Bunis

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 Bunis Zundel Grain merchant Shkud 70 Shkud
Wife Bunis/Bloch Dvora Housewife Shkud 65 Alka Hill
Son Bunis Avraham Zundel Dvora Shoe factory Shkud 30 Shkud
Daughter Bunis Rachel Zundel Dvora Shkud 1921 Alka Hill
Son Bunis Gershon Zundel Dvora Shoe factory Shkud 24 Shkud
Son Bunis Shachne Zundel Dvora Shoe factory Shkud 32 Shkud

According to Shaf-Brener, Zundel Bunis and his wife, Dvora (nee Bloch) had four children: a daughter, Rachel, and three sons: Avraham, Gershon, and Shachne.

Avraham was “active in the youth circle” (Kehilat Shkud 44), and was also a member of the Shkud chapter of the Maccabi football team.

“Maccabi”, Shkud

Bottom row (right to left): Tuvia Einbinder, Leib Tzimbelov.
Second row: Eliezer Bob, Wolf Bass, Aba Levin, Reuven Gilder, Shlomo Malkin, David Bass, Leib Friedman (now in South Africa), Alexander Pinta (now in Israel).
Third row: Chaim Shalom Abramovitsch (now in France), Shlomo London, David Davidov, Yosef Fisher, Leib Elishuv (now in France), Eliezer Baskind (now in South Africa).
Fourth row: Yosef Kirzhner, Mendel Segal, Gedaliyahu Einbinder (now in Lithuania), Chaim Natanson (now in Israel), Benjamin Chin (now in South Africa), Benjamin Shtiris, Shmuel Axelrod, Abraham Bunis, Michel Fogelman, Yitzhak Aibel, Pesach Bob (now in South Africa).
Fifth row: Leib Shpetz, Abraham Friedman (now in South Africa), Meir Teitz (now in Israel), Israel Tenor, Leib Perlgeber, Shlomo Yudelman (Kehilat Shkud 25)

According to JewishGen’s Lithuania database, Abram Bunis, son of Yosel and Shore Riva, married Sore Bunes, daughter of Liber and Reize in Skuodas, 1929. Abram was a coachman. Israel Bunis, son of Sachne and Ester, married Dveira Korb in Seda in 1931. Both Israel and Dveira had been born in Skuodas. According to JewishGen’s Lithuania Deaths database, Ber Shakne Bunis, son of Yankel Leib and Sore, died in Skuodas in 1926, aged 40, of tuberculosis. The same database also lists the deaths of a number of Bunises who lived in Salantai, possibly members of the same family.

According to Yad Vashem, “Zundel Bunis was born in Shkud, Lithuania. He was married. Prior to WWII he lived in Shkud, Lithuania. During the war he was in Shkud, Lithuania. Zundel was murdered in Shkud, Lithuania at the age of 70. This information is based on a Page of Testimony … submitted by his nephew” (http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=5593766&language=en).

Also according to Yad Vashem, “Aizik Bunis was born in Skodas, Lithuania. He was a butcher and married to Freide nee Melet. Prior to WWII he lived in Skodas, Lithuania. During the war he was in Skodas, Lithuania. Aizik was murdered in Skodas, Lithuania at the age of 70. This information is based on a Page of Testimony …. submitted by his great-grandson.” (http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=5612315&language=en).

Yad Vashem also records a number of Bunises who lived in Salantai and Kretinga – possibly related to the Shkud Bunis family.