| Main office | Žydų karių savanorių, dalyvavusių nepriklausomybės kovose, sąjunga |
| City (office) |
Žiežmariai
(See on the map) |
| Established | 1933 |
| Closed | 1940 |
Activity
The most important objectives of the society were to stimulate the love for the Fatherland among the members and the jewish community and raise the understanding of the government, work for the liberation of occupied Lithuanian sectors, and spread ideas aAdditional information
The section founders were storekeeper, Morduch Vitenberg; tin man, Shimon Netz; storekeeper, Itzak Fainberg; trader, Lipa Konish; shoemaker, Zhavel Shwartz; storekeeper, Ovsiey Kagan; and worker, Gedalia Rozenberg. In 1937, in a general membership meeting, the management team was elected: president, M. Vitenberg; secretary, Sh. Netz; and treasurer I. Fainberg. Elected to the review committee were O. Kagan and L. Vulfovich. Zorach Iliyonski was a Lithuanian army volunteer. Most probably he also was a member of this organization. The society with all its branches, was closed on August 20, 1940. On June 14, 1941, the section director, M. Vitenberg, and his assistant, Sh. Netz, were exiled, along with their families, to the Altai region.Rolandas Gustaitis, 2006, Jews of the Kaišiadorys Region of Lithuania, Bergenfield NJ, Avotaynu, 2010, translated into English by Leonas Bekeris