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Walter Ziser- Was killed while fighting in the Naarutz forest; October 1943.
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Shimon Palavski as a Polish soldier in 1939
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Rivka Palavski ( first wife of Shimon) with son Arkadi. Rivka and Arkadi were killed in Ponar
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Jack Filersdorf. Was taken from Vilna to Estonia and killed in 1944.
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Nisan Anolik
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Mozes Anolik was born in Wilno, Poland in 1890 to Avraham and Bunia. He was an accountant and married to Sara ( Sonia) . Prior to WWII he lived in Wilno, Poland. During the war was in Wilno, Poland. Mozes died in 1944 in Klooga at the age of 54. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted on 01/01/1955 by his son Nisan of Jerusalem
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Sara ( Sonia) Anolik was born in Orsha, Belorussia in 1894 to Nisan. She was a midwife and married. Prior to WWII she lived in Wilno, Poland. During the war was in Wilno, Poland. Sara was killed in 1943 in Wilno, Poland. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted by her son; Nisan Ankoli of Jerusalem.
Riva Hakner
Riva, daughter of Chaia and Abe Gordon, was born in Vilna, Poland. She married Ruben Hakner, and they lived in Vilna before and during the war. Riva was a housewife. In October 1943, Riva was taken to Ponar, outside Vilna, where she was shot. She was 37 years old. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted on 01/01/1993 by her daughter Sue Hirsh, from United States
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The wedding of Rosa and Yaakov Shapiro ( They both perished in Vilna in 1944)
Pictures given by their grandson; Gady Margalit in Israel
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Sarah Shapiro nee Gerstein, daughter of Leiba and Pnina perished in the Shoah in Ponary
Pictures given by her great grandson; Gady Margalit in Israel
He was born in 1934 in Vilnius (Vilna), the son of Chaim and Ettl. His
father was murdered.
Aharon came to the Coordinatsia from the USSR.
Album 54, No. 260.
Note:
The Coordinatsia was the Zionist organization for the discovery and
recovery of Jewish children in Poland who had been placed with non -
Jews during the war.
Note:
Natan Ring served as an policeman in the Jewish ghetto police force, and was executed by partisans
Note:Edek Boraks was born in Kalisz in 1918. He was a member of the Ha - Shomer ha - Tsa'ir youth movement and joined a hachshara (Zionist pioneering training program). At the outbreak of the war, he was drafted and served in the Polish army. In 1940 he arrived in Vilnius. Boraks was on the main steering committee of Ha - Shomer ha - Tsa'ir from 1941. In December 1941 he went to Warsaw, then returned to Vilnius and was active in the FPO (Yiddish: United Partisans Organization). From there he went to Bialystok, where he was active in the ZOB (Yiddish: Jewish Fighting Organization). In February 1943 Boraks commanded a combat unit. He was caught by the Germans and deported to Treblinka
Ghetto.
Rose Levin (now Weinberg) is the daughter of Ida and Yossef Levin. She was born in March 1941 in Vilna. Her older sister, Chaya, was born in 1936. Her father was shot by the Germans shortly after the beginning of the German occupation. Rose's mother then placed her with a Lithuanian family named Martul. Rose passed as a relative whose name was Vera Martul. After the death of her foster mother, Josephina Martul, Rose was cared for by the sixteen year-old daughter of the family, Lusia Martul-Budrikiene. Rose remained with Lusia Budrikene until 1957, when an aunt from Canada, Mrs. Friedman, located her and arranged for her emigration to Toronto. In 1993, Yad Vashem recognized Josephine Martul and her daughter Lusia Budrikiene as Righteous Among the Nations
The photo was taken during their daughter Mina's visit from Montreal. Among those pictured are Mina (Katz) Herman and her daughter, Audrey (front row, second from the right), Itzik Katz, Mina's brother (standing at the far left) and Malka Katz, Mina's mother (front row, center).
Date: 1938 - 1939
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Catalog Number2302
Inventory DescriptionThe memoirs of Chana Szafran, nee Pozner.
Extended DescriptionThe memoirs of Chana Szafran, nee Pozner, who was born in Vilna in 1927. She tells of her life in her parents' home and of what happened to her during the Holocaust. After the outbreak of war her family settled in the town of Molodechno. On Oct. 25, 1942 the Germans rounded up the Jews of the town, loaded them into trucks and shot them about 15 kilometers from the town. Hana and her sister Luba were visiting their father Mordechai, who worked outside the town and thus were saved. Their mother, Bella, perished. In the evening they were arrested by the local police and were released thanks to the local priest who knew Mordechai Pozner. From there they reached the Vileyka ghetto where they remained until April, 1943.
