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Lithuanian and Surrounding Towns Collection Moletai
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Moletai Lithuania, "A Jewish burial service"

Photograph of mourners at the burial site of a Jewish funeral. This is identifiable as a Jewish funeral because the gravestone has Hebrew script on it, and the women are wearing shawls that cover their heads out of respect for the deceased. There are 10 women in attendance, and 4 men visible. The deceased person is wrapped in cloth in a coffin, about to be lowered into the ground. A woman is standing behind the head of the deceased, holding the gravestone in place. Each mourner is carrying a totem with them.
Mr C Sharachik (alternative spelling: Saracik) donated this photograph to the SAJBOD Archives in Johannesburg.

Photographer unknown

Moletai Lithuania, "A street in Moletai town named Vilna Road"

Photograph of Vilna Road in the town of Moletai. The street has houses and shopfronts on the left of the photograph, with some townsfolk standing nearby to where the camera is positioned. Other townsfolk are seen walking away from where the camera is positioned towards a church-like building on the far end of the street.

Photographer unknown

Moletai Lithuania, "All Folk Shull pre-primary and primary students"

Photograph of the pre-primary and primary school Yiddish Folk Shul students together with the headmaster, seated in the middle of the photograph. The taller students are at the back of the photograph while shorter and smaller students are seated in front.

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

Photographer unknown

Moletai Lithuania, "Folk Shul pre-primary school students and some teachers"

Photograph of the children that attended the Yiddish Folk Shul pre-primary school. Compared to the previous photograph, these children seem younger, which aligns with this being the pre-primary school rather than the primary school. The children are arranged in rows, with the smallest/youngest sitting on the floor in the front row. The two female teachers are seated in the centre of the photograph among the students.

Photographer unknown

Moletai Lithuania, "Folk Shul primary school students and some teachers"

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.

Photographer unknown

Moletai Lithuania, "Folk Shul students"

Photograph of children and teachers from the Folk Shul school. In the fourth row from the front, second from the left hand side, and next to the girl in the sailor suit, is Sarah Trapido Sharachik (alternative spelling : Saracik). Sarah was born in Moletai in January 1922, was the daughter of Leibe Sharachik and Esther Raisel Sharachik, and the sister of 3 other Sharachik children including Samuel Vulf Sharachik (born May 1917). [Source: https://www.geni.com/people/Sarah-Trapido/6000000000186473686].

Sarah married Chaim Trapido, and had two children with him, including Jeffrey Trapido. She passed away in 2013 at the age of 91. The headmaster can be seen in the top left corner of the photograph, and a female teacher in the back right corner of the photograph.

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

Photographer unknown

Moletai Lithuania, "Jewish youth in a forest posing acrobatically"

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.

Photographer unknown

Moletai Lithuania, "Men at the timber works sitting at a desk"

Photograph of some Jewish men in the office of the timber works. including Leibe (anglicized as Louis) Sharachik (alternative spelling: Saracik) in the centre holding a pen. Leibe was born in Lithuania in 1891 to Israel Sharachik and Sheina Dvora Sharachik. He had three sisters named Zlata (Lottie) Gordon Sharachik, Chasel Ziwatowsky Sharachik, and Sora Leah Sharachik. He was married to Esther Raisel Sharachik, with whom he fathered four children, including Samuel Vulf Sharachik (born May 1917) and Sarah Trapido Sharachik (born January 1922) in Lithuania. Leiba moved to South Africa, and lived in Johannesburg, where he died at age 88 in April 1979, and was buried in West Park Cemetry. [Source: https://www.geni.com/people/Leibe-Louis-Saracik/6000000000186545483].

The other two men are seated on either side of Leibe Sharachik. The man on the right of the photograph (on Leibe's left hand side) is checking records in a book, and the man on the left of the photograph (on Leibe's right hand side) is using a counting device presumably for accounting purposes. All three men are looking at the camera from behind the wooden desk they are seated at.

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

Photographer unknown

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