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Translation of the Smalininkai 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,
Editor: Prof. Dov Levin, Assistant Editor: Josef Rosin, published by Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.
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(Pages 437)
Written by Josef Rosin
Translated by Shimon Joffe
A town in the Papegiai district, in the Klaipeda province. Jews lived there already in the middle of the 19th century. The synagogue was erected in the year 1846.In the period when the province belonged to Lithuania, Jews lived there. Smalininkai is mentioned in the list of Jewish artisans in Lithuania for the year 1938. In 1939 it had 84 telephones, including 10 belonging to Jewish merchants and hotel owner. After the German annexation of the Klaipeda province in 1939, the Jews fled to Lithuania. Their fate was the same as that of the other Jews of the area. At the beginning of the nineties, a memorial was raised in the 'old cemetery' with the inscription, in Yiddish and Lithuanian; 'The Old Cemetery, in Holy Memory of the Deceased.'
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