When the rumors about the liquidation of the ghetto grew rampant, the family found sanctuary in the home of a Christian woman. On their way to her home Luba was caught and murdered. Hana and her father continued on to the forest and were absorbed into the partisan unit commanded by Markov. Hana fought against the Germans, participated in acts of sabotage against them and also worked as a nurse. After the war she married the partisan, Yakov Szafran and they immigrated to Israel in 1950.
Other members of Chana's family who lived in Warsaw were sent to Treblinka extermination camp and perished. Zvi Pozner was sent to Auschwitz extermination camp but he survived. Chana works in the archives of the Ghetto Fighters' House and teaches the legacy of the Holocaust and the resistance to young people.
In the file there is also a document from the head command of the partisans in Bielorus dated Aug. 12, 1944, confirming that Anna Pozner served in the Gorky partisan unit from Sept. 1, 1943 - Aug. 10, 1944 as a private and an additional document dated June 20, 1945 confirming that Jakov Semionovitz Szafran served in the Lazo parisan unit in the Voroshilov Brigade from May 20, 1943 - June 1, 1944.
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My maternal grandfather, Shimon Chaim Kovarsky from Vilna, who became Rabbi Herman Simon of St. Paul, MN, studied at Mir and Volozhin and was ordained at Volozhin. After he died in 1946, my grandmother was finally able to obtain the key to his safe deposit box, to which he had never allowed anyone access. My mother accompanied my grandmother to the bank--both of them filled with great anticipation as to what great treasures they might find in the carefully guarded bank box. To their surprise, the box contained only one thing: my grandfather's ordination papers. Marjorie Rosenfeld
.....photo I have of my grandfather at my Svencionys
ShtetLinks site, along with the poem I wrote about him. The page there
is:http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Svencionys/kaddish_de_rabbanan.html
Although my grandfather's male forebears--his father, grandfather, and great grandfather--were all from Svencionys (then Russian Sventsiany), his mother was from Vilna; and since my grandfather always said he was from Vilna, in this case I believe Vilna was the correct place of origin for him and not the smaller town approximately 50 miles from Vilna.
Thanks for the link to Kowarski family members at your site. Paul, the Canadian cantor whose photo you have on your page, was in our Kovarsky/Kowarski/Kovar Research Group for awhile. We have quite a large Research Group composed of people all over (Israel, the U.S., South Africa, South America, etc.) with ties to this family from Svencionys. One of my numerous Kovarsky "cousins" in this group found the photos of some Kovarsky/Kowarski family members at your Vilna site a couple of months ago; so I saw those, though I couldn't place the people in them. Some of us have a family tree book published in Libava in 1904 which notes the move in 1760 of a "Iosip" (Joseph) from Kovarsk to "Wenty." That Iosip was obviously the first member of our family to be called "Kovarsky." Supposedly, all Kovarskys from Svencionys or Vilna are related, though Kovarskys from other places may not be part of the same family.
Best--
Marjorie
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Wolf Dormashkin, conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra in Vilnius .
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A visit to Vilnius by the author Mendele Mocher Sforim in 1909.
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Kalman Schulman of Vilnius , an author, translator and historian
of the Enlightenment ("Haskalah") period.
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My great-great grandfather
Menachem-Mendel Lif and two of his children (or grandchildren) - this
photo is much older. Guy Elizur
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Liff family photo (from around 1923) in which I
recognized only two: My great grandfather - Israel Lif (2nd roe, 1st
from the right) and his older brother
Scholem (Shalom) Lif (2nd roe, 1st from the left). Guy Elizur
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Dvora Ester Galper, a well known Zadkanit ( Charity worker)
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Vilna Jewish Actors and writer of the play, Yankev Dinezon
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writers Yankev Dinezon, Spektor and Shalom Aleychem
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Elizabeth Singer Feinberg and her sister.
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Szmuel Kac was born in Olkinik, Poland in 1901 to Simkha and Ester. He was a merchant, married with 3 children. Prior to WWII he lived in Vilna, Poland. During the war was in Vilna. Szmuel perished in 1943 in Ereda camp, Estonia. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted on 27/09/1955 by his daughter Ester Keret ( Kreichik )
Of Holon, Israel.
Picture submitted by granddaughter; Sarah Reshef sarah.res@gmail.com
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Mother of Basya Levina & grandmother of Nina Slutskaya, Olga & Zina from Belorasha & Solik from Kyrsk
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Solomon - (Samuil) Levin from Vilno Father of Basya Levina &others? & grandfather of Nina slytskaya, Olga,Zina, Solik ...
Zinaida Peysachova
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Country of birth Russia
City of birth Vilna
Date of birth /1915
Nickname M
BEFORE AND DURING THE HOLOCAUST
Movement/Organization
Framework of combat Underground and Partisans Unit Batalion Struggle (Burba)
Area of combat Rudnicki Forests Rank Private
Country of combat Lithuania Assignment Fighter)
BIOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
At the time of the German occupation, was imprisoned in the Vilna ghetto. Was a member of the underground and later went to the Rudnicki forests and joined the partisans. Participated ,with his unit , in the liberation of Vilna from the Germans.Immigrated to Israel in 1960.
