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	Mines	Yosef			Shoe factory	Shkud	65	Shkud, July 1941
Wife	Mines/Glazer	Roda			Bakery	Shkud	58	Alka Hill
Daughter	Mines	Rachel[1]	Yosef	Roda		Shkud	30	Alka Hill
Daughter	Mines	Tova	Yosef	Roda		Shkud	1916	Alka Hill
***
Married son	Mines	Michal	Yosef	Roda	Shoe factory of family	Shkud	32	Shkud
Wife	Mines/Glago	Braina	Netanel	Sarah	Housewife	Shkud	27	Alka Hill
Daughter	Mines	Ita	Michel	Braina		Shkud	4	Alka Hill
***
	Mines	Etl			Seamstress	Shkud	60	Alka Hill
	Mines	Mayer				Shkud		Shkud
***
Husband	Mines	Elchanon			Grain merchant	Shkud	60	Shkud, July 1941
Wife	Mines	Ester		Eta	Housewife	Shkud	53	Alka Hill
Daughter	Mines	Leah	Elchanon	Ester		Shkud	27	Alka Hill
Son	Mines	Leizer	Elchanon	Ester		Shkud	25	Shkud
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Son	Mines	Yitzak Leib	Elchanon	Ester	[2]	Shkud	21	Shkud
***

According to Hana Shaf-Brener, there were five Mines families in Shkud.

1) Yosef Mines, 65, operated a shoe factory. He was married to Roda (nee Glazer), 58, who worked in a bakery. Their children were Rachel, 30; and Tova, born in 1916.

The document “Jews in the Memory of Skuodas People” (see link this page) lists Yosef’s business under “Shoe trading” in its business directory; the factory was located on Laisves str. no. 2 (18):

Present-day site of the Mines shoe factory, warehouse, and shop, beside the Catholic Church, now Gedimino str., Skuodas

Yosef Mines actually died before the Holocaust. Jewish Gen’s Lithuania Deaths Database indicates that Yosel Mines, born to Leib and Ete in 1870, died of old age in Skuodas, 1939. A Lithuanian researcher provided me a copy of the original record:

Translation: Mines Josel, married, son of Ete and Leiba Mines, born 1870, died of  old age on 14 April 1939, buried in Skuodas Jewish cemetery on 16 April 1939

Jewish Gen’s Lithuania Marriages database provides the following information on the children of Yosef and Roda Mines:

–Sore Ite Mines, born 1903 to Yose and Rode (nee Glaser), married Ruvin Kolektor, son of Hirsh and Gita (nee Yosef) of Liepaja. The marriage took place in Skuodas, 1935. S. Mines (probably my father, Sender), was one of the witnesses.

–Rochel Mines, born 1904 to Josel and Rode (nee Glazer), maried Faivel Margolias, born in 1907 to Josel and Roche Sifre of Skuodas. The marriage took place in Kaunas, 1938.

—Chaja Mines, born 1904 to Josel and Rode, married Sender Mines, born 1909 to Mejer and Rochele (nee Aizin). The marriage took place in Kaunas, Feb 11, 1937. [Sender was my father. He and Chaja were first cousins.]

Jewish Gen’s Lithuania Internal Passports database states that Chaya Mines (nee Mines), born 1904 in Skuodas, daughter of Iosel, applied for an internal passport March 22, 1937.

Jewish Gen’s Lithuania Tax and Voters Lists database indicates that the Mines family was already established in Shkud in 1846. In 1904, Yosel, son of Leyb, was described as a poor shoemaker with four family members.

