shalom to all of you.

my nama is willy kahan and  i live in antwerp,belgium.

my late father was bernard kahan [dov behr] and was born in keidan olita in
1902. my grandfather shalom yaacov kahan emigrated in antwerpen around 1903. my
grandmothers name was sara shulman and her father was rubin shulman. the shulman
we know. about the kahan family we know nothing. if somebody knows or think he
knows i would be very happy to hear if somebody is still alive  or what happened
to them during the wars.

thanks,

sincerly yours,

w.kahan

I am interested to know if anyone recognizes the following names or has
information about this family:

My mother's name was Anna Levitan (born c. 1904) in Keidan. Her mother's name
was Feige Antupitski and Feige married Hirsh Tevye Levitan. He was a widower and
she was a widow. Feige had a son from her first marriage, Chone, born c. 1885.

Anna worked in a bakery for a son from Hirsh Tevye's first marriage. Chone
married Rochel Tsurishadai (from Vilna) in 1923 and went to South Africa. They
had two daughhers, Zelda and Rivka (Becky).

Anna married Joseph (Joselis) Kaganas who was originally from Pilvishok. They
married in February 1930 in Keidan and left shortly thereafter for South Africa
and lived in Johannesburg.

Anna also had a full sister, Rivka, who married Moishe Pakroiske (later changed
to Pokroy) and their children were Yankel, Rachmiel, (who went to South Africa)
Munke, Yitchak, Rachel and Hirshke (died in WW2) and Abe and Sore Shainke (also
came to the USA).

Check the memoir by Bernard Gershon Richards on the Keidan.net site.

http://home.comcast.net/~acassel/keidan/bgrichards/bgr1.html

Particularly this passage:

My maternal grandfather, Yakov Herz Sirk -- everybody called him Herz Yankel --
usually rose with the first signs of dawn. Often he got ahead of the dawn. "I
work fast, I eat fast, I sleep fast," he would say. He loved company and
conversation so much that whichever grandson was staying with him at the time
was roused from his' sleep soon after the fire was lighted and the morning
activities begun. His method of waking the household was to walk through all the
rooms and call out, "Get up, kinder - it's six, seven, eight, nine o'clock! Get
up, kinder." Or he would announce to my grandmother that it was high time to get
up and start household affairs going because "der bettler is schein in zibetn
dorf! (the itinerant beggar has already reached his seventh village!)."

I think we can assume "Sirk" and "Shirk" are alternate spellings of the same
name.

All best,

Andy


--- In JewishKeidan@yahoogroups.com, Alan Shirk <alan1188gc@...> wrote:
>
> Researching  family name Shirk from Keidan, got as far Selig "Jacob" Shirk
born about 1861and spouse Tobie born about 1861. He was from Keidan/Kaunas, she
i dont know. got as far as Keiden tax rolls 1840 that list 7 shirks included a
Zelig, who may or may not be the fatherof the as  not  yet born Selig.? Go to
Keidan via Keidan Society web page 1940 that made mention of the passing of
Abraham 1928. Can you steer me in the right direction, or is anyone out their
that has relevant information that would be helpful. Always thought my Fathers
family had German roots, although that could still be true based on the ethnic
.mix of the Jewish community of Keidan What is Kaunas in relation to Keidan, is
it a state or a district in Lithunia? Always  thought Shirk was an uncommon
Jewish name with
> so many non Jewish Shirks of Amish, Mennonite or German gentile origins. Any
help would be appeciated from fellow Landsmen 
>

Any/All information is welcome and greatly appreciated!
Here is link to my ancestry.com (Lagor - Liebe) (and Salant) tree:

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/6967206/family?fpid=-1192121763

1) Does anyone know details of/where/how/etc:  Dov Behr Manishewitz is related
to us??  (Yes, the founder of Manischewitz products!) (Family documents say he
is related, but no-one knows any details or how!)

2) Does anyone know parents/ancestry/original name of my great-grandfather Meyer
Wolf? (was Meyer Soloveichik/Meyer Salaweizik until arrival in America)?

                            Beverly

Hello, Alan,

I have been the coordinator of the Keidan Vital Records Project for LitvakSIG
for many years. We have completed the translation of all the Keidan birth
records, marriage, divorce and death records. The period covered is 1854-1914.
In addition, we have also translated the 20th century Keidan Rabbinate Vital
Records (1922-1939). There are a good number of SIRK records in the various
files. The earliest SIRK birth recorded was in 1854. The latest SIRK death
recorded was in 1899. All of these records are online in the All Lithuania
Database [http://www.litvaksig.org/all.htm]

But if you prefer to have the records on your own computer, you can join the
Keidan Vital Records Project with a $100 contribution to LitvakSIG. The files
will be sent to you as Excel spreadsheets. Let me know if you are interested and
I will forward instructions on how to make the contribution to LitvakSIG.

