 1925 - 1941 (16 years)
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| Name |
Chana Matz |
| Born |
1925 |
Kalvaria, Marijampole, Lithuania  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Holocaust |
In 1939 the Germans deported 2,400 Jews from the Suwalk province of Poland to the border of Lithuania and 800 of these were absorbed and taken care of by the residents of Kalvarija.
When Lithuania became part of the Soviet republic in June 1940 factories in the hands of Jews were taken over and put in the hands of Komisars. Supplies were limited and prices rose. The middle class which was mostly Jewish was the hardest hit. Jewish youth movements were abolished and the Communist youth movement made great efforts in enlisting youth. Hebrew educational institutes were closed.
On 22 June 1941, the first day of the war between Germany and Soviet Russia, the Germans entered Kalvarija. On the 1st of July the Lithuanian police proclaimed that all Jews were obligated to wear the Yellow Star patch, and that they were forbidden to walk on the sidewalks. Jews were taken to work at hard labor and on the way to work and back they were humiliated while the Lithuanian population watched. At the beginning of July 90 people, Lithuanian communists, Jewish intellectuals, and others were brought in to the hotel"Zdarouvitz". There they were beaten, tortured for several days.On the 5th of July they were brought to the banks of lake Orios, about 2 km from the city, where they were shot and buried.
On Shabbat 30th of August all the remaining Jews where evacuated to the barracks in Marionpole, under the pretense of being sent to the ghetto there. All their belongings where left at the Synagogue and in their empty carts the Jews were transported. All in all there were 8600 Jews in the Barracks.
On 1st of Sept. 1941 they were all brought to the banks of river Sheshupe and there near pre dug pits they were shot and buried. The Lithuanian police and shot later caught some that managed to escape. After they had rid themselves of the Jews the locals, at the head the Priest proceeded in destroying all the Jewish shops that were in the vicinity of the church and with their bricks built a wall around it. [1] |
| Holocaust Victim |
Y |
| Residence |
Kalvaria, Marijampole, Lithuania |
| Died |
Sep 1941 |
Kalvaria, Marijampole, Lithuania |
| Person ID |
I11577 |
Blank Family |
| Last Modified |
3 Oct 2010 |
| Father |
Dr. Ovsey Yehoshua Matz, b. Abt 1891, Zagare, Siauliai, Lithuania , d. Sep 1941, Kalvaria, Marijampole, Lithuania (Age ~ 50 years) |
| Mother |
Sarah Borek, b. Abt 1901, Suwalki, Bialystok, Poland , d. Sep 1941, Kalvaria, Marijampole, Lithuania (Age ~ 40 years) |
| Family ID |
F7958 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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