Ziwa Alexander Katz

Ziwa four or five years old

Ziwa: High school photo, 1933

Ziwa: Photo, 1936

Family photo in Vyzhunis, Lithuania, c.1936 (L-R) Uncle Sasha, unknown, Malka Berka, Raisel Rapaport, two neighbors, Aunt Chasi, Aunt Hannah (Shaya's wife); Chana Raise Lifshitz; great Aunt and sister to grandfather; Riva Laika in background; Yosef Genkin from Dvinsk.

Ziwa getting on train to Siaulai, 1936

Mother's brother's son Abraham Frono Crimea and his sister Genya, who became principal of Jewish High School in Siaulai, Lithuania; sister Chanja, Ziwa's younger brother, Roman.

Survivors include: Avigdor's little brother, Emmanuel (lives in Israel) on bottom row, age 13); sister and son-in-law Auspitz, Shoshana Sheshkin in back of the bride (Avraham Yitzhak Auspitz) Ziwa's sister in law; Shoshana's parents shown to the right of bride and groom, Frankel's mother, 2nd row, far right, and his mother-in-law above her.  Frankel's daughter is right to Mr. Frankel. When war broke out, the Frankel family left for the USA. Photo taken on April 3, 1938, Ziwa's uncles and aunts on left, other in-laws on right.

Top Left: Mordechai, older brother Abraham, Avigdor Sheshkin (Ziwa's first husband), younger brother Levy and youngest borther Moshe.

Lower: Deborah, who was finance of Abraham; Ziwa and her parents.

Taken in Radvilluskis, Lithuania c. 1937.

Ziwa's wedding photo. Detail. 1938

Chaim Alexander, Ziwa's second husband, after liberation from Dachau. His camp number: 82606. Chaim died in 1969.

Ziwa and Chaim Alexander, 1946 wedding photo.

Ziwa Alexander, 1946

Chaim Alexander and press group, Munich, 1946. Chaim is standing, second from left.

Ziwa Alexander at Berteshgarten, Germany, 1946 after liberation.

Ziwa and Chaim Alexander at Berteshgarten, Germany 1946

Dr. Nachum Katz (left) and Chaim Alexander were fraternity brothers

Ziwa and two sons, Neil on left and Joe Alexander (right)

Dr. Nachum Katz and Ziwa 1990 - married in 1986

1985 photo of Ziwa with her youngest grand-daughter Heidi Alexander.

Ziwa and granddaughter Carli, 1995.

Ziwa's grandfather's grave from 1921 found in cemetery in Radvilluskis, 2000.

Genogram