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The Rokiskis SIG (Special Interest Group), a group of Rokiskis descendants, has joined together to share our common interest in our ancestors' lives, stories, and our collective history. We are pooling our resources in order to collect as many documents and vital records as we can and we now own the 1897 All-Russian Census for Rokiskis, a number of candle tax records and box tax records, the 1891-1915 Postal Bank Records, the wonderful 1908 Family List, as well as an index to vital records (birth, death, and marriage) from the Kaunas Archives. If you are interested in joining us, please contact the SIG chair, Linda Cantor |
Tizenhof Museum Administration Building(photo courtesy of Philip Shapiro)
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Street
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| Sinagogu
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Rokiskis References and Research Sources |
| Please note: The spelling of names and town names are copied exactly as they appear in each source. |
| View location via MapQuest (Then click your browser's "Back" button to return here.) |
| The Annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry by Rabbi Ephraim Oshry |
| Center for Studies of the Culture and History of East European Jews - For |
| Chamber of the Holocaust - Mt Zion |
| Encyclopedia Judaica |
| Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust |
| Links to on-line sites about modern Rokiskis |
| Lite - Description of Rokiskis from Lite by Dr. Mendel Sudarsky, Uriah Katzenelenbogen, J. Kissin, and Berl Kagan |
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Lithuanian Jewish Communities by Nancy Schoenburg and Stuart Schoenburg (Aronson Press) |
| 1930 Telephone Directory |
| Pandelys in the Holocaust - . |
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Photograph
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visit with our Rokiskis families |
Rakishker Society - Johannesburg |
| Rokiskis Documents at YIVO - These documents have been translated for us by Mathilda Ginsburg Mendelow and Steven Weiss. |
| Rokiskis Property Owners and Renters, 1921 - This is a list of property owners and renters listed on a 1921 street map. |
| Rakishok, the Biggest Shtetl - Read a first person account of life in Rokiskis, first printed in the South African journal, Jewish Affairs |
| There Once Was a Home - Rakishok from the Der Yiddisher Africaner Zeitung, August 7, 1953. |
| Where Once We Walked by Gary Mokotoff and Sallyann Sack |
| Yisker-bukh fun Rakishok un Umgegnt |
"Relatively Rokiskis" We would like to know more about life in Rokiskis. Please share your family's stories and anecdotes with us. Send them to Rhonda Grosman. Please click on the links below. |
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| Rokiskis Town Square |
Rokiskis Town Hall, c. 1940 |
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| Typical Rokiskis House, Sodu Street | Rokiskis Hotel, pre-World War I |
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(These photos are courtesy of the Rokiskis Land Museum. They were selected, scanned and sent to us by Chris Cummings, an American Peace Corps volunteer who worked in Rokiskis. Thanks also to Nijole Sniokiene, the director of the museum, for supplying and identifying the photos.) |
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