Itel Elke Sokhen (1897 - bef. 1941)

Born 1 Dec 1897 in Pakruojis, Panevėžio, Литва, Российская империя

Ancestors

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It is not known whether Itel Sokhen survived the Holocaust.

Biography

Itel was born December 1, 1897 in Pakruojis, Panevezys, Lithuania, which was then part of the Russian Empire. Her parents were Khaim Sokhen and Sheina Khana (Kats) Sokhen.^[1]

In 1908 Itel lived in Pasvalys, Panevezys, Lithuania with her parents, grandparents, four siblings, and seven paternal aunts and uncles (one aunt was her uncle's wife).^[2]

Itel was single when she applied for an internal passport April 5, 1921 in Nemunelio Radviliskis, Lithuania.^[3]

No trace of Itel has been found after 1921. If she 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 Notes) then it is certain that she was killed by the Nazis between June and August of that year.^[4]

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. Dina probably died as a result of one of the following events:^[4]

• 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

Sources

^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

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: SOKHEN, Itel Elke

   Father: Khaim

   Paternal Grandfather: Mortkhel

   Mother: Sheine Khane

   Birth Date: 1/12/1897

   Hebrew Date: 18 Kislev 

   Town: Pakruojis 

   Uyezd: Panevezys 

   Guberniya: Kaunas 

   Comments: Family from Birzai

   Recorded: Pakruojis 

   Year: 1897 

   Record: # F17 

   Microfilm: 2287040 / 3 / 1011

   Archive: LVIA/1226/1/2037 

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} LitvakSIG, Lithuanian Jewish Special Interest Group of JewishGen, (accessed March 10, 2017), free membership required, includes the following family record:

   Town: Pasvalys 

   Uzeyd: Panevezys 

   Guberniya: Kaunas

   Year: 1908

   Page: 350

   Registration # 728 

   Former Registration# 287/1874; 404/1887 

   Publication Type: Family list 

   Archive / Fond:  KRA/I-216/1/48 

   Last Name	First Name	Role	Father	Sex	Age	Note
   SOKHEN	Mortkhel	Head	Gerts	M	64	died 2-Jan-1913
   SOKHEN	Sharia	Son	Mortkhel	M	42	from 1st marriage
   SOKHEN	Chaim	Son	Mortkhel	M	38
   SOKHEN	Shimen Leyb	Son	Mortkhel	M	31
   SOKHEN	Iudel	Son	Mortkhel	Sex	M	29
   SOKHEN	Shmerel	Son	Mortkhel	Sex	M	28
   SOKHEN	Sara	Wife		F	60	2nd marriage
   SOKHEN	Feyga Sara	Daughter	Mortkhel	F	23	from 1st marriage
   SOKHEN	Rasha	Daughter	Mortkhel	F	21	from 1st marriage
   SOKHEN	Chaya	Daughter-in-law		F	29	wife of Shimen
   SOKHEN	Solem Meyer	Grandson	Chaim	M	12
   SOKHEN	Movsha Gerts	Grandson	Chaim	M	8
   SOKHEN	Yosel	Grandson	Chaim	M	5
   SOKHEN	Sheyna Khana	Daughter-in-law		F	37	wife of Chaim
   SOKHEN	Ela Ita	Granddaughter	Chaim	F	10
   SOKHEN	Simkha	Granddaughter	Chaim	F	3

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} LitvakSIG, Lithuanian Jewish Special Interest Group of JewishGen, (accessed March 10, 2017), free membership required, includes the following passport issuance record:

   Day Month Year: 5 Apr 1921

   Town: Nemunelio Radviliskis 

   Uyezd: Nemunelio Radviliskis 

   Guberniya: Birzai 

   Name: SOCHENAITE / [SHOKHEN], Etel

   Marital Status: single 

   Passport Number: 522664/1360 

   Type of Record: Internal Passport Application - List Only 

   Archive/Fond/Inventory/File: LCVA/400/1/60

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Lithuania, Josef Rosin, Pasvalys Chapter, (accessed March 31, 2017).

See also:

• Wikipedia, History of Lithuania.