She attended the kindergarten which was under Jewish supervision. Then the Hebrew school (the Cheder) and finally the Lithuanian school. The kindergarten was for children aged 3 ½ till 5 (½). The Hebrew school was for children aged until 14 (8 grades). The children attended the Cheder from 8.30 a.m. till 3.30 p.m. They learned Hebrew, chumash (the "Five Books of Moses), science, history, maths and other basic studies. Rivka and all her siblings visited the Cheder.

These picture are probably not from Pakruojis. Who knows from which Shtetl?

Teachers of the Cheder were:

1. Shevadovitch (Chana’s teacher) who emigrated before the war to South-Arica.
2. Wallerstein (unknown as to his end)
3. Ritov, returned to Telz
4. Sudovski, he married Tovka Eliason and they emigrated to Palestine, before the war.
5. Kahn

1938, Pakroy, Teacher Ritov with his students Moishe Klevanski and  Yossel Kaplan

After the Cheder Rivka attended the Lithuanian school for four years to learn properly the Lithuanian language. This class was 2 ( ½ ) hours daily. Nechama Rabinovitch and Zlatka Luria accompanied Rivka to the Lithuanian School.

There they learned how to deal with customers and business transactions

The children could take lessons in Russian taught by the Fuchs’ sisters.

Finally Rivka found a job as a bookkeeper in the bank of Epstein in Pakruojis (Epstein was the husband of Sora Blumsohn Epstein of Linkuva). The name of the bank was Zydus Smulkaus Kredito Bankas. The Jews of Lithuania, generally spoke (besides Yiddish) Russian, Polish and German which they needed for their profession as a trader, a banker and other jobs.  

1930’s, Pakroy, far left Frada Shapiro and Bobek, back row Malka Green, Rivka Shapiro and Chanka Shapiro, seated is Yeruchim Klevanski and Edka Shapiro Klevanski holding Moishe Klevanski (Marshall Klavans), Nechama Rabinowitz, Soraleh Rabinowitz, and Etaleh Shapiro

1925, sept, Pakroy, Keren Kayemit meeting, l to r, back row Leibke Mandelstamm, Zelda Fuchs, Sudovsky, Yankel (last name unknown) and seated is Edka Shapiro, Itza Leibe Eliason, and Rosa Epstein Meisel

1938,Pakroy, picnic

l to r top row Zlatka Luria, Rivka Shapiro, Chanka Shapiro holding the Fogel boy, Leah Latzman, Motel Latzman, and unk .

middle l to r  Rochel Latzman, unk, unk, in front in hammock

l to r Rochel Kolitzman, Kolitzman son, Chana Meisel, Teibe Meisel, Moishe Klevanski, and Shoshana Davidovitch.

late 1920’s, Pakroy,
Keren Kayemit *) Matzo Baking, l to r top row Rochka Eliason, Edka Shapiro, unk, Esther Shevalovitch, and Leah Woulk – middle l to r is unk, unk, Cheyna Sherman, unk, Chanka Shapiro, Zelda Fuchs and seated to r is Sora Katz, a Furman, Malka Eliason and Chaya Fuchs
(Fuchs sisters encircled)

*)Keren Kayemit
Israel, unlike most western capitalist democracies is a combination of democracy and socialism. Though capitalism is encouraged there is a limit to its unbridled expansion within Israel. Ninety percent of the land of Israel is owned by Keren Kayemit, and is held by the Jewish State in trust for the whole of the Jewish people, ad infinitum.