VILKAVISKIS
a small town in Southern Lithuania
Where the Jewish Community is no more
Ralph Salinger was   born in the United Kingdom, grew up in New Zealand. Now lives in Kibbutz Kfar Ruppin, Israel. He has researched his family history and discovered that Salinger's lived in VILKAVISKIS from around 1805 till 1941.
Ralph can be contacted at :    salinger@kfar-ruppin.org.il  
Wayne N. Frankel, Ph.D. is a Professor at The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Maine), and the Editor-in-Chief of PLoS Genetics, an open access research journal. Dr. Frankel's ancestors lived in Vilkaviskis for many generations prior to the emigration of his great-grandfather to New York in 1902. His cousins lived in Vilkaviskis until World War II; some survived, others did not."
Mr. Antanas Zilinskas, Director of the Vilkaviskis Regional Museum, without his help and support we would have not got so far.
Antanas can be contacted at    vilkaviskiokrastomuziejus@takas.lt
Please go to the site of the Vilkaviskis Regional Museum
http://www.muziejai.lt/Vilkaviskis/vilkaviskio_krasto_muziejus.en.htm
Mr. Algis Vaskevicius, Algis has a deep interest in the subject and his superb  knowledge of English has been a wonderful source of support.
Algis can be contacted at  valgis@marinet.lt
With the kind and generous support of The Honorable Mr. Algirdas S Bagušinskas, Mayor of Vilkaviskis and his staff.

You can see the Vilkaviskis Municpal site at http://www.vilkaviskis.lt/
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