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Pilviskiai (Pilvishok)

Lithuania

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Also known as:

• Pilvishok(in Lithuanian)
• Pilvishki
• Pilviskai
• Pilviski
• Pilviskis

Jewish Population before the Holocaust: 961

YAHRZHEIT (MEMORIAL) DATES OF LITHUANIAN JEWISH COMMUNITIES

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Location: Latitude 54deg 43', Longitude 23deg 13'

• 50 kilometers (80 miles) Southwest of Kaunas (Kovno)

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Background Information

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

English edited by Fania Hilelson-Jivotovsky

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

Searchable Databases

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

 

 

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

  1. Enter text...type in: Pilviskiai

• 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 April 22, 2001

Updated by JA June 15, 2009

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