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Photograph
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Won't you share
your Rokiskis related family photographs with us? They provide
a slice of life from Rokiskis that would otherwise be lost to us
forever.
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to
see memories written by Slovka Segal Sarver , who lived in
Rokiskis, accompanied by some photos, in the Dusetos Yizkor
Book. (thanks to SIG member Hedva Scop for
this interesting link) |
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This photograph was taken on
October 26, 1934. We got it from the Lietuvos Centrinis
Valstybes Archyvas, the Lithuanian Central State Archives |
This is the information on the back of the photograph.
Standing in the back are, from left to right, Ruvel
Gafanovich and Yudel Weiner. In the front, from left to
right, are Yankel Chait, Motel Chaitovich, Chaim Kruk, and
Leibe Ruch. |
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The captions tell us that:
1. Ruvel Gafanovich was a tailor in Kaunas (according
to family member Alan Zeligson, Ruvel went to Sao Paolo,
Brazil)
2. Chaim Kruk was a watchmaker in
Kaunas
3. Motel Chaitovich was 'exiled'
4. Yudel Weiner was 'exiled'
5. Leibe Ruch was a cap maker in
Kaunas (See
Ruch Family photos)
6. Yankel Chait lived at Kauno
Street 17 in Rokiskis |
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Four who
survived the war -
from l to r: Sasha (Shabske) Ruch, who escaped with his
family to Russia and served in the Soviet Army,
(1923-2001); Abe (Abrashke) Reznikowitz (Resnick),
survivor of the Kaunas Ghetto, lost all members of his
family, (1924-1998); Ar'ye (Leibke) Yakubowitz , who
escaped to Russia, served in the Soviet Army, lost all
members of his family, (1924-2006?); Yosef Levin and his
family were exiled to a Siberian Gulag, lost his older
brother, (1922-2001)
In the
words of Reuben Ruch:
I send you a
historical photo of four boys, members of
Ha'shomer Ha'tzair Rokiskis, who with incredible
effort, with inexhaustible aspiration for life,
were lucky enough to escape from the murderers
hands of death, at the cost of the lives of
their dear parents, sisters and brothers. They
were filled with HOPE to build a new life in the
land Eretz Israel.
(Photo
courtesy of Sana Meller Levin, wife of Yosef;
identifications made by Reuben Ruch) |
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