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My father’s brothers were Yankel-Berl, Dovid, Meyer. Entl and Shove were my father’s sisters. All of them died in Jurbarkas. My father’s other two sisters, Klara and Riva, left for Belgium in the 1920s. They were sheltered by the Belgians during the [Nazi] occupation. Riva and her husband were found out by the Fascists. She and her son were put in the [train] cars heading for concentration camps in Poland. Riva’s son managed to escape through a hole in the train car. So, he remained alive. Riva perished in the crematorium in Auschwitz.
Klara’s fate was more auspicious. Her husband, the owner of a haberdashery factory, was killed in action during World War II.
Klara’s fate was more auspicious. Her husband, the owner of a haberdashery factory, was killed in action during World War II.
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Lithuania
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Zalman Kaplanas