Israel Igdalski

Irving Igdal was the former Israel Igdalski of Sakiai (Shaki), Lithuania .   At the outbreak of the war he was being trained to take over the family manufacturing business.   He was the son of Alexander Siesel and Ada Igdalski  - both murdered in 1941. 
1938, Sakiai, back row is Moishe and Israel Igdalski and front row is Bayla Igdalski Rabinov, Ada Igdalski, Alexander Siesel Igdalski, and Chana Igdalski Skripnupski

Alexander was the owner of S. Igdalskis Manufaktoros Prkyba, a former mayor of Sakiai, the director of the bank of Sakiai, and very involved in all Jewish activities. He was quite the Zionist and had purchased numerous hectars of land on Hayarkon Street in Tel Aviv – then just sand dunes. Ada was known for her generous nature.

Sakiai was the first town the Germans entered when they occupied the Baltic States . Israel Igdalski’s  parents and sisters, together with their husbands,  were murdered at Sakiai in 1941. They are to be seen on the following photos:

1936, Shaki, Bailka and Shmeryl Rabinov 
 1935, Klaipeda, Chana Igdalski, Israel Skrinupski

memorial stone Sakiai, 2003

 

One sister Michleh Igdalski Frizenski lived in Marijampole with her husband and  two daughters. They were all murdered in Marijampole. Their names were: Michleh Igdalski Frizenski, Beryl Frizenski, Riva and Fruma Frizenski.

1938, Shaki, l to r, Aryeh, Dovid, and Moishe Igdalski, Michleh and Beryl Frizenski, Chana, Israel and Hillel Igdalski and kneeling are Riva and Fruma Frizenski
1939, Marijampole, Fruma Frizenski
1939, Marijampole, Riva Frizenski
Memorial stone, Marijampole 2003
Israel Igdalski had four surviving brothers, form whom two of them, Esser and Dovid, were with him in the Kovno in the ghetto, in the Alexotos Gifgangen Lager and in Dachau
 1925, Shaki, Dovid Igdalski
1936, Shaki, 10 kestucio, l to r Hillel, Dovid, Chanka, Moishe, and Israel Igdalski and unk.  
Frieda at her grandparents' house, 2003

Hide and Seek,Kinderaktion Kaunas Ghetto

Israel ’s youngest brother Moishe  was in the Jewish Brigade of the Russian Lithuanain Army, he was a prisoner of war in a German camp , escaped to Riga , survived and made his way to Munich to meet his brothers at the end end of the war.

 

Munich , The Igdalski brothers – Dovid, Moishe, Esser, and Israel
Munich , The Igdalskis – Moishe, Rivka, and Israel
Munich , November 27, 1948, Esser and Moishe Igdalski

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