Trapido Family

The Trapidos were a large family who settled, as far as we know, in Kupiskis sometime in the 18th century, probably coming from Spain and Portugal via Holland.  

This was the home of Nachman and Ida (nee Trapido) Dorfan.. It is at the corner of Vilniaus and Pasvalio streets in Vaskai and belonged to Nachman's father, Itzek.. It is quite a large property with several other buildings besides this main house.  Ida was the daughter of Naoch Trapido and Bluma Tauzite and was born in Pasvalys in 1903, according to the Kupiskis Birth Records.  We believe that Naoch was born in Kupiskis and certainly most of his siblings and their families remained there.  Naoch, Ida and her husband Nachman Dorfan, along with their children Chone and Sarah, were killed in Vaskai in 1941.

(Photo courtesy of Jonathan Dorfan)