VILKOVISHK, Lithuania
• VILKAVIŠKIS (in Lithuanian)
• VILKAVISHKIS
• WILKOWYSZKI
• WYLKOWYSZKI
Also known as:
Pre-war Vilkovishk, showing old synagogue in background
(Photo courtesy of Yad Vashem)
Link to comprehensive external website from Ralph Salinger, with historical info and his first-hand interviews recollecting a very special town-shtetl that once was
Kehilalinks directory (click here)
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This page originally compiled by Joseph Rosin
Article by Joseph Rosin Copyright © 1999 - 2007
Remainder of page Wayne Frankel Copyright © 2007-2008
Page updated by Wayne Frankel July 26, 2008
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Other Vilkovishk Resources at other websites
YIVO Institute “People of 1000 Towns” photo archive (click here)
Background Information
Vilkovishk Holocaust Information Resources
Yahzreit (memorial) dates (from http://lithnames.nux.co.uk/dates.php)
July 27-28, 1941; 3-4 Av
September 24, 1941: 3 Tishri
October 13, 1941: 22 Tishri
Search the Yad Vashem Database and Pages of Testimony (click here)
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum resources (click here)
Vilkovishk Search Engines at JewishGen.org
JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF) (click here)
JewishGen Lithuania Database and All Lithuania Database (ALD) (click here)
Link to photos from Holocaust Remembrance Day 2011, including new plaques commemorating the former Vilkaviskis Jewish community
Location:
Latitude 54 deg 39', Longitude 23 deg 02'
•148 kilometers (91.2 miles) west of Vilnius (Vilna)
•37 miles (60 km) South west of Kaunas (Kovna)