Kalvarija introduction

This is just a temporary site - I will use these pages
to post material that will be eventually posted at Carol's official Kalvarija site http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Kalvarija/Kalvarija.

I been researching the town of Vilkaviskis for the last three years and I trust that you had had a chance to see my Vilkaviskis web site http://www.jewishvilkaviskis.org.

I plan to return to Vilkaviskis in 2009 and also carry out research in Kalvarija with the kind assistance of members of the local high school and hopefully also with the assistance of the Regional Council.

Here is a picture of my great -grandmother Chaye Sora bat Mordechai Zvi Smolizanski, Chaye was born 5 May 1843 in Kalvarija (died in NY in 1916)

A picture of her brother Jacob Wolf Zeev Smolizanski born in Kalvarija in1853 died 1932 in Rishon le Zion, where he was the first director of the Carmel Mizrachi Wineries in Rishon, since 1902 He moved to Rishon in the 1890s from Riga where he lived and was director of the Grain Exchange In Rishon he also was a member of the Moatza and a street is named after him and his brother Moshe Nisan (the street in Rishon is called Achim Smilizanski, and I have asked the iriyah to change it to Smolizanski but never heard from them again...)