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Vilna Ghetto Out of 70,000 Jews living in Vilna (Vilnius), only 7,000 would survive the war; the Jewish culture in Vilnius, one of the greatest in Europe, ceased to exist.Jews constituted 30% of the total population of Vilnius before the Holocaust. Over 96% percent of the Jews living in Vilna were murdered during the Nazi occupation. No other Jewish community in Nazi-occupied Europe was so comp...
This project aims to identify notable Russians, whose family roots, life, education, achievements are associated with Lithuania.If in your family tree you have an individual that was a Lithuanian Russian known for her/his life achievements, please add them to this project. It would be great if within profile description there would be brief biography.* Within opened profile page use the 'Action...
This project is under development. New surnames and their definitions are being added. Please read Lithuanian (Lietuvių) part of this project. Use Internet translator.Useful Internet sources for information about Lithuanian names and surnames:* Lithuanian Surname Base ;* Lithuanian surname definitions ;* Lithuanian Surname Dictionary ;* Internet magazine Slaptai, article about most popular Lith...
GRAND DUKES of LITHUANIA 1315-1432 This project aims to provide a template for the Sourced profiles of this Dynasty on Geni. To start with, we're using Charles Cawley's Medlands entries, because they tend to be sourced / or acknowledge where these haven't been found yet. Please come and add Sources. GEDIMINAS [Gedymin] , son of PUKUVERAS Grand Duke of Lithuania & his wife --- ([1260]-killed ...
If in your family tree, you have persons that were voters during the 1696 election of August II , please add them to this project. It would be great if within the profile description "About" there would be brief biography. Also, please specify this project under the pictures and documents related to the 1696/97 election event. Within opened profile page, use the 'Actions' button to "Add to pro...
Jeigu kas nors esate fotografavę šiaurinės Lietuvos parapijų: Vaškų, Saločių, Linkuvos, Pašvitinio, Lauksodžio, Žeimelio, Joniškėlio, Pasvalio, Kyburių, Skrebotiškio, Grūžių bažnyčios metrikas ir kitokius senus dokumentus, turite iš tų kraštų kokių nors senų archyvinių dokumentų, gal galėtumėte pasidalyti savo ištekliais.METRIKŲ KNYGOS SVETAINĖJE PASVALIA[ ]PARAPIJIEČIŲ SĄRAŠAI SVETAINĖJE PASVA...
Signatories of The Act of Reinstating Independence of Lithuania (Act of 16 February) The project is created to commemorate signatories of the Act of 16 February. Wikipedia: Act of Independence of Lithuania Delfi: Original version of Lithuania's 1918 Independence Act found in Berlin Signatarai: Jonas Basanavičius Saliamonas Banaitis Mykolas Biržiška Kazys Bizauskas
This project seeks to include descendants from all those Jewish families who once lived in Vilkaviskis. The town is now in Lithuania, but in the interwar years was in Poland. If your family's roots are here, please add their profiles. There is an excellent article by Joseph Rosin on the history of the town on the JewishGen KehilaLink here: . In addition, note the wonderful resource of Jewish Vi...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Zagare, Siauliai, Kovno, Lithuania.Alternative names: Žagarė [Lith], Zhager [Yid], Zhagare [Rus], Schagarren [Ger], Žagare [Latv], Żagory [Pol], Zhagar, Zager, Žagarės JewishGen Locality Page
The Swieciany Ghetto was liquidated April 4, 1943. The people were told that they were being resettled in either the Vilna or the Kovno ghettos.The train with the Jews of Swieciany was detained at the Vilna depot while murder operations proceeded with the Jews of Sol. Then the train went to Ponary. When Swieciany Jews found themselves at Ponary they realized that they had been tricked. They bur...
'"...On the 22nd of June, 1941, the Nazis attacked Lithuania but the news didn't reach Radnitsa until the next day when the refugees from Liskovo and Lipen arrived. There was nowhere to run, however, as the Nazis had already taken Vilna and the Kaunas fortress. Everyone stayed in their own homes. The Nazis, may their names be blotted out, used the Radnitsers for slave labor, clearing out forest...
The purpose of this project is to gather information about citizens who participated in USSR repressive structures in Lithuania: NKVD, MGB and KGB. Source for the project is Project of the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania (in Lithuanian) Please add only public profiles to the project.Sources for reading: the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania NKVD - The Peo...
The Ghettos in Šiauliai (Shavli); The Lithuanians succeded in killing over 2000 Šiauliai Jews before the incarceration of the remaining Jews in the two Ghettos, one in the Kafkaz area and the other in the Traku neighborhood, about 500 meters away. The Ghetto gates closed behind about 5500 Jews that were crammed in an area of about 8000 square meters of living space; 1.5 m per person. The guards...
