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🦗 Nowadays Rumšiškės is mostly known for the

🦗 Nowadays Rumšiškės is mostly known for the open-air ethnographic museum. However, the town itself has an interesting history that dates way before the establishment of the museum, and the Jews played a vital role in this town’s history.

🧭 Rumšiškės is located in the crossroad of important land and water roads – the road that connects Vilnius and Kaunas, and the Nemunas river. The Jewish community settled here at the end of the 18th century. Favorable geographic location stimulated the growth of the Jewish community, as in the middle of the 19th century – 124 people belonged to the Jewish community.

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🕍 Although individual Jewish families in Zarasa

🕍 Although individual Jewish families in Zarasai have been mentioned already in the 17th century, communal Jewish settlement in the town began only at the beginning of the 19th century. The majority of new Jewish settlers in Zarasai came from a former Trakai Jewish community, which as economic rivals has been evicted by Trakai Karaite community. Active Jewish life in Zarasai is well reflected by the fact that at the end of the 19th c. there have already been six Jewish prayer houses. Two of them survived to-this-day – the great mural synagogue and humble wooden beit midrash on the banks of Zarasas Lake.

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🏨 Druskininkai is well known because of Jacques

🏨 Druskininkai is well known because of Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973), a world-wide known sculptor, who was born in Druskininkai. At the beginning of the 20th century his father – Abraham – was a well-known man, as in 1909, he opened the “Central” hotel. This building survived to our days and maintained its original interior (Šv. Jokūbo str. 22). Besides various Jewish houses that survived the Second World War, the old Jewish cemetery reminds us about the town’s Jewish community, however, only 3 macevas survived to our days, as in 1976, almost all territory of the former Jewish cemetery was bulldozed to the ground.

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📷 The building which stands in Kęstučio stree

📷 The building which stands in Kęstučio street, in the very center of Telšiai town, remembers the first steps of photography in Lithuania. This was the place where most of the residents were photographed for the very first time in their lives.

🖼️ Collection images captured by the first Telšiai could be seen in Telšiai “Alkos” museum, and one building, which belonged to Jewish photographers, can be seen in Kęstutis street. Currently, a former photo studio building is used as an exhibition hall.

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🏘️ Pakruojis is a unique example of Lithuania

🏘️ Pakruojis is a unique example of Lithuanian shtetl – to this day there are still many extant wooden buildings, which changed so little since the interwar years, and now stand as reminders of diverse Jewish community, that lived in Pakruojis since the end of the 18th century.

🕍 The extant synagogue was the biggest of the three prayer houses and since Lithuania regained independence it has been waiting to be renovated. Now the refurbished building of the synagogue functions as a place for cultural activities in Pakruojis.

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🕍 After the Second World War, as Žasliai lost

🕍 After the Second World War, as Žasliai lost its Jewish community, both synagogues were reconstructed and adapted for other purposes. The Hasidim Synagogue was used as local kolkhoz’s administrative building, and the former Orthodox beit midrash was used as a culture house. Now the building of Hasidim Synagogue serves as a residential house, but its exterior still reminds us of its past.

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🕯️ When Nazis occupied Lithuania in the summe

🕯️ When Nazis occupied Lithuania in the summer of 1941, all Jews of Zapyškis had been murdered. But the long history of local Jews could be torn out of this land – even after 80 years from this tragedy there are traces of Jewish life in this region. One of such historical places – the old Jewish cemetery in Zapyškis.

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🕍 In the 19th century Jewish community in Rozal

🕍 In the 19th century Jewish community in Rozalimas was growing rapidly, so it felt the need to build a common prayer house for the community. In the years 1880-1881 local Jewish community built a wooden synagogue, which is extant to this day.

✡️ In front of the synagogue, on the other side of the road there is also still extant building of the Rabbi`s house. Both of these buildings as a complex now remind passers-by about the Rozalimas Jewish community, which no longer exists.

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🐝 The Molėtai Jewish community was one of the

🐝 The Molėtai Jewish community was one of the biggest in the territory of current-day Lithuania. The town’s economy mostly relied on Jews, so the majority of buildings that stood in the central part of the town belonged to the Jews. In this part of the town, Jewish businessmen had 4 restaurants, various crafts workshops, the Jewish folk bank, and other Jewish-owned small businesses. The red brick building, which can be seen in Vilnius street, once had about a dozen small shops that belonged to the Jews.

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🗺️ Prienai has been obliterated by war, fires

🗺️ Prienai has been obliterated by war, fires and Soviet neglect of local heritage – thus this town is far from the historical postcard, which suggest classical presentation of Jewish heritage; this town`s heritage comes alive through the memories of local people, who narrate about multicultural life in Prienai until the Second World War, which includes both Lithuanian Catholic church, German kirche and Jewish synagogue.

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