Appendix 1

Appendix 1

(Hebrew "Het" like "Hanuka" is transliterated as kh)

Serey Jews who emigrated to America in 1869-70

E.Bergman
A.Bitskovsky
L.Brudzinsky
L.Dushvitsky
A.Katz
A.Krepky
R.Levin
A.Losdoisky
S.Savsberg
S.Shalme
G.Trotsky

Appendix 2

List of donors for the Settlement of Eretz-Yisrael in 1902 as published in "HaMelitz"

Berent Shevakh
Bialostotzky Yehudah-Leib
Broide Yisrael
Bunishky Khayim
Khazan Tsvi
Dolkovsky Eliezer
Eilevitz Aryeh-Leib
Eilevitz Nakhum-Meir
Eishovitz Moshe-Yehudah
Epshtein Yonah
Finkel Eliezer-Ze'ev
Frank Eliezer
Frank Moshe
Garbarsky Eliezer
Garbarsky Yosef
Garbovsky Tsvi
Goldberg Ya'akov
Golub Menakhem-Mendel
Gutman Zundl
Gutshtein Aryeh-Leib
Heiman Iser
Horvitz Dov-Ber
Kash Aryeh-Leib
Kalmansky Reuven
Keili Tsvi
Kempnitzky Avraham
Kabaker Hilel
Kabaker Mordekhai
Kabaker Yekhezkel
Kabaker Yosef
Kopelman Aryeh-Leib
Lipsky Shmuel-Pesakh
Man Moshe
Margalioth Yehudah-Leib
Meretzky Eliezer
Meretzky Alter
Miler Ozer
Mishkotz Leib
Mitnik Shmuel
Mordokhovitz Avraham-Yitskhak
Nun Mordekhai ben Avraham
Nun Mordekhai ben Yehoshua
Nun Avraham
Pinkhovsky Aryeh-Leib
Plotzitzky Aryeh-Leib
Prusak Eliezer
Rabinovitz Moshe
Rabinovitz Shimon
Ragolsky Meir-Mordekhai
Ratchkovsky Yitskhak
Rogovsky Khayim
Rotenberg Yitskhak
Rotzon Shlomo
Rozenberg Aryeh-Leib
Rozenberg Dov-Ber
Rozental Shmuel-Eliezer
Sandler Alter
Shalkovsky Avraham-Yitskhak
Shalkovsky Shlomo
Shalkovsky Shmuel-Moshe
Shmidt Mordekhai
Shmidt Yehoshua
Shmidt Yitskhak
Sider Yisrael
Slavatitzky Aba
Slavatitzky Elkhanan
Slavatitzky Yisakhar
Solnitzky Moshe
Strazh Zelig
Surison Tsvi-Aryeh
Tsirinsky Aryeh-Leib
Tsviling Dov-Ber
Veiser Shmuel
Volpiansky Rafael
Vazbutsky Shlomo-Zalman
Zef Avraham
Zuskin TTsvi

Appendix 3

List of donors for the Settlement of Eretz-Yisrael in 1909 (47 names) as published in "HaMelitz"

Aronson Benjamin Meir
Bialostotsky Yehudah Leib
Brodov Aryeh Dov
Fagir Noach
Finkel Eliezer Ze'ev
Frenkel Yosef David
Garbarsky Yosef
Garbarsky Tsvi
Garbarsky Yerukham
Heiman Iser
Hurvitz Ya'akov
Ivri Shlomo
Iran Alter
Kalmansky Azriel Yitskhak
Kash (?)Aryeh
Kleinzon Hilel
Kopelman Aryeh
Krinsky Moshe
Kursniansky Avraham
Dr. Linsky Ya'akov
Lipsky Shmuel Pinkhas
Miler Menuchah
Nun Mordechai
Pinkovsky Aryeh Leib
Prusak Eliezer
Prusak Yisrael Aharon
Prusak Khayim Yehudah
Ragolsky Meir Mordechai
Ragovsky Khayim
Ratsan Shlomo
Ratchkovsky Ya'akov
Ratchkovsky Yitskhak
Rozentsveig Yehudah
Rozenberg David
Selsky Aharon
Senevitz Eliezer David
Shalkovsky Shmuel Moshe
Shalkovsky Dov
Shalkovsky Tsvi
Shmidt Yitskhak
Simson Tsvi Aryeh
Tsviling Dov
Vazbutsky Zalman
Vazbutsky David
Zef Avraham
Zif Eliezer
Ziskin Tsvi