Yosef and Rode’s daugher Tova was a member of the youth group Hashomer Hatzair:

“Ha’Shomer Ha’Tzair”, the Shkud troop, 1930: Bottom row (right to left): Moshe Kangisser (now in South Africa), Jacob Kravitz, Meir Sheindling, Hirt Tov (now in Rhodesia), David Gruppel (now in Israel), Yosef Taitz, Moshe Falk, Chaim Elkin.
Second row: Yosef Peltz (now in Israel), Tzipa Sher, Perlgeber, Meir Hovsha, Daniel Prochovnik Pirchiyahu (now in Israel), Alexander Pinta (now in Israel), Gitta Taitz, Zalman Gruppel (now in Israel), Miriam Tov, Eliyahu Fogelman (now in the USSR), David Peltz, Chaim Urdang, Eliezer Bob.
Third row: Sarah Belkind (now in Lithuania), Gelle Perlgeber, Shalom Binder, Feige Perlgeber, Shlomo Yankelovitz, Meir Taitz, Chaya Peltz Yaakobi (now in Israel), Tzipora Taitz Freilichman (now in Israel), Tzipa Singer.
Fourth row: Eliyahu Reif (now in Israel), Leib Yitzhak Mines, Dvora Segal, Feiga Fogelman, Hinda Segal (now in Lithuania), Rachel Bob, Etta Shlez (now in Australia), Mina Baskind, Ester Sheindling, Hinda Savel Rathoiz (now in Israel), Sheina Baskind. 
Fifth row: Aba Bloch, Tova Mines, Israel Tenor, Shlomo Yitzhak Fogelman, Shlomo Taitz (now in Israel), Temma Taitz (now in the USA), Daniel Abramovic (now in the USA) (Photo Kehilat Shkud 20).

Yad Vashem provides the following information on the wife and children of Yosel Mines (for Michal Mines, see further below):

Rode Mines was born in Shkod, Lithuania. Prior to WWII she lived in Shkod, Lithuania. During the war she was in Kovno, Lithuania. Rode was murdered in the Shoah. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted by her daughter [Chaja Babikier]. http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=873308&language=en

Ester Mones was born in Skud, Lithuania to Yosef and Ratze. [Note: the Yiddish actually reads “Rode.”] Prior to WWII she lived in Skud, Lithuania. During the war she was in Skud, Lithuania. Ester was murdered in the Shoah. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted by her sister [Chaja Babikier]. http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=1511265&language=en

Toibe Mones was born in Skuodas, Lithuania to Yosef. Prior to WWII she lived in Skuodas, Lithuania. During the war she was in Skuodas, Lithuania. Toibe was murdered in the Shoah. This information is based on a Page of Testimony [submitted by Chaja Babikier]. http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=1485607&language=en

Rakhel Margolis was born in Skuodas, Lithuania to Yosef. She was married Shraga. Prior to WWII she lived in Skuodas, Lithuania. During the war she was in Skuodas, Lithuania. Rakhel was murdered in the Shoah. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted by her sister [Chaja Babikier]. http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=787547&language=en

2) Michal Mines, 32, son of Yosef and Roda, worked in the family shoe factory. He was married to Braina (nee Glago), 27. They had a daughter, Ita, 4.

Kehilat Shkud briefly describes the shoe factory owned by Michal Mines and his father Yosef: “Shoe producers were Yitzhak Cohen, Michael Mines, Hirsch Gilder, Shlomo Peres, Yehuda Berman and Bernstein – in the New Town. All together, the factories and craftsmen in the trade produced around 400 pairs of shoes a day” (13; see also 52). “Jews in the Memory of Skuodas People” (see link this page) elabortates further: “The biggest shoemaker’s shop, “Konkurencija” [English: “Competition”] was on Laisves Street 2. It belonged to a Jewish businessman, M. Mines” (1). The Mines shoe factory employed about 100 people (8). In Skuodas in 2010, I interviewed a couple, Viktoras and Magdalena, both 85, who remembered the prewar Jewish community and the Mines shoe factory; you can read their interview here.

Jewish Gen’s Lithuania Tax and Voters Lists database informs us that in 1913, Elia Mikhel Mines, age 12, son of Iosel, had [or was taxed?] one ruble, according to postal savings bank records. Michal seems to have been a prudent businessman, having bought shares in the Jewish Colonial Trust, established to finance the building of the state of Israel. The family has submitted a claim for restitution of the funds, which I hope to put towards furthering the cause of Holocaust education in Skuodas.

