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🏘 Švėkšna was a typical shtetl: a small town

🏘 Švėkšna was a typical shtetl: a small town, where Jews constituted more than one-third of the town's population. The Jewish community settled around the town's main square, in the current J. Maciejausko, S. Dariaus, and S. Girėno and Gediminaičių streets. During the interwar period, Jews owned more than 20 shops and groceries, which offered a wide array of goods.

✡ In the context of shtetls, Švėkšna is unique regarding the place where the synagogue was built. The local Jewish community managed to receive special permission to build a synagogue in the centre of the town, near the main market square. The current brick synagogue was built in 1928. This synagogue is also unique because it is one of several Jewish prayer buildings, which were visited by the President of Lithuania Antanas Smetona.

🔨 Even though the synagogue managed to survive the Second World War and the Soviet Occupation, its deteriorating physical condition had not received attention for a long time. However, the synagogue now is under reconstruction and soon will regain its former beauty.
Address: Liepų g., Švėkšna
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✡ Paneriai Memorial tells us the stories of both

✡ Paneriai Memorial tells us the stories of both the biggest mass murder in Lithuania and of the tragic fate of Jews during the Holocaust in the whole region.

⏳Since 1991 Memorial Museum of Paneriai belongs to the Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History. It presents a detailed history of Paneriai tragedy.

https://www.jewish-heritage-lithuania.org/two-capitals/
Address: E. Ožeškienės str. 21, Kaunas
#Jewish #Holocaust #Remembrance #Vilnius #PaneriaiMemorial
Address: Agrastų str. 15, Vilnius

🕍 Since the 18th century, there has been a smal

🕍 Since the 18th century, there has been a small Jewish community in the northern Lithuanian town of Tirkšliai. At the very end of the 19th century, this community built a wooden synagogue in the main street of Tirkšliai, and this synagogue building is still intact to this day. With the vanishing of the local Jewish community during the Holocaust, after Soviet reoccupation, this building has been used as a storage house.
📚 Although the synagogue has not been looked after for more than half of a century and thus it is no longer a flourishing example of local Jewish culture, the building in its presence itself reminds of the history of the religious Jewish community, which once was an integral part of the Tirkšliai.
Address: J. Janonio g. 15A, Tirkšliai

https://www.jewish-heritage-lithuania.org/heritage-map/

#jewish #discover #heritage #lithuania #visiting #travelling #jewishhistory #remembrance #Tirksliai #wooden #synagogue

🩺 This modernist-style building was built in 19

🩺 This modernist-style building was built in 1930 by one of the best physicians of that time - Simon Volpert (1890-1967).
💊 On the second floor, he opened a clinic where patients with various skin and venereal conditions were treated.
🔬This clinic was equipped with the latest technological marvels of that time. In 1931 one of the first X-ray machines in the whole Baltic states began operating in this clinic.

#jewish #discover #heritage #visiting #travelling #jewishhistory #remembrance #a #Šiauliai
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Address: P. Višinskio str. 24, Šiauliai

🎨 The “Courtyard Gallery” is located in the

🎨 The “Courtyard Gallery” is located in the former Jewish quarter in Kaunas, very close to the choral synagogue. It is a continuous project of paintings, photo collages and art-historical installations. It invites us to remember both the history of this quarter and look closely at our own surroundings.
👨‍🎨Since a number of Jewish families has lived in the houses of this courtyard, some of the stories presented in the “Courtyard Gallery” remind us about their lives and give meaning to their destinies.

https://www.jewish-heritage-lithuania.org/two-capitals/
Address: E. Ožeškienės str. 21, Kaunas
#Discover #Jewish #Lithuania #remembrance #Kaunas #CourtyardGallery

🩺 On November 1st in 1914, a Jewish boy named B

🩺 On November 1st in 1914, a Jewish boy named Boris Efros was born in Plungė. He spent his childhood in the Plungė, and as a talented boy, young Boris attended the gymnasium in Kaunas. Kaunas grew on Boris – he finished gymnasium and continued his medical studies in Kaunas. In 1940 he finished medical studies and began working as a surgeon both in Kaunas and Marijampolė.
🥼 Boris Efros was a pioneer in the Lithuanian medical field, as he performed the first successful esophageal and pulmonary surgeries and in 1958 he performed the first successful heart surgery in Lithuania.
⭐The memorial plaque for Borisas Efrosas next to the place of his childhood home in Plungė (Vytauto str. 14) was initiated by the local community in 2009 – eight years after the death of the famous surgeon.
#jewish #discover #heritage #visiting #travelling #jewishhistory #remembrance #Lithuania #Plungė #BorisEfros
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🏘 The town of Dotnuva was formed as an appendix

🏘 The town of Dotnuva was formed as an appendix of the manor in the first half of the 17th century. The Jewish community settled here in the 18th century. In the 19th century, the town experienced rapid growth as the railway was built.
⏳Until World War 1, about 120 Jewish families lived in Dotnuva. However, during the war, about 120 of them were deported into the Russian hinterlands. After the First World War, only about 50 Jewish families have returned to their homes. During the interwar period, the local Jewish community managed to bounce back to their former lives, however, peaceful life did not last long as in 1941 a major part of Dotnuva Jews were murder.
✡️The old Jewish cemetery of Dotnuva survived to our days, in their territory more than 70 Jewish tombstones could be found from as early as the 19th century.

#jewish #discover #heritage #visiting #travelling #jewishhistory #remembrance #Lithuania #Dotnuva

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🏘Until the 19th century Jews had no rights to s

🏘Until the 19th century Jews had no rights to settle in Kaunas town. They mostly inhabited a private suburb near Kaunas called Vilijampolė, which belonged to famous local noble family – the Radziwiłłs.
📚 Between local Jews Vilijampolė was also known as Slobodka (a free place to live) and in the end of the 19th century it was made wordly-famous by the establishment of Slobodka yeshiva. It was one of the largest and the most famous yeshivahs not only in Lita but in all Eastern Europe as well. The most talented local students and American or South African Jews used to arrive here to study.

https://www.jewish-heritage-lithuania.org/two-capitals/

#memory #remembrance #Lithuania #Kaunas #monument #SlobodkaYeshiva

🕯️ Did you know that the small town of Birža

🕯️ Did you know that the small town of Biržai has one of the biggest and most beautiful Jewish cemeteries in the whole of Lithuania? The cemetery was established at the end of the 16th century. Karaites, who used to live in Biržai, were also buried here. Currently, in the territory of the Jewish cemetery, you can count more than 1 600 Jewish tombstones.

#discover #jewish #heritage #visiting #travelling #jewishhistory #remembrance #Lithuania #Biržai

https://www.jewish-heritage-lithuania.org/heritage-map/

📖 In 1922 the religious school for Jewish girls

📖 In 1922 the religious school for Jewish girls was opened on current-day Ramygalos str. Girls were taught mathematics, choreography, Hebrew language, and other main school subjects. Besides the aforementioned subjects, girls were also taught other practical skills such as sewing, knitting, and other crafts that were useful in everyday life.

Address: Ramygalos str. 18, Panevėžys

#jewish #discover #heritage #visiting #travelling #jewishhistory #remembrance #Lithuania #Panevėžys

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