rescuers of jews
Andriuška Aleksas
ALEKSAS ANDRIUŠKA
Aleksas and Jadvyga Andriuška lived with their four children in Šaukėnai parish, Juodlė village (now Kelmė district), they were landless. In the autumn of 1941, Aleksas Andriuška brought three Jews from the Šiauliai Ghetto on a horse-drawn cart: Leiba Shneider (before the war he lived in Šaukėnai, worked as a carpenter, Andriuška knew him well), Masha Klein (later became Leiba's wife) and Zak (name unknown). All three were hiding in a bunker in the woods. Andriuška brought them food, clothes and medicine. When the orphaned Jewish children were closed at the Sviliai mill in Šaukėnai district, Jadvyga Andriuškienė and her daughter Janina brought food to them as well, despite the fact that the family was poor, had only one cow and had to feed their own family of six and three hidden Jews. In winter, Leiba, Masha and Zak were taken from the forest to Andriuška’s homestead, they were hidden in a barn, at the threshing-floor, in a potato pit. All three survived. After the war, they lived in Šiauliai, and the Andriuška family kept in touch with them. Later, Leiba and Masha Schneider emigrated.
Aleksas and Jadvyga Andriuška lived with their four children in Šaukėnai parish, Juodlė village (now Kelmė district), they were landless. In the autumn of 1941, Aleksas Andriuška brought three Jews from the Šiauliai Ghetto on a horse-drawn cart: Leiba Shneider (before the war he lived in Šaukėnai, worked as a carpenter, Andriuška knew him well), Masha Klein (later became Leiba's wife) and Zak (name unknown). All three were hiding in a bunker in the woods. Andriuška brought them food, clothes and medicine. When the orphaned Jewish children were closed at the Sviliai mill in Šaukėnai district, Jadvyga Andriuškienė and her daughter Janina brought food to them as well, despite the fact that the family was poor, had only one cow and had to feed their own family of six and three hidden Jews. In winter, Leiba, Masha and Zak were taken from the forest to Andriuška’s homestead, they were hidden in a barn, at the threshing-floor, in a potato pit. All three survived. After the war, they lived in Šiauliai, and the Andriuška family kept in touch with them. Later, Leiba and Masha Schneider emigrated.