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Holocaust Victims from Uzpaliai

Yakov Kopelansky, a retired welder and supervisor in a tank factory, who was born and raised in Uzpaliai, survived the Holocaust, then life in Lithuania under Soviet rule, and now lives in Israel.  He is working on writing his memories of life in Uzpaliai both before and during World War II.  

Yakov estimates that in 1939 there were approximately 100 Jewish families, with about 800 members, living in Uzpaliai.  He thinks that from 10 to 15 people were still alive at the end of World War II.  He created the following list of almost 300 victims of the Holocaust from memory and asked that we not forget them.  He ended with the following words "That is the list of names that I remember.  I'm sorry a hundred times for those whose names I have forgotten.  I am sorry."

Bev Berkal, wife of Uzpaliai descendant Arky Berkal, worked on updating this list. She used Yakov's list and added names from Yad Vashem pages of testimony as well as Berkal family names.  

She used Revison Lists and Yad Vashem Pages of Testimony to add information such as the surnames of women and the names of children..  And Berkal family members searched their memories and provided  names and genealogical data for family members and people they had known in Ushpol.

 

Family Name

First Name

Year Born/Age

Relationships

Occupation

Comments

 

ANTESHVILSKY

David

Born 1897 in Skodotzishok

 

Jewish School Teacher

Single

 

ARON

Abba

Born 1922

Son of  Sara & Yaakov

Butcher

Single

 

ARON

Basha

Born 1924

Daughter of Sara & Yaakov

  Student

 

ARON

Dina

Born 1931

Child of Yaacov & Sara

 

 

ARON

Sara    

Born 1900  

Married to Yaacov

 

 

ARON

Gershon

Born 1927

Son of Yaacov & Sara

 

 

ARON

Shneiur

Born 1929

Son  of  Yaacov & Sara

 

 

ARON

Yaacov (Yeckiel/ Yankel)

Born 1891 in Poland

Husband of  Sara

Butcher

Parents  Mendel & Golda

 

ARON

Golda

 

 

 

 

AIDELMAN

Chaim

Age 20

Son of Eliahu & Gita

Student

 

AIDELMAN

Daniel

  

 

 

 

AIDELMAN

Wife of Daniel

 

 

 

 

AIDELMAN

Child of Daniel

 

 

 

 

AIDELMAN

Child of Daniel

 

 

 

 

AIDELMAN

Child of Daniel

 

 

 

 

AIDELMAN

Child of Daniel

 

 

 

 

AIDELMAN

David

 

Husband  of Rachelle

 

 

AIDELMAN

David

 

 

 

 

AIDELMAN

Wife of David

 

 

 

 

AIDELMAN

Child of David

 

 

 

 

AIDELMAN

Eliahu Tzvi

Age 60

Husband of  Gita

Merchant

Son of Chaim & Treina

 

AIDELMAN

Gershon

Age 30

Son of Eliahu & Gita

Clerk

 

AIDELMAN

Gitte

 

Wife of Itsik

 

 

AIDELMAN

Gita

Age 58

Wife of Eliahu Tzvi

Housewife

 

AIDELMAN

Itsik

  

Husband of  Gitte

 

 

AIDELMAN

Nekha

Age 62

 

 

 

AIDELMAN

Rachelle

 

Wife of David

 

 

AIDELMAN

Reuven