List of stumbling blocks in Lithuania

Stumbling block in Kuliai

The list of stumbling blocks in Lithuania lists all the stumbling blocks that have been laid in Lithuania . The stumbling blocks are usually in front of the last self-chosen place of residence of the victim and remind of the fate of the people who were murdered, deported, expelled or driven to suicide by the National Socialists .

The Stolpersteine ​​were designed by the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig and are usually laid by himself. The first relocations in Lithuania took place in 2016.

Relocations

Alytus

Three stumbling blocks were laid in the city of Alytus .

image	inscription	Location	Name, life
	HERE LIVED ŠMUELIS BEIRALAS BORN 1883 KILLED SUMMER 1941 IN THE FOREST OF VIDZGIRIO ALYTUS	Pulko gatvė 1	Šmuelis Beiralas was born in Alytus on November 20, 1883. He was a businessman and - after the restoration of the sovereignty of Lithuania - participated in the development of the administration of the city and the district. He was elected several times as a councilor of Alytus. He was a member of the Alytus Volunteer Fire Brigade and supported the 1st Infantry Regiment. He also supported a number of Jewish institutions, for example the Jüdische Volksbank , of which he was a board member. He was killed by the Nazi regime in the Vidzgiris forest in 1942.
	MENDELIS BOKŠICKIS LIVED HERE BORN 1898 ARRESTED IN 1941 KILLED SEPTEMBER 1941 PANERIAI	Vilniaus gatvė 27	Mendelis Bokšickis was born in Alytus in 1898 or February 14, 1900. His parents were Mordechaj Bokšickis and Esther geb. Vilenska. He studied law at Vytautas Magnus University and became a lawyer. After the restoration of the sovereignty of Lithuania, he participated in the development of the administration of the city and the district. He was elected several times as a councilor of Alytus. From 1921 to 1935 he was the founder and commander of the Alytus Volunteer Fire Brigade and supported the 1st Infantry Regiment. He also took part in the Jewish life of Lithuania. Mendelis Bokšicki was married to Sheine or Jenia geb. Kronzon, born on November 18, 1900 in Kalvarija . The couple had two children, son Saadia and daughter Lily. The son remembered his father as follows: “We were very proud of our father when he [for his work as a fire brigade commander] received the medal for neighborhood help twice. When father designed underground tanks in which the water did not freeze or silt up, he also became famous abroad. He received a gold medal from Estonia. " Mendelis Bokšickis was murdered by the Nazi regime in Paneriai in September or October 1941 . His wife also lost her life in the Holocaust in Lithuania .
	HIRŠAS KALMANAVIČIUS WORKED HERE, BORN 1887 KILLED 1941	Užuolankos gatvė 30 (formerly Užuolankos gatvė 22)	Hiršas Kalmanavičius was born in Alytus in 1887. He attended a Jewish primary school in his hometown and then a religious high school in Vilnius. There he completed his teacher training in 1910. During the First World War, like most Jews who lived in border provinces, he was deported to the interior of the country on the orders of the Tsar. In Lukoml in what is now Belarus , he ran a local Jewish elementary school. He then lived for some time in Pinsk (Belarus) and Łomża (now Poland), where he taught at the Jewish grammar school from 1918 to 1921. In 1921 he returned to Alytus and on September 30 of the same year he was granted citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania . Until the 1940s he worked at the Jewish secondary school in Alytus. He taught geography, history, Hebrew and religion (Jewish). Hirsas Kalmanavičius was married to Dora geb. Meizler, born in Łomża in 1888. The couple had a son, Jacob, born in 1912, who became an engineer. Hiršas Kalmanavičius, his wife, and son were all killed during the Holocaust in Lithuania in 1941. The exact circumstances of the murder are not known. The family's last address is not known. The school where Hiršas Kalmanavičius taught has changed its address several times over the years. The stumbling block for Hiršas Kalmanavičius is the address that the school had when he started teaching there.

Jurbarkas

In Jurbarkas , eleven stumbling blocks were laid for members of the Berkover family.

