rescuers of jews
Lukauskienė (Stankevičiūtė, Raclauskienė) Elena
Elena LUKAUSKIENĖ
Mikas LUKAUSKAS
The Joselevich family lived in Kaunas. They were four people: parents – Shimon and Lea and their children – Chana and Pesach. On the 25th of June 1941 Kaunas was occupied by the Germans, and two months later the family moved into the ghetto. There they managed to survive the Actions, including the Children’s Action that took place on the 27th of March 1944.
The father tried to find shelter for his children. He contacted his friends, with whom he had been working before the war. His friend Julia Vitkauskienė helped him to contact the Lukauskas family (Elena and Mikas), who agreed to hide the two children. They were kept there from April 1944 to the middle of 1945.
The father of the family did not survive the war, but the mother did. After the war she took the children from the Lukauskas family.
A year after Chana died from a disease. Pesach stayed in touch with Elena Lukauskienė until she died in 1959. Later on he moved to Vilnius and the contact with Mikas Lukauskas was lost. The couple was childless. Pesach moved to Israel in 1990.
Mikas LUKAUSKAS
The Joselevich family lived in Kaunas. They were four people: parents – Shimon and Lea and their children – Chana and Pesach. On the 25th of June 1941 Kaunas was occupied by the Germans, and two months later the family moved into the ghetto. There they managed to survive the Actions, including the Children’s Action that took place on the 27th of March 1944.
The father tried to find shelter for his children. He contacted his friends, with whom he had been working before the war. His friend Julia Vitkauskienė helped him to contact the Lukauskas family (Elena and Mikas), who agreed to hide the two children. They were kept there from April 1944 to the middle of 1945.
The father of the family did not survive the war, but the mother did. After the war she took the children from the Lukauskas family.
A year after Chana died from a disease. Pesach stayed in touch with Elena Lukauskienė until she died in 1959. Later on he moved to Vilnius and the contact with Mikas Lukauskas was lost. The couple was childless. Pesach moved to Israel in 1990.