Aizen

Relationship Family/ Pre-Marriage Name First Name Father’s Name Mother’s Name Occupation or Nickname Place of birth/ Residence Age or birth date Place and date of death
Husband Aizen Hirsh Blacksmith and shop Shkud 60 Shkud. End June-mid July
Wife Aizen/Segal Pia Housewife Shkud 55 Aka Hill
Son Aizen Lipa Hirsh Pia Shkud 20 Shkud
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According to Hana Shaf-Brener, Hirsh Aizen, a blacksmith, 60, was married to Pia (nee Segal), 55. The couple had a son, Lipa, 20.

According to descendants of the Aizen family, Hirsh Aizen, son of Lipa, had seven siblings: Rachel, who married Meyer Mines and was murdered in the Holocaust; Israel, who in 1921 emigrated with his children to the US, where he has many descendants; David Myer, who emigrated to Scotland before the Holocaust; a son who emigrated to South Africa before the Holocaust; and three more siblings whose names and fates we do not know.

According to Jewish Gen’s Lithuania Tax and Voters Lists Database, Girsh Eyzen, son of Lipman, was a poor smith with two family members in Skuodas, 1904. The Jewish Gen Yizkor Book Necrology Database indicates that [Hirsh] Tsvi Eisen was murdered in the Holocaust.

The following newspaper article from 1966 mentions a member of the Aizen family, but the identity is unclear; possibly Girsh/Hirsh? – “[The concentration camp in] Dimitravas, which was established in independent Lithuania on December 12, 1936, and which started to function in August of 1937, imprisoned communists J. Pajaujis, A. Vilimas, R. Volenksyte, and later Ch. Aizen, B. Baranauskas, K. Didziulis, J. Stimburis and many others” (A. Straksys “No One is Forgotten,” Musu Zodis Nov 17,1966).

Yad Vashem provides the following information on Hirsh and Pia Aizen:

Tzvi Eizen was born in Shkod, Lithuania. He was a blacksmith and married. Prior to WWII he lived in Shkod, Lithuania. During the war he was in Shkod, Lithuania. Tzvi was murdered in the Shoah. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (digital). http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=5682259&language=en

Faia [should be Paia] Eizen nee Segal was born in Koenigsberg, Germany to Berl. She was a housewife and married Tzvi. Prior to WWII she lived in Shkod, Lithuania. During the war she was in Shkod, Lithuania. Faia was murdered in the Shoah. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (digital). http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=5863106&language=en

Hirsh and Pia Aizen had eight children.

Hirsh Aizen & familyFront row, L-R: Tamar, Pia, Hirsh, Lipe, Liuba. Back row, L-R: Henne, Leah, Leizer, Judith. The oldest daughter, Rosa, is not in the photo.

1) Tamar Aizen: Jewish Gen’s Lithuania Marriages database records that Teme Aisen, born to Girs Josel and Paje Eide (nee Zhegl) in 1915, married Meisas Galpern, born to Aron and Ita Dine of Zagare in 1914. The marriage took place in Zagare, 1934. According to a descendant of the Aizen family, Tamar moved to Palestine in the 1930s, died in her 90s, and was the “matriarch of a big family.”

2) Lipe Aizen: Lipe was murdered with his parents in Shkud. Yad Vashem provides the following information:

Lipa Eizen was born in Shkod, Lithuania in 1927 to Tzvi. He was a child. Prior to WWII he lived in Shkod, Lithuania. During the war he was in Shkod, Lithuania. Lipa was murdered in the Shoah. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (digital). http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=5682260&language=en

3) Liuba Aizen: Jewish Gen’s Lithuania Directories Database indicates that Liuba Aizen survived the Holocaust and was “Found in Russia” in 1943. According to the family, Liuba went to Vilna after the war where she married  and had a child; she moved to Israel in 1957, where she has descendants.

4) Henne Aizen: According to Jewish Gen’s Lithuania Marriages database, Hene Aizen, born to Hirsh and Paye (nee Segal) of Skuodas about 1907, married Mark Fleisher, born to Zusman and Dveire of Liepaja about 1907. The marriage took place in Skuodas, 1932. For more information about Hene and her family, see the Fleisher Family page.

5) Leah Aizen: Leah Aizen survived the Holocaust and, according to Jewish Gen’s Lithuania Directories Database, was “Found in Russia” in 1943. For more information on Leah Aizen, see here.

6) Leizer Aizen: Jewish Gen’s Lithuania Directories Database indicates that Elizer Aizen survived the Holocaust and was “Found in Russia” in 1943. According to the Aizen family, Leizer escaped the massacres in Shkud, but died of tuberculosis in Kazakhstan during the war, nursed by his sisters Liuba and Leah. Yad Vashem provides the following information on Leizer Aizen:

Leizer Eizen was born in Shkod, Lithuania to Hirsh and Faia nee Segal. He was single. Prior to WWII he lived in Shkod, Lithuania. During the war he was in Shkod, Lithuania. [Place of death given as Alma Ata, Kazakhstan; cause, disease; comments, “died following the Evacuation,”] This information is based on a Page of Testimony (digital). http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=5863105&language=en

In Shkud, Leizer was a member of the Israel National fund:

15IsraelNationalFundKKL activists in Shkud after the parade on the 25th anniversary of the passing of Dr. Herzl z”l: Bottom row, right to left: Shmuel Axelrod, Pesach Bob (now in South Africa), Eliezer Eisen.
Second row: Feivel Neiman, Yentel Savel-Vrotnitzki, Tzvi Yoselevitz, David Davidov, Rachel Savel-Elkes, Yitzhak Cohen.
Third row: Meir Hovsha, Ester Terushkin Rosen (now in Israel), Chaim Natanson (now in Israel), Yeshayahu Yudelman (now in South Africa), Chaya Sheindling Mevezis (now in Israel), Alexander Pinta (now in Israel), Mina Cohen, Gershon Faktor (now in Israel), Mordechai Shlez, Itta Yankelovitz, Meir Taitz (now in Israel), Israel Tenor (Photo Kehilat Shkud 15)

7) Judith Aizen: According to Jewish Gen’s Lithuania Marriages database, Judes Aizen, born to Abram Girsas and Chaja of Skuodas in 1908, married Gerson Berman, son of Abram Judel and Ete Berman of Laizuva. The marriage took place in Kaunas, 1935. According to the Aizen family, Judith and her husband shortly afterwards moved to Palestine, where their descendants still live.

8) Rosa Aizen: According to Jewish Gen’s Lithuania Marriages database, Hinde Rauze Aizen, born to Hirsh and Paye (nee Segal) of Skuodas in 1905, married Max Epshtein, son of Mausha and Khave (nee Markiz). The marriage took place in Skuodas, 1929. However, both Shaf-Brener and Yad Vashem’s Shoah Names database indicate that Rosa Aizen married Max Katsnelson. Was she married twice? For more information, see the Katsnelson Family page.