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	Doberman	Moshe Volf				Shkud		Shkud
Wife	Doberman/Chatskelson	Ita			Housewife	Shkud		Alka Hill
Son	Doberman	Nachum Iser	Moshe Volf	Ita	Student	Shkud	1930	Alka Hill
Son	Doberman	Mayer	Moshe Volf	Ita	Student	Shkud	1932	Alka Hill
Son	Doberman	Eli Meylech	Moshe Volf	Ita	Student	Shkud	1934	Alka Hill
Daughter	Doberman	Freida Mina	Moshe volf	Ita		Shkud	1935	Alka Hill
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According to Shaf-Brener, Moshe Volf Doberman was married to Ita, nee Chatskelson. They had four children: Nachum Iser, born 1930; Mayer, born 1932; Eli Meylech, born 1934; and Frieda Mina, born 1935.

The Dobermans are not mentioned in Kehilat Shkud.

The Dobermans appear to have been a well-established family in Skuodas. Jewish Gen’s Lithuania Tax and Voters Lists database  records the Doberman family in Skuodas as far back as 1877.

According to Jewish Gen’s Lithuania Marriages database, Moishas Doberman, son of Eliyas and Khaya (nee Stires), married Yette Khatchkel in Skuodas in 1922. Moisha’s occupation is given as “worker”; Yette was a dressmaker.

A descendant of the Shkud Doberman family has sent me the photo below, taken in Shkud around 1905, shortly before her grandfather, Jacob Doberman, and some other family members emigrated to the US and South Africa:

Back row (standing l to r) : Jacob,  Max (Jacob’s older brother), a brother-in-law (?), a sister. Front row (seated): Morris (Jacob’s youngest brother), a nephew (?), Eli (Jacob’s father, a fishmonger), Eli’s wife holding a grandchild, another sister. (Photo courtesy Dobell family)

According to the descendant who contributed the above photo, “Perhaps the Dobermans listed on [Shtetl Shkud] as having died in Skuodas did not in fact die, but emigrated to the US in 1939. I believe the marriage of Moishas Doberman to Yette Khatckel (in JewishGen’s Lithuania Marriages and Divorces database) refers to the uncle my father knew as Morris and his wife Yetta. My dad remembers meeting them at the dock in Manhattan. What I found in the US 1940 census bears this out – though the parents and children have slightly different names in the US, the birth years match and the birthplace for parents and children is listed as Skud.”

Yad Vashem does not list any Dobermans from Skuodas.