The Salits of Vilna

This is the family of Tevye and Rosa Salit of Vilna - a photo taken some time in the 1930s. 

In the 1870s the Salit family lived in Sirvintos (in Yiddish - Shirvint). Ruven and Keila Salit had five children: Melakh, Soretel, Tevye Hanna and Yakov. In the 1890s Melakh emigrated to England, later followed by Hanna and Jack. Soretel married Tsodik Landsman and lived in Kaunas (Kovno) and Tevye married Roza and lived in Vilnius (Vilna). This is the story of Tevye's family. 

(In their respective countries they took more local names or diminutives: Ruven was Ruvel, Melakh became Miller, Tevye was Tevel, Hanna was Annie. Tsodik was Harry, and Yakov was Jack).

(Note: there has been some discussion about this photo. It was in Ziggie Noble's album titled: the family in Kovno, and indeed the matriarch here bears a resemblance to Annie Salit (who we know as Grandma Davidson) in which case she would be Annie's sister Sorretel. But Lionel Davidson, Annie's youngest son, claimed it was the Vilna family of Uncle Tevye. In a recent communication, Emilia Salit's grand-daughter in America wrote that the photo was of her grandmother's family, the Vilna Salits.)

This website was created for Holocaust Memorial Day in 2023 - as a memorial to Emilia Salit-Aleksandrovitch - but will be broadened out in coming weeks to give a fuller picture of Tevye's family.