A walk through Jewish Pakruojis            overall map

Chapter 4

detail map 3:

 

From house 86 we reach the corner of the Dariaus Gireno Gatve and Pr S Usinsko gatve, it was the border of old and new Pakruojis before the war
 

Then we turn to the left and on our right we see:

 

house 51- 52, owned by  Frunia Kerkeliene  and Iršas Klovanskis

 

We turn to the left and on our left there were two houses: 89 and 87 where lived: Abromas Mendelštamas  and Šmuilis Joffe .

1925, Pakroy

Leib Mandelstamm

A bit futher on our right we see the remnants of the firemen house (F on the map)
Former firemen house. There was a pond next to the firehouse. In case of fire the bells were rung.

After the killings at Morkakalnis, the houses of the murdered Jewish citizens from Pakruojis were emptied and all their belongings were stocked in the firemen house and divided between the killers and the population. The killers got the most beautiful and well kept items.

From the firemen house we continue to the Vytauto gatve and on our right we see house 101.

 

house 101; Šurnienė Goldė

Here was a butchery shop kept by Goldė Šurnienė . Near to her house was a bakery shop. (not on the map of 1935).

On our left we see house 85 where lived Volkas Giršas, before he moved to house 30, a house made of stone. House 85 doesn't exist anymore.

At nr. 84, at the corner of Dariaus ir Gireno gatve and Vytauto gatve, lived a Jewish woman called Frida Aronovičienė. Near the house of Frida Aronoviciene, in the court yard, was the atelier of a furniture maker.

House 84 doesn’t exist anymore. Before 1935,  the Jewish family AbehAbele  Klinitzki lived in this house.

The sister of Klinitzki, Chayele Klinitzki, was married to a great Jewish poet whose name was Yehoshuah Latzman. He was born in Pakruojis in 1906.  His collection of poems in Jiddisj was edited in 1940. The collection was called: Verses and Poems. Chayele Klinitzki – Latzman passed away in the 1930’s . Her husband Yehoshua became a widower and after some time, he married Frieda. She was from Kaunas.

Once this house was a restaurant, called London.

From house 84, we cross the Vytauto gatve and we see house nr.74 on the map, but this house is gone. It is, nowadays, an empty spot. In 1935,  it belonged to Majus Jenkelis. 

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