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Apr 1, 2016 · An as yet unidentified Litvak family from Kaunas were imprisoned in the Kaunas Ghetto. In their possession were family photographs and other documents which they managed to smuggle out and into the possession of a Lithuanian family shortly before the Kaunas Ghetto was liquidised in the summer of 1944.
Oct 27, 2019 · Back in the 1930s, a prominent family of Litvaks and Klaipėda business owners ‒ the Nafthals ‒ lived in a house on Liepų Street. Nathan was the most successful of the three brothers – even before World War One, he brokered in wood trade and organised timber exports.
Aug 30, 2017 · Richard Schofield displays a photograph from a Litvak family photo album during one of the International Center for Litvak Photography’s school visits. Almost all of the family members depicted in the album died, most of them during the Holocaust and at least one during Stalin’s terror.
- The Etymology of The Word “Litvak”
- Common Surnames and Famous People
- The Resettlement of Litvaks
- Jewish Community Before The WW2
- The So-Called “Honeymoon Period”
- Litvak Community in Numbers
- Where Do Litvaks Live Now?
- Dual Lithuanian Citizenship For Litvaks
The Slavic name for the Lithuanian state, Lithuania, is the source of the word “Litvak”. Lithuania in most of the Slavic languages is called Litva and the term Litvak simply evolved to mean Lithuanian Jew. Litvaks were Jews who immigrated to the Belarusian, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian parts of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from Germany, the Czech Repu...
A common surname of many Litvak Jews was simply Litvak (or Litvakov). Also, some surnames originated from the names of the cities with large Jewish communities, like: Vilnius – Vilenski, or Kaunas – Kovner. Additionally, some surnames originated from the professions and crafts such as: butcher – Shochet, Glassblower – Glazer. Among the famous Lithu...
During the 18th century, a growing number of Jews spread across the territory of Lithuania, where they became a significant force in developing the country’s economy, trade, and crafts, and which aided the expansion and development of both old and new cities and towns. During that period the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, gradual...
During the WW1 most of Lithuania’s territory turned into a battlefield between the Russian and German Empires. After Russia incited the war and civil war broke out, Vilnius was successively captured by Polish and Soviet-Russian forces numerous times in 1919–1920. Polish and Soviet armies alternately controlled Vilnius on several occasions, while th...
The “honeymoon period” is referred to in the historiography of Lithuanian Jews as a short period of 1919–1922. Jews had ministers as well as representatives in the Lithuanian Parliament (Seimas). The Jewish Kahals (Jewish communities) received extensive privileges under the 1920 law to manage religious affairs, charitable work, social assistance an...
In 1923, a population census was conducted in Lithuania, according to which 2.03 million people lived in the country. Of these, 154 thousand people identified themselves as Jews. Litvaks lived in a...By 1939, the number of Jews in Lithuania had reached its peak of 210,000 due to immigration and the natural growth of the population.From 91% to 95% of the Jewish community remaining at that time in the country (about 195 000 people) were killed during the Second World War. In terms of the share of the community killed during th...Less than 25,000 Lithuanian Jews, were registered in the Soviet census of 1959 after the Shoah. The amount had decreased to 6,000 or less by 1993 mostly due to emigration to the USA and Israel. The...The majority of Litvaks emigrated to the US, but ~15,000 decided to emigrate to South Africa once gold and diamonds were discovered there. Although they were frequently listed as “miners” when immigrating, they were mostly traders in items needed by miners. Up to 75,000 Lithuanian Jews now live in South Africa. Many South African Litvaks during the...
Many Litvaks living abroad have a right to restore the citizenship of their ancestors. In accordance with the Lithuanian Citizenship Law, the descendants of Lithuanian citizens before June 15, 1940, and who left the country before March 11, 1990, can restore Lithuanian citizenship without renouncing the main citizenship in their country of residenc...
The inter-war Republic of Lithuania was home to a large and influential Jewish community whose members either fled the country or were murdered when the Holocaust in Lithuania began in 1941. Prior to World War II, the Lithuanian Jewish population comprised some 160,000 people, or about 7% of the total population. [4]
When World War II broke out, the artist moved to Russia, where he met his future wife. In 1944 both returned to war-devastated Vilnius, where Rafael captured portraits of Holocaust survivors with painstaking detail and sketvhed surviving fragments of the city’s Jewish quarter.
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6 days ago · How did Delwaide’s family react to the new findings in the book? “I haven’t heard from them this time,” replied Van Goethem. “In the past they tried to file defamation charges against me and other authors, who claimed that Leo Delwaide collaborated with the Nazi occupation force.”
