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Holocaust Memorial in the Freethinkers Cemetery
Photo and comments from Robin Esrock, who visited Kupiskis in the fall of
2007.
At the Freethinkers Cemetery just a few hundred metres from the town
center, over 1000 Jews were murdered. A recent memorial honours them. What
struck me is how close it was to the town: the gun shots must have rattled
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(Photos courtesy of
Ellen Stepak)
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The Tombstone of Abraham, son of David, from the remains of the Jewish cemetery in Kupiskis
(Photo courtesy of Linda Cantor)
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The Mystery Tombstone of a
Kupishoker
by Ann Rabinowitz
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I had been told that there was a tombstone in the Saltoniskiu Cemetery
in Vilnius, which stated that the person was from Kupiskis. Upon
visiting the cemetery in person with forty-seven other Kupishokers on July 14,
2005, we stopped at the grave of the Vilna Gaon and I asked everyone to look
around and see if they could find this mysterious Kupishoker.
Sure enough, Vered Reiter, the daughter of Alec Meyer, found the tombstone
which was to the left of the Gaon's tomb, a location of honor.
The tombstone states:
Our Dear Mother
The Modest Woman
Esther Gittel
daughter of Reb Zeev Katz z"l from Kupishok
Died 8th Nissan 5712 14 July 1952
r.i.p.
After numerous attempts to
identify Esther-Gittel failed, I put aside my research on her until recently
when I once again looked in the Kupiskis records and found an Esther-Gittel
whose father was Zeev. However, she was Esther-Gittel Cadovich and she
married Josel-Vulf ben Iankel Katz. She was the sister of Haide
Reingold's mother. It seemed that Esther-Gittel's father wasn't Reb Zeev
Katz, but Reb Zeev Cadovich. There had been a mixup on the tombstone.
Now, she had a proper family history and relatives and was a mystery no more.
(Photo courtesy of Fay Trapido Morris)
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