Samuel Fiefert and the Commemoration of Jewish Victims

At the end of the war, a monument engraved with a Star of David was erected at the site of the mass graves. The memorial was an initiative of Samuel Fiefert, a Jewish-Lithuanian soldier who had served during the war in Lithuanian Division 16 of the Red Army. In addition to erecting the monument, Fiefert participated in postwar attempts to reunite Jewish children, who had been hidden by Lithuanians, with their families. In 1948, Fiefert was murdered by local Lithuanians.

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Masha Traub-Shein and Zelig Shein, murdered in Panevezys
Yad Vashem, Museums Division, Artifacts Collection

Inscription on the back of the photograph:
Masha Traub-Shein, born 1872
Zelig Shein, born 1870
Murdered in the town of Panevezys, near the Pajuoste Forest, August-September 1941
My father and mother
Yaakov Shein
Yad Vashem, Museums Division, Artifacts Collection

This photograph was taken in Panevezys during a family reunion (Shein, Riklis and Beniaminovich) in a summer in the late 1930s. The reunion marked the visit of Goida Gan, their cousin from Latvia. All of the people in the photo were murdered in Panevezys in 1941, with the exception of Goida Gan, who emigrated to Palestine before the war broke out.
Yad Vashem, Museums Division, Artifacts Collection

Postwar memorial ceremony at the Pajuoste murder site
YVA, Photo Collection 4974/336

Samuel Fiefert with a Jewish girl, hidden during the war by a Lithuanian family, returned by him to Jewish life
YVA, Righteous Among the Nations