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🕍 The Orphanage in Ukmergė was founded in 1922

🕍 The Orphanage in Ukmergė was founded in 1922, financed establishment by Sol Rozenblium, a Jew who was born in Ukmergė and later emigrated to the USA. The orphanage was established in a well-equipped, comfortable building. At one time up to a hundred children aged 7-14 lived in the orphanage. At the age of 14, children usually left the house, but they received financial support until the age of 17.
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Address: Vasario 16-osios st. 15, Ukmergė

✅ Romain Gary spent his early childhood in Pohul

✅ Romain Gary spent his early childhood in Pohulanka, in Vilnius. His early living space was so memorable, that it was vividly described in the later works of the famous author. He never forgot Vilnius and his first love in this city. Vilnius citizens likewise are not forgetting this talented writer.
📷There is a sculpture next to his childhood home in Vilnius, which is inspired by his novel “The promise of the dawn” (1960). Sculpture depicts a young boy with galosh in love looking towards the sky – the prototype of the young writer.
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🍂 A larger Jewish community in Panevėžys form

🍂 A larger Jewish community in Panevėžys formed only at the end of the 18th century. The cemetery was established on Sietyno Street, however, the exact date of establishment is unknown. Many dead Jewish war volunteers were buried here.
💬 After the war, the surviving Jewish community of Panevėžys was very small as most of its members were killed during the Holocaust. After the war, the cemetery had not been used, so in 1966 local authorities decided to liquidate the Jewish cemetery and establish the Sietynas Square. After 1990, restoration works began in the territory of the former Jewish cemetery. A memorial stone was built in 1991 to commemorate the former Jewish cemetery.
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🏘️Utena was mentioned as a small town at the

🏘️Utena was mentioned as a small town at the end of the 16th century, as the town received the rights to hold weekly markets. According to the 1790 census, at that time, about 560 Jews lived in Utena. These numbers grew continually, as, in the middle of the 19th century - nearly 1500 Jews lived in the town.

🔨 At the beginning of the 20th century, Jews became the centerpiece of the town's economic life, as 38 grocery stores, 5 large stores, 16 inns, and one whine factory belonged to the local Jews.
The majority of Jews lived in the very center of the town, around the market square and current-day Kudirkos, K. Ladygos, Gedimino, Trumpoji streets.
Some of the Jewish-owned buildings survived to our days.

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🕊️ The 8-hectare Žaliakalnis Old Jewish Ceme

🕊️ The 8-hectare Žaliakalnis Old Jewish Cemetery complex is considered to be one of the largest cemeteries in Kaunas city. This historical cemetery was established in the middle of the 19th century and was used for burials during the whole century. The most famous members of the Kaunas Jewish community are buried here.
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🕍 According to various sources, the synagogue o

🕍 According to various sources, the synagogue of Simnas was built in 1905. On the second floor on the right side of the building, a Jewish school was established.
⭐ After the Second World War, the synagogue was reconstructed. At first, the building of the former synagogue was used as a culture house, later - as a sports facility.
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Address: Laisvės st. 4, Simnas

⚡💥 Besides the oldest wooden synagogue in Lit

⚡💥 Besides the oldest wooden synagogue in Lithuania, the old fire station of Parkuojis survived to our days, which had not been only extremely important for the safety of the town's residents, but also as a place of gathering. At the beginning of the 20th century, the local firefighters association decided to build a shelter, where their equipment and tools would be stored, with a separate room for on-duty firefighters. During the interwar period, the fire station was also used as a place of entertainment. Many locals gathered here to dance or to see various performances.

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#remembrance #Lithuania #Pakruojis #fire #station
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Address: Laisvės a. 10

📜Romm printing house is historically famous as

📜Romm printing house is historically famous as one of the biggest and longest running Jewish printing houses in Vilnius, where the canonical Babylonian Talmud was printed. Through the doors of this printing house various books have seen the daylight – from the already mentioned Babylonian Talmud, or later Jerusalem Talmud, to Jewish socialist newspapers and secular fiction literature.
⏳ The printing house successfully operated under different political powers in Vilnius. However, it was nationalized when the Soviets came in 1940.
Address: A. Strazdelio str. 3, Vilnius
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👉 This sculpture is dedicated to one of the mos

👉 This sculpture is dedicated to one of the most important personalities, patron, and industrialist of the city of Šiauliai in the late 19th - early 20th century - Chaim Frenkel (1857-1920). Chaim was born in Ukmergė, but as a teenager, he moved to Belarus, where he studied in Volozhin Yeshiva. However, he did not graduate and went to Białystok, where he learned the craft of leatherworking.
💰 In 1877, at the age of only 22, Chaim came to Šiauliai and built two wooden workshop buildings on the acquired plot, where he, together with ten employees, started his business. The acquired skills and innate entrepreneurship helped his business to grow. At the beginning of the 20th century, the factory became the largest leather factory in the Russian Empire. During the First World War, the factory was heavily damaged and a large part of the factory's production was looted. Frenkel himself with his family retreated to Russia and later to Germany. After the war, Chaim Frenkel put effort into reconstructing his industrial complex. However, he died in 1920.
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🔍 According to the 1923-1940 census, over 2,500

🔍 According to the 1923-1940 census, over 2,500 Jews lived in Marijampolė. At that time, the Jewish community in Marijampolė had two houses of worship, a Torah study center, and one cemetery, so there was a need to have a new cemetery. The new Jewish cemetery on current Vokiečių st. was established in 1918 and was used until the Second World War.
✨In 1992, after Lithuania regained its independence, 11 Jewish gravestones were found in the territory of the cemetery. They were arranged in a circle, symbolizing the minyan.
#jewish #discover #heritage #visiting #travelling #jewishhistory #remembrance #Lithuania #Marijampolė #cemetery
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