VILKAVISKIS
A small town in Southern Lithuania
Where the Jewish Community is no more
A small town in Southern Lithuania
Where the Jewish Community is no more
Awraham
Fraitag Album
Fraitag Album
My husbands grandfather was from Vilkeviskis and was the sole survivor of his family.
His father was a cheesemaker/milkman in town and he himself learned at the local yeshiva I think.
His name was Awraham Porat, born Awraham Fraitag(us), son of Izak (Icus) and Sarai Fraitagus. Brother to Chaim (died before the war of illness), Chanan, Yerachmiel, Ieta Bluma and Elka Fraitagus. He was born in 1910 I believe and died in 1996 in kibbutz Yagur where he had emigrated (I think he was in the Zionist Youth movement) in the early thirties and married and set up a family. His family in Vilkeviskis was murdered by the Nazis but he never knew for sure what had happened and in his testimony at Yad Vashem he noted they had died in 1942 or 1943.
I attached the only two pre-war photos we have left, the complete family around 1920 and our grandfather as a baby.
Kind regards,
Elsina Birach
His father was a cheesemaker/milkman in town and he himself learned at the local yeshiva I think.
His name was Awraham Porat, born Awraham Fraitag(us), son of Izak (Icus) and Sarai Fraitagus. Brother to Chaim (died before the war of illness), Chanan, Yerachmiel, Ieta Bluma and Elka Fraitagus. He was born in 1910 I believe and died in 1996 in kibbutz Yagur where he had emigrated (I think he was in the Zionist Youth movement) in the early thirties and married and set up a family. His family in Vilkeviskis was murdered by the Nazis but he never knew for sure what had happened and in his testimony at Yad Vashem he noted they had died in 1942 or 1943.
I attached the only two pre-war photos we have left, the complete family around 1920 and our grandfather as a baby.
Kind regards,
Elsina Birach
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| Awraham Fraitag as a baby | Jerechmiel Fraitag.1918-1941 Brother of Awraham Fraitag. Jerechmiel was a carpenter. |
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| The entire Freitag Family around 1930 - only Avraham was to survive. |
Left up: father Icus Freitag, next to him Awraham Fraitag (our sabba), than Chaim Fraitag (died in 1934 as you said), than Elka, the eldest daughter,the mother Sara Fraitag Rozenblum.
Bottom row left Ieta Bluma, Jerachmiel and Chanan.
Bottom row left Ieta Bluma, Jerachmiel and Chanan.
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| Avraham's father Yitzhack was a milkman - you can see their house on the corner of Zamoji and Synagogue Street marked with an udder and bucket ! | Dvora Dolev map greatly reduced |
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| Awraham Fraitag Immigrant Certificate | Awraham Fraitag Military Pass | Awraham Fraitag Identity Card |
Documents belonging to Avraham Freitag after he arrived in Israel Kindly provided by the Birach Family of Kibbutz Yagur
Pinni Birach grandson of Avraham Freitag
Pinni and I served in the army together
Pinni and I served in the army together
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| Pinni Birach grandson of Avraham Freitag | Pinni Birach grandson of Avraham Freitag 1 |
Rozenblum Family from Vilkeviskis.
Sara was one of 5 children born to David and Leja Rozenblum. [Samoje Street # 8] Three of her siblings Rivka, Esther and Aron emmigrated to the USA between 1906 and 1921
The youngest brother Shaya married Riva Klemich in Vilkeviskis. They had and stayed in Vilkaviskis. Riva and her daughter are on the Vilkaviskis Ghetto Lists. . They died in the Shoah in 1941.
The sister Chaya Rivka married a Berel Grazutis from Kovno. The other sister, Esther. married Avraham Marvis.
The brother Aron [Harry] Rozenblum married Anna Warshawsky . All 3 Rozenblums siblings settled in the Passaic area, New Jersey.
This is a photo of Harry in the U.S. Army, a few years after he left Vilkeviskis.
Sara was one of 5 children born to David and Leja Rozenblum. [Samoje Street # 8] Three of her siblings Rivka, Esther and Aron emmigrated to the USA between 1906 and 1921
The youngest brother Shaya married Riva Klemich in Vilkeviskis. They had and stayed in Vilkaviskis. Riva and her daughter are on the Vilkaviskis Ghetto Lists. . They died in the Shoah in 1941.
The sister Chaya Rivka married a Berel Grazutis from Kovno. The other sister, Esther. married Avraham Marvis.
The brother Aron [Harry] Rozenblum married Anna Warshawsky . All 3 Rozenblums siblings settled in the Passaic area, New Jersey.
This is a photo of Harry in the U.S. Army, a few years after he left Vilkeviskis.
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