Download or read book Memorial Book of the Sventzian Region ven ionys Lithuania written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memorial Book of the Sventzian Region Part I Life written by Shimon Kantz and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Part I (LIfe) of the translation of the Memorial book of the twenty - three destroyed Jewish communities of the Sventzian region of Lithuania. Jews had lived in Svencionys (now Lithuania) since the 14th century. Between the two world wars, as part of independent Poland, it was the head of a district of 23 towns with sizeable Jewish communities--including Nowo Svencionys, Ignalino, Davgielski, Dukszty, Oduciski, Lingmiany, Lyntupy, Mielegiany, Sojaciszki, Podbrodzie, Koltynany, Kiemieliszki, and Cekinie. These communities were very active. Svencionys alone had five synagogues, two "seven-year" schools with Yiddish and Hebrew lectures, a Jewish junior high school, a Jewish culture and education association, a library, a theater, a football team and several Zionist groups. In 1941 the area was occupied by the Germans, and squads of the SS began a systematic campaign of slaughter. On September 27,1941, some 8000 Jews from the entire region were taken to a deserted military camp in the woods of Polygon and murdered, among them 3726 from the Sventzian area. A ghetto was established in Svencionys in July 1941; at its peak, it housed some 1,500 Jewish prisoners. In 1943 the Nazis liquidated the ghettos and labor camps in the area. About 4000 Jews from ghettos in Svenciony, Michaliszki and Oszmiana were transported to Ponary near Vilna, where almost all were shot. There were 23 communities, and they are no more. These two books document in Part I, the lives and in Part II, the deaths of the Jews who lived there, and finally, their heroic struggle to stay alive.
Download or read book Sventzian Region Part 1 written by Jewish Gen Inc. (New York, New York) and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "History of 23 Jewish Communities of Svencionys, Lithuania"--
Download or read book Memorial Book of Rokiskis written by M. Bakalczuk-Felin and published by Jewishgen.Incorporated. This book was released on 2017-08-26 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation of the Memorial Book for Rokiskis, Lithuania and Environs. This translationand new material provide English-speaking readers a composite picture of the history, culture, institutions, and daily lives of the Jews of the Rokiskis area and will be a lasting memorial to the now extinct Jewish community of Rokiskis and surrounding towns.
Download or read book Memorial Book The Ritavas Community A Tribute to the Memory of Our Town Rietavas Lithuania written by Alter Levite and published by Jewishgen.Incorporated. This book was released on 2019-03-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reprint of and English translation of the Memorial Book of the destroyed Jewish Community of Riteve, Lithuania, also called by these names: Rietavas [Lithuanian], Riteve [Yiddish], Retovo [Russian], Retów [Polish], Retowo, Rietevas, Riteva, Ritova. Once a living and thriving place of community, family, education, work, hardship, love, and joy, Ritavas and its people were wiped from the face of the earth during the Holocaust. But with the memories of the survivors, we can all remember what once made this Shtetl a home to so many of the lost. This book contains memories and first-hand accounts of Shoah survivors and those who left the town before the destruction. Though not great literature, it provides eye-witness accounts of the vitality of the community before the war and also disturbing and factual accounts of the treatment of the Jews of the town during the war. It also provides insight into the lives and environment of the ancestors of people who can trace their lineage back to the town, providing another dimension to our own personal history. This Yizkor Book serves as a memorial to this now extinct Jewish Community.
Download or read book The Holocaust in Lithuania 1941 1945 written by Rose Lerer Cohen and published by Gefen Books. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 1900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following a pilot study, and after consulting with researchers, it became clear that there was no substantive record of the Lithuanian Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust. After five years of research, a comprehensive list of the names of many of the victims, together with an extensive collection of historical resources, has been published in this four-volume set. Additional information in this important publication includes deportation lists; the Yarzheit (memorial dates) of Jewish communities; and the ghetto census lists of Siauliai, the third largest city in Lithuania, as well as a comprehensive and useful reference list of relevant books, articles and films.
