The Jewish Cemetery
In the late 1990s, a family friend travelled to Lithuania to visit his nephew who was working with the Peace Corps near Kaunas and made a point of going to Kapciamiestis so that he could describe the town to my father, whose parents had been born there, and send him photographs. The photographs we received included several of the Jewish cemetery and a note saying “The cemetery site is very tranquil, facing a lovely body of water.”
Until we received these photographs, I hadn’t considered the possibility that our ancestors’ burial site might have survived the destruction of the Holocaust. I became somewhat obsessed with the idea that I needed to take responsibility for preserving this cemetery. I’d very recently begun to do genealogical research and knew nothing about how to get started with such a project. I consulted Joyce Field of JewishGen who referred me to Regina Kopilevich, a young woman experienced at documenting Jewish cemeteries in Lithuania. The chart that follows is the result of Regina’s work and represents the first step toward preserving the cemetery. |
Connie Buchanan
| Comments/Notes | Father | Age | Date(Heb) | Date | GivenName(s) | Surname |
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Maiden | Betzalel |
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| Haya Devora | MICHALISHOK | |
| Benyamin | 50 | 11-Adar-5632 | 20-Feb-1872 | Rivka |
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Father | Benyamin |
| 23-Tishri-561http://www.kapciamiestis.org/allsites/1129/assets/yizkor/A03.jpg6 | 5-Oct-1855 | Shmuel |
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| Eliezer |
| 3-Tevet-1853 |
| Sheina |
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Hacohen |
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| 12-Nisan-5613 | 20-Apr-1853 |
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First Shabbot Adar 1851 | Shraga |
| 5611 | 01- Feb-1851 | Elka |
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Man | Nisan |
| 3-Elul-5613 | 6 -Sep-1853 | Shraga |
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Woman, Nisan-1849 | Yaakov |
| 5609 | 1849 | Leah |
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Broken | Mordechai |
| 10-Kislev-5604 | 3-Dec1843 |
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Broken |
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| 5606 | 1846 |
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Man | Meir |
| 1-Tevet-5605 | 11-Dec-1844 | Hillel Nisan |
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Father | Moshe |
| 5700 | 1940 | Haim Yitzhok | LANTZMAN | |
Woman | Tanhum |
| 6-Tevet-1894 |
| FrumaGitel |
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Father | Yaakov |
| 18 Kislev 5650 | 11 Dec 1889 | Arieh |
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Girl | Haim |
| 1-Tammuz-5645 | 14 Jun1885 | Haya Sheina | [VODNITSKY] | |
| Duber (Dov-Ber) |
| 18-Adar-5634 | 07-Mar-1874 | Arieh Leib |
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Man | Reuven |
| 6-Tevet-5631 | 30-Dec-1870 | Aharon |
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Man | Osher |
| 23-Tishri-5614 | 25-Oct-1853 | Zev |
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Father | Moshe Aharon |
| 13-Adar-5690 | 13-Mar-30 | Shlomo Zalman | GARBARSKY | |
Father | Yitzhak Isaac |
| 27-Tammuz ? |
| Moshe | BONOWITZ | |