Appendix 4

List of Payers of yearly Membership Fees for "Agudath-Yisrael"

Rabbi Yisrael Goldin
Avraham Zef
Aryeh-Leib Pinkovsky
Aryeh-Leib Avner
Eliezer Meretsky
Aharon Bernet
Eliezer Ritz
Aba Yablonsky
Gershon Heiman
Dov Tsviling
Dov Slavatitsky
Dov-Aharon Brodov
Dov Shklarovsky
Henie Ratz
Ze'ev Shklarovsky
Khayim-Yosef Dunishky
Khayim Shulzinger
Khava Vazbutsky
Yekhezkel Kabaker
Yekhezkel Aminadav
Mordekhai Brodovsky
Mordechai Kagan
Menachem-Mendel "Shatz" and "Shub" (Chazan and Shochet)
Yehudah-Leib Kriger
Yisrael Sider
Moshe Shvartsbord
Moshe Bogdansky
Etel Ragolsky
Pinkhas-Zelig Strazh
Shmuel Fordshtein
Shabtai Srolovitz
Shlomo Slavatitsky
Shimon and Tanchum Abelsky

Appendix 5

Partial List of Personalities born in Serei

Eliezer-Yitskhak Shapira (1835-1915) writer and Hebrew translator, published stories and articles in the Hebrew press.

Paul T. Goodwin (Pesakh Gudansky) (1885-?) from 1907 in the USA,published stories and poems in the Yiddish press:" Freie Arbeiter Shtime" and "Forverts".

Yehoshua Ziman (1898-?) economist, from 1924 in Eretz-Yisrael, published many books in Hebrew on the economy and the settlement of the land.

Henakh (Genrik) Ziman (1910-1987), a son of farm owners, teacher at the Yiddish "Shalom Aleikhem" High School in Kovno and in 1940/41 its headmaster, member of the underground communist party from 1932, escaped to the USSR at the beginning of WW2 and was parachuted into the woods of Belarus, organized the Lithuanian Partisan Brigade in the Rudniky woods in 1943 becoming its commander. He was appointed as the editor of the communist newspaper "Tiesa" (Truth) after the liberation of Lithuania and was a strong opponent of Zionism throughout his life.

The Brothers Tankhum, Tsvi and Eliezer Rozentsveig, educators and Zionist activists.

Rachel Rozentsveig-Levin (daughter of Eliezer), founder and director of the archives of the "Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel".

Appendix 6

The reporters from Serey in the Hebrew periodicals "HaMelitz", "HaTsefirah" and "HaMagid".:

David Robinzon
Khayim-Yehudah Gazansky
Aharon-David Meltser
Eliezer-Yitskhak Shapira
Y.Weisbrem
Meir Hurvitz
Alexander Maimon
Y.Kalmansky
Mordekhai-Ozer Simansky
Khayim-Yehudah HaCohen
Y.Broido

Appendix 7

Compiled by Ya'akov Lifshitz

List of Serey Jewish house owners who perished in the Holocaust according to the street in which they lived. The numbers of the list are identical to the numbers of the houses. (see Map)

