The Salits of Vilna

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She received the following reply (thanks to Steve Noble and Charlie Noble for their help in forwarding this). “I am pleased to report that we have much information regarding Salits from Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania). First and most importantly, it appears not to be the case that no Salits survived. In the registry of Polish Jewish survivors that was complied by the Central Committee of the Jews in Poland during the years 1945 to 1947, we have several Salits listed, most of them from Vilna.” </div> <div> The letter gives information about several Salits. The most relevant information as far as we can ascertain is about Emilia Salit-Aleksandrowicz (nee Salit), daughter of Tobiasz (Tevya) and Rozia, born in Vilna on 24th April 1903. Her pre-war address was 4 Teatralna Street in Vilna. She was in Vilna until 1942 and then in the Stutthof concentration camp until liberation in 1945. She registered with the Jewish comittee in Bydgoszcz by January 1946 with a hospital address (she is a physician) and then registered again in Gliwice on 8th September 1947. By that time, she was employed at the State Cancer Institute (Panstwowy Instytut Przeciwrakowy) in Gliwice. Her home address was ul. Choroby 6/1 Gliwice. </div> <div> There seem to be various links here with the family. First, the Salit-Davidson family tree published in Davnob in December 1989 shows that Anna Davidovitch, Melach Salit and Jack Salit - all of who came to the UK - had a sister Sorettel and a brother - Tevye. The family in England kept contact with Sorettel’s children until the war but there was no information about them afterwards. There doesn’t seem to have been any contact with Tevye’s children before the war. But shortly after the war contact was briefly made with a daughter of Tevye who was a doctor - but then contact was lost again. It would seem likely that this was the same person listed above. (Incidentally does anyone know the surname of Sorettel’s children? Their first names were Harry, Jo and Berl). </div> <div> We have no idea whether or not we have any family links with the other Salits listed. If we have then they must be very distant cousins. We list them below (reg: is the date that they registered with local Jewish committees after the war). (The first names are the parental names given - they weren’t themselves registered). </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Calel and Hiena </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Abram b:1913 reg: Warsaw 1945 m: Malka (nee Zylber) </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Rojza b: 1945 reg: Lodz </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Marja b:1915 reg: Breslau 1946 </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Gita b: 1919 reg: Lodz 1946 </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Szmul and Marta </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Chawa b: 1903 reg: Lodz 1946 living with Hania(?) </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Benjamin and Henia </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Hania b: 1936 living with Chawa(?) </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Majer and Masza (probably Salet - nee Rywa) </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Ida b: 1934 reg: Lodz 1946 </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Majer b: 1919 reg: Lodz 1946 </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Morduch b: 1922 reg: Lodz: 1946 </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Abram and Sara (nee Szatz) </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Jakub b: 1901 reg: Warsaw 1945 </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Mojsze and Chana </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Sara reg: Lodz </div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>