Plunge, Lithuania

Jewish Community of  Plungyan

Coordinates: 55°55′N 21°51′E

Plungė, Lithuania

Plungė [Lith], Plungiany [Rus], Plungian [Yid], Płungiany [Pol], Pluņģe [Latv], Plungyan, Plungyany, Plungės, Plunjen, Plongė

Russian: Плунгяны. Yiddish: פּלונגיאַן. Hebrew: פּלוּנגֶה.

In NW Lithuania, 16 miles WSW of Telšiai (Telz), 31 miles ENE of Klaipėda (Memel).

Jewish Population: 2,502 (in 1897), 1,815 (in 1923)

1900: 

Plungiany, Telshi uyezd, Kovno gubernia, Russian Empire

1930: 

Plungė, Telšiai apskritis, Lithuania

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Searchable Databases & additional information

1. •Find other researchers for your shtetl by searching JGFF Town Search
   

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3. •United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
   

4. •Search the Litvak ALD
   

5. •Check the Cemetery Database
   

6. •Litvak Portal
   

7. •LitvakSIG
   

1. •Yizkor Books (3):
   

1. ◦Plungyan: A Memoir (, )
   

2. ◦Pinkas ha-kehilot; entsiklopediya shel ha-yishuvim le-min hivasdam ve-ad le-aher shoat milhemet ha-olam ha-sheniya: Lithuania (Jerusalem, 1996)
   

3. ◦Lite (vol. 1) (New York, 1951) 
   

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