Independent Lithuania 1919 -1940

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

Relgious Life

Jewish Holidays

A gabbai calling for Selihot Jewish New Year - Yom Kippur

Celebrating Lag ba'Omer in the forest 1922

Passover 1934

Passover 1935

Passover 1936

Passover 1935

Passover and portrait of Chaim Arlosoroff

Purim party for the Jewish Primary School

Purim Party at the Hebrew Gymnasium, 1932

Purim at the Jewish Kindergarten 1936

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

A family picture sitting around the table was taken by Mr Gutterman in his photographic studio in 1929. . Rabbi Elhanan Bar Yosef Katz and his daughter Miriam  Zisel Memlovsky (the Optician) family/
the Rabbi is sitting in the center. on his right hand sitting his granddaughter Haya Memlovsky  Next to her Grandmother Badana (The rabbi's wife) & in his left hand sitting the youngest  granddaughter Batya  Memlovsky (Magid), next to her mother Miriam (Katz) & Zissel Memlovsky next to the right my father Dov Memlovsky (Naamany). in the left side Mordechai Memlovsky (Naamany), 

Celebrating a Jewish Holiday

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