ShtetLinks: Birzh (Birzai), Lithuania

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Also known as:

• Birzh (in Lithuanian)

YAHRZHEIT (MEMORIAL) DATES OF LITHUANIAN JEWISH COMMUNITIES

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Location: Latitude 56 deg 12', Longitude 24 deg 45'

• 94 kilometers (58 miles) ENE of Siauliai

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Background Information

Click for Article on Birzh, Lithuania by Joseph Rosin (Haifa, Israel)

English Edited by Sarah and Mordehai Kopfstein (Haifa, Israel)

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Please enter your family names and your name on the JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF) for Birzh. You can find other researchers below by searching JFGG (see below).

Searchable Databases

• JewishGen connect with others researching Birzh? Click the button to search the JewishGen Family Finder database.
• United States Holocaust Research Institute Reading Room Information for Birzh

 

• SEARCH THE AWARD WINNING ALD (All Lithuania Data Base) and then

  1. Enter text...type in: Birzh

  2. Click TOWN-EXACT SPELLING

• Check to see if there is a Yizkor book
• Check the Cemetery Database

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Compiled by Joseph Rosin

Created November 1, 2003

Updated by JA June 15, 2009

Copyright © 2003- 2006 Joseph Rosin

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