The old Jewish cemetery of Zapyškis, approx. 60 gravestones with Hebrew inscriptions.

Isidor Rosenthal was born on July 16, 1836 in Labischin (Łabiszyn), the son of the Jewish country doctor Samuel Rosenthal, and attended grammar school in Bromberg from 1846 to 1855. In 1855 he enrolled at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. During this time, Isidor Rosenthal lived with his brother Ludwig Rosenthal at Friedrichstra e Nr.153 a. He completed his doctorate at the University of Berlin in 1859. Isidor Rosenthal then became assistant to the physiologist Prof. Emil Du Bois-Reymond  and habilitated in 1862.

Kalman Hirsch Ellenberg was born on June 18, 1882 in Galicia. He entered the egg trade and on April 3, 1907, together with Chaim Kesten, founded the company Ellenberg und Kesten, a „wholesale egg business“. From 1909, he also traded in butter with his new partner Ludwig Haueisen. In 1920, the egg traders in the south-west merged to form „Vereinigte Eierimporteure Württemberg GmbH“, whose managing director Ellenberg, who had changed his first name to Karl in the meantime, became.

Heymann Ephraim Jacobus was born in Schivelbein in 1827. He initially ran a cloth and fashion goods shop in Greifenberg. In 1860, he acquired a residential and commercial building at Markt 14 in Schivelbein and opened a distillery there. During the anti-Semitic Schivelbein Excesses on August 7, 1881, the shop was destroyed and looted: In Heymann Jacobus „s store, the schnapps stocks ran down the throats of the people: the fury was kindled, the frenzy had reached its peak.“ „At H.E.

Max Salomon was born on January 8, 1853 in Pollnow/Kreis Schlawe and grew up in Landsberg an der Warthe. On August 9, 1879, the company Max Salomon Getreidehandel Schivelbein was entered in the commercial register. In 1889 at the latest, he took over the Schlossmühle in Schivelbein. The Mühle included a farm, 30 cows, arable horses, chickens, pigs, ducks and geese, vegetable and flower gardens, rye, oat and potato fields.In 1912, Villa Salomon“, the family home with the characteristic figure of Demeter, the Greek goddess of fertility, was built on the Mühlengelände.

Arthur Lewin came from Schwetz an der Oder, his wife Elise Engel from Schönlanke in the Netzkreis district. It is documented that Arthur and Elise Lewin settled in Schivelbein in the Pomeranian hinterland in 1908 at the latest.Probably even earlier, because on February 11, 1909, they announced in the Schivelbeiner Kreiszeitung the „closing of the seasonal clearance sale“ the winter sale –. They had opened a shop for textiles and manufactured goods in a prime location on the market square and moved into the apartment above.

Šiauliai was once a predominantly Jewish town and a center of the leather industry with a global reputation.

At the age of just 25, Chaim Fraenkel's leather factory dominated the town.

In 1907, Chaim Fraenkel built a two-storey brick synagogue next to the factory in place of the former wooden church. On the second floor of the building there were rooms for men, on the second floor rooms for women. In the basement there was an apartment for the synagogue servant, who maintained and guarded the building. The synagogue was intended for the factory workers, but Jews from the surrounding neighborhoods gathered here on holidays.

The synagogue had a ten-metre-high dome, as well as two smaller decorative domes on the sides and above the side halls. The large dome was supported by several columns made of steel and concrete. It combined different architectural styles, but mainly a neo-Gothic and Byzantine style was used.