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Leizer Beker (hebr. לייזר בקר, Leizer Bekker, Eliezer Beker, Becker (1910-1941) was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who lived and worked in the small town of Čekiškė during the interwar period.
He and his family were murdered together with the Jewish community of Čekiškė in 1941.[1] The place where L. Bekeris and his family were murdered is the Pakarklės Forest in Jaučakiai, about 2 km southeast of Vilkija.[2]
Life & Work
[edit]The fourth in a family of five children, Leizer Beker was born to Ester and Hirsh Beker in Jurbarkas. He was married to Šifra née Zalmanovitz.[3] Records[4] show that he moved to Čekiškė sometime between 1929 and 1935. Beker photographed not only in his studio in Čekiškė, but also in people's homes and on the streets. His photographs allow us to reconstruct the living environment of the people of the Čekiškė parish during the interwar period.[5] Among the known photos is one of David-Matithyahu Lipman (1888-1941),[6] pharmacist and historian of Lithuanian Jewry, initiator of the Jewish Historical-Ethnographic Society in Lithuania,[7] but also a recording of a Catholic celebration.[8]
Box of Photographs
[edit]In 2021, a young student from Čekiškė wrote a short essay about her family history, in which she described a box containing an unknown number of Leizer Beker’s photographs that had been discovered by one of her relatives who’d moved into Leizer and Šifra's house after they were murdered.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ The Fate of the Jews in the Rural Districts of Čekiškė ... in Vilnius University Press [1]
- ^ Testimonies about Leizer Beker in Yad Vashem [2]
- ^ Testimony of Fania Karnowski Giar on the death of Š. Zelmanovičiūtė-Bekerienė in Yad Vashem [3]
- ^ Lithuanian Central State Archives LCVA/1753/1/14
- ^ Vilnius Gaon Museum - Shtetl page Čekiškė [4]
- ^ The National Library of Israel-s search result Lipman [5]
- ^ Mentioned in Center for Jewish History [6]
- ^ Lithuanian Academic Electronic Library (eLABa), Ceremony of the consecration of the Vilnius Cross in Čekiškės
- ^ Kauno tautinės kultūros centras Family Tree Competition 2021 [7]