Pren, Lithuania
Jewish Community of Pren
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English Edited by Sarah and Mordechai Kopfstein (Haifa, Israel)
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Coordinates: 54° 38′ 0″ N, 23° 56′ 30″ E
Also known as Prienai (in Lithuanian)
Prienai, Lithuania
Prienai [Lith], Pren [Yid], Preny [Pol, Rus], Prenen [Ger], Prieni [Latv], Priyenay, Prienų, Prėinā, Prenay, Priena
Russian: Прены. Yiddish: פּרען
24 miles E of Marijampolė, 18 miles S of Kaunas (Kovno).
Jewish Population: 1,190 (in 1897), 650 (in 1923)
1900:
Preny, Marjampol uyezd, Suwałki gubernia, Russian Empire
1930:
Prienai, Marijampolė apskritis, Lithuania
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