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	Slez	Mordechai			Sewing shoes	Shkud	35	Shkud, July 1941
Wife	Slez/Shaf	Liba	Yosef	Rachel	Housewife	Shkud	32	Alka Hill
Daughter	Slez	Chedva	Mordechai	Liba		Shkud	1.5	Alka Hill
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Widow	Slez				Housewife	Shkud	66	Alka Hill
Son	Slez	Berl			Sewing shoes	Shkud	38	Shkud
Daughter	Slez	Mina			Seamstress	Shkud	36	Alka Hill
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Widower	Slez	Yakov				Shkud	40	Shkud
Daughter	Slez	Reytsa	Yakov			Shkud	20	Alka Hill
Daughter	Slez	Chaya	Yakov		Student	Shkud	16	Alka Hill
***

According to Hana Shaf-Brener, Mordechai Slez, a shoemaker, lived in Shkud with his wife Liba (nee Shaf). The couple had a baby daughter, Chedva.

A widow, surnamed Slez (first name and husband’s name unknown) lived in Shkud. Her son, Berl, was a shoemaker, and she also had a daughter, Mina. A widower, Yakov Slez, had two daughters, Reytsa and Chaya.

According to Kehilat Shkud, Mordechai Slez was a member of the Israel National Fund:

KKL activists in Shkud after the parade on the 25^th anniversary of the passing of Dr. Herzl z”l

Bottom row, right to left: Shmuel Axelrod, Pesach Bob (now in South Africa), Eliezer Eisen.
Second row: Feivel Neiman, Yentel Savel-Vrotnitzki, Tzvi Yoselevitz, David Davidov, Rachel Savel-Elkes, Yitzhak Cohen.
Third row: Meir Hovsha, Ester Terushkin Rosen (now in Israel), Chaim Natanson (now in Israel), Yeshayahu Yudelman (now in South Africa), Chaya Sheindling Mevezis (now in Israel), Alexander Pinta (now in Israel), Mina Cohen, Gershon Faktor (now in Israel), Mordechai Shlez, Itta Yankelovitz, Meir Taitz (now in Israel), Israel Tenor ( Kehilat Shkud 15)

Yakov Slez was active in the religious Zionist group Mizrachi (Kehilat Shkud 22), and Etta Slez 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) (Kehilat Shkud 20)

According to Jewish Gen’s Lithuania Internal Passports database, Eta Slez, daughter of Abraham Itsik, born in 1914 in Pikeliai, emigrated to Australia in 1937.

According to Jewish Gen’s Lithuania Tax and Voters List database, Yakov Shlez, born about 1899, son of Eliash, lived in Mosyadskaya street. His brother Benjamin, born about 1894, was a tradesman, originally from Zidikai. Gilel Shlez, son of Leyzer, was a poor worker in 1904 with four family members. According to the Lithuania Marriages database, Motel (Mordechai) Slez, son of Abram and Mine (nee Grin), born in 1910 in Pikeliai, married Libe Shaf, daughter of Yosel and Roche (nee Sheinling). They were married in Kaunas, 1938. In 1930, Feige Slez, born in Shkud to Elijos and Mirjom in 1900, married Yosel Elkishek, son of Yitzak and Chane Feige (nee Bloch) of Akmene.

Jewish Gen’s Lithuania Deaths database indicates that Cile Shlez, born in 1890 to Eliyas and Ester Khaye Doberman, died in Shkud in 1939. Perhaps Cile, despite being nine years older, was Yakov’s wife? Bencin Shlez, son of Abram Yitzak and Mine (nee Grin), a farmer, born in Skuodas in 1903, died in 1927.

Jewish Gen’s Lithuania Necrology database lists Mordechai, and Yaakov Shlez of Skuodas; as well, Dov and Micha Shlez.

Yad Vashem provides the following information of the Slez family of Shkud:

Motl Slezas was born in Skuodas, Lithuania in 1904. He was a tailor and married to Liba. Prior to WWII he lived in Skuodas, Lithuania. During the war he was in Skuodas, Lithuania. Motl was murdered/perished in 1941 in Skuodas, Lithuania at the age of 37. This information is based on a Page of Testimony  submitted by his nephew. http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=1725933&language=en

Liba Slez nee Shaf was born in Skuodas, Lithuania in 1908 to Yosef and Rakhel nee Kesel. She was a housewife and married to Motl. Prior to WWII she lived in Skuodas, Lithuania. During the war she was in Lithuania. Liba was murdered/perished in 1941 in Aleksotas, Lithuania at the age of 33. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted by her cousin. http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=1694236&language=en

Chedva Slez was born in Skuodas, Lithuania in 1940 to Motl and Liba nee Shaf. She was a baby. Prior to WWII she lived in Skuodas, Lithuania. During the war she was in Lithuania. Chedva was murdered/perished in 1941 in Aleksotas, Lithuania at the age of 1. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted by her relative. http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=1404170&language=en

Fania Elkishek nee Shles was born in Shkod, Lithuania in 1910 to Eliahu and Mari. She was a housewife and married to Yosef. Prior to WWII she lived in Akmene, Lithuania. Fania was murdered/perished in the Shoah at the age of 31. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted by her cousin. http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=642471&language=en