Rokiskis Necrology

There is no list of people from Rokiskis who were killed in the Holocaust. For the most part, no records were kept. So we have to try to recreate this information from a variety of sources like the ones listed below to pages of testimony filed at Yad Vashem by friends and family members. This is but one way to remember and memorialize our friends and family who were murdered.

Yad Vashem's List of Rokiskis-Area Holocaust Victims

Click here to see the names that have been extracted from Yad Vashem pages of testimony and other records.

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Concentration Camp Victims

Below you will find several tables which provide the names of Rokiskis people who ended up in German concentration camps.

This information is gathered from several JewishGen Databases. Thanks to the efforts of Holocaust researcher Peter Lande and his volunteers, we are able to look at the translated information from the Captured German Records Collection, which is housed at the United States National Archives in College Park, MD. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased copies of these many reels of microfilm, which prompted this project.

Dachau Concentration Camp Records

Page	Name	Date of Birth	Town of Birth	Town of Residence	Street and #	Prisoner #	Category	Arrived	Disposition
141/Di.	ATLAS, Jacob	15 Jan 1901	Rokisehai	Kauen		80887	Sch. Lit. J.	Zug. 15 Jul 1944	befr. Kaufering
565/Gl	BORODAVKA, Mottel	1925	Rakiski	Rakiski		92 696	Sch. Lit. J.	22 Aug 1944 v. Stutth.	befr. Mühldorf
594/Ha	BOVODAWKA, Schajay	1914	Rokischki	Kauen		80892	Sch. Lit. J.	Zug. 15 Jul 1944	befr. Kauf.
1.671-Ky.	CELZER, Jeguda	27 Jul 1927	Rokischikiz	Kauen		82 468	Sch. Lit. J.	Zug. 15 Jul 1944	befreit Kaufering
1012/Su	DAWIDIWITZ, Boruch	15 Jun 1914	Rakischke	Kauen		84749	Sch. J. Lit.	Zug. 01 Aug 1944 Kauen	befr. Kaufering
1609/Gä	GALAS, Josef	17 Feb 1899	Raksic	Brünn	Kernerstr. 13	16043	Sch Tsch.	29 Aug 1940 Sa.	6 Jul 1945 Abg.d Fl. (zurück am 28 Nov 1944 üb. 28 Nov 1944 n. Bu.)
1687/Bg.	GERMAN, Mischa	01 Jan 1925	Rakischki	Schaulen	Wilnaerstr. 128	92 710	Sch. Lit. J.	22 Aug 1944 Stutth.	befr. Mühldorf
1687/Bg.	GERMANN, Salomon	13 Nov 1895	Rakischki	Schaulen	Wilnaerstr. 128	92 713	Sch. Lit. J	22 Aug 1944 Stutth.	befr. Mühldorf
1816/Su	GORDON, Nathan	05 Sep 1906	Rokoskis	Panawezis	Stotiestr. 3	85448	Sch. Lit. J	zug. 01 Aug 1944 Kauen	gest. 23 Mar 1945
2484/Bg	JOFFE, Abraham	31 Mar 1901	Rakischki	Abeli		84 693	Sch. Lit. J.	01 Aug 1944 v. Kauen	gest. 08 Feb 1945
3898/Ch	MILLER, Schmerl	1901	Rokischkis	Kauen	Linkuvos 42	81515	Sch. Lit. J.	Zug. 15 Jul 1944	gest. 22 Dec 1944
4419/	PEN, Benjamin	12 Aug 1921	Rokischkis	Kauen	Ukmerges 12	85 516	Sch. Lit. J.	01 Aug 1944 v. Kauen	07 Jan 1945 Fl.

Notes:
Category - Sch=prisoner, Lit= Lithuanian J=Jew
Disposition - Befr=Liberated, Gest=Died

Sharit Ha-Platah Information

Sharit Ha-Platah , which translates into English as "Holocaust Survivors" or literally as "Counted Remnant", was published in 1946 by the "Central Committee of Jews in Bavaria", in Munich, Germany and contains the names of 61,387 Jews who survived the Holocaust.

