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Joniškis

Community
Joniškis
Lithuania
Jews probably first settled in Joniškis at the beginning of the 18th century. At the end of the 19th century 2,272 Jews lived in the town, comprising 48 percent of the total population. During the first decades of the 20th century, following mass Jewish emigration, mostly to South Africa, the number of Jews who lived in Joniskis decreased to less than one thousand people. The main Jewish occupations in the town were commerce, crafts, light industry, and the export of flax. The Jewish community of Joniškis established a Hebrew school, a library, and a people's bank, as well as Zionists political parties and youth movements. In the late 1920s the economic situation deteriorated and many Jews in the town fell upon hard times. The annexation of Lithuania to the Soviet Union in the summer of 1940 led to the nationalization of factories and shops, which were largely owned by Jews. The Hebrew school was closed, and Jewish political and cultural activities were banned. The German army occupied Joniškis on June, 24 1941. Nationalists who took control of the town immediately started persecuting the Jews. The town's Jews, more than 400 men, women and children, were shot dead by the Nazi occupiers and their Lithuanians collaborators in two murder operations in July and August 1941. In 1943-44 the German authorities set up a forced labor camp which held more than 600 Jewish prisoners deported from the Vilna region. In summer 1944 Joniškis was liberated from the Nazi rule by the Red Army.
Joniškis
Siauliai District
Lithuania
56.239;23.615
Last Name First Name Year of Birth Place of Residence Fate
Abramson Bat Sheva Yoniskis, Lithuania murdered
Abramson Sara Yoniskis, Lithuania murdered
Abramson Yehuda Yoniskis, Lithuania murdered
Bizunsky Yakov Hirsh 1880 Janishok, Lithuania murdered
Cherbal Bina 1898 Joniškis, Lithuania murdered
Dorfan Efraim 1900 Janischki, Lithuania murdered
Dzimitrauskaite Lea Ita 1903 Joniškis, Lithuania murdered
Dzimitrauskaite Milka 1905 Joniškis, Lithuania murdered
Dzimitrauskaite Shifra 1911 Joniškis, Lithuania murdered
Dzimitrovski Yekhiel 1907 Janishok, Lithuania murdered
Dzimitrovsky Nahum Betzalel 1870 Yanishok, Lithuania murdered
Dzimitrovsky Shifra 1911 Yanishok, Lithuania murdered
Elkisek Rivka 1910 Janischki, Lithuania murdered
Elkisek Roza 1908 Janishok, Lithuania murdered
Fishcher Iliya 1925 Yoniskis, Lithuania was registered following the evacuation/ in the interior of the Soviet Union
Fishcher Lyubov 1930 Yoniskis, Lithuania was registered following the evacuation/ in the interior of the Soviet Union
Fishcher Mariya 1891 Yoniskis, Lithuania was registered following the evacuation/ in the interior of the Soviet Union
Fishcher Yakov 1886 Yoniskis, Lithuania was registered following the evacuation/ in the interior of the Soviet Union
Fisher Barukh 1932 Joniškis, Lithuania murdered
Fisher Beile 1905 Joniškis, Lithuania murdered
Fisher Itzik 1926 Joniškis, Lithuania murdered
Fisher Khaviva 1938 Joniškis, Lithuania murdered
Fisher Khaviva 1940 Yoniskis, Lithuania murdered
Fisher Meilech Elimelekh 1902 Joniškis, Lithuania murdered
Fisher Yitzkhak 1929 Joniškis, Lithuania murdered
Flaks Meir 1883 Janischki, Lithuania murdered
Fleischer Felisher Ysrael 1911 Janishok, Lithuania murdered
Fridlib Ida Joniškis, Lithuania murdered
Fridlib Khana 1902 Joniškis, Lithuania murdered
Fridlib Khanan Yoniskis, Lithuania murdered
Fridlib Yaakov Eliahu 1859 Joniškis, Lithuania murdered
Fridlibaite Rashel 1905 Janishok, Lithuania murdered
Fridlub Rashel Yoniskis, Lithuania murdered
Fridman Moshe 1896 Janischki, Lithuania murdered
Fridman Pesia 1904 Janischki, Lithuania murdered
Fridmanas Bendet Janishok, Lithuania murdered
Fridmanas Moshe 1902 Janishok, Lithuania murdered
Fridmanas Ziona Janishok, Lithuania murdered
Fridmaniene Pesia Ester 1905 Joniškis, Lithuania murdered
Gekhtor Faverovl 1922 Yanishki, Lithuania was registered following the evacuation/ in the interior of the Soviet Union
Gelder Hilel Joniškis, Lithuania murdered
Gelder Nakhum 1857 Joniškis, Lithuania murdered
Gelder Shmul Joniškis, Lithuania murdered
Giberalter Aron Janischki, Lithuania murdered
Gibralter Gabriel Janishok, Lithuania murdered
Gibralter Josef Janishok, Lithuania murdered
Girzon Izhak Joniškis, Lithuania murdered
Girzon Judith Janischki, Lithuania murdered
Glezer Gusta Joniškis, Lithuania murdered
Glezer Hena Yoniskis, Lithuania murdered