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🎬 Jews were pioneers who introduced new technol

🎬 Jews were pioneers who introduced new technologies to their hometowns. One of many examples - Jacob Fisher, a local photographer who opened the first movie theater in Joniškis, called "Lyra"

🎞 It is possible that a famous British actor Laurence Harvey (1928-1973), who was born in Joniškis, saw his first movie exactly at this movie theater. Harvey's family moved to South Africa in 1934. After the end of WW2, he with his family moved to Great Britain, where he began his acting career. Throughout his career, he starred in many popular movies such as Butterfield 8, Night Watch, The Alamo, and The Manchurian Candidate.
Address: Šiaulių Senoji str. 7, Joniškis

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👨‍🎨 Arbit Blat (1908-1999) was born and gr

👨‍🎨 Arbit Blat (1908-1999) was born and grew up in Kaunas, where the boy’s creative talent was quickly unfolding. The young boy, who started painting and creating sculptures as a teenager, sought to present them to Kaunas public. Even before leaving for Paris, in 1932-1933, he opened a private art gallery in Kaunas.

🎨 There he exhibited not only his own art, but also the works of other Kaunas artists. After traveling to Paris for creative inspiration, Arbit Blat became part of Picasso and Braque’s creative circle and eventually got famous for his own artistic genius around the world.

Address: Nepriklausomybės square 3, 54.897678,23.920953

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🏘 Jewish history in Lazdijai began at the end o

🏘 Jewish history in Lazdijai began at the end of the 16th century, but Lazdijai as a shtetl with full infrastructure for the Jewish way life was formed only in the middle of the 19th century. At that time they constituted around 60 percent of the local population. The historical Jewish quarter was around the market square, local Jews lived and engaged in trade and crafts in the same houses. At the beginning of the 20th-century Jewish activities in Lazdijai were not limited to trade and crafts, they owned 16 out of 17 local factories, there were many Jewish families who got into farming as well.
📚 During the interwar period, a distinguishable highlight of Jewish cultural life in Lazdijai was the local Jewish library, which had a great collection of publications both in Hebrew and Yiddish. Another joy of Lazdijai shtetl cultural life was the string orchestra „HaKoakh“ – a part of every festivity in town. Although there was no separate Jewish theatre in town, there was a massive interest in the theatre when the Yiddish theatre troupe from Kaunas visited Lazdijai in the 1920s-1930s.

✡ Today both buildings of the mural synagogue and beit midrash are merged to one on Vilnius street no. 6. Both buildings have been harshly damaged during the bombing of the town in 1944. However, in the plan of Lazdijai of 1946, both buildings were still included. The remnants of these buildings were fully reconstructed in the 1950s and that is when they were merged together. During the Soviet period, the town`s cultural house and library operated in this place.

#Discover #Jewish #Lithuania #Lazdijai #Synagogue #JewishHeritage #History

✡ This Jewish cemetery was established in 1759 a

✡ This Jewish cemetery was established in 1759 and could be called the oldest Jewish-owned property in Klaipėda. During the Soviet occupation, the whole territory of the old cemetery was wiped off the ground and in its place, the radio station was built. The remaining macevas were used as a construction material while constructing the concrete base of the radio tower. Once Lithuania regained its independence, the radio station was closed and its building was given to the Klaipėda Jewish community. Today this building serves as a synagogue and a community center.

🕯 After Lithuania regained its independence, the remaining macevas were incorporated into the memorial wall, which also serves as a lapidarium. Near the old Jewish cemetery, the building of the former Jewish hospital survived to our days, and to this day it maintained its primary function as now it houses a polyclinic.

Address 👉 Žiedų skg. 3, Klaipėda

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🕯 In 1829, the second Jewish cemetery in Vilniu

🕯 In 1829, the second Jewish cemetery in Vilnius was established in Užupis territory called Popówka. The burials in this cemetery began in 1831, the territory was expanded several times due to the growing burials. At the beginning of the 20th century, family chapels, obelisks, and monuments became popular in this cemetery.

✡ In 1959, Soviet authorities in Lithuania decided to close this cemetery and in 1965 it was totally demolished. At the moment there is a memorial for the former Jewish ce#metery. Part of the entrance gate of the old cemetery was also restored.

Address: Olandų str. 22, 54.688062,25.307545

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🏘 In the 19th century, the active Jewish commun

🏘 In the 19th century, the active Jewish community of Salantai had a Synagogue complex near the center of the town. The synagogue complex stood in the current day Sinagogos street, consisting of the brick Synagogue, Beth midrash, and two kloyzes. In 1926 a ravaging fire destroyed the town, as well as Syn🌉 This bridge is the only bridge in the world dedicated to Joseph Brodsky – a worldwide known poet, essayist, and Nobel Prize winner. We could say that this bridge symbolically connects the poet with his beloved town – Palanga.

✒️ Joseph Brodsky visited Palanga two times: the first time in 1966, the second time in 1968. In 1967 Brodsky wrote a poem named – “Cognac in a Decanter – the Colours of Amber”, in which he describes his admiration of this resort, and in the latter cycle of poems named -“Lithuanian Divertissement” (1971), the sixth poem is named after and dedicated to this resort town near the Baltic Sea.

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⏳ The first records about the cemetery in Naujoj

⏳ The first records about the cemetery in Naujoji Žagarė come from 1748. The cemetery was used until WW2. and about 500 tombstones survived to our days.

✡ About 500 tombstones survived to our days. After the war, most of them were moved from their original place and put in lines, making it impossible to track the original place of the tombstones.

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

Coordinates: 56.353717, 23.232400
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⏳The Kaunas (Kovno) Ghetto was established by Na

⏳The Kaunas (Kovno) Ghetto was established by Nazis in 1941 in Vilijampolė district, which was abundantly inhabited by Jews at the time. When the battlefront was approaching the city, it was decided to burn the territory.

🕯 Until then the Jews, who were imprisoned in the ghetto, were exploited for free labor and systematically selected, transported to concentration camps or the 9th Fort, and then murdered. The ghetto was liquidated in July, 1944. Only a small portion of ghetto prisoners managed to survive. The symbolic gate of Kaunas Ghetto is one of the places reminiscent of the tragic history of Vilijampolė and all Kaunas Jews.

#Memory #Remembrance #Lithuania #Kaunas #ghetto

Address: A. Kriščiukaičio str. 21/ Linkuvos str. 2, Kaunas

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🏚 One of the oldest buildings in Alanta town is

🏚 One of the oldest buildings in Alanta town is the inn of Alanta, which dates back to the first half of the 18th century; it was both an inn and a guest house for the fellow travelers. Once in it`s long history it has belonged to the Jewish man named Mentkė.
🏘 Jews have settled in Alanta only in the second half of the 19th century, when the town was granted the right to have markets, and that was when the maintenance of the inn has been entrusted to Mentkė. The inn has been built at the crossroad and also next to the Alanta market square, so it became an object of attraction both to the locals and to the passers-by.

#jewish #discover #heritage #visiting #travelling #jewishhistory #remembrance #Lithuania #Alanta
Address: Turgaus sq. 2, Alanta

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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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