Independent Lithuania 1919 -1940

VILKAVISKIS
A small town in Southern Lithuania
Where the Jewish Community is no more

Relgious Life

Towards the After Life

Mourner at the grave of Baruch Meitzrovski

The "New" Jewish Cemetery 1915

All that remained of the "Old" Jewish Cemetery picture from the 1930's.

Five gravestones in the Jewish cemetery. Sent to the Jewish Historical-Ethnographic Society by Mordkhe Pustapedsky circa 1930.

The grave of Benzion and Zvi Rosenfeld

Gravestone of  Moshe son of Yackov Arie Jachminsky

Rabbi David Matz who died at the age of 39 in 1896

The gravestone of Rabbi Nisn Shapiro. Caption signed M. Pustapedsky,  circa 1930

The gravestone of Rav Eliezer Landau head of the besdin local rabbinical court

A new grave in 1935

Tombstone of Shemuel-Nahum Tavi, , 1933

The "OLD" Jewish Cemetery was situated close to the river but due to flooding it was moved around 1875 as you will see already in the 1930's almost nothing remained. The "NEW" cemetery is situated in Kapu Street.

Funeral leaving the town

Close to the Cemetery

This site was built by Ralph Salinger of Kfar Ruppin, Israel
It is built to the glory of the Jewish Community of Vilkkaviskis
You can contact me with any comments at salinger@kfar-ruppin.org,il

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