Tuvye Salit (aged 24) married Rosa (Mankevitch, aged 21) in 1899, and they had five children. Anna (1900), Emilia (1901), Josef (1903), Moisy (1906) and Solomon (1909).
In 1922, there was an application for internal passport documents 1922 for Rose, Ann, Emilia, Moses and Solomon – but not for Yosef (there was a high rate of child mortality). At the time the family lived in Piwna Street 6-8. (now Dauksos Street).
There is a business entry in the Vsia-Vilna database for 1915 for T. Salit which records a company called Rozenblyum and Salit Partnership and another called Salit and Rozenblyum – both with offices at Kavkzskaya Street 33-51 (now Mindaugo Street) and Monasteryskya Street 2. There is no link however to prove that the T.Salit is Uncle Tuvye. His letters to Grandma (1935-1938) are addressed from Zawalna 7/4 which is now Pylimo Street, and which (if the numbers have not changed) is now an open space nearly opposite the (current) Jewish Community Centre.
In the Yad Vashem database Tuvye and Rosa are recorded as victims of the holocaust. Their son, Solomon is listed (with no first name) as an Agronomist-Engineer, Author of scientific articles, who died in the Vilna Ghetto. There is a Davnob page dedicated to Solomon and his research.
Tuvye's daughter, Emilia, appears to have been the only member of the family who survived the holocaust. She trained as a doctor and was a remarkable woman, helping others in the Vilna ghetto, and later in the Kaiserwald A.E.G. slave labour camp. There is a Davnob page dedicated to Emilia's story, with notes from her memoirs.