey Wigoder, rashut ha-zikaron
In the middle is the mayor of Pakruojis, at the left doctor Sreiberis, opposite of him Mrs Sreiberis, his wife