Mother, Halevy | David |
| 4-Elul-5650 | 20-Aug-1890 | Nehama |
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Woman | Arieh Leib |
| 15-Tevet-5615 | 05-Jan-1855 | Henka |
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Woman – Stonelying down | Yosef |
| 5-Tevet-5613 | 16-Dec-1862 | Devora |
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Woman | Mordechai |
| 21-Elul-5612 | 05-Sep-1852 | Pesha |
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Wife | Yaacov |
| 5-Tishri-5612 | 01-Oct-1851 | Rahel |
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Stone Broken-Woman |
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Father;century portion (18) of date; spouse,Rochla | Nison | 48 |
| after 1893 | Meir Dov | VODNITZKY | |
Mother ; spouse-Schlomo | Abraham Auzer[MILLER] |
| 11-Tevet-1921 |
| Liba Feiga | RABINOVITZ | |
Woman | Yehezkiel |
| 5-Tevet-5633 | 4-Jan-1873 | Esther |
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Young Son | Arieh |
| 16-Tevet-5641 | 18-Dec-1880 | Tzvi Hirsh |
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Mother – had two daughters |
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| 1-Kislev-5633 | 01-Dec-1872 | Rahel |
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Father | Shlomo |
| 5633 | 1872 | Shahna Faivish |
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Mother | Aharon |
| 7-Shvat-5646 | 13-Jan-1886 | Toiba |
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| Mordechai |
| 26-Kislev- 5629 | 10-Dec-1868 | Esther |
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Old Woman | Pinhas |
| 14-Cheshvan-5643 | 27-Oct-1882 | Haya |
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Woman | Dov |
| 22-Adar-5609 | 16-Mar-1849 | Perl |
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Maiden | Yehezkiel |
| 9-Nisan-5608 | 12-Apr-1848 | Rahel |
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2 (month missing) 1848 | Hanoch |
| 5608 | 1848 | Esther Feiga |
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Man | Arieh Leib |
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| Tzvi |
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Died Adar 1847 | Rueven |
| 5607 | 1847 | Yaacov |
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| Shmuel | 90 | 5-Elul-5674 | 27-Aug-14 | Nehama | STOLOVSKY | |
Woman broken stone.Spouse: | Arieh |
| 22-Tammuz-5694 | 05-Jul-34 | Rahel | VODNITZKY | |
Mother | Yosef |
| 12-Tishri-5675 | 02-Oct-14 | Yenta |
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Father | Yedidya |
| 28-Nisan-5675 | 12-Apr-15 | Abraham | FLEISHER | |
| Reuven |
| 20-Tishri-5638 | 27-Sep-1877 | Sarah Yoheved |
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Mother, spouse | Yosef |
| 4-Adar-5640 | 16-Feb-1880 | Liba | SMOLINSKY | |
Old Woman | Arieh Leib |
| 14-Shvat-5680 | 03-Feb-20 | Sheina |
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Mother | Moshe |
| 23-Cheshvan-5672 | 14-Nov-11 | Elka | [OFCHINSKY] | |
| Eliezer |
| 19-Tishri-5664 | 10-Oct-03 | David | [OFCHINSKY] | |
Maiden | Yehezkiel |
| 6-Tammuz-5679 | 04-Jul-19 | Gela | OFCHINSKY | |
Maiden | David |
| 13-Av-5684 | 13-Aug-24 | Devora Rivka | OFCHINSKY | |
| Shabtai |
| 12-Adar-5644 | 09-Mar-1884 | Eidla |
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Woman – Broken tombstone | Arieh |
| 13-Cheshvan-5643 | 26-Oct-1882 |
| KATZ | |