Most of these names were collected by Chaplain (Rabbi) Abraham Klausner, who visited many of the camps in southern Germany where survivors had gathered in late 1945 and 1946. For more information on this collection go to the JewishGen explanation.

Name	Born	Year	Last Known Location	ID	Page	Line
BASCH, Ruwim	Rokiskis	1906	Feldafing	368	13	43
FLOCH, Dawid	Rokiskis	1916	Freimann	2018	76	141
LEVIN, Aron	Rokiskis	1895	München	1691	197	33
SCHALITAN, Scheftel	Rokiske	1924	Dachau	932	284	104
SOCHAT, Leo	Rokiskis	1907	München	5563	312	112

From Out of the Depths

Translations from this book by Rabbi Ephraim Oshry as found on the Jewishgen Yizkor Book List. In Rabbi Oshry's own words,

An appendix to the book contains the names of our rabbis and teachers the heads of the holy Yeshivas and the holy and pure students, from the land of Lithuania, who were killed on Kiddush Hashem [sanctification of the Holy Name] ....

Family name	First name	Profession	Age	Place of birth	Date of death	Remarks	Page	Yeshiva
BAAR	Shalom	Yeshiva student	24	Rokiskis	Elul 5701 (Aug./Sept. 1941)		275	Telz
CEDAR	Ya'akov	Yeshiva student	17	Rokiskis	Elul 5701 (Aug./Sept. 1941)		260	Telz
CHEN	Leib Berel	Yeshiva student	19	Rokiskis	Elul 5701 (Aug./Sept. 1941)		289	Panevezys
GERSHON	Yitzhak Zerach	Yeshiva student	28	Kalbotishkis (village near Rokiskis)	Elul 5701 (Aug./Sept. 1941)	He was born in a village near Rokiskis	232	Slobodka
KROK	Henach	Yeshiva student	17	Rokiskis	Elul 5701 (Aug./Sept. 1941)		255	Telz
LANG	Aharon	Yeshiva student	27	Rokiskis	Elul 5701 (Aug./Sept. 1941)		222	Slobodka
LANG	Tuvia	Yeshiva student	22	Rokiskis	Elul 5701 (Aug./Sept. 1941)		228	Slobodka
LANG	Yitzhak	Yeshiva student	20	Rokiskis	Elul 5701 (Aug./Sept. 1941)		232	Slobodka
LEIVIK	Binyamin	Yeshiva student	28	Rokiskis	Elul 5701 (Aug./Sept. 1941)		224	Slobodka
LEVIN	Shachna	Rabbi	34	Rokiskis	Elul 5704 (Aug./Sept. 1944)		240	Slobodka
LEVIN	Yudel	Yeshiva student	22	Rokiskis	Elul 5701 (Aug./Sept. 1941)		229	Slobodka
MILNER	Shmaryahu	Rabbi	44	Rokiskis	Elul 5704 (Aug./Sept. 1944)		241	Slobodka
RIFF	Daniel	Yeshiva student	24	Rokiskis	Elul 5701 (Aug./Sept. 1941)		226	Slobodka
SHUSTER	Yosef	Yeshiva student	29	Rokiskis	Menachem Av 5701 (July/Aug. 1941)		287	Panevezys
TZETISKE	Zalman	Yeshiva student	18	Rokiskis	Elul 5701 (Aug./Sept. 1941)		256	Telz
TZETISKE	Zvi Hirsh	Yeshiva student	17	Rokiskis	Elul 5701 (Aug./Sept. 1941)		274	Telz
ZAKSTEIN	Nachum	Yeshiva student	19	Rokiskis	Elul 5701 (Aug./Sept. 1941)		293	Panevezys
-----------	Mordecai	Yeshiva student	19	Rokiskis	Elul 5701 (Aug./Sept. 1941)		267	Telz

Thanks to Rokiskis SIG member Steven Weiss for finding this information.