Person:Yaakov Kovarsky (1)

His younger siblings all emigrated to the United States. As first-born, he remained in Russia to help his father Kapel look after the family business (flour mill). Listed as Yankel (little Yaakov or Jacob) in the revision lists. Father's name, Kapel, is also a version of the name Jacob. Yaakov and his wife both appear in the Yad Vashem list of Holocaust victims. They appear to have died at Dautmergen - Schoemberg camp in Germany.

"The Dautmergen - Schoemberg camp was a forced labor camp, among whose internees were Jews from Vilnius (Vilna) and its surroundings, as well as from other Lithuanian cities and from Belorussia. The majority of the camp's victims were Jews."

 Source: https://www.infocenters.co.il/gfh/notebook_ext.asp?book=95309&lang=eng&site=gfh

For an account of the camp, see: https://newspapers.library.in.gov/?a=d&d=JPOST20030604-01.1.13&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Revision list of 22 Feb 1893 (via JewishGen).

   flour trading; owns house; 1000 rubles of annual turnover; 100 rubles of annual profit

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Tax list for 1914 (via JewishGen).

   owns a stone shop; to pay 1rub 44kop tax
   owns a wooden house; to pay 8rub 75kop tax

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 https://yvng.yadvashem.org/nameDetails.html?language=en&itemId=13898151&ind=1, in Yad Vashem database.

   The first name on the memorial plaque (see link above) in Hebrew is that of Yosef Kovarsky.
   The next name is Kovarsky, Yaacov and Khaia Sora (Chaya Sora).
   The bottom name is Kovarsky, Yaacob and Rochel (Rachel). Not sure who that would be.