Vytauto Street -Di Lange Gass

1. Ya'akov Rats

1a. Zelig Rits

2. Yankel Aron Rubensky

2a. Shmuel Farbshtein
2b. Iron storehouse

3. Leib Kravtsel

4. Yitskhak Tsvi Slavatitsky

his wife Rivkah nee Shulzinger
Basha Slavatitsky

5. Moshe Levkuts

6. Moshe Niemchinsky

7. Aharon Eliyahu Zolotovitz

8. Yosef Shklarovsky

9. Gershon Zolotovitz

10. Police

11. Meir Kravtsel

12. Moshe Leib Radzhunsky (stone building)
Yehoshua Zavatsky

13. --- Gutman

14. Shmuel Rabinovitz

Moshe Rabinovitz

15. Leib Katsan

16. Yisrael Rudnitsky

17. Yosl Osotstsky (baker)
17a. ---- Khmilevsky (teacher)

18. Yitskhak Rats

19. Shakhne Numeretsky

20. Mordekhai Kagan

21. Henia Borovsky (spinster)

Beile Khaia Shneider
Yitskhak Kvatkovsky

22. Zundl Vazbutsky

Berl Aronovsky (watchmaker)

23. A family from Kopcheve (former Shulzinger house)

Avraham Pitluk (watchmaker)

24. Rabbi Shchupak

Leizer Aronovsky

25. ---- Gerzon
26. Dvoshe Levin

Nakhum Bogdansky (baker)

27. Leib Shmulkovsky (hatter)

28. Frumah Vazbutsky

Yosef Pinkovsky

29. Gitele Shmulkovsky

30. Catholic church

31. Yerukham Garbarsky

32. Eizer Pinkovsky (two storey brick building)

33. Efraim Streletsky

34. Yeshayahu Lipsky

34a. Khayim Leizer Mordovitsky

35. Berta Finkel (two storey house)

35a. Light drinks and beer factory of Finkel and Slavatitsky

36. David Kovalsky (stone house)

37. Berl Shklarovsky

38. Alter Iran

38a. Yehudah Leib Kriger

39. Libe Kupershmid (stone house)

Shmuel Yenkl Ziskin
Khayim Leib Balbirishky

40. Kune Prusak

41. Eli Aminodov (stone house)

42. Yisrael Aharon Tsviling

43. Yosef Aminodov (two storey brick house)

44. Agricultural machines factory, flour mill and power station (owner Tsviling)

45. Khayim Mende Keili

46. Ya'akov Rachkovsky

Moshe Rachkovsky

47. Rivkah Prusak

48. Khanah Fridkovsky ( brick house)

48a. David Liakht

49. Shmuel Moshe Shalkovsky

50. Perets Shimkhovsky

51. Asher Borovsky (cord maker)

52. Nakhum Pekarsky

53. ----- Katsan

54. School, Bank, Youth Clubs (two storey house)

55. ----- Gutshtein

56. Zekharyahu Dombelsky (stone house)

57. Itse the blacksmith

58. Yehudah Rozentsveig

59. Asher Lutsner (brick house)

60. Yisrael Yeglinovitz

---- Potkovitsky (metal worker)

61. Meir Gurvitz

61a. ----- Zalkind (electrician)

62. Ya'akov Kahanovitz (shokhet and khazan)

Shmuel Kotz
Moshe Bordovsky

63. Barukh Shlomo Zemiansky

64. Yudl Sandler (two storey brick house)

Aharon Prusak
Magistrate Court

65. Khayim Kriger

66. Ya'akov Sandler

66a. Leib Sandler

67. Nakhum Lapides

68. Shmuel Pinkhas Lipsky (two storey stone house)

Spinnery (owners: Finkel, Slavatitsky, Lipsky)

69. Zelig Miler

70. Hirshl Shalkovsky

Iser Kravtsel

71. Post office (stone house)

72. Efraim Kachinsky

73. Yosef Garbarsky

Dr.Hershl Garbarsky

The Market Square

3. Yudes Zavilevitz

3a. Betsalel Aminodov

4. Shmuel Kalko

5. Sarah Pasernitsky

6. Pesakh Khazan

7. Zelig Rachkovsky

Meir Ivashkovsky

8. Dr. Leon Finkel

---- Ivashkovsky
Mikhael Hekht

9. Alter Zimlitsky (stone house)

10. Yekhezkel Aminodov

11. Iser Zemiansky

12. Volf Nun

Rashel Hekht (two storey house)
Shmuel Goldshmid (bookkeeper)
Tsvi Keili

14. ----- Galenty

15. Aharon Berent

16. Azriel (shoemaker)

17. Shiki Man

18. Nisan (shoemaker)

19. Pesakh Berent

20. Alter Nervid

21. ---- Palunsky

22. ---- Kolvitsky ??