Mother, Hacohen | Yehezkiel |
| 19-Nisan-5637 | 02-Apr-1877 | Rahel |
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| Reuven |
| 12-Tevet-5629 | 26-Dec-1868 | Zev |
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Father – 6 Sons – Death | Peretz |
| Cheshvan 5631 | Cheshvan 1870 | Zev | [SOLNICKY] | |
7 Sons and 1 Daughter | David |
| 16-Adar-5622 | 16-Feb-1862 | Hana |
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Mother, Hacohen | Tzvi |
| 12-Lyyar-5615 | 30-Apr-1855 | Sheina |
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Spouse Liba | Faivel |
| 6-Lyyar-5634 | 23-Apr-1874 | Arieh Leib | SMOLINSKY | |
Spouse: Yitzhak | Yosef (RADYN) |
| 5-Iyyar-5673 | 13-May-13 | Beila Haya | KOPCIOWSKI | |
Father | Moshe |
| 22-Sivan-5640 | 01-Jun-1880 | Itzhak |
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born Slonim; spouse: Yaakov | Osher Anshel |
| 26-Shvat-5644 | 22-Feb-1884 | Hana Toyba | SHUB | |
Maiden | Yitzhak |
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| Hasha Rivka | KATZ | |
Hacohen | Yehezkiel |
| 1-Av-5642 | 17-Jul-1882 | Reuven |
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Father | Dov |
| 3-Cheshvan-5689 | 17-Oct-28 | Mordechai | PIK | |
Broken tombstone | Arieh |
| 3-Tishri-5687 | 11-Sep-26 |
| STOLOVSKY | |
Rabbi | David |
| 20-Sivan-5653 | 04-Jun-1893 | Yitzhak | KWIAT | |
Woman | Shimon[KRISKSYTKANSKY] |
| 2-Shvat-5691 | 20-Jan-31 | Kuna | OFCHINSKI | |
Mother; spouse-Shmuel | Yacob Benyamin[STOLOVSKY] |
| 6-Av-5695 | 05-Aug-35 | Hasha Liba | GRASHEVSKY | |
Father; spouse: Liba Leah Kopciowski | Shlomo Yedidya | 25-Iyyar-5691 | 12-May-31 | Nehemia | KRINSKY | Z01 |
YAD VASHEM
The names submitted by relatives and friends of those murdered during the Holocaust are now available online on The Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names. Below is a list of names we know to be included.
| NAME | GIVEN NAME |
| ABRAMSKI | Yehuda |
| BEREL | Jta |
| BLIUMENTHAL | Bluma |
| BLIUMENTHAL | Yitzhak |
| CHAZANOVSKY | Dov |
| CHAZANOVSKAITE | Fruma |
| CHAZANOVSKI ne Markus | Golda Rivka |
| FAJNSHTEIN | Bluma |
| FRANK | Mirra |
| FRIDKOVSKI | Leib |
| GOURITZKI | Leib |
| GRASZAVSKI | |
| JEZIERSKI | Chaia |
| KAUFMAN | Chana |
| KAVALSKI | Salman Eliezer |
| KONIER | Abraham |
| KOPCIOWSKI | Berta |
| KOPCIOWSKI | Arie |
| KOPCIOWSKI | Gitl |
| KOPTSHOWSKI | Nadia |
| KOPTSHOWSKI | Sara |
| KOPTSHOWSKI | Yeheskel |
| KRINSKI | Pesa |
| KRINSKI | Rachel |
| LANZMAN | Rachel |
| LANZMAN | Tzvi |
| LUTWAK | Abraham |
| OFCHINSKAS | Abraham |
| OFCHINSKAS | Dora |
| OFCHINSKAS | Hirshl |
| OFCHINSKAS | Berl |
| OFCHINSKAS | Falk |
| OFCHINSKAS | Eliezer Dov |
| OFCHINSKAS | Josef |
| OFCHINSKAS | Leib |
| OFCHINSKAS | Nahum |
| OFCHINSKAS-GRODZIN | Reizl |
| OFCHINSKAS | Tamara |
| OFCHINSKAS | Tauba |
| OFCHINSKAS | Yente |
| OFCHINSKAS | Yosef |
| OGUZ | Gita |
| OTREMBSKY | Bluma |
| OTREMBSKY | David |
| OTREMBSKY | Hirsh |
| PEIK | Myshel |
| PIK | Etl |
| PIK | Rachel |
| POSZTYWY | Shia |
| POSZTYWY | Gershon |
| RABINOWICZ | Mowsza |
| ROSENSTADT | Henia |
| ROSENSTADT | Liba |
| ROSENSTADT | Yudel |
| SAPIRO | Genia |
| SHER | Mendel |
| SHERESHEWSKI | Ester |
| SHIMSHILEVICH | Khatzel |
| SMOLSKI | Cypora |
| SMOLSKI | Chaja |
| SMOLSKI | Mojse |
Additional photo from Yizkor at Katkishes with names 
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