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Labas !
Aleksandras Ziselis Machtas
was born and raised in Kaunas.
He was a Lithuanian Jew.
He was also a chess player.
Not just a player.
A champion.
Not only among
his friends and relatives.
He was the champion of Lithuania.
Not once.
He has 7 championship titles
to his name.
As of the Summer of 2009 -
More than any other chess player
in the history
of independent Lithuania.
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He was also the manager
of one of the most important banks
in the first Republic.
The Central Jewish Bank.
( " Centralinis Zydu Bankas " )
situated in Kaunas.
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In 1936 -
Ester Ente and Alexander Zisel Macht
together with their children
moved to Tel Aviv.
They never set foot
on Lithuanian soil again.
More than 7 decades
after they had left their homeland
some of their grandchildren
and great grandchildren did.
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