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Category: Translation - Hebrew
Approval Date: 6/16/2021 1:17 PM
Family Surname: Kaleka (nee Grodski)
Country: Lithuania
Town: Daugai
Date of Image: Unknown

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Would much appreciate as much a translation into English as possible of the personal information, especially children's names, of this Page of Testimony. It would also be helpful for me to have a brief English translation of the pre-printed information in the numbered lines. Thank you!

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6/16/2021 11:54 PM

[Comment]
The person who filled this POT was using Yiddish spelling norms, and wrote Hebrew terms phonetically]

1 Surname: Kahleki
2 Given Name: Rachel
3 Father's Name: Eliyahu
4 Mother's Name: Yokheved
5 Date of Birth: 1908
6 Place and country of birth: Dog Lita [Lithuania]
7 Permanent place of residence: Dog
8 Profession: Housewife
9 Citizenship prior to Nazi occupation: Lithuanian
10 Place of residence during the war: Dog
11 Place of death, time and circumstances: Kovna killed by the Gestapo
12 Marital Status: Married
13 Name of wife and her maiden name; age:
Name of husband; age: Tsvi, 1904
14 Names of children up to age 18; their age: Where and when they perished
Yekhiel 10; Ghetto Kovna 1942
Zinna 4; [ditto]

Signed by Grodsky Ayzik ; Natanya, Shapria st. no 13 [or 17] Her brother.
Place and date: Natanya 27 [?] December 1955

6/17/2021 4:31 AM

The correct name of the shtetl un Lithuania is Daugai.
In Yiddish is was written Daug.

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