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

www.jewishvilkaviskis.org (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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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)

Link to photos from Holocaust Remembrance Day 2011, including new plaques commemorating the former Vilkaviskis Jewish community

www.jewishvilkaviskis.org (click here)

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)