The Stumbling Stones for Bencionas Benas \u0160akovas and Lib\u0117 Gen\u0117 \u0160akovien\u0117-Kacait\u0117 are installed in Vytautas St. 11, Prienai (the territory of Prienai bus station).<\/p>\n
During the interwar period, a significant influence on Prienai’s economic and cultural life was made by Lazer Goldberg vodka’s factory, which Bencionas Benas \u0160akovas bought in 1920.<\/p>\n
Around 80 people worked in the brewery; hence B. B. \u0160akovas was the biggest employer in the city.<\/p>\n
The factory produced good quality, widely known beer. In 1930 at the agriculture and industry exhibition “Goldberg”, production was awarded a gold medal. The Prienai-based beer makers operated through Lithuanian Embassies in Washington, London, Berlin, Paris, Rome, and Moscow.
\nIn the remembrances of people, B. B. \u0160akovas was an upright and honest person who patronized Prienai riflemen’s house building; he also was awarded a 3rd Class Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas.<\/p>\n
The family had two children: daughter Miriam and son Isaac studied in Prienai “\u017diburio” Gymnasium. They were friendly and humble. The destiny of Isaac is unknown; Miriam has survived the Holocaust. She graduated from medical school in 1949 in Austria and later lived in the United States.<\/p>\n
B. \u0160akovas with his wife Lib\u0117 Gen\u0117 \u0160akovien\u0117-Kacait\u0117 were killed on September 1941 together with other Jews of Prienai.<\/p>\n
In 1944, during a German air raid, almost all the brewery building complex was bombed. Later, in the ex-brewery territory, the Prienai bus station was established.<\/p>\n
B.B. \u0160akovas and L.G. \u0160akovien\u0117-Kacait\u0117 remembrance is commemorated by the incentive of Joalita Jurkevi\u010dien\u0117, Jolita Sta\u010diokait\u0117, Janina Leonavi\u010dien\u0117-Paplauskait\u0117 and Prienai District Municipality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Stumbling Stones for Bencionas Benas \u0160akovas and Lib\u0117 Gen\u0117 \u0160akovien\u0117-Kacait\u0117 are installed in Vytautas St. 11, Prienai (the territory of Prienai bus station). During the interwar period, a significant influence on Prienai’s economic and cultural life was made by Lazer Goldberg vodka’s factory, which Bencionas Benas \u0160akovas bought in 1920. Around 80 people worked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"parent":24055,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-akmenys-vidinis.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24057","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n