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Date 1910's
City Panevezys
Description Studio portrait of the cellist, A.B. Kinkulkin. (A postcard printed in Russian and Polish.)
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Date 1912
City Panevezys
Photographer Slonimski, L.
Description Studio portrait of the musician, A. B. Kinkulkin playing his cello. (Written on photo in German) "To Mr. Gurwitz as a memento of friendship from A. Kinkulkin, Vilna..."
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Playwright Peretz Hirshbein, a participant at the 1st YIVO Conference.
(Newspaper clipping
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Publisher and patron of Yiddish literature Boris Kleckin [Kletzkin] (1875-1937),
a participant at the 1st YIVO Conference. (Newspaper clipping
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D. Wirgili-Kahan, a participant at the 1st YIVO Conference. (Newspaper clipping.)
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Historian Noah Prylucki, a participant at the 1st YIVO Conference.
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P. Kaplan, a participant at the 1st YIVO Conference. (Newspaper clipping.)
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Dr. Gergel, a participant at the 1st YIVO Conference. (Newspaper clipping.)
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I. Berz, a participant at the 1st YIVO Conference. (Newspaper clipping.)
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M. Ben-Adir, a participant at the 1st YIVO Conference. (Newspaper clipping.)
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Philologist Zelig Kalmanowicz [Kalmanovitch], a founder of YIVO (Yiddish Scientific Institute) and a participant at the 1st YIVO Conference. (Newspaper clipping.)
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M. Czernichow-Danieli, a participant at the 1st YIVO Conference. (Newspaper clipping.)
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Actor Boas Karlinski, a participant at the 1st YIVO Conference. (Newspaper clipping.)
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The dais and part of the audience at the 1st YIVO Conference. Those on the dais include Zemach Shabad (Szabad) (seated, center), Peretz Hirschbein (seated, 7th from r), Elias Tcherikower (seated, 2nd from r) and Zelig Kalmanowicz (standing, 4th from r).
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Portrait of historians who attended the YIVO Conference: Simon Dubnow (seated, 3rd from r), Tcherikower (seated, 2nd from l) J. Derewianski, S. Lehman, D. Lerner, Dr. Raphael Mahler (standing, 2nd from r), P. Kahn, R. Glajk, E. Shulman and others.
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Participants in a refresher course for Yiddish teachers at YIVO posing with the instructors: (front row, left-right) Chaim Shloyme Kazdan, J. Shapiro, Max Weinreich and Zelig Kalmanovitch
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Max Weinreich (seated, 4th from right), posing with instructors of Yiddish courses at YIVO.
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YIVO instructors and `aspirantn' (research fellows): Front row, left to right: Rokhl Golinkin, Libe Schildkret (Lucy Dawidowicz), J. Shapiro, unidentified, Khayem Munits, Nekhama Epstein. Second row: Eliyohu Teitelbaum, Shmuel Z. Pipe, Yankev Rifkind, Khane Smishkovitsh, M. Weinreich, Ber Schlossberg. Third Row: first two are unidentified, Pinkhes Tikotchinsky, Shloyme Berezin, Zalman Reisen, unidentified.
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A group of YIVO `aspirantn' (research fellows) and instructors: (l-r) Y. Rifkind, Ber Schlossberg, Nechama Epstein, Rokhl Golinkin, Zelig Kalmanovitch, (unidentified), (unidentified), Khane Smishkovitsh, (unidentified), Lucy Schildkret Dawidowicz.
(Newspaper clipping.)
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A group of YIVO `aspirantn' (research fellows) and instructors in front of the YIVO building: R. Golinkin, D. Lerner, Shmuel Pipe, Nechama Epstein, A. Bnestowicz, Khane Piszozacev, Khaim Gininger, Ch. Shucki Kestin, and others
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At the YIVO Conference: Simon Dubnow (right) with Emanuel Ringelblum (left) and other historians
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http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/pfh.vilnius-tenengoltz.htm
THE TENENGOLTZ FAMILY
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TRAPUNSKY FAMILY
http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/pfh.vilnius_trapunsky-sholom.htm
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Chyena Gurvitch (Zwirblanski)
Birthdate: 1881
Birthplace: Vilna, Poland
Death: Died 1941 in Ponary Area, Poland
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Hene and Shmuel
Wife of Moshe
Mother of Hirsh, Haim, Shimon and Shmuel
Sister of Avraham - Eliyahu, Zalman - Shlomo, Fruma and Merl - Miriam
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Fruma Kraingel (Zwirblanski
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Shmuel Zwirblanski
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Merl - Miriam Levin (Zwirblanski) (deceased)
Birthplace: Vilna, Poland
Death: Died in Vilna, Poland
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Hene and Shmuel
Wife of Markus
Mother of Levin
Sister of Avraham - Eliyahu, chyena, Zalman - Shlomo and Fruma
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Avraham - Eliyahu Zwirblanski
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Levin
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Moshe Gurvitch
Birthdate: 1881
Death: Died 1941
Immediate Family:
Husband of chyena
Father of Hirsh, Haim, Shimon and Shmuel
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Zalman - Shlomo Zwirblanski (1890 - 1941)
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SHARIR-GORDIN AHUVA was born in Vilna in 1927. To read about her go to;
http://old.agri.gov.il/Units/Spokesperson/
Heritage/Heritage.asp?content=person&id=84
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A photograph of Yosef Gorni and Levi Alexander, 1947.
