List of Jews buried in mass grave in Zeimelis [e-mail printout] (ID: 32146)
Authorship or Source:
- Mann, Barry
- Zagorski, Feivel
Year:
1998
Title or Main Description:
List of Jews buried in mass grave in Zeimelis [e-mail printout]
Place Published or Holding Institution:
El Paso, Texas
Description:
- 3 p.
- Number of Names or Other Entries-- Approx. 145
Date:
June 24, 1998
Type of Work:
e-mail printout
Museum or Other Institution Holdings:
- Printout of e-mail dated 10/30/98 in Registry Document File EE2551
- Additional copy in Registry Accession File #EE2551
Provenance:
- Feivel Zagorski gave a copy of the original Yiddish-language version of this list to the Yad Vashem Archives. Present document appears to be English translation of this original list commissioned by Barry Mann [see 'Language & Other Notes' below].
- "I was told by NOCHUM ZAGORSKI, who lives in KAUNAS (LITHUANIA), that his father FEIVEL ZAGORSKI, gave Yad Vashem, a list inYiddish, of the Jews from Zeimelis (Lithuania), who were killed in the mass execution on August 8th, 1941. They were buried in a mass grave 2 km. away from Zeimelis, in a village called VELEISIAI."--P. [3].
Keywords:
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Registers of dead --Lithuania --Zeimys.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Registers of dead --Lithuania --Velziai.
- [Other keywords: Zeimelis, Veleisiai, Zemel, Zhemel, Ziemel, Velziu]
Abstract:
Alphabetical list by name of Jews from Zeimys, Lithuania, killed on August 8, 1941 and buried in mass grave at Veleisiai. Name list contains last name, first name, and sometimes first names of children and other relatives.
Language and Other Notes:
- Text in English.
- "[...] a draft copy of a badly translated copy of Feivel Zagorski's list, I received from Lithuania. My cousin Dana Trapidiene, in Kaunas, had this translated from Russian into English. A list of Jews killed in Zheimelis on 8/8/1941."--P. [1].
- "Faivl Zagorski ben Yosif, letter 2 12 83."--P. [3].
Resource Center Cataloging Notes:
Forwarded to Vadim Altskan by Dr. Saul Issroff (saul@swico.demon.co.uk) on 10/30/98. Original message sent to Yad Vashem Archives on 6/18/98 by Barry Mann (fabrics@whc.net).