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Translation of the Skirsnemune chapter from
Pinkas Hakehillot Lita
Written by Dov Levin
Published by Yad Vashem
Published in Jerusalem, 1996
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This is a translation from: Pinkas Hakehillot Lita: Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities, Lithuania,
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(Pages 441)
Written by Dov Levin
Translated by Shimon Joffe A town in the Raseiniai district, 8 km east of the county town Jurbarkas, on the right bank of the Neman River. A settlement of that name is mentioned in historic sources of 1431, when a cease fire agreement was signed in this place by the Lithuanians and the Crusader Order. In 1589 the town was granted the right to hold market days and 2 fairs per annum. In 1792 it received the Magdeburg privileges. In the second half of the 19th century the number of town residents increased from 497 in 1859 to 1409 in 1897 with 171 Jews among them. According to the census conducted during the period of Lithuanian independence (in 1923) it had 707 inhabitants including over 100 Jews. In 1935 58 voted in the elections to the 19th Zionist Congress. 34 voted for Mizrachi, and 24 for the Labor list. In 1938 the town still had some Jewish residents, among them a few artisans. In 1939 the town had 14 telephones, one belonging to the Jewish owner of a local restaurant.
After the German conquest of Lithuania, in the summer of 1941, the local Jews shared the fate of the Jews in the neighboring towns in the Reseiniai district in the autumn of 1941.
Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem, Koniukhovsky collection 0-71, file 46.
Central Zionist Archives, Jerusalem, files 55/1788, 55/1701, Z-4/2548, 13/15/131.
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