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	Melamed	Yakov			Ritual slaughterer	Shkud	50	Shkud, July 1941
Second wife	Melamed	Yehudit			Housewife	Shkud	35	Alka Hill
Daughter	Melamed	Ester	Yakov	Eta	Student	Shkud	17	Alka Hill
Daughter	Melamed	[1]	Yakov	Yehudit		Shkud	5	Alka Hill
Married daughter	Melamed/her husband	Sheyna Masha[2]	Yakov	Eta	Housewife	Shkud,Jelgava	22	Jelgava, Latvia
Her husband						Jelgava		Jelgava
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According to Hana Shaf-Brener, Yakov Melamed, a ritual slaughterer, was a widower married to Yehudit. Yakov and his first wife, Eta, had two daughters: Ester and Sheyna Masha, who lived with her husband in Jelgava, Latvia.  Yakov and Yehudit had a five-year-old daughter whose name Shaf-Brener does not provide.

Kehilat Shkud tells us that Yakov was a member of the Gemara Society.

 Members of Gemara Society, 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. (Kehilat Shkud 27)

According to Jewish Gen’s Lithuania Marriages database, Yankel Melamed, son of Shimen Mausha and Rauze Gita (nee Kahn) of Skuodas, born in 1893, married Yete Judelman, daughter of Hirsh and Elte (nee Goldin) of Skuodas in 1927. Yankel was a merchant and a widower; he had been born in Kupiskis. In 1931, Jankel married Ida Yudit Rozaitski, daughter of Bencel and Risa of Raseiniai.

Jewish Gen’s Lithuania Deaths database records that Ete Melamed, daughter of Hirsh and Ele (nee Goldin) Yudelman, died in 1931, age 36, of pleurisy.

A. Straksys, in his article “No One is Forgotten” describes the massacre at Alka Hill in which the women and children of Shkud were killed: “In total, there were 510 people tortured, shot, and killed on Alka Hill … Two hundred and eighty-nine people were buried alive …. M. Taicaite, the Kaplan sisters, E. Melamedaite, the two Segel sisters, Mrs. Fugelman with her two daughters, Mrs. Brekmaniene, the Mendelson family, and many others, well known by the older generation of Skuodas, lay in this terrible grave, shot or buried alive” (Musu Zodis Nov 17, 1966).

Yad Vashem provides the following information on the Melamed family of Shkud:

Yaakov Melamed was born in Shkod, Lithuania. He was married to Yehudis nee Razaitsky. Prior to WWII he lived in Shkod, Lithuania. During the war he was in Shkod, Lithuania. Yaakov was murdered/perished in the Shoah. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted by his nephew (http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=1638242&language=en)

Yehudit Melamed nee Razaitsky was born in Lithuania in 1899 to Ben zion and Tzipora. She was married to Yaakov. Prior to WWII she lived in Shkud, Lithuania. During the war she was in Shkud, Lithuania. Yehudit was murdered/perished in the Shoah. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted by her nephew. http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=1444717&language=en

Risa Melamed was born in Shkud, Lithuania in 1937 to Yaakov and Yehudis. Prior to WWII she lived in Shkud, Lithuania. Risa was murdered/perished in the Shoah. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted by her cousin. http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=560736&language=en

Risel Melamed was born to Yaakov and Yehudit nee Razaitsky. She was a child. Prior to WWII she lived in Shkud, Lithuania. During the war she was in Shkud, Lithuania. Risel was murdered/perished in the Shoah. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left). http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=8474650&language=en

Rachel Melamed was born to Yaakov and Yehudit nee Razaitsky. She was a child. Prior to WWII she lived in Shkud, Lithuania. During the war she was in Shkud, Lithuania. Rachel was murdered/perished in the Shoah. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left). http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=8474651&language=en

Masha Melamed was born in Shkud, Lithuania in 1920 to Yaakov and Yehudit. Prior to WWII she lived in Shkud, Lithuania. During the war she was in Shkud, Lithuania. Masha was murdered/perished in the Shoah. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted by her cousin. http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=567925&language=en