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

2020 Our Activities

Cemtery clean up by the children of the class of Mrs Vaida Krisciuniene

A Holocaust monument in the woods near Vilkaviskis for the Jews of Kudirkos Naumiestis - someone remembered !

Mock ups of the planned project

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

Holocaust Memorial Service in Vilkaviskis 2020.  Photographs kindly provided by Mrs Vaida Krisciuniene

Planned for 2021
Last year the Director of the Visual Archives at the Diaspora Museum Mr. Haim Ghiuzeli, gave me access to the entire archives of pictures of Jewish Vilkaviskis.

Some of these pictures showed Jewish volunteer firemen from Vilkaviskis.
Together with our friends in Vilkaviskis we discussed how to best bring these pictures to be seen in Vilkaviskis today. Our desire is to create an exhibition dedicated both to the Jewish volunteer firemen of Vilkaviskis and to show a little of Jewish life before the Holocaust. The pictures will include text in 3 languages, English, Lithuanian and Hebrew.
Our dear friend Mrs. Irma Mauriene discovered that the original fire station still exists Today it is an electrical goods store. We gained permission both from the owners and the Municipality to create a photographically photographic exhibition on 3 of the unused external walls.

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