Pilvisk, Lithuania

 

Jewish Community of Pilvisk

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Background Information

Click for Article on Pilvisk by Joseph Rosin

English Edited by Sarah and Mordechai Kopfstein (Haifa, Israel)

Original site



Searchable Databases

  1. Find other researchers for your shtetl by searching JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF)

  2. Search Yad Vashem

  3. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  4. Search the Litvak ALD

  5. Check to see if there is a Yizkor book

  6. Check the Cemetery Database

  7. Litvak Portal


 

Other web sites:

Wiesenthal Center

kapciamiestis.org




The original site compiled by Joseph Rosin

It was originally created on April 22, 2001

Updated by JA June 15, 2009

Copyright © 2001-2009 Joseph Rosin

Webmaster: Joel Alpert

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Pilviškiai, Lithuania


Pilviškiai [Lith], Pilwiszki [Pol], Pilvishok [Yid], Pil'vishki [Rus], Pilviškiu, Pilviškai, Pil'vishkyay, Pilvishki, Pilviskai, Pilviski, Pilviskis


Russian: Пильвишки. Yiddish: פּילווישאָק

9 miles ENE of Vilkaviškis (Wyłkowyszki), 12 miles NNW of Marijampolė (Maryampol).


Jewish Population in 1900: 1,242


1900: 

Pilwiszki, Marjampol uyezd, Suwałki gubernia, Russian Empire

1930: 

Pilviškiai, Vilkaviškis apskritis, Lithuania

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