image	inscription	Location	Name, life
	HERE LIVED Pear ZISLĖ BERKOVERIENĖ- FREIMANAITĖ BORN 1891 interned 1941 IN THE GHETTO OF JURBARKAS KILLED 1941	Kauno gatvė 46-2	Feigė-Zislė Berkoverienė-Freimanaitė (born 1891)
	RIVKA BERKOVERIENĖ- LEŠČYTĖ LIVED HERE BORN IN 1902 ARRESTED IN 1941 GHETTO KILLED BY JURBARKAS IN 1941	Kauno gatvė 46-2	Rivka Berkoverienė-Leščytė (born 1902)
	HERE LIVED ITA BERKOVERIENĖ- GOLDŠTEINAITĖ BORN 1872 interned 1941 IN THE GHETTO OF JURBARKAS KILLED 1941	Kauno gatvė 46-2	Ita Berkoverienė-Goldšteinaitė (born 1941)
	ABELIS BENJAMINAS BERKOVERIS LIVED HERE BORN IN 1902 INTERNED IN 1941 IN THE GHETTO OF JURBARKAS KILLED IN 1941	Kauno gatvė 46-2	Abelis Benjaminas Berkoveris (born 1902)
	HERE LIVED Jokubas-Girsa BERKOVERIS BORN 1894 interned 1941 IN THE GHETTO OF JURBARKAS KILLED 1941	Kauno gatvė 46-2	Jokūbas-Girša Berkoveris
	SIMONAS BERKOVERIS LIVED HERE BORN 1867 INTERNED 1941 IN THE GHETTO OF JURBARKAS KILLED 1941	Kauno gatvė 46-2	Simonas Berkoveris (born 1867)
	HERE LIVED ŠLIOMA-ELIJAH BERKOVERIS BORN 1925 interned 1941 IN THE GHETTO OF JURBARKAS KILLED 1941	Kauno gatvė 46-2	Šlioma-Elija Berkoveris
	HERE LIVED HANA BERKOVERYTĖ BORN 1926 interned 1941 IN THE GHETTO OF JURBARKAS KILLED 1941	Kauno gatvė 46-2	Hana Berkoverytė (born 1926)
	RISA BERKOVERYTĖ LIVED HERE BORN 1931 INTERNED 1941 IN THE GHETTO OF JURBARKAS KILLED 1941	Kauno gatvė 46-2	Risa Berkoverytė
	ZALMANAS DRATVINAS LIVED HERE BORN 1905 INTERNED 1941 IN THE GHETTO OF JURBARKAS KILLED IN 1941	Kauno gatvė 46-2	Zalmanas Dratvinas (born 1905)
	HERE LIVED SARA DRATVINIENĖ- BERKOVERYTĖ BORN 1910 interned 1941 IN THE GHETTO OF JURBARKAS KILLED 1941	Kauno gatvė 46-2	Sara Dratvinienė-Berkoverytė (born 1910)

Kaunas

In the city of Kaunas were from Gunter Demnig 2016 nine stumbling blocks laid on 28 August.

image	inscription	Location	Name, life
	ISAKAS TRAINED HERE ANOLIKAS BORN IN 1903 ARRESTED MURDERED 1943 KAUNAS IX FORTAS	Laisvės al. 3 on the side of the park	Isakas Anolikas Isakas Anolikas was born in 1903 in Šiauliai . He was a cyclist and two-time Olympian. He was murdered in Kaunas in 1943.
	CHAIMAS BASAS LIVED AND WORKED HERE BORN IN 1864 ARRESTED IN 1941 MURDERED AUGUST 1941 GHETTO KAUNAS	Vilniaus gatvė 72	Chaimas Basas (1864–1941) [1]
	ELIAZARAS BASAS LIVED HERE BORN 1938 ARRESTED 1941 GHETTO KAUNAS MURDERED IN MARCH 1944 DURING THE CHILDREN ACTION	Vilniaus gatvė 72	Eliazaras Basas (1938–1944)
	LEIBA BASAS LIVED AND WORKED HERE BORN 1896 ARRESTED IN 1941 MURDERED JULY 1944 GHETTO KAUNAS	Vilniaus gatvė 72	Leiba Basas (1896–1944)
	TIRCA BASIENĖ LIVED HERE BORN 1914 ARRESTED 1941 MURDERED JULY 1944 GHETTO KAUNAS	Vilniaus gatvė 72	Tirca Basienė (1914–1944)
	DR.VLADIMIRAS LAZERSONAS LIVED HERE BORN 1889 ARRESTED IN 1941 GHETTO KAUNAS DEPORTED 1944 MURDERED 1945 DACHAU	Vydūno al. 67	Vladimir Lazerson was a psychiatrist. He was born in 1889 and murdered in 1945. He was considered the father of clinical psychology in Lithuania.
	HERE LIVED REGINA LAZERSONIENĖ- SAFOČINSKAITĖ BORN 1889 ARRESTED 1941 GHETTO KAUNAS deported in 1944 MURDERED 1945 STUTTHOF	Vydūno al. 67	Regina Lazersonienė-Safočinskaitė was born in 1889 and murdered in 1945.
	JAKOVAS LIPŠICAS LIVED HERE BORN IN 1903 ARRESTED IN 1941 GHETTO KAUNAS DEPORTED IN 1944 MURDERED IN 1945 DACHAU	Darbininkų gatvė 15	Jakovas Lipšicas was an artist
	HERE MEET ČERNĖ PERCIKOVČIŪTĖ BORN IN 1911 ARRESTED JULY 1941 DIED 1941 GHETTO KAUNAS	Miško gatvė 1	Černė Percikovičiūtė was born in 1911. He was a student of the artist Justinas Vienožinskis .

