Jonava is a town in the Kaunas District of Lithuania, about 19 miles up the Neris River from the city of Kaunas.

The town has been spelled as

• Janova
• Janovo
• Janowa
• Yanova
• Yonave
• Yonava
• Ianovo

According to Where Once We Walked (Mokotoff and Sack) the Latitude/Longitude is 55' 05" / 24' 17". There are also a variety of similarly named villages in Poland.

History of Jonava

Izchak Judelevitch told the history of Jonava in a chapter of the yizkor book, Yizkor book in memory of the Jewish Community of Yanova.

For a more secular history, see the Wikipedia article on Jonava.

Personal Memoirs of Jonava

Frances Melamed described Jonava in her autobiographical book, Jonava.

Jeanne Ran-Tcharnyi was born in 1920 and moved to Jonava a year later.  She survived the Vilnius Ghetto and Stalin's Gulags.  These are her reminiscences of her early life in Jonava.