rescuers of jews
In 1983, Mykolas Šimelis and Jadvyga Šimelienė were acknowledged as Righteous Among the Nations. These are the names of the Jews they saved:
1. Meyer Koren
2. Moshe-Eize rKoren (Meyer Koren’s son)
3. Benjamin Koren (Meyer Koren’s son)
4. Liuba Koren (Meyer Koren’s daughter)
5. Tanchum Koren (Meyer Koren’s brother)
6. Judith Koren (Tanchum Koren’s wife)
7. Michle Levin (Meyer Koren’s sister-in-law)
8. Alter Aranovsky
9. Etel Aranovsky (Alter Aranovsky’s wife)
10. Salomon Nechmod
11. Feiga Nechmod (Karnovsky), Salomon Nechmod’s wife
12. Moshe Musel
13. Polia Musel Karnovsky, Moshe Musel’s wife
14. Chaim Kaplan