23. Shmuel Lazevnik

24. ---- Pasernitsky

25. Gedalyahu Mutsiner

26. Not known (stone house, pharmacy)

27. ----- Liakht
30. Yehudah Leib Bialostotsky (stone house)

32. Moshe Bogdansky

34. Shaul Rozenberg (stone house)

Seiny Street

3. Berish Shalkovsky

4. Yosl Kupershmid

5. ----- Krinsky (black smith)

6. Moshe Kupershmid

7. Leib Fridkovsky

7a. a family from Meteliai

8. Asher Yershansky

9. ----- Margovitsky

10. Ya'akov Goltz

11. Yenkl Eliyah Kriger

12. Ze'ev Keily

13. ----- Lazevnik

14. ----- Katsinsky

Shul Gass (Synagogue Street)

3. Motl Man

4. Shimon Idelson

4a. Hershl Valtsenboim

5. Henia Shankovsky

6. Itse Leib Aronovsky

7. Leib Keler

8. ---- Gensher

9. Reizl Miler

10. Shimon Rats

11. Ya'akov Miler

12. ---- Kvitkovsky

13. Zelig Miler

14. Shmuel Galinovitz

15. Shimon Pesakhnitsky

16. Avraham Rats

17. Hilel Ostrovsky

18. Yekutiel Kriger (glazier)

19. Alter Man

20.----- Kvitkovsky

21. Shimon Vazbutsky

22. Moshe Finkelshtein

23. Iser Rats

24. Khayim Prodovsky

25. Yehudah Miler

26. Yehudah Berent

27. Alter Rumesh

28. Motl Kravtsel

29. Reuven Buk (bath attendant)

30. Khayim ----- (carpenter)

31. Shepsl Isrolovitz (baker)

32. Mordekhai Blodovsky

33. ----- Bogdansky

34. Yitskhak Sider

35. ---Zherebkovsky

36. Motl Kravtsel

37. Nakhum Rubinsky

38. ---------------------- (carpenter)

39. ----- Shvartsbord

40.----- Brodovsky

Shops at the Market Square

1. Zemlitsky

2. Gurevitz

3. Osotsky

4. Rayak

5. Fire Brigade

6. Berent

7. Gutshtein

8. Rachkovsky

9. ---------------

10. Paliak

11. Bordovsky

12. Purnitsky

Bibliography

The Rabbis who served in Serey

Khayim Shimshon Vasertsug - known as the Filipover, lived in Serey approximately between 1840-1850, died in 1865; Yosef Elkhanan HaLevi,1801-1877, in Serey from 1853 till his death; Gershon Rabinson, served from 1876, died in 1908 in Cleveland; Avraham Tsvi Pinkhas Eliashberg,1863-1943 in Jerusalem, in Serey 1901-1908, emigrated to Eretz Yisrael in 1929; Yekhezkel Volpert, in Serey 1880-1900, died in 1910.

The "Gaon", Rabbi Eliyahu from Vilna, lived in Serey for one year, during Prussian rule in the house of Yisrael Berloiner (Berliner?) a rich man and a sholar. Here he completed his book "Adereth Eliyahu" and was friendly with the local "Tsadik" Khayim "Filipover". May be that the reason the Vilna Gaon spent time in Serey was that his second son Rabbi Yehudah Leib lived there. Yehudah Leib was

the son-in-law of a rabbi of Serey, Rabbi Avraham ben Yekhezkel (of Lazdey). Several sons of Yehudah Leib lived in Serhei with their families: Rabbi Yosef Yekhezkel Wilner (1788-1849) and Rabbi Tuviah Yurbarsky (c.1789-1867). The former is buried in Serey and the latter in Jerusalem. Yehudah Leib is not buried in Serey as he died in 1816 whilst travelling through Neishtot (Then Wladislawow-now Kudirkos Naumiestis).

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Compiled by Joseph Rosin
Created on April 1, 2000
Updated by JA May 4, 2000
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