Rav Avraham Abba Zak
In the earlier family chart
c.1860–1941 · Russian registers: Abel son of Leib Zak, born Luoke
Family chart sources: Green marks people and relationships in the earlier family chart. Amber marks proposed people or relationships that have not yet been reviewed. The source labels are the evidence labels in that chart, not a new verification.
- Source wording
- Rav Avraham Abba Zak
- Source evidence
- Documentary record
- Source reference
- F-31, F-51, F-74, F-76
Records and original documents
- F-31 - Rav Avraham Abba Zak held the Alsedziai seat from 1890 until he was murdered on 7 Elul 5701, Saturday 30…
- F-51 - Rav Avraham Abba's own entry, in his own lifetime. The 1912 rabbinic directory אהלי שם gives him a full entry…
- F-74 - The Zak family in the Lithuanian State Archives, found through JewishGen's Lithuania collection: the…
- F-76 - What became of the sisters who stayed: Yad Vashem, searched under the married names, and R' Shimon Zak's own…
Open sources and page references
- HaTzofe, 23 August 1946, p.4: original article at the National Library of Israel (machine OCR, not letter-exact)
- HaTzofe, 23 August 1946: original page 4 viewer
- Pinkas Hakehillot Lita, Alsedziai
- HaTzofe, 23 August 1946
- Oholei Shem (Pinsk 1912), printed p.10 (HebrewBooks viewer p.54)
- R' Shimon Zak, HaDoar, 18 October 1963
- JewishGen Lithuania Collection (LitvakSIG data): births, marriages, deaths, taxpayers and voters, revision and other lists, searched on Zak and read in full, 2 September 2026
- Telšiai marriages 1903, record 3, LVIA 1226/1/2070: the page itself, FamilySearch DGS 4222296 image 10, read directly 2 September 2026
- LitvakSIG Telšiai District Research Group, which translated these registers
- Telšiai births 1894, female act 48, LVIA 1226/1/2067, FamilySearch film 2328931 item 2 image 499, captured at full resolution by a family collaborator 8 September 2026; the JewishGen index row: Zak, Rivka, 23-12-1894, father Abel, grandfather Leib, mother Leia, Alsėdžiai, family from Kalvarija
- Telšiai births 1907, female act 34, Sara Khaia Zak, FamilySearch film 2328932 images 303, 271 and 272, captured at full resolution by a family collaborator 9 September 2026
- Telšiai births 1897, row 16, Ginda, LVIA 1226/1/2067, FamilySearch film 2328931 item 2 image 635, captured by a family collaborator 7 September 2026
- Telšiai births 1899, female act 26, Iudis, folio 353, FamilySearch film 2328931 item 2 image 797, captured by a family collaborator 8 September 2026
- JewishGen Lithuania database, the five Zak births at Alsėdžiai (Eizel 1888, Dveira Fruma 1893, Rivka 1894, Ginda 1897, Iudis 1899), index rows captured 7 September 2026
- JewishGen Lithuania database, the children's marriages: Kaunas 1923 and 1930, Prienai 1927 and 1936, index rows captured 7 September 2026
- Plungė marriages 1895, act 9, Kogan and Fain, LVIA 1226/1/2034, FamilySearch film 2287039 item 3 images 791 and 792, captured at full resolution by a family collaborator 9 September 2026; and the JewishGen Lithuania database index row
- Telšiai births 1893, female act 27, Dveira Fruma Zak, folio 68, FamilySearch film 2328931 item 2 image 416, captured at full resolution by a family collaborator 11 September 2026
- Telšiai births 1895, the interwar index sheet 114 and female acts 6 (Ester) and 13 (Cype), folios 117 and 122, FamilySearch film 2328931 item 2 images 503, 508 and 513; and 1894 female act 3 (Golda), folio 91, image 460; captured at full resolution by a family collaborator 11 September 2026
- Telšiai deaths 1912, record 11, folio 175, FamilySearch film 2331378 item 2 image 383, captured and read at full resolution by a family collaborator 11 September 2026; the JewishGen index row: Fain, Genekh, son of Leib, 12-11-1912, age 75, Alsėdžiai, belongs to Kalvarija community
