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 |
Grinker | Leib | Yosef | And family | Shkud, Sauliai | 37 | Sauliai Ghetto | ||
His brother | Grinker | Chone | Yosef | Malka Kravitz | Shkud, Kovne | 1916 | In the fighting. Priekula, Latvia, 22 Feb. 194(?) | |
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Husband | Grinker | Ben Tsion | Isaac | Charna | Merchant | Shkud | 75 | Shkud |
Wife | Grinker/Merovich | Sarah | Housewife | Shkud | 70 | Alka Hill | ||
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Father | Grinker | Yosef | Shkud | 65 | Shkud, July 1941 | |||
Husband | Grinker | Moshe | Yosef | Shoes | Shkud | 40 | Shkud | |
Wife | Grinker/Chatskl | Leah | Yakov | Pina | Housewife | Shkud | 38 | Alka Hill |
Son | Grinker | Eliahu | Moshe | Leah | Student | Shkud | 15 | Alka Hill |
Son | Grinker | Elchanon | Moshe | Leah | Student | Shkud | 13 | Alka Hill |
Son | Grinker | Chaim | Moshe | Leah | Student | Shkud | 10 | Alka Hill |
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Husband | Grinker | Aharon | Yosef | Shoes | Shkud | 42 | Shkud | |
Wife | Grinker | Sheva | Housewife | Shkud | 40 | Alka Hill | ||
Daughter | Grinker/her husband | Tsila | Sheva | Aharon | And her family | Shkud, Mažik | 22 | Mažik, 1941 |
Daughter | Daughter of Tsila | Tsila | Mažik | 1 | Mažik, 1941 | |||
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Grinker | Michal Meyer | Yosef | Shoes | Shkud | 50 | Shkud, July 1941 | ||
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Husband | Grinker | Baruch | Shkud | Shkud | ||||
Wife | Grinker/Chatskel | Lina Leah | Housewife | Shkud | Alka Hill | |||
Daughter | Grinker | Bluma Eta | Baruch | Leah | Student | Shkud | 1932 | Alka Hill |
Son | Grinker | Aharon | Baruch | Leah | Student | Shkud | 1932 | Alka Hill |
Daughter | Grinker | Chana Freida | Baruch | Leah | Shkud | 1935 | Alka Hill | |
Daughter | Grinker | Sarah | Baruch | Leah | Shkud | 1939 | Alka Hill | |
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Husband | Grinker | Moshe Yitzak | Grain merchant | Shkud | Shkud | |||
Wife | Grinker/Sheupak | Dusya | Housewife | Shkud | Alka Hill | |||
Daughter | Grinker | Sarah Dvora | Moshe Yitzak | Dusya | Student | Shkud | 1931 | Alka Hill |
Son | Grinker | Ora Leizer | Moshe Yitzak | Dusya | Student | Shkud | 1935 | Alka Hill |
Daughter | Grinker | Chana Freida | Moshe Yitzak | Dusya | Shkud | 1935 | Alka Hill | |
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According to Hana Shaf-Brener, there were eight Grinker families in Shkud.
1) Lieb Grinker, 37, son of Yosef, was married with a family.
2) Lieb’s brother, Chone Grinker, was born in 1916 to Yosef and Malka (nee Kravitz). According to Hana Shaf-Brener, “Chane Grinker fell in the battle near Priekule in Latvia in the Lithuanian 16th division of the Soviet army on 22.02.1945, a very cruel fate at the end of the war, not far from Shkud” (18).
3) Ben Tsion Grinker, 75, a merchant, son of Isaac and Charna, was married to Sarah (nee Merovich), 70. Jewish Gen’s Lithuania Tax and Voters lists indicates that Sora Grinker’s father was Simon, and that she was born in 1883. The Lithuania Marriages database records the 1936 marriage of Freide Tsire Grinker, born in 1909 to Leiba and Sora (nee Meierovich), to Cemach Gros of Mazeikiai.
4) Yosef Grinker, 65, had a son, Moshe, 40. Moshe, who worked in the shoe industry, was married to Leah (nee Chatskl), 38. Their children were Eliahu, 15; Elchanon, 13; and Chaim, 10. Yosel Wulf Grinker, son of Nokhum, appears several times in Jewish Gen’s Tax and Voters List database. The 1900 entry indicates that he was a shoemaker and was born September 14, 1874 in Moscow.
5) Aharon Grinker, 42, son of Yosef, worked in the shoe industry and was married to Sheva, 40. They had a married daughter, Tsila, who lived with her husband and one-year-old daughter in Mažik.
6) Michal Meyer Grinker, son of Yosef, 50, worked in the shoe industry.
7) Baruch Grinker was married to Lina Leah (nee Chatskel). Their children were Bluma Eta (1932), Aharon (1932), Chana Freida (1935), and Sarah (1939).
8) Moshe Yitzak Grinker, a grain merchant, was married to Dusya (nee Sheupak). Their children were Sarah Dvora (1931), Ora Leizer (1935), and Chana Freida (1935).
Jewish Gen’s Lithuania Tax and Voters Lists database indicates that the Grinker family was already established in Skuodas from 1849. The Lithuania Marriages database lists the following Shkud Grinker marriages (in addition to those mentioned above):
- Mikhel Meer Grinker, 60, son of Mausha and Khana Sore, married Beile Rokhel (nee Berien) of Liepaja in 1924
- Leib Zelik Faktor was married to Golde (nee Grinker). Their son Shleima married Dvora Shifra Jozef in 1939.
Jewish Gen’s Yizkor Book Necrology Database records Aharon Grinker, Leib Grinker, Michal Meir Grinker, Moshe Grinker, and Yosef Grinker.
L. Grinker (Leib?) was a member of Shkud’s Khevre Gemara:
7 Kislev 1936. In memory of the member Reb Moishe Taitz. The Khevre Gemara
in Shkud says farewell upon his going up [aliya] to our Holy Land Seated from right to left: Pin, M. Sh.; Chatzkel, N; Taitz, Moshe; Kaplanski, Y; Natanson, Y. H’Rav Dafa; Shnshvaski, A; Melamed, Y; Yoselovich, Ts; Faktor, A; Hupsha, A; Grinker, L. Valert, A; Epstein, A; Piktur, A. D.; Urdang, A. B.; Minks, M.; Yankelovich, Y. (Photo Kehilat Shkud 27)
A descendant of the Grinker family has published a photo essay, with mention of Shkud, in the New York Times; see it here.
Yad Vashem provides the following information on the Grinker families of Shkud:
Khone Grinkeris was born in Skuodas, Lithuania in 1916 to Yusel. She was a shoemaker. Prior to WWII she lived in Kaunas, Lithuania. During the war she was in the Soviet armed forces. Khone was killed in military service. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted by her daughter. http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=1390284&language=en
Benzion Grinker was born in Skuodas, Lithuania in 1880 to Eisik. He was a merchant and married Sara. Prior to WWII he lived in Skuodas, Lithuania. During the war he was in Skuodas, Lithuania. Benzion was murdered in the Shoah. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted by his niece. http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=452696&language=en