Translation of the Dikshne chapter
from Pinkas Hakehillot Lita
Published by Yad Vashem
Published in Jerusalem, 1996
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(Yiddish, Dikshne)
A village in the Trakai district. In 1847, a Jewish village was established there on land that was given for free when Russia ruled Lithuania.
Some of the Jewish farmers who settled in Dikshne came from Merkine. The village existed until the Holocaust.
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