Over One Hundred Years of History and Bio Information
The Schockers
AUNT BELLA, UNCLE IKE AND FAMILY
Early Photograph
Paul, Isaac, baby Jeanette, Bella and Hyman (Hank)
Aunt and Uncle (Paternal)
Isaac Schocker (18 Mar 1893–7 Jul 1977) Bella (nee Kaplan) Schocker (14 Apr 1894–7 Mar 1980)
FROM LITHUANIA TO THE UNITED STATES
So how did Harry Schock as well as Isaac, Bella and Paul Schocker leave Lithuania and make their way to the United States? One might also ask, how come their son Paul Schocker’s birthplace – on multiple documents – is given as Kibart, LT even though the family was from Kovno (Kaunas)? And why did my father have a Russian passport? As for my aunt, uncle and cousin, the answer might be found in the fact that Kibart is on the border with Germany as described in an article about Kibart in which the author also describes the “Smuggling of Emigrants.” Putting these few pieces of the puzzle together conjures up the thought that the Schockers went to Kibart so that they would be near the German border; After Paul was born, they made their way across the border into Germany and eventually to Hamburg which was on the rail line from St. Petersburg to Hamburg via Kibart. The destination in Hamburg had to be the Hamburg-American Line.
WWI Draft Registration Card for Isaac Schocker
Isaac Schocker WWII Draft Registration Card
Isaac Schocker WWII Draft Registration Card Back
Cousins: (Paternal)
Paul Schocker Hymie Schocker Sol Schocker Jeanette Schocker Jacobs Goldfarb Eke (Ella) Schocker Soifer Hirsh
1930 Census Schocker Lines 26 – 32
Paul Schocker circumcision document: (13 March 1912) original
Translation
Public Rabbi Town: Kybartai (Kibarty) District: Wolkovishki Uyezd Province: Suwalki Guberniya (Country: Russian Empire) 13 March 1912 I certify that regarding circumcision of Aizek and Beile Skorr’s (Shokhor’s) baby on March 8, there was no objection from the parents. Signed Kibarty Public Rabbi . . . (name illegible)
When Lisa and I went to Kaunas in 2005 we took the above document with us. Soon after our guide arrived at our hotel on our first full day there, we showed her the document and she offered the above translation.
Fifteen years later our cousin Nina sent me another copy which Paul’s son Gary found among some “old papers.” She had a friend translate the document. He attached a detailed explanation and then agreed to having it attached here.
Front row: Fred Schock and Alan Jacobs Middle row: Isaac Schocker, Bella Schocker, Celia Schock, Harry Schock Back Row: Paul Schocker, Eke (Ella, Elke) Schocker, Paul Schock, Jeanette Schocker (Jacobs Goldfarb)
