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Jewish Cemeteries in Former Shtetls of Lithuania & Belarus recorded August-September, 1994 Davida Sky and Dan Kirschner returned recently from travel to various former shtetlach in Lithuania and Belarus. With their intrepid guide Regina Kopilevitch of Vilnius and drivers (incl. Dina Kopilevitch), they visited the Jewish cemeteries, and recorded names and dates from as many extant tombstones as they could find (subject to their time constraints). Most of the cemeteries had been desecrated, with only a few tombstones remaining, and these were usually extremely weathered or among dense brush or copses of trees. Of the cemeteries visited, that of Luoke was the best preserved, with the flora cut down (but not removed). Tryskiai also had numerous stones, but with more challenging access owing to the vegetation. ------------------------------------------------------- Country Town Est. Rec. ------------------------------------------------------- BELARUS: RZISCHEV 2 1 LITHUANIA: LUOKE (LUKNIK) ~150 13 PASVALYS (POSVOL) <20 7 PUMPENAI (PUMPIAN) <10 7 SALANTAI (SALANT) <20 15 SEDA <10 6 SEREDZIUS (SEREDNIK) <10 4 VASKAI <30 26 TRYSKIAI (TRYSKIE) ~150 38 ---- --- Total: ~400 117 _______________________________________________________ Est., rough estimate of number of gravestones Rec., actually recorded; there was sufficient time to record only a fraction of the stones standing in Luoke and in Tryskiai. If you would like the detailed list of names e-mailed to you (the file has 636 lines) please send a request to Dan Kirschner at: dkirsch@amy.tch.harvard.edu |