(Latitude
55°27´,
Longitude 25°49´) Satellite
Map or Road
Map
The Surroundings of Tauragnai (Photo taken from Utena Tourism Information website)
Students of Yavneh School circa 1930 (Courtesy Yosef Rosin)
Wooden Beit Midrash of Tauragnai (Courtesy Yosef Rosin)
Rabbi Eliezer-Tsvi Pines, religious leader of Tauragnai from 1875 to 1937 (Courtesy of Yosef Rosin)
Memorial to Victims