| 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 | Vainer | Shloime | Teacher of German and geography | Libau, Shkud | 35 | Shkud | ||
| Wife | Vainer/Mirkes | Etl | Yosef | Frida | Housewife | Shkud | 30 | Alka Hill |
| Son | Vainer | Yitzak | Shloime | Etl | Student | Shkud | 12 | Alka Hill |
| Son | Vainer | Efraim | Shloime | Etl | Student | Shkud | 10 | Alka Hill |
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According to Hana Shaf-Brener, Shloime Vainer, a teacher of German and geography, came from Libau (present-day Liepaja, Latvia) to live in Shkud with his wife Etl (nee Mirkes; daughter of Yosef and Frida). The couple had two young sons, Yitzak and Efraim.
According to Jewish Gen’s All Lithuania Revision List 3 database, the Vainer family was established in Shkud from at least 1816. The Lithuania Tax and Voters Lists database provides further information on the Vainer family in Skhud in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Yizkor Book Necrology database indicates that both Shloime and Yitzhak Vainer were killed in Shkud. Presumably this Yitzhak was an adult (not the son of Shloime, as generally children do not appear on the necrology lists), so we can add the adult Yitzhak’s name to Brener’s chart above.
According to Jewish Gen’s Lithuania Tax and Voters Lists, Itsik Mendel Vayner, son of Gossiya, lived in Skuodas in 1905, “born 1 May 1876 in Jakobshtadt, Courland [Lavia].” He was a trader. In 1914, he worked in the grocery business. Another Itsik Vainer, son of Nakhman, was a shoemaker, possibly the owner of a shoe business, in 1904.
According to Jewish Gen’s Lithuania Marriages database, one of these two Yitzaks (it is unclear which) was married to Gite, nee Bloch. They had two daughters: Chane, born 1907, who married Leiba Mark in 1935; and Beila, born 1911, who married Berel Bruk in 1939. A third Vainer couple in Skuodas, Perec and Taube Vainer, had a daughter, Rebeka, born 1906, who married Leib Reif in 1928.
According to Kehilat Shkud, Shlomo Vainer was a teacher in Shkud’s Yavne folk-school and the Hebrew pro-gymnasium (29, 56). A person surnamed Vainer (first name not given, but possibly Shlomo) was a teacher in Dr. Karshtat’s Jewish pro-gymnasium (Russian being the language of instruction), established in 1919 (28, 55).
In Jews in the Memory of Skuodas People (link on this page), Itzik Vainer is listed under Colonial Trading (19), and B. Vainer (his relationship to the Vainers already discussed is unclear) under Leather Workshops and Factories (20).
Yad Vashem has this to say about the Vainer family of Shkud:
Yosef Veiner was born in Skuodas, Lithuania in 1899. He was a pedagogue and married. Prior to WWII he lived in Skuodas, Lithuania. During the war he was in Skuodas, Lithuania. Yosef was murdered in the Shoah. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted by his sister. http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=1544005&language=en
Yeta Veiner was born in Skuodas, Lithuania in 1897 to Freide. She was a housewife and married. Prior to WWII she lived in Skuodas, Lithuania. During the war she was in Skuodas, Lithuania. Yeta was murdered in the Shoah. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted by her sister-in-law. http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=597308&language=en
Yitzkhak Veiner was born in 1927. He was a child. Prior to WWII he lived in Skuodas, Lithuania. During the war he was in Skuodas, Lithuania. Yitzkhak was murdered in the Shoah. This information is based on a Page of Testimony. http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=8617570&language=en
Efraim Veiner was born in 1930. He was a child. Prior to WWII he lived in Skuodas, Lithuania. During the war he was in Skuodas, Lithuania. Efraim was murdered in the Shoah. This information is based on a Page of Testimony. http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=8617571&language=en