Mer

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 Mer Shloime Merchant Shkud 63 Shkud
Wife Mer Ita-Tsira Housewife Shkud 60 Alka Hill
Husband Mer Yakov Shloime Ita-Tsira In merchandise Shkud 35 Shkud, July 1941
Wife Mer/Tsimbler Basya housewife Shkud 32 Alka Hill
Daughter Mer Eta Yakov Basya Student Shkud 1930 Alka Hill
Daughter Mer Teya Yakov Basya Student Shkud 1933 Alka Hill
Daughter Mer Leiba Yakov Basya Student Shkud 1933 Alka Hill
Son Mer Leib Yakov Basya Student Shkud 1933 Alka Hill
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Daughter Mer/married to David[1] Rivka Shloime Ita-Tsira Housewife (4 children) Shkud 33 Alka Hill
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Husband Mer Nisim Shkud Shkud
Wife Mer/Chayf Krayna Housewife Shkud Alka Hill
Daughter Mer Yehudit Nisim Krayna Shkud 1935 Alka Hill
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According to Hana Shaf-Brener, Shloime Mer and his wife Ita-Tsira had a son, Yakov, and a daughter, Rivka. Yakov was married to Basya (nee Tsimbler), and the couple had four children: a daughter, Eta, and three children born the same year – triplets? – Teya, Leiba, and Leib. Rivka was married (her husband’s name is unclear) with four children.

Another Mer family lived in Shkud: Nisim, his wife Krayna (nee Chayf), and their daughter Yehudit. Their relationship to Shloime Mer and his family is unclear.

Jewish Gen’s All Lithuanian Revision List Database 3 indicates that the Mer family lived in Shkud since at least 1816. The Lithuanian Tax and Voters List database includes some information on Shloime Mer: his father was Lozer, he had a brother named Ber, and in 1904 he was a poor glazier with six family members. The Lithuanian Deaths database indicates that Eta Tsire Mer (nee Yankelovich) died in 1929, age 68. The Yizkor Book Necrology database lists only Yakov Mer.

As of October 2013, Yad Vashem provides no information of the Mer family/ies of Shkud.

[1] The Hebrew word (daled, vov, daled) could also mean “uncle”