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Photograph of townsfolk gathering to receive the visiting President of the Republic of Lithuania (1919-1920), Antanas Smetona (not visible in this photograph). President Smetona was the president from 1919 to 1920. He later restored himself to presidency once more via a coup d'etat in 1926 and served as a nationalist dictator until 1940, and died in 1944 in the United States of America.

In front of the gathered crowd, a well-dressed man is seen on the left with his hat in his hands, out of respect for the President. To his right, a Lithuanian soldier is saluting the President, and Rabbi Bezalel Katz can be seen to the right of the soldier. Rabbi Bezalel Katz was born in 1843 in Lithuania, and died in 1940 in Lithuania. [Source: https://www.geni.com/people/Rabbi-Bezalel-Katz/6000000028318757367]

Photograph of three people from the town of Jonava sitting in a motor vehicle, looking at the camera. There are two people seated in the back, with a man sitting further away from the camera on the right hand side of the backseat, and a woman sitting closer to the camera on the left hand side of the backseat. The woman in the backseat has her arm draped over the side of the car. The woman in front, named Sonia Berger, is sitting in the driver's seat with both of her hands holding the staring wheel and her left arm hanging over the edge of the car, smiling at the camera. A house can be seen in the background of the photograph, as well as some tall trees next to the house.

Photograph of six young adult Jewish women posing for the camera. These women are organized in a pyramidal-like format: the two women at the forefront of the photograph are crouching at the base of the pyramid on either side of the next lowest level consisting of one centrally-positioned seated woman, followed by the scond highest level of two women standing on either side of the centrally positioned woman below, and finally the apex of the pyramid consisting of the most highly positioned woman standing above the others in the centre with her arms around the women in the level below her.

This picture was donated by Mr I Berger, who lived in Panevezys before moving to Johannesburg, where he donated these photographs in 1988 - among others in this Collection - to the SAJBOD Archives.

Photograph of young Jews in the forest. This group is likely to be a gymnastics club of sorts, as many of the male members are in acrobatic poses or holding up fellow members in suspended positions. Those not posing in the front are in the background standing in small clusters, which consist mostly of the females in this group.

Mr C Sharachik (alternative spelling: Saracik) donated this photograph to the SAJBOD Archives in Johannesburg.

Photograph of six men standing on rafts or the riverbank upon a river, most of whom are carrying oars and standing barefoot. The barefooted men may be preparing for a paddle in the river. Two men standing closest to the camera have books in their hands, perhaps to record the paddling results.

Photograph of Yiddish Folk Bank members dressed in formal attire and posing in two rows. The front row of seven men are seated, named from left to right as: M. Calperin, R. Shaehor, D. Weinbren, Unknown, A. Flit, M. Margolis, and A. Shapiro. The back row of six men and one woman are standing, and are named from left to right as Unknown, Unkown, E. Burgin, Z. Joselowitz, Unkown, H. Weinbren, and Mr Packman.

Photograph of the children that attended the Yiddish Folk Shul primary school. The children are arranged in rows, with the smallest/youngest on the floor in the front row. The two male teachers are seated in the first row of seated people in the photograph, and are in the centre of that row.

This photograph includes Leah Charif (married name: Leah Leibowitz) - the only known name here - in the extreme back left corner of the photograph.

Photograph of some family members standing outside their family home in Siauliai. This family consists of a man and three young children, and the house is double storeyed with many windows.

Mrs G Engelberg donated this photograph in 1988 to the SAJBOD Archives in Johannesburg.

Photograph of the view of houses in the town. This picture seems to be taken from a higher vantage point than street level, as the rooftops of some houses are seen. There is a green hill in the background, known to be green from the caption for this photograph.

Photograph of 5th graduating class of the Gymnasium Ivri/Hebrew high school. There are 30 male and female students, aged approximately 18-20 years old, and a male teacher in the centre of the group. The group are arranged for the photograph behind a table with food and beverages on it, suggesting this is a celebratory occassion for their graduation.

A Gymnasium refers to an academically-focused high school found in European countries, which are intended to prepare students for college or vocational aims. The word in the caption that describes this Gymnasium and provides the clue that it is the Hebrew institution in this town is "Ivri", a Hebrew word with a complex history. The term "Ivri" is what the term "Hebrew" is based on, with a clear connection to the key forefather in Judaism: Abraham. Literally translated, Ivri means "fom the other side". Biblically, this has geographical implications regarding Abraham's joruney from Mesopotamia to Canaan (Israel), i.e. he came from "the other side". Similarly, there are roots here to the idea of Abraham being the descendant of Ever, who was Noah's great-great grandson, linking phonetically and linguistically to the term "Ivri". The Jewish people as a whole are often compared to this concept of being an "other people", who have overcome, and who are "unique, apart, and original" in a world that is altogether apart from them. This separation refers in some senses to the religious ideas of being "other" to the rest of the world who were sinful, but also to the quite literal othering of Jewish folk for thousands of years. This explanation is a surface-level analysis of the term, but there is far more to understand from the use of the term "Ivri" to describe the Hebrew Gymanisum in this town. [Source: https://www.aish.com/sp/ph/The-Word-Hebrew-Insights-into-the-Hebrew-Language.html]/