Coolies

A stumbling block was laid in the village of Kuliai .

image	inscription	Location	Name, life
	HERE LIVED ETA ODESAITĖ BORN 1922 ARRESTED IN THE MUNICIPALITY Kuliai June 1941 THE site of the massacre fled in 1941 KILLED 07/19/1944	3213 Kulių I tvenkinys (pond)	Eta Odesaitė (born 1922)

Panevėžys

In the city of Panevėžys , Gunter Demnig laid four stumbling blocks during his stay in Lithuania in August 2016.

image	inscription	Location	Name, life
	HERE LIVED ONA GRACHAUSKIENĖ BAGDONAVIČIŪTĖ JG. 1923 ARRESTED KONZENTRATIONSLAGER Pravieniškės deported to GERMANY FREED	J. Tilvyčio gatvė 1	Ona Grachauskienė-Bagdonavičiūtė (born 1923)
	HERE LIVED Anastazija JANLONSKIENĖ BAGDONAVIČIŪTĖ JG. 1875 ARRESTED June 1st, 1943 MURDERED 1943 PRAVIENIŠKĖS CONCENTRATION CAMP	J. Tilvyčio gatvė 1	Anastazija Jablonskienė-Bagdonavičiūtė (1875-1943)
	HERE LIVED ONA MAZUTEVIČIUTE BAGDONAVIČIŪTĖ JG. 1905 DEPORTED TO GERMANY IN 1943	J. Tilvyčio gatvė 1	Ona Matuzevičiūtė-Bagdonavičiūtė (born 1905)
	ZOSĖ MATUZEVIČIUTE JG LIVED HERE . 1934 ARRESTED 1.6.1943 CONCENTRATION CAMP PRAVIENIŠKĖS DEPORTED NATZWEILER- STRUTHOF	J. Tilvyčio gatvė 1	Zosė Matuzevičiūtė (born 1934)

Plungė

Two stumbling blocks were laid in Plungė City at an unknown date.

image	inscription	Location	Name, life
	MENDELIS RILAS LIVED AND WORKED HERE BORN 1875 KILLED JUNE 1941 SKAUDVILE	Plungė, Rietavo gatvė 23	Mendelis Rilas was born in 1875. He was killed in Skaudvilė on July 19, 1944 .
	MAŠA ROLNIKAITE LIVED HERE, BORN 1927 [...]	Plungė, Laisvės al. 11	Maša Rolnikaitė was born in Klaipėda on July 21, 1927 . She died in St. Petersburg in 2016 .

Šiauliai

On August 29, 2016, Gunter Demnig laid two stumbling blocks in the town of Šiauliai .

image	inscription	Location	Name, life
	SAMUELIS PETUCHAUSKAS JG LIVED HERE . ARRESTED 1894 1941 MURDERED AUGUST 1941 PANERIAI	Vasario 16-osios gatvė 62	Samuel Petuchauskas (1894–1941)
	URIJUS ROZOVKIS JG LIVED HERE . IN 1871 GHETTO ŠIAULIAI DEPORTED 1943 AUSCHWITZ MURDERED IN 1943 DURING THE CHILDREN'S ACTION	Vilniaus gatvė 168	Urijus Rozovkis (1871–1943)

Ukmergė

Two stumbling blocks were laid in the town of Ukmergė .

image	inscription	Location	Name, life
	MAUŠA LEVI LIVED HERE BORN 1886 INTERNED 1941 PRISON OF UKMERGĖ KILLED AUGUST 1941 PIVONIJA [...]	Kauno gatvė 22 (formerly Kauno gatvė 15)	Mauša Levi was born in 1886. He became a photographer and from 1923 owner of a photo studio that specialized in family portraits, vignettes and group pictures. His photo studio became one of the most famous in Ukmergė.
	JOSEFAS ZUSMANOVIČIUS LIVED HERE BORN 1895 ARRESTED 1941 KILLED SEPTEMBER 1941 PIVONIJA [...]	Vienuolyno gatvė 2	Josefas Zusmanovičius was born in 1895. He studied in Telšiai and became the last rabbi of Ukmergė. He was married to Leja. The couple had five children, Moše, Rachil, Hilde, Mordechal, Golda. In September 1941 he was killed by the Germans. His family is also said to have been murdered as part of the Holocaust . The stumbling block is in front of the former synagogue, where Josefas Zusmanovičius worked until his death.

