Gerc Brezniker (1897 - bef. 1941)

Born 14 Dec 1897 in Pasvalys, Panevėžys, Lietuva, Russisches Kaiserreich

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Biography

It is not known whether Gerc Brezniker survived the Holocaust.

Gerc was born December 14, 1897 in Pasvalys, Panevėžys, Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire. His parents were Benel Naftel Brezniker and Dina (Sokhen) Brezniker.^[1]

No trace of Gerc has been found after his birth. If he was one of the fewer than ten percent of Lithuanian Jews who survived the harsh conditions after 1905 and remained in Lithuania in 1941 (see Research Notes) then it is certain that he was killed by the Nazis between June and August of that year.^[2]

Research Notes

Missing Records After 1905
The Russian Revolution of 1905 brought changes to Lithuania. Persecution of Jews continuously increased between 1905 and 1941 and many were killed, others attempted to flee, and those who made it to Russia found conditions there even more difficult. As a result, records of births, marriages, and deaths are mostly not available. Gerc probably died as a result of one of the following events:^[2]

• natural cause of illness or accident
• failure to survive rigors of attempt to flee to Russia between 1908 and 1944
• killing, military conscription, or forced labor in Russia between 1908 and 1944
• failure to survive forced transport of all Lithuanian Jews to Russia in 1915, hardships in Russia, or possible return to Lithuania after 1918
• killing of Jews by ethnic Lithuanians between 1918 and 1941
• killing of all Jews still remaining in Lithuania by Nazis between June and August of 1941

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Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} LitvakSIG, Lithuanian Jewish Special Interest Group of JewishGen, (accessed February 27, 2017), free membership required, includes the following birth record:

   Name: BREZNIKER, Gerc

   Father: Benel Naftel 

   Paternal Grandfather: Shmuel 

   Mother: Dina Eta

   Maternal Grandfather: Mortkhel 

   Mother Maiden Name: SOKHEN

   Birth Date: 14/12/1897

   Hebrew Date: 1 Tevet 

   Town: Pasvalys 

   Uyezd: Panevezys 

   Guberniya: Kaunas 

   Comments: husband is from Pakruojis

   Recorded: Pasvalys 

   Year: 1897 

   Record: # M30 

   Microfilm: 2328283? / 1?  

   Archive: LVIA/1226/1/2047/130

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Lithuania, Josef Rosin, Pasvalys Chapter, (accessed March 31, 2017).

See also:

• Wikipedia, History of Lithuania.
• Panevezys Jewish History, (accessed April 4, 2017).
• Jager Report, (accessed April 4, 2017).