Jewish Families from Linkuva, Lithuania

This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Linkuva in Lithuania.

Alternate names: Linkuva [Lith], Linkeve [Yid], Linkovo [Rus], Linków [Pol], Linkuvos

• Before WWI (c. 1900): Linkovo Ponevezh Kovno Russian Empire (Linkuva, Panevezys, Kaunas)
• Between the wars (c. 1930): Linkuva Šiauliai Lithuania
• After WWII (c. 1950): Linkuva Soviet Union
• Today (c. 2000): Linkuva Lithuania

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• Jewish Population in 1900: 1,213
• Notes: Yiddish: לינקעװע. Russian: Линково.

Linkuva, Lithuania: 56°05' N, 23°59' E
28 miles NNW of Panevėžys (Ponevezh), 28 miles ENE of Šiauliai (Shavl), 9 miles NE of Pakruojis (Pokroi).

Linkowo pictured below Bausk, from 1905-1909 Meyers Konversations-Lexicon, 6e Aufl

1863 Plot Map of Linkuva
Listing of all the Jewish owners/renters for the Plot Map: http://www.linkuva.com/18cmap.htm%5D

Linkuva Synagogue
Beit Midrash, Linkuva Synagogue 2011
Gable with year 5650 of the Hebrew calendar (1889/1890)
Photos of the synagogue from https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synagoge_(Linkuva)
Architectural history of the synagogue, including many interior photos: http://cja.huji.ac.il/browser.php?mode=set&id=8909

Recent travelogue on the town of Linkuva: https://travelfeed.io/@invisusmundi/what-makes-linkuva-unique-the-c...

Other resources:

• LitvakSIG
• [https://www.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/database/index.asp?cid=236] Yad Vashem Untold Stories, town of Linkuva
• [https://www.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/database/commemoration.asp?...] Yad Vashem Untold Stories, photos of Linkuva Holocaust burial sites
• Yad Vashem search result for Holocaust Victims & Records from Linkuva: https://yvng.yadvashem.org/index.html?language=en&s_id=&s_lastName=...
  
  
• [http://dir.icm.edu.pl/pl/Slownik_geograficzny/Tom_V/241] Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego (1880-1902), V, p. 241: "Linków"
• Pinkas HaKehilot, Lithuania (1996), p. 360: "Linkuva"
• Linkuva page from Beit Hatfutsot - The Museum of the Jewish People
• Translation of the Linkuva chapter from Pinkas Hakehillot Lita Yizkor Book
• [http://www.linkuva.com/story.htm#story] Blumsohn family history in Linkuva, links to photographs, family tree, and other information
• [http://iajgscemetery.org/eastern-europe/lithuania/linkuva] International Jewish Cemetery Project for Linkuva, naming of some of the residents
• [http://www.linkuva.com/teodora.htm] Essay on the Jews of Linkuva by Teodora Katiliene, a non Jewish woman in Vilnius. Translated by Alexander Karnovsky, Rehovot
• [https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://liet...] Google translation of a Lithuania Wiki page on the history of the Jews in Linkuva, with 15 eyewitness accounts of non-Jewish residents as to the Jews and their murders. Also includes photos of Jewish buildings and locales not seen elsewhere.
  
  
• [http://www.linkuva.com/links.htm] Additional Linkuva links & resources
• [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228843556_Kisinev_or_Linku...] "Kišinev or Linkuva? Rumors and threats against Jews in Lithuania in 1903" research paper