ORT Šiauliai branch
postcards. LCVA
Application by Samuelis
Petuchauskas, Chair of Šiauliai
branch, stating that he agrees to
be a member of ORT Šiauliai
branch board, 1940. LCVA
Application by Levas Todesas, stating that
he agrees to be a member of the ORT
Šiauliai branch, 1940. LCVA
Report by the State Security Department on
Levas Todesas, Šiauliai branch member of the
board: “he is closer to communists as one of
his sons has been sentenced to 12 years’ hard
labour for communist activities. There is no
data about anti-state activities of other
leaders”, 7 February 1938. LCVA
ORT Šiauliai [Shavli] branch board,
31 May 1940. LCVA
After the Second World War broke out, Jewish
refugees from Poland, Germany, and Czechoslovakia
arrived in Šiauliai. In 1940 the ORT Šiauliai branch
opened a free of charge evening course in electrical
engineering that accepted Jewish refugees over the
age of 15. It was attended by local students (35) in
the mornings and by Jewish war refugees (40) in the
afternoons. Fifty-three women took the dressmaking
course.
Ladies’ tailoring workshop of the ORT Society at the Jewish national school in Šiauliai [Shavl],
1930s. World ORT Archive