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Translation of the Gintaliske chapter from
Pinkas Hakehillot Lita
Written by Josef Rosin
Published by Yad Vashem
Published in Jerusalem, 1996
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(Page 191)
Written by Josef Rosin
Translated by Shimon Joffe
A village and the center of a county in the Kretinga district, in the Samogitia (Zamut) province in western Lithuania.
Until the First World War it had a small Jewish community with its own study house. It would seem that the Jews were exiled to the Russian interior in the summer of 1915 and did not return. According to other sources, a number of Jews lived there during the period of Lithuanian independence.
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