- Telšiai marriages 1909, record 4, folio 288, FamilySearch film 2329261 item 1 image 234, captured and read at full resolution by a family collaborator 11 September 2026
- Žemaičių Kalvarija box-tax list, tax year 1 April 1882 to 1 April 1883, FamilySearch DGS 102395795 images 415 and 420, captured and read at full resolution by a family collaborator 11 September 2026
- Telšiai births 1907, record 34, folio 357, FamilySearch film 2328932 item 1 image 303, captured and read at full resolution by a family collaborator 11 September 2026; the JewishGen index row: Zak, Sara Khaia, 29-12-1907
- Telšiai births 1888, record 72, FamilySearch film 2268931 item 2 image 478, captured and read at full resolution by a family collaborator 12 September 2026; the JewishGen index row: Zak, Eizel, 5-9-1888, father Abram Abel, grandfather Leib, mother Leia, Alsėdžiai, family from Luoke
- Avraham Aba Zak, Page of Testimony by Rut Asher, with photograph
- Avraham Aba Zakas, Page of Testimony by R' Shimon Zak, son
- Avraham Aba Zak, Record of murdered persons, Yad Vashem item 9441109, collection O.41.3
- Chana Horovitz Hurvitz née Zak, Page of Testimony by R' Shimon Zak, brother
- Dvora Levinson née Zak, Page of Testimony by Sara Etkin Levinson, stepdaughter
- Josef Levinsohn, Page of Testimony by R' Shimon Zak, brother-in-law
- Joselis Levinzonas, list of Jewish deportees from Alsėdžiai, 8 August 1941
- Sara Etkin Levinson, survivor, Pages of Testimony
- Yad Vashem search, Zak at Alsėdžiai (three results)
- R' Shimon Zak's own gravestone, Gravez
- Dvora Levinsohn née Zak, Page of Testimony by R' Shimon Zak, brother (submitter spelled Zhak Shimon)
- Yehudit Grosman née Zak, Page of Testimony by R' Shimon Zak, brother
- Shimon Zak, survivor-witness record (database field)
- Yad Vashem Names database entries for the Zak family, with the handwritten pages (Shapiro records page)
Research note: Rav of Alshad/Alsedziai from 1890; deported with the town's Jews to Geruliai on 8 Aug 1941 and murdered there 30 Aug 1941 with two daughters and their husbands. Oholei Shem gives his birth as 1862; the Russian savings-bank entries scatter it between 1851 and 1860.
Parents
- R’ Aryeh Leib ZakPerson in the earlier family chart In the earlier family chartSource: F-31, F-51, F-74, F-76
- TovaPerson in the earlier family chart In the earlier family chartSource: F-31, F-51, F-74, F-76
Spouse(s)
- Leah (Leia) FainPerson in the earlier family chart Proposed relationship; not yet reviewedSource: F-31, F-51, F-74, F-76
Children
- Chana ZakPerson in the earlier family chart Proposed relationship; not yet reviewedSource: F-31, F-43, F-76
- Chaya (Chaje) ZakPerson in the earlier family chart In the earlier family chartSource: F-06, F-41, F-65, F-74
- Dvora (Dveira Fruma) ZakPerson in the earlier family chart Proposed relationship; not yet reviewedSource: F-31, F-43, F-74
- Hinde (Ginda) Zak, later Hilda ZaronPerson in the earlier family chart Proposed relationship; not yet reviewedSource: F-60, F-74, F-75
- Mina ZakPerson in the earlier family chart Proposed relationship; not yet reviewedSource: F-74
- Rivka ZakPerson in the earlier family chart Proposed relationship; not yet reviewedSource: F-74
- R’ Shimon ZakPerson in the earlier family chart Proposed relationship; not yet reviewedSource: F-36, F-43, F-74, Q-20
- An unnamed daughter Proposed relationship; not yet reviewedSource: F-52
- Yehudis (Judis) ZakPerson in the earlier family chart Proposed relationship; not yet reviewedSource: F-74
- Sarah ZakPerson in the earlier family chart Proposed relationship; not yet reviewedSource: Help With The Tree — Ilya & Edward Dubinsky hand-drawn chart, transcribed; BBB's corrections applied
- Chasiah ZakPerson in the earlier family chart Proposed relationship; not yet reviewedSource: Help With The Tree — Ilya & Edward Dubinsky hand-drawn chart, transcribed; BBB's corrections applied