Jewish Gen’s Lithuania Marriages database records the marriage of Elijash Michel Mines, an industrialist, born in 1900 to Josel and Rode (nee Grazer) to Braine Glag, born in 1915 to Sauel and Sore (nee Riakhkind) of Skuodas. The marriage took place in Kretinga in 1939.

Yad Vashem provides the following information on Michal Mines:

Mekhael Mines was born in Shkud, Lithuania to Yosef. Prior to WWII he lived in Shkud, Lithuania. During the war he was in Shkud, Lithuania. Mekhael was murdered in the Shoah. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted by his sister [Chaja Babikier]. http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=781176&language=en

3) Etl Mines, 60, was a seamstress.

4) Mayer Mines lived in Shkud.

Mayer Mines was my paternal grandfather. He was not in fact murdered in the Holocaust, but died before the war; according to Jewish Gen’s Lithuania Deaths database, Meyer Mines, son of Leibe and Ete, a butcher, died in 1931, age 66 of apoplexy. This is a copy of the original record:

Translation: Deaths 1931, Skuodas Jewish community: Meyer Mines, butcher, married, 66 years old, son of Leib and Ete Mines, died of apoplexy on 12 July 1931. Was buried in the Skuodas Jewish cemetery on 13 July 1931, died on 27 of Tamuz. He was a Jewish Lithuanian citizen.

Mayer was married to Rachel (nee Aizen), who, according to my father, was murdered in Kaunas in 1941 or 1942, after the family moved there a few years earlier.

Mines Family, Skuodas May 31, 1935. Sender Mines is in the rear, left. In the rear, right, is Sender’s brother Josel. His mother, Rachel (nee Eisen), is centre. Names of his sisters and nephews are unknown.

Jewish Gen’s Lithuania Tax and Voters Lists database tells us that in 1904, Meyer Mines, son of Leyba, was a poor worker with five family members. The Lithuania Marriages database records the following information on the children of Meyer Mines:

–Khaya Leya Mines, born about 1886 to Meyer and Rokhel of Skuodas, married Kalman Zinger, a merchant, born about 1886 to Khatskel and Basa Mire of Skuodas. The marriage took place in Skuodas, 1922.

One of Sender’s sisters (I imagine it might be Khaya Leya) with her husband and children. Photo taken in Skuodas by the photographer Zundel Skaist.

–Elijas Mines, born 1898 to Meyer and Rochele (nee Aizen) of Skuodas, married Tsipe Prishman, born 1904 to Elijas and Rivka Leya (nee Bub) of Krekenava. The marriage took place in Mazeikiai in 1939.

—Sender Mines, born in Skuodas in 1909 to Mejer and Rochele (nee Aizin) married Chaja Mines, born to Josel and Rode of Skuodas in 1904. The marriage took place in Kaunas, Feb 11, 1937. Sender was my father, and Chaja was his first cousin.

The list is incomplete; my father, Sender, told me he was the youngest of nine children, and that the oldest son, born around 1884, was named Joe (Yosel). Ben, another brother, born around 1898, emigrated to the US around 1920.

5) Elchanon Mines, 60, was a grain merchant. He was married to Ester, 53, the daughter of Eta. Their children were Leah, 27; Leizer, 25; and Yitzak Leib, 21.

Jewish Gen’s Lithuania Marriages database records that Hirsh Minos, born 1907 in Skuodas to  Elchonon and Rochele (nee Gamzu) married Sorke Pauziski, born 1907 in Virbalis to Abram and Chaje Base (nee Volkovishki). The marriage took place in Kaunas in 1935. The Lithuania Internal Passports database records that Hirsh Mines, son of Khonan, unmarried, was born 1904 in Skuodas; and Yosel Mines, son of Khonan, was born  1907 in Skuodas. Both applied for internal passports in April 1932.

Jewish Gen’s Lithuania Deaths database records that Elchanon’s wife Rokhe (nee Gamza), daughter of Kopel and Cerna, died age 63 in 1938.

At least two of Elkhanon’s children were involved in Shkud’s youth groups:

“Ha’Shomer Ha’Tzair”, the Shkud troop, 1930: Bottom row (right to left): Moshe Kangisser (now in South Africa), Jacob Kravitz, Meir Sheindling, Hirt Tov (now in Rhodesia), David Gruppel (now in Israel), Yosef Taitz, Moshe Falk, Chaim Elkin.
Second row: Yosef Peltz (now in Israel), Tzipa Sher, Perlgeber, Meir Hovsha, Daniel Prochovnik Pirchiyahu (now in Israel), Alexander Pinta (now in Israel), Gitta Taitz, Zalman Gruppel (now in Israel), Miriam Tov, Eliyahu Fogelman (now in the USSR), David Peltz, Chaim Urdang, Eliezer Bob.
Third row: Sarah Belkind (now in Lithuania), Gelle Perlgeber, Shalom Binder, Feige Perlgeber, Shlomo Yankelovitz, Meir Taitz, Chaya Peltz Yaakobi (now in Israel), Tzipora Taitz Freilichman (now in Israel), Tzipa Singer.
Fourth row: Eliyahu Reif (now in Israel), Leib Yitzhak Mines, Dvora Segal, Feiga Fogelman, Hinda Segal (now in Lithuania), Rachel Bob, Etta Shlez (now in Australia), Mina Baskind, Ester Sheindling, Hinda Savel Rathoiz (now in Israel), Sheina Baskind. 
Fifth row: Aba Bloch, Tova Mines, Israel Tenor, Shlomo Yitzhak Fogelman, Shlomo Taitz (now in Israel), Temma Taitz (now in the USA), Daniel Abramovic (now in the USA) (Photo Kehilat Shkud 20)

 “Ha’Noar” association in Shkud, 20 Sivan, 5695 (June 21, 1935): Bottom row (right to left): Yitzhak Aibel, Yechezkel Yudelman (now in the USA), Shoshana Yudelman (now in the USA), Benjamin Shtiris, Mira Chatzkel, Sarah Fil (now in the USA), Abraham Yorburski.
Second row: Leah Mines, Shlomo London, Chaya Sheindling Mevezis (now in Israel), Mendel Baskind (now in South Africa), Liba Shaf, Shraga Perlgeber (now in Israel), Miriam Savel, Alexander Pinta (now in Israel), Yeshayahu Fogelman.
Third row: Liba Tov, Leah Perlgeber, Yehudit EIsen Halpern (now in Israel), Mendel Segal, Roda Chin, Sarah Reif Piotrkowski (now in Israel), Tova Levin, Miriam Katz Gelfand (now in Israel), Liba Horvitz, Pesia Dorfman, Mane Yudelman (now in South Africa).
Fourth row: Eliezer Baskind (now in South Africa), Leib Friedman (now in South Africa), Klein (now in France), Feiga Hadasin (now in South Africa), Mina Cohen, Rosa Axelrod, Abraham Tenor (now in South Africa), Temma Meller (now in Canada) (Photo Kehilat Shkud 18)

Yad Vashem records the following information on Elchanon Mines and his family:

Ytzkhak Mines was born in Shkud, Lithuania in 1910. He was a worker and married Khana. Prior to WWII he lived in Kowno, Lithuania. During the war he was in Kowno, Lithuania. Ytzkhak was murdered in the Shoah. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted by his brother-in-law [Liuba Shokhet]. http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=1914019&language=en

Khana Mines nee Papishker was born in Shaki, Lithuania in 1914 to Moshe and Khava. She was a housewife and married Ytzkhak. Prior to WWII she lived in Kowno, Lithuania. During the war she was in Kowno, Lithuania. Khana was murdered in the Shoah. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted by her sister [Liuba Shokhet] http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=1899806&language=en

Jewish Gen’s Yizkor Book Necrology Database records Elchanan Mines, Meir Mines, and Yosef Mines.