None of the buildings were owned by Jews, who probably rented the apartments – with a few families residing in the one house. The total number of Jewish residents in this street was close to one hundred. There were typically two, and seldom more, children in a family. Some of the families kept servants of Jewish descent to assist them in their daily chores (Christian servants were not enumerated). It is difficult to tell how many families resided in one building since not only the family members (wife and children) were enumerated together with the head of the household, but also their relatives, servants, and even business partners; the latter were in turn enumerated with their own families. Consequently, the number of rented apartments did not match the number of the families residing in them. The census documents of Vilnius Jews recorded professional activities of a fraction of residents (household heads) in the St. Nicholas street. There was a butcher, a silversmith with a business partner, two furriers, tinsmith and trimming manufacturer who also had apprentices. The rest probably had no specific professional skills which they could have indicated as a permanent activity, therefore, they likely sustained themselves being occupied with different activities and itinerant jobs. Two families in the St. Nicholas street had especially difficult lives: Michel Izraelowicz was without a profession and together with his wife Rywka raised a disabled son Izrael, and blind Abraham Joseliowicz raised two sons and two daughters with his wife Ester. The street of St. Nicholas is one fragment of Jewish life in Vilnius, one that allows us to imagine and feel the aura of the street and its residents – ordinary, inconspicuous, immersed in their daily routine and waiting for the shabbat Jews.