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Visiting The Jewish Cemeteries in Kaisadorys and Zasliai

By Aleksandrs Feigmanis

Two years ago, in 1997, I did research on the Jewish cemeteries in Kaisadorys and Zasliai. These two little towns were part of the former Vilna province, and are located 35 kilometers from Kaunas, and 55 kilometers from Vilnius. This research was sponsored by Colonel Marvin Schneider from New York. His mother's parents whose family name was Evensky lived in Kaisadorys before WWII. Now there are no Jews in Kaisadorys. The synagogue was burned. The small, very destroyed Jewish cemetery in Kaisadorys is located near a common cemetery.

Zasliai is located 7 kilometers from Kaisadorys. The Jewish cemetery there is on the little hill from the right side of the road just before the entrance to the town. Many tombstones are destroyed, but part of the cemetery still remains.

I cleaned all the remaining tombstones, brushed them, and covered with chalk powder the most erased, and then took pictures of them all. The complete list of tombstones that I visited and photographed follows:

Zasliai Jewish Cemetery:

(HaBochur) Aharon b. Menahem Ram d. 1924 [The Hebrew word BOCHUR usually indicates this was either a young man, or else a bachelor]	Maryashe bat Beines
	Maryashe Chayet b. Abraham d. 1901
Abraham b. Arye Tarshish d. 1869	Menachem b. Leib Itshak Breski d. 1924
Abraham b. Yacov d. 1856	Mendel b. Leib d. 1918
Abraham b. Natan HaLevi d. 1882	Michel b. Baruch Abraham d. 1899
Abraham Aba b. Yehuda	Miriam bas Menachem d. 1907
Aharon b. Moshe	Miriam Beile b. Leib d. 1899
Aharon Eliashe Gutman d. 1916	Mordechai b. Moshe d. 1872
Batya bas Moshe Zakovits d. 1919	Mordechai b. Tsemach Katz d. 1924
Beile (?) bas Shlomo Eliahu d. 1899	Moshe Pinhus b. Haim Shapiro d. 1908
Braine bas Arye Leib HaLevi d. 1897	Nehama Miriam b. Itshak d. 1899
Eliezer b. Israel	Neheme Reize b. Elimelech d. 1925
Eliezer b. Kalman Shemesh	Nisen b. Haim Lzinson (Loinman) d. 1940
Eliazar Lipman b. Josef Halper d. 1920	Noah b. Aharon Chayet
Eliahu bar Abraham Dov Veller died 1916	Rahel bas Yehuda d. 1888
Eliakim b. Arye Leib Katz d. 1928	Rebecca d. 1871
Elka bas Yehuda Leib	Rebecca bas Itshak 1868
Elke Adanovits b. Dov d. 1929	Rebecca bas Mordehai Gedalie d. 1915
Enta bas Natan HaLevi d. 1878	Rebecca bas Yehiel (?) d. 1897
Ester Freide bat David d. 1885	Sara bas Shmuel Levin d. 1922
Ester Freide b. Eliazar Friedmann d. 1924	Sara b. Yehuda
Ester Reizel b. Elhanan d. 1926	Sara Rebecca b. Simcha
Feige Judith b. David HaLevi d. 1903	Sheine bas David
Golde Feige b. Jona Moshe d. 1915	Sheine Beile b. Eliezer Osher Ram d. 1925
Gittel bas Abraham Itzhak	Sheina Veller b. Meir Gens d. 1910
Haim b. Tzvi d. 1848	Shmuel Dov b. Moshe HaCohen
Hana b. Abraham d. 1896	Shlomo b. Simeon d. 1888
Hana b. Chaim Sholom Shapiro d. 1906	Shlomo b. Yehuda HaLevi
Hane b. Shmuel	Toibe Reize Flat died 1922
Hana b. Yehuda HaCohen d. 1894	Toibe Hinde b. Haim Levin d. 1929
Hana Rivka bas Yacov d. 1913	Tzvi b. Abraham
Hana Sara wife of Lipman Mishelovits	Yakob b. Ari Shandler d. 1864
Hanoch Tzvi b. Shabtai Davidovits d. 1904	Tsipe Minde Merzanski bat David
Hanoch Yakov b. Eliazer Shamesh d. 1930	Tzvi b. Haim d. 1908
Haim b. Idel Hackmann d. 1923	Yehiel b. Tzvi Katz HaCohen
Haim b. Moshe	Yehuda b. Eliezer d. 1871
Haim b. Vigder d. 1920	Yehuda b. Yosef Merzanski died 1888
Haim b. Tzvi d. 1848	Yehuda Kadom d. 1940
Haim Haikel b. Eliazar Lipman Kan d. 1892	Yehuda Leib b. Nisan HaLevi d. 1900
Haya b. Yehiel d. 1902	Yehose Zelig b. Yehiel d. 1894
Hiene b. Yehose Loinman	Yente Levin
Hode Ite b. Tzvi d. 1859	Yosef b. Haim HaCohen
Ite	Yosef b. Yehiel Michel d. 1906
Itshak b. Shlomo Tzvi	Yosef b. Mordehai Zalman HaCohen
Itshak b. Yekel d. 1870	Zema b. Aba d. 1907
Itshak Gershon b. Henoch d. 1843 (?)	Zev b. Menachem Nakovits (?)
Lea bas Abraham d. 1900	Zev Wolf
Lea bas Moshe d. 1866	Zlata b. Josef d. 1926
M. Katz d. 1924	? b. Yehuda
Malka	? b. Yehuda Itshak
	? 1902

If you're able to assign a last name to any of the above gravestone listings, please contact me.
I also have more photos of various gravestones listed above.