Olga Zabludoff



--- In JewishKeidan@yahoogroups.com, Alan Shirk <alan1188gc@...> wrote:
>
> Researching  family name Shirk from Keidan, got as far Selig "Jacob" Shirk
born about 1861and spouse Tobie born about 1861. He was from Keidan/Kaunas, she
i dont know. got as far as Keiden tax rolls 1840 that list 7 shirks included a
Zelig, who may or may not be the fatherof the as  not  yet born Selig.? Go to
Keidan via Keidan Society web page 1940 that made mention of the passing of
Abraham 1928. Can you steer me in the right direction, or is anyone out their
that has relevant information that would be helpful. Always thought my Fathers
family had German roots, although that could still be true based on the ethnic
.mix of the Jewish community of Keidan What is Kaunas in relation to Keidan, is
it a state or a district in Lithunia? Always  thought Shirk was an uncommon
Jewish name with
> so many non Jewish Shirks of Amish, Mennonite or German gentile origins. Any
help would be appeciated from fellow Landsmen 
>

Happy Chanukah everyone!!

Kedainiai viewed from the air can be found at
http://www.lithuania-photo.com/kedainiai-greitai/

For further information about Lithuanian shtetls viewed from the air, see
today's blog on Tracing the Tribe - The Jewish Genealogy Blog at
http://tracingthetribe.blogspot.com

Ada Green
adagreen@...

Dear Ada

Thank you so much  for sharing the site for the Lithuanian shtetls of today
that we can see  from the air.
It was fabulous even though they obviously look different to what they
would have done when our ancestors lived there.

Sincerely

Rica B Goldberg
Manchester, UK

Still researching:- ESTRY from somewhere in Poland;  BERLINSKIE from Poznan
and also Charlottenburg in Berlin; KAMENSHCHIK from  Zeimia and Jonova in
Lithuania; DIAMOND/DYMANT from Garliava in Suwalki; FRANK  from Garliava in
Lithuania; LEVI & LESCZINSKIJ from Sompolno in Poland;  SLUZHITEL (now
GOLDBERG) from Birzai in Lithuania, COHEN from Russian Poland

Hello Everyone,

I am a desendant of Zell and Lipnick family from the towns of Datnuva and
Kedania.  Are any of you from this group of families?
(datnuva is a small town about 10 Km north of Kedainia considered part of the
Kedainia towwnship. It had about 200 Jews.  The Zell family of Datnuva was
originally from Kedainia.

Thank you,
Sharon Penn
NY

Hello Sharon and Group,

While normally I don't like to solicit on this site, I just want to tell Sharon
and remind the group of the existence of the Keidan Vital Records Translation
project. It is a LitvakSIG (Special Interest Group) project, and I am the
coordinator. We have translated more than 22,000 vital records--births,
marriages & divorces, and deaths--from Keidan, Dotnuva, Josvainiai and many
other shtetlach in the Keidan area. These are both 19th and 20th century
records. Indeed LIPNIK and ZELL are well represented in my database, as well as
SIRK (for Alan Shirk).

When one joins the Keidan Vital Records Translation project, he/she is sent all
of the records in beautifully organized Excel spreadsheets from which it is easy
to create family trees. IMPORTANT: all of the data is on your own computer; no
searches are necessary to extract records piecemeal. Membership in the Keidan
VRT project requires a $100 donation to LitvakSIG. The wealth of information
received is worth far more than the cost of membership.

If you are interested in learning more or in joining the group, please contact
me: ozabludoff at verizon.net

Olga Zabludoff
Washington, DC

--- In JewishKeidan@yahoogroups.com, "shrnpnn" <sharon@...> wrote:
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am a desendant of Zell and Lipnick family from the towns of Datnuva and
Kedania.  Are any of you from this group of families?
> (datnuva is a small town about 10 Km north of Kedainia considered part of the
Kedainia towwnship. It had about 200 Jews.  The Zell family of Datnuva was
originally from Kedainia.
>
> Thank you,
> Sharon Penn
> NY
>

Maybe I'm late discovering this, but it's a lovely discovery nonetheless. The
New York Public Library has put the full text of the Keidan yizkor book on line.
It can be found here:

http://yizkor.nypl.org/index.php?id=1302

Scroll through the alphabetical listing of towns at the top of the page. Keidan
actually appears twice -- as "Keydan" and as Kedainiai.

Incidentally, I found this via Dovid Katz' interesting website
http://www.holocaustinthebaltics.com. Well worth checking out.

best to all

Andy

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I'll be going to Keidan in mid June (as well as to nearby areas) and would like to find a guide there. Anybody know someone good? Who has been there recently?

Harriet Sugar Miller, Montreal
Great-great granddaughter of Max Dizun, cattle farmer from Keidan (family became Weinstein and settled in southeastern North Carolina…I couldn't take the heat)