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
Father	Kopelovich	Leib			Tanner	Shkud	58	Shkud
Son	Kopelovich	Alter	Leib	Rachel Leah Fogelman	In a factory	Shkud	29	Shkud
Son	Kopelovich	Avraham	Leib	Rachel Leah	In a factory	Shkud	1919	Shkud
Son	Kopelovich	Yitzak	Leib	Rachel Leah		Shkud	1916	Shkud
Daughter	Kopelovich	Alta	Leib	Rachel Leah	Housewife	Shkud	25	Alka Hill
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According to Hana Shaf-Brener, Leib Kopelovich, a tanner, presumably a widower, had three sons – Alter, Avraham, and Yitzak – and a daughter, Alta. The two older sons had factory jobs. The youngest child, a daughter, was a housewife; perhaps she stayed home to care for her father and brothers. Shaf-Brener gives no indication that any of the children were married. Their mother was Rachel Leah, nee Fogelman.

Kehilat Shkud mentions the Kopelovich tannery: “The shtetl’s tanners, Shpitz (now in South Africa), Hochman, Turek and Kopelovitsch in the New Town and Grinblatt in the Old Town, purveyed most of the needed raw materials to Shkud’s shoe factories” (13; s.a. 52).

Jewish Gen’s Lithuania Tax and Voters List database indicates that the Kopelovich family lived in Shkud from at least 1883, but Leib Kopelovich is not mentioned. The Marriages database tells us that Yudel Meer Kopelovich (his wife is not mentioned) of Skuodas had a daughter, Rokhel Leya, who married Shebsel Klauzner in 1900. Yankel and Chaja Ester (nee Kopelovich) Fogelman had a daughter, Meri, who married Leizer Levitan in 1927.

As of October 2013, Yad Vashem has no information on Leib Kopelovich or his family, but does provide this information about another family member, perhaps Leib’s brother or a cousin, as they would have been roughly contemporary:

Jacob Kopilowitz was born in Skuodas, Lithuania in 1883 to Feiga. He was a factory owner. Prior to WWII he lived in Karlsruhe, Germany. During the war he was in Heidelberg, Germany. Jacob was murdered/perished in Auschwitz, Poland. This information is based on a Page of Testimony. (http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=739298&language=en)

Jacob Kopilowitz