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Siauliai
Simnas
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Vishtinetz
 
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Zeismariai

Typical Lithuanian Woodcarving


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Alytus

Former brick synagogue

Lithuania Images - July 1997

Set A (48 images): including Vilnius, Panarai, Vilkija, Seredzius, Kaunus, Alove, Zarasai, Vilkomir, Vilkija...)

Copyright 1997, Michael Tobin

 

Ariogala

Postcard courtesy Richard Lutz.

 

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Jonava

A crowded street in 1926

ShtetLinks - Jonava
Photo supplied by: Charlie Fleishman

 

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Jonava

A busy street corner in 1926

ShtetLinks - Jonava
Photo supplied by: Charlie Fleishman

 

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Jonava

A synagogue in 1926

ShtetLinks - Jonava
Photo supplied by: Charlie Fleishman

 

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Keidan

The abandoned shul in 1995.

A Hole in the Heart
Copyright © 1996 by
Andrew Cassel

 

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Keidan

Young Keidaners, 1930s

A Hole in the Heart
Copyright © 1996 by
Andrew Cassel

 

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Kovno

48 pictures taken by Maurice Block
on a trip to Kovno in 1920

Photos courtesy of Eric Bloch

 

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Kovno

Shoshana (Berk) Sarid (left) and
Henia (Wisgardisky) Lewin in Kovno ghetto in 1943

Courtesy of Henia Lewin
Kovno Ghetto (Bibliography)

 

Kovno

Inside Kovno Synagogue

Kaunas website

 

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Kovno

Schwabe School, 1931/2
First grade (Mechina Alef)

Photo Courtesy of Ester Barchanovitz
of Buenos Aires

 

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Kovno

Purim at the Schwabe School,
First grade, 1931/2

Photo Courtesy of Ester Barchanovitz
of Buenos Aires

 

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Linkuva

Market day in 19xx
From archive of Saul Issroff.


Original now in USHMM Washington

A Journey to Linkuva
Webmaster: ablumsohn@btinternet.com

 

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Linkuva

Blumsohn family about 1916.

A Journey to Linkuva
Webmaster: ablumsohn@btinternet.com

 

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Mariampole

The Great Synagogue and the "Beth-Midrash"
(Destroyed during the war)

ShtetLinks - Mariampol
Written by Joseph Rosin

 

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Typical Lithuanian Woodcarving

Courtesy of Davida Noyek Handler

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Neishtot-Tavrig
(Zemaiciu Naumiestis)

Synagogue, picture taken in April 1996

Shtetlinks - Neishtot-Tavrig
Photo supplied by Gerrard Rudmin

 

Olkeniki

Artifact attributed to Napoleon campaign

Olkeniki website
Contributed by Richard Breyer

 

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Olkeniki

Cheder Olkenik 1912

Olkeniki website
Contributed by Solly Radowsky

 
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Pasvitinis

Photo courtesy of Allan Blacher

 

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Shkudvil

The Old Wooden Shule - Circa 1918  (Later used as the cheder)

ShtetLinks - Shkudvil
Researched and Edited by Henry Propp

 

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Shkudvil

Circa 1918


ShtetLinks - Shkudvil
Researched and Edited by Henry Propp

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Siauliai

This picture was given to Yael Barenholtz
by her aunt, Bracha Goldberg-Mirvis
from Krakes, Lithuania.
She studied in this Hebrew Tarbut
Gymnasia of Shavli.

Photo Courtesy of Yael Barenholtz
of Jerusalem

 

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Siauliai

Shavli street 1933

A Holiday parade of the students from
this Gymnasia-Tarbut who are
parading with Hebrew banners
in the streets of the town with
quite a lot of people watching them.

Photo Courtesy of Yael Barenholtz of Jerusalem

 

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Simnas

Handwritten in Yiddish
"Beit Sefer Ammi Simna, TRPD"

Translates to
"The People's School in Simnas, 1924"


Supplied by
Warren Blatt

 

Simnas

Synagogue

ShtetLinks - Simnas
Photo, copyright 1997,

Susan E. King.

 

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Vilna

A gathering of shopkeepers, from
old postcard.

This photo was graciously donated by
Mr.Tomasz Wisniewski
Bialystok, Poland

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Vilna

Man with wheelbarrow, from
old postcard.

This photo was graciously donated by
Mr.Tomasz Wisniewski
Bialystok, Poland

 

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Vilna

Water carrier street scene, from
old postcard.

This photo was graciously donated by
Mr.Tomasz Wisniewski
Bialystok, Poland

 

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Poland, Vilna, ca. 1930

Elderly Jews in a study house (bet midrash)

contact J. Ratner

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Vilnius

Vilnius choral synagogue

Designed in 1872 and as restored in 1999

Photo courtesy of David Hoffman

 

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Vilnius

Records of the Vilnius archives
Lithuania Images - July 1997

Set B (45 images): Alove, Alytus, Kaunus, Panarai, Seredzius, Vilnius, Vilkija

Copyright 1997, Michael Tobin

 

 

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Vilnius

Vilnius synagogue.
Photo courtesy Michael Tobin

 

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Vishtinetz

The old synagogue is now a barn.

A visit to Vistytis, 1994 By Bert Oppenheim

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Yurburg

The Talmud Torah - Hebrew School
(from a 1926 postcard)

Shtetlinks - Yurburg
Material compiled by Joel Alpert

 

 

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Yurburg

Haupt (High) Street about 1927

Courtesy of Helen Kizell Beiles
(Montreal, Canada)

Shtetlinks - Yurburg

Material compiled by Joel Alpert

 

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Yurburg

The Wooden Synagogue built in 1790,
destroyed in 1941

(from a 1926 postcard)

Shtetlinks - Yurburg
Material compiled by Joel Alpert

 

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Zeismariai

Old ruined wooden synagogue.
Was used for grain storage and to stable
horses until abandoned.

(Inside, you can still see the framework
where the women's gallery was,
and a space on the wall
where they tore down the ark.)

 

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