Vilnius

In Vilnius , the capital of Lithuania, Gunter Demnig laid eight stumbling blocks on August 30, 2016.

image	inscription	Location	Name, life
	HERE WAS WORKING FANIA LEWANDO- FISZELEWICZ JG. DIED IN 1888 ON THE RIGHT OF THE NAZIS	Vokiečių gatvė 14	Fania Lewando Fania Lewando born Fiszelewicz (Hebrew: פאנני לעוואנדא), was born around 1887 in Włocławek , then the Russian Empire, now Poland. She became a well-known cook and the author of the first vegetarian cookbook in Europe to be written in Yiddish. She fled the Nazi occupiers in 1941 and was arrested by Soviet soldiers. How, when and where she and her husband Lazar (see below) died is not known.
	LAZAR LEWANDO JG WORKED HERE . DEAD IN 1880 ON THE RIGHT OF THE NAZIS	Vokiečių gatvė 14	Lazar Lewando (1880-1941)
	DR. SAMUELIS MARGOLIS JG LIVED AND WORKED HERE . 1889 ARRESTED August 7, 1941 GHETTO VILNIUS MURDERED July 6, 1944 PANERIAI	Vilniaus gatvė 33 / Islandijos gatvė 2	Samuelis Margolis was born in 1889. He was murdered in Paneriai on July 5, 1944 . He was a doctor.
	IT 'S HERE TO MEET ICCHOKAS RUDAŠEVSKIS BORN 1927 ARRESTED SEPTEMBER 1941 GHETTO VILNIUS MURDERED OCTOBER 1943 PANERIAI	Rūdninkų gatvė 8	Isaac Rudashevsky (1927-1943)
	HERE LIVED CHAJA ŠEMIAVIČIENĖ- SHOCHOT JG. 1902 ARRIVED 9/6/1941 GHETTO VILNIUS 10/9/1943 LUKIŠKĖS PRISON MURDERED 10/9/1943 PANERIAI	Vasario 16-osios gatvė 8 / Šermukšnių gatvė 1	Chaja Šemiavičienė-Shochot , also Khaya, b. Shochot was born in 1902. She was shot dead in one of the Ponary massacres in 1943 .
	HERE LIVED LEJA ŠEMIAVIČIŪTĖ JG. 1931 ARRESTED 06/09/1941 GHETTO VILNIUS fled in 1943 MURDERED 1943 Bezdonys	Vasario 16-osios g. 8 / Šermukšnių g. 1	Lili Leja Šemiavičiūtė was born on January 2, 1931 as the daughter of Lejba Šemiavičius (see below) and Chaja. Shochot (see above) born. She had a brother, Mikhael, went to school and, after the Germans attacked Lithuania, her parents sent her to live with her uncle and aunt in Bezdonys . They hoped the daughter would be safe there. In 1943 there was a serious incident there. When Jewish workers who feared being shot refused to leave a barrack, the Gestapo opened fire, fired machine guns and threw grenades into the barracks. The people who were inside caught fire. Later, when the murder site was cleared, the body of 12-year-old Leja was also discovered. Her mother was shot in one of the Ponary massacres , her father died sick and exhausted in a concentration camp in Estonia. Only her brother could survive. He sent numerous death reports to Yad Vashem , about close and distant relatives, but also for friends and neighbors. There are also three for his sister.
	HERE LIVED LEBJA ŠEMIAVIČIŪTĖ JG. ARRESTED 1889 1941 GHETTO VILNIUS DEPORTED 1943 MURDERED 1943 KOHTLA CONCENTRATION CAMP (GOLDFIELDS)	Vasario 16-osios gatvė 8 / Šermukšnių gatvė 1	Lejba Šemiavičius , also Leyb Shemevich , was born in 1889. In the interwar period, the family built a brewery, a wine shop and a flour mill. The companies were hit hard by the Great Depression in 1929 and had to close. The brothers Leyb and Jeremias then started renting out apartments. He himself lived with his wife Chaya geb. Shochot (see above), the daughter Lili Leja (see above) and the son Mikhael in the house in front of which the stumbling blocks were laid. It belonged to his brother. After the conquest of Lithuania by the Nazi regime, the daughter Leja was sent to live with her uncle and aunt in Bezdonys , because her parents hoped she would be safe there. The parents had to live in the Vilnius ghetto. Three of the four family members were murdered by the Nazi regime in 1943, Lejba Šemiavičius in a concentration camp in Estonia, his wife in one of the Ponary massacres and their daughter in Bezdonys. Son Mikhael survived, looked in vain for family photos, tried to reconstruct the fate of his family. He published a book about it.
	DR. JAKOVAS VYGODSKIS JG LIVED AND WORKED HERE . 1854 ARRIVED 6/24/1941 KILLED 1941 LUKIŠKĖS PRISON	Vasario 16-osios gatvė 8 / Šermukšnių gatvė 1	Jakob Wygodski , Jakob Wygodski, 1933 also Yakov Vygodsky and other spellings, was born on April 3, 1856 in Babrujsk , then the Russian Empire , now Belarus . His parents were the merchant Yochel Mendelevich Vygodsky (* 1829) and the housewife Rona Leibovna (* 1832). In 1860 the family moved to Vilnius. He had two brothers, Gavriil Efimovich (1863-1939) and Lazar Efimovich. All three sons studied medicine. Jakob Wygodski married Elena Semyonovna. The couple had two children, Alexandra Yakovlevna (1884–1968), who married the doctor Sergey Aleksandrovich Brushteyn (1892–1947) and became a writer, and Semen Yakovlevich (1892–1956), later a civil engineer. He was Lithuanian Minister for Jewish Affairs from 1918 to 1919 and was murdered by the Nazi regime in Lukiškės Prison in 1941 . His children and grandchildren were able to survive the Nazi regime. His daughter Aleksandra Brusztein wrote more than sixty plays for children, his granddaughter Nadezhda Sergejewna Nadezhdina became a ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet .