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Yelena Rabinovich was born in Poland in 1910. She was married to Boris. Prior to WWII she lived in Wilno, Poland. During the war she was in Wilno, Poland.
Yelena was murdered in the Shoah.
This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed here) submitted by her niece, Miriam Kozlovski
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Ilia Rabinovich was born in Wilno, Poland in 1910 to Aleksandr. He was an engineer and married. Prior to WWII he lived in Lipniszki, Poland. During the war he was in Lipniszki, Poland.
Ilia was murdered in the Shoah.
This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed here) submitted by his niece, Miriam Kozlovski
Hirsch (Tzvi) Kissen/Kissin/Kisin is in the front row, far left, sitting at the table. His wife, Rashe ( nee Hordes), is sitting immediately to the right of him (his left). Becky Kissen Friedland and Irving Friedland are in the back row, far right. Hana Kissen is in the back row far left. The other two women in the photo are believed to be the two daughters who did not emigrate to the U.S. Surke ( married to Feivel Katz they perished with 2 children, Zalman and Moni) and Basche Slusberg? with husband Aron, son Yudel ( born in 1922) and daughter Doba? all perished. Photo is believed to have been taken in 1928 when Becky Kissen married Irving Friedland. After the wedding, Becky returned to the U.S. with her new husband, Irving (Izaak) Friedland.
Kisin Rasia
Rasia Kisin was born in Miadel. She was a housewife and married to Tzvi. Prior to WWII she lived in Svir, Poland. During the war she was in Svir, Poland. Rasia perished in 1941 in Wilno, Ghetto. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 21-Jul-1957 by her daughter Chana Chait of Kfar Hes
Slusberg Aron
Aron Slusberg was born in Wilna in 1890. He was a merchant and married to Basia nee Kisin and had a daugher. Prior to WWII he lived in Wilna, Poland. During the war he was in Wilna, Poland. Aron perished in 1942 in Wilna, Poland. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 21-Jul-1957 by his sister-in-law Chana Chait of Kfar Hes
Slusberg Basia
Basia Slusberg was born in Miadsol in 1895 to Tzvi and Rakhel. She was a housewife and married to Aharon. Prior to WWII she lived in Vilna, Poland. During the war she was in Vilna, Poland. Basia perished in 1942 in Vilna, Poland. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 21-Jul-1957 by her sister
Slusberg Judel
Judel Slusberg was born in Svir in 1922 to Aharon. He was a pupil and single. Prior to WWII he lived in Wilna, Poland. During the war he was in Wilna, Poland. Judel perished in 1942 in Wilna, Poland. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted by his aunt
Katz Feivel
Feivel Katz was born in Svir in 1897 to Shlomo. He was a merchant and married to Sara nee Kisin. Prior to WWII he lived in Svir, Poland. During the war he was in Svir, Poland. Feivel perished in Wilna, Poland. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 21-Jul-1957 by his sister-in-law
Edla Segal nee Kisan was born in Wilno in 1990 to Aron. She was married to Jankel. Prior to WWII she lived in Reims, France. During the war she was in Reims, France. Edla perished in Auschwitz, Camp. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted by her daughter
Kisin Rocha
Rocha Kisin was born in 1921 to Geselis and Base. Prior to WWII she lived in Vilnius, Poland. During the war she was in Vilnius, Poland. Rocha perished in the Shoah. This information is based on a List of persecuted
Kisyn Rakhel
Rakhel Kisyn was born in Droja in 1872. She was a housewife and married to Shmuel Rafael. Prior to WWII she lived in Droja, Poland. During the war she was in Droja, Poland. Rakhel perished in 1942 in Droja, Poland. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 20-Mar-1957 by her acquaintance. More Details...
Kisin Rasia
Rasia Kisin was born in Miadel. She was a housewife and married to Tzvi. Prior to WWII she lived in Svir, Poland. During the war she was in Svir, Poland. Rasia perished in 1941 in Wilno, Ghetto. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 21-Jul-1957 by her daughter Chana Chait of Kfar Hest