Naumiestis, Lithuania
Jewish Community of Naumiestis
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Location: Latitude 55 deg 22', Longitude 21 deg 42'
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•93 miles West-North-West of Kaunas (Kovno)
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•123 miles West of Vilnius (Vilna)
Background Information
Click for Naumiestis by Joseph Rosin
Report by Marjorie Rosenblum Kantor at Rosenblum-White Family Reunion Dinner on July 31, 1983.
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It was originally created in 1998
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Coordinates: 55°22' N, 21°42' E
Neishtot-Tavrig, Lithuania
In Yiddish: Neishtot Sugint. In Russian: Aleksandrovsk, Aleksandria.
In Lithuanian: Zemaiciu Naumiestis)
Žemaičių Naumiestis
Žemaičių Naumiestis [Lith], Neishtat Sugind [Yid], Aleksandrovsk [Rus 1884-1918], Neustadt Sugind [Ger], Ir Chadash Sugind [Heb], Nowe Miasto [Pol], Nishtot Tavrig, Neishtat, Aleksandria, Naumiestis-Taurage, Žemaitiu Naumiestis
Russian: Жемайчю-Науместис / Александровское.
In W Lithuania, on the Shusta river, near the former Prussian border. 33 miles SE of Klaipėda (Memel), 24 miles WNW of Tauragė (Tavrig).
Jewish Population: 1,438 (in 1897)
1900:
Aleksandrovsk, Rossieny uyezd, Kovno gubernia, Russian Empire
1930:
Žemaičių Naumiestis, Tauragė apskritis, Lithuania
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