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	Katsnelson	Max				Libau, Vainode	41	Vainode, Latvia 1941
Wife	Katsnelson/Aizen	Rosa	Hirsh	Pia	Housewife	Shkud, Vainode	35	Vainode
Daughter	Katsnelson	Etya	Max	Rosa	Student	Vainode	8	Vainode
Daughter	Katsnelson	Hinda	Max	rosa	Student	Vainode	6	Vainode
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According to Hana Shaf-Brener, Max Katsnelson, originally from Libau (present-day Liepaja, Latvia), married Rosa Aizen of Skuodas [Rosa was my father’s cousin]. The couple moved to Vainode, Latvia and had two daughters: Etya and Hinda.

As of October 2013, a search of Jewish Gen’s Latvia and Lithuania databases yielded no information on Max Katsnelson or his family.

Yad Vashem provides the following information on the Katsnelson family:

Max Katzenelson was born in Vainoden, Latvia in 1900. He was married to Roza nee Eizen. Prior to WWII he lived in Vainoden, Latvia. During the war he was in Vainoden, Latvia. Max was murdered/perished in 1941 in Vainoden, Latvia at the age of 41. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (PDF) submitted by his relative (http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=5682265&language=en)

Roza Katzenelson nee Eizen was born in Shkod, Lithuania in 1906 to Hirsh and Faia nee Segal. She was a bookeeper and married to Max. Prior to WWII she lived in Venden, Latvia. During the war she was in Venden, Latvia. Roza was murdered/perished in 1941 in Venden, Latvia at the age of 35. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (PDF) submitted by her relative (http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=5863108&language=en)

Hinda Katzenelson was born in Vainoden, Latvia in 1935 to Max and Roza nee Eizen. She was a child. Prior to WWII she lived in Vainoden, Latvia. During the war she was in Vainoden, Latvia. Hinda was murdered/perished in 1941 in Vainoden, Latvia at the age of 6. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (PDF) submitted by her cousin (http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=5682264&language=en)

Mrs. Katzenelson was born in Venden, Latvia in 1933 to Max and Roza nee Eizen. She was a child. Prior to WWII she lived in Venden, Latvia. During the war she was in Venden, Latvia. She was murdered/perished in 1941 in Venden, Latvia at the age of 8. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (PDF) submitted by her cousin (http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=5863107&language=en)

Edward Anders’s book Jews in Liepaja, Latvia, 1941-45, in the article “The Killing in the Cities – Liepaja” by Andrew Ezergailis, provides some information about the murder of the Jewish population of Vainode:

“Vainode was a town of 1,417 inhabitants sixty kilometers southeast of Liepaja, where 125 Jews had lived in 1935. Galins led an SD group of twenty-five men to Vainode. Eight Germans accompanied them but they traveled separately in two passenger cars. Schutzmannschaft men from Vainode had brought the victims to the killing site outside the town, where they were quartered in an uninhabited military building. When the killing began the victims were brought out in groups of ten. About fifty meters from the building there was a barracks and behind it some woods. Between the woods and the barracks there was a ditch. Knowing that they would be killed, the Jews had thrown away their valuables. Kugler was angry at the local policemen for permitting the Jews to do that. The killing was finished at 5:00 in the evening, when the Liepaja group went to Vainode for a feast” (11). The massacre in Vainode took place November 1, 1941.