The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life
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The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust
, Editor in Chief Shmuel Spector, Consulting Editor Geoffrey Wigoder, New York University Press, New York, 2001.
Uzpaliai (Yid. Ushpal) Uena district, Lithuania. Jews settled in the 18th century. By 1897 the Jewish population was 691 (93% of the total), but by 1923 it was 551 (36%). All Zionist parties were active until the Soviet annexation of 1940. When the Germans entered Uzpaliai on 26 June 1941, the Jews were forced into a ghetto. Groups of Jews were murdered. On 29 August 1941 the remaining Jews in Uzpaliai were taken to the Rase forest and executed. |
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| A wedding in Uzpaliai, with the synagogue in the background (from The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust , Editor in Chief Shmuel Spector, Consulting Editor Geoffrey Wigoder, New York University Press, New York, 2001) |