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)

Vilkovishk Search Engines at JewishGen.org

JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF) (click here)

JewishGen Lithuania Database and All Lithuania Database (ALD) (click here)

Cemetery Database (click here)

Suwalk-Lomza Interest Group Home Page (click here)

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)

Background Information

Article about Vilkovishk by Joseph Rosin (click here)

Other Vilkovishk Resources at other websites

Web site documenting a visit to Vilkovishk and its “New” Jewish cemetery in August 2007 (click here)

Collection of photos of Lithuanian synagogues by the famous photographer Anatas Buracas, including two images of the Vilkovishk synagogue (click here)

YIVO Institute “People of 1000 Towns” photo archive (click here)

Routes to Roots Foundation database (click here)

Steve Morse One-Step Webpages (with various easy to use search engine front-ends, including Ellis Island Database Gold Form) (click here)