Our deepest condolences to Natalija Cheifec and to her family on the death of her beloved father.
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Natalija Dvorakovskaja passed away October 2. She was born in 1949. She was a long-standing member of the Klaipėda Jewish Community. We send our condolences to her husband Alekandras and the family members she leaves behind.
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The Lithuanian Jewish Community extends our deepest condolences to Violeta Gaižauskaitė and Monika Antanaitytė on the loss of their son and brother.
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With deep sadness we report the death of Jefim Levin on September 7. He was born in 1931. Our condolences to his wife Nina and daughter Jelena.
Lithuanian Cinematographer and Cultural Expert Pranas Morkus Has Died
The Lithuanian Jewish Community mourns the death of the famous Lithuanian filmmaker and cultural scientist Pranas Morkus (1938-2022) and we extend our most sincere and deepest condolences to his family members and friends.
Morkus was born February 18, 1938, in Klaipėda to the family of theater actress Galina Yatskevich. From 1955 to 1957 he was a student at the Lomonosov Philology Department of Moscow State University, and from 1957 to 1960 at the History and Philology Faculties of Vilnius University.
From 1962 to 1964 he was attended the highest-level courses for scriptwriters and directors in Moscow. He was a member of the Lithuanian Union of Cinematographers. From 1960 to 1962 he was editor-in-chief of radio theater for the Television Radio Committee of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, and from 1968 to 1970 he served as editor-in-chief for the creative body Lietuvos Telefilmas.
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We extend our deepest condolences on the death of Polina Zingerienė at the age of 101 to her sons Markas and Emanuelis and her many friends and relatives.
She was born in Kaunas where she was graduated from high school. Her adolescence was cut short by World War II. She was imprisoned in the Kaunas ghetto and later sent to a concentration camp. After the Allies liberated the camp, Polina returned to Kaunas.
Her painful experiences and struggle to survive the Holocaust led her to go into medicine. She received in diploma in natal and developmental nursing. She worked in her field of medicine till the age of 76.
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Roza Kamrazer from Šiauliai passed away at the age of 89 on August 11. We extend our deepest condolences to her friends and family.
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Izraela Blataitė, honorary citizen of Šarnelė, Lithuania, has passed away in Israel. We extend our heartfelt condolences to her family and loved ones.
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With deep sadness we report Jakovas Mendelevskis passed away at the age of 91 on July 26. He had been deported from Lithuania by the Soviets and was a member of the minyan at the Choral Synagogue in Vilnius.
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Jelena Levina passed away July 19 at the age of 94. She was born in 1927. She was a long-standing member and volunteer. She will be missed by all of us.
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Richard Freund passed away in Charlottesville, Virginia, on July 14 due to complications involving a bone-marrow transplant he received 18 years ago. He was 67. Freund was a frequent visitor to Vilnius and a friend of the Lithuanian Jewish Community. Besides annual summer digs at the Great Synagogue site in Vilnius, revealing many new facts and the existence of surviving elements and a few surprises at that site, he also headed the non-invasive investigation of the escape tunnel dug by the brenner kommando at Ponar, Jews who were forced to exhume corpses, burn the flesh and crush the bones, who themselves were slated for death upon completion of their task aimed at hiding Holocaust crimes. The rediscovery of the tunnel was featured in an hour-long documentary by NOVA on the American public television network PBS. Freund also led the effort to map the lost Jewish shtetl of Rumshishok (Rumšiškės) just outside Kaunas flooded in the post-war period to create a hydroelectric generation station, and worked on a number of other Jewish sites in Lithuania. He also used non-invasive techniques to investigate the Warsaw ghetto in 2021.
Freund always found the time in the middle of his work to explain his finds to interested on-lookers, and presented his findings to the Lithuanian Jewish Community in a series of presentations in Vilnius.
We mourn his loss and extend our deepest condolences to his widow Eliane, his three children Eli, Ethan, and Yoni and his many other family members and friends at the University of Hartford and around the world.
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We are sad to report the death of our volunteer, medical doctor and otorhinolaryngologist (head and neck medicine) Valentina Barsukaitė on July 13. She was born in 1938. We extend our deepest condolences to her daughter, Veronika, and her many friends and colleagues.
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Michail Rositsan passed away July 11, 2022. He was born in Belarus in 1955 with roots in Lithuania. He completed a law degree in Lithuania, founded a business and often travelled across the Atlantic. He founded a factory producing mannequins which were exported to dozens of countries and his business card contained an address in Vilnius and in Toronto. In 2014 he served as Israel’s honorary consul in Lithuania. Together with his brother Boris he founded the Rositsan and Maccabi Elite Checkers and Chess Club in Vilnius. His brother served as president of the club and passed away in 2021. Our deepest condolences to his family and friends.
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Markas Gliauberzonas has died following a long battle with chronic illness. He was a member of the Vilnius Jerusalem of Lithuania Jewish Community. We extend our deepest condolences to his daughter Judita and many friends and family members.
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Anna Kaplan passed away June 6. She was born in 1943. Our deepest condolences to her daughter Tatjana and her family and friends.
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Our deepest condolences to the family on the death of honorary Lithuanian consul in South Africa Ivor Feinberg, whose family came from Panevėžys. Our condolences to his wife Miri, children Shirley Dorfan and Josi Feinberg and his brother Alfie.
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Our deepest condolences to Tatjana and Viktoras Peleckis on the death of their beloved daughter Jelena.
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Raja Lifšic, a member of the Lithuanian Jewish Community and a social department client, has passed away. She was born in 1948. Our deepest condolences to her husband Jakov, daughter Liza and sons Markas and Semionas.
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Abramas Starobinas passed away May 8. He was born in 1935. Our deepest condolences to his fellow social center clients and family members.
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Marija Alferovič passed away May 2. She was born in 1938. We extend our condolences to her husband Chaimas and son Michailas.