Keidaner friends, I'm very pleased to invite subscribers to this list to a very special commemoration of Keidan's Jewish community this summer in New York...
Friends, as we discussed last month, there was a commemoration at the site of the mass grave outside Kedainiai on Sept. 25. The ceremony was videotaped and put...
Friends, Sara Yakubovski has very generously sent along some photos from the commemoration at the Kedainiai mass grave site last month. The photos are posted...
Dear Mr. Kessel,  I was wondering if they included my Grandaparents, my Aunts and cousin on the memorial boards in Keidan. Is there anyway to find out...
I am searching for Kessel/ Kesselis/ Kessler/ Cassel/ in Lithuania. It has evidentally been changed as migration occured. Moshe or Macy Kessel b. 1841 Kovno...
Friends, From Arie Shcherbakov comes the following account of the Aug. 28 Keidan yortzayt commemoration in Tel Aviv. Photos from the event may be seen here as...
Dear keidaners You can find some attached pictures from Kedainiai. On August 28, I was in 70 year commemoration of destruction of Kedainiai Jews. As you can...
My great-grandmother's family, also EINHORN (AINGOREN or EYNGOREN in some records, lived in Kedain in at least the 1800s and into the Shoah, and we may have...
Dear friends, I'm very sorry to announce that the Keidan yortzayt commemoration planned for New York City this Sunday will have to be postponed, due to the...
Ed Just wrote:  ...  While Vandziogala is also my ancestral shtetl and it too (along with Babtai) deserves its own memorial stone with list of names,...
This is just a reminder to all that we'll be meeting next Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, at 2pm at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place in Manhattan to...
Don't forget than in his letter to Myra Sklarew (who coincidentally was my creative writing professor at American University 40 years ago), Rimantas Zirgulis...
Friends, This may surprise you as it did me. Myra Sklarew received the email below from Rimantas Zirgulis, director of the Kedainiai Regional Museum, after she...
Just a followup to anyone who missed the earlier post: On Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, Keidaners and Keidan descendents in the U.S. and Israel will mark the 70th...
This follows up on my previous post. Hope Hebrew version attached -- ac Shalom to our Keidaner Friends, Each year we commemorate our families, murdered in...
I have not written to the group because until now I was not actually sure my family did have Keidan members. I just learned that my grandmother had brothers...
Hi, all of you Keidaners, I am doing some research on Avrohom Eliyahu Kaplan, born in Keidan. Can anyone support the following story told to me by Elazar...
Hello List Members, There is a nice video of the KÄ—dainiai railway station in the 1930s posted in the Yivo Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. You may ...
One year ago I lost my 10-year old personal webpage for shtetl Seta (Shat) because my internet service provider suddenly did away with all personal webpages...
Shalom All! Our family is from Datnouva (Datnowa) just 9 km north of Kedian, Last names of Zell,Lipnick. our branches either immigrated to Baltimore, Israel,...
My ancestors came from Keidan, Lithuania. The family was named Sragan and I have tracked them to the early 1700s. Don't know how many of you have been DNA...
My grandfather, Hirsch (Girsh) Relkin was born in Keidanaiai in the mid 1800's. His wife was Sarah Rubenshteyn, the daughter of Ber Rubenshteyn. His father was...
Dear Keidaners, Some of you may already be familiar with the genealogical site Geni. I was web browsing last week and to my complete surprise discovered the...
My Merkel/Markel ancestors go back to the 1700's in Kedainai. Please contact me if you have connections to this family. Mark E Strauss markes@... Via...
Fellow Keidaners: As some of you are aware, Aug. 29, 2011 will mark the 70th anniversary of the mass murder that effectively put an end to the 500-year-old...
I apologize for the delay in posting this. On Aug. 29, a commemoration of the mass murder in Keidan was held near Tel Aviv. The following account was sent by...
Just a small correction - I am from the Sroelov family. Tamar Dothan Jerusalem ... From: A Cassel To: JewishKeidan@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, October 24,...
A memorial sent to me by my Aunt . . . ... From: Susanne Malof <smalof@...> Subject: Yad Vashem To: "Sunni Krull" <sunkrull@...>, "Stephen Caplin"...