See also

• Holocaust in Lithuania
• List of places with stumbling blocks

proof

1. ↑ Mantoeises, Alytus , accessed on 30 September 2018th
2. ↑ ATMINIMO AKMENYS: Šmuelis Beiralas , accessed on August 2, 2019 (lit., with a portrait)
3. ↑ ATMINIMO AKMENYS: Mendelis Bokšickis , accessed on August 2, 2019 (lit., with a portrait)
4. ↑ Yad Vashem : MENDEL BOKSICKIS , testimony of his son Saadia Bokshitzki Bahat, accessed on August 3, 2019 (with a portrait)
5. ↑ Yad Vashem : JENIA GENYA SHEINE KRONZON BOKSICKIENE , testimony of her son Saadia Bokshitzki Bahat, accessed on August 3, 2019 (with a portrait)
6. ↑ ^{a b} ATMINIMO AKMENYS: Hiršas Kalmanavičius , accessed on August 2, 2019 (lit., with a portrait)
7. ↑ Yad Vashem : HERSH TZVI KALMANOVITZ , testimony of his sister Bluma Mintzer, accessed on August 3, 2019
8. ↑ Yad Vashem : DORA KALMANOVITZ , testimony of her sister-in-law Bluma Mintzer, accessed on August 3, 2019
9. ↑ Yad Vashem : JAACCOB KALMANOVITZ , testimony of his aunt Bluma Mintzer, accessed on August 3, 2019
10. ↑ Mantoeises, Jurbarkas , accessed on 30 September 2018th
11. ↑ Manoteises: Mendelis Rilas , accessed on August 3, 2019 (with a portrait photo)
12. ↑ Manoteises: Maša Rolnikaitė , accessed on August 3, 2019 (with a portrait photo)
13. ↑ Mantoeises, Ukmergė , accessed on December 7, 2018
14. ↑ ATMINIMO AKMENYS: Mauša Levi , accessed on August 2, 2019 (lit., with a portrait)
15. ↑ ATMINIMO AKMENYS: Josefas Zusmanovičius , accessed on August 2, 2019 (lit., with a portrait)
16. ^ Department of National Minorities under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania: Stolpersteine ​​in Vilnius , accessed July 14, 2018
17. ↑ Vilnius Tourism: Memorial placques retrieved on July 14, 2018
18. ↑ obzor.lt: Камни памяти (memorial stones) (Russian), 8 stumbling blocks in Vilnius, with photos, published on August 30, 2016, accessed on August 2, 2018
19. ↑ ^{a b c} Manoteises: Leyb, Khaya, Leah Shemevich , accessed August 1, 2018
20. ↑ Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names has three witness reports from the brother, all accessed on August 1, 2018: Lili Leja Szemjawicz , Golda Lea Szemjawicz and [] .
21. ↑ Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names has three witness reports from the son, all accessed on August 1, 2018: [], [] and []
22. ↑ Manoteises: Dr. Jacob Vygodsky , accessed August 1, 2018

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