Namkind

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 Namkind Oizer Big bakery Shkud 37 Shkud, July 1941
Wife Namkind/Pres Leah Bara-Zusa In Bara-Zusa’s bakery (the town’s cholent for Shabbes); housewife Shkud 35 Alka Hill
Daughter Namkind Oizer Leah Student Shkud 12 Alka Hill
Daughter Namkind Oizer Leah Student Shkud 10 Alka Hill
Son Namkind Bara-Zusa Oizer Leah Student Shkud 1932 Alka Hill
Sister of Leah Pres Mina Bara-Zusa In the bakery Shkud 33 Alka Hill
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According to Hana Shaf-Brener, Oizer Namkind worked in a large bakery. He was married to Leah (nee Pres), the daughter of Bara-Zusa, who worked in her father’s bakery (as did Oizer?), which was used to prepare the town’s Sabbath cholent. The couple had two daughters, whose names we do not know, and a son, Bara-Zusa. Leah’s sister, Mina Pres, also worked in their father’s bakery.

“Jews in the Memory of Skuodas People” (see link on this page) records Eizer Namkind’s business under the heading “Canteens, tea-houses and patisseries” (19)

The Namkinds seem to have been relatively recent arrivals in Skuodas. In November 2013, a search of Jewish Gen’s Lithuanian Deaths database reveals only a Siman Namkind, son of Motel and Sore, who died in Skuodas in 1934, and Siman’s daughter Chana, born in Skuodas in 1907 (Internal Passport database).

As of November 2013, Yad Vashem provides no information on the Namkind or Pres families in Skuodas.