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Frada then raised her six children by herself. To earn a living she kept a
bed and breakfast, named Hotel Europa, for Jewish businessmen, 32
beds were available. Three meals a day
were served
and she
kept a catering for visiting German businessmen. Especially
the veal, prepared by Frada was very beloved. The business went prosperous and
Frada had have a wing (the Fliegel)
added to the house, in the early thirties. In
Hotel Europa movies were being shown, the only place in Pakruojis where this was
possible. Rivka
remembered this very well.
Also once, when she was a young girl, they took her to the forest to see a play
performed there. There were a lot of people and children. Rivka liked the
play very much. But then suddenly a big monkey came out of the forest to jump on
the stage and Rivka startled and screamed. She didn't want to stay there anymore
and they had to take her home.
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hotel Europa |
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The Fliegel
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Frada
maintained a grocery on the premises. The grocery carried Christmas
ornaments at the holidays.
She rented out two areas. One area she rented as a
restaurant to Berta Gegeckiene, the
mother of Zenonas Gegeckas. Frada and
Berta were good friends.
When Zenonas'
brother Antanas was killed, all the Shapiros
went to the church for the funeral. Antanas attended the gymnasium and
was a Komsomol member. Because of this membership he was killed together with
other Komsomols on their way from Pakruojis to Siauliai. No trace of Antanas
after that, nowhere...
Berta Gegeckiene moved to New Pakruojis in the late 1930’s. Kazuna
was renting the site as a tavern at the time of the massacre in the summer of
1941.
The other area
Frada
rented as a grocery to her daughter Edka and son-in-law
Yeruchim Klevanski.
Frada didn’t rent it again, when the couple and their 2 children emigrated in 1939
to
Norfolk, Virginia
,
U.S.A.
via
Annapolis
,
Maryland
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Edka
Shapiro Klevanksi and her sons Ekaleh and
Moishe in 1938, Pakruojis |
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Frada Katz Shapiro and her daughter Liebseh (Liebska) were
murdered in August
1941 in
the woods of Morkakalnis, near Pakruojis, together with all the other Jewish
women and children of Pakruojis. Some
of the women were first beaten and raped, among them Liebseh Shapiro.
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Liebseh in 1939
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1937, Pakroy, l
to r, Yeruchim Klevanksi, Edka Shapiro Klevanksi, Etaleh Shapiro,
Edith Shapiro
(Mayer’s daughter from New York), Rivka Shapiro, Liebske
Shapiro,
Chanka Shapiro, Dovid Latzman,
seated l t r, Frada Katz Shapiro and Mary Liebman Shapiro and the little boy is
Moishe Klevanksi |
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The other members of the family Shapiro-Katz were: |
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Edka
Shapiro (left), 1926 Pakruojis |
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Berka
(Barney) in 1912 |
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Barney in South Africa |
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Leibel
(Leibka)early 1920's, Pakruojis |
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1931,
April, Pakruojis,
Leibke Shapiro’s bar
mitzvah |
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Chanka,
1930's, Pakruojis |
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Berka and
Leibel had already
emigrated to South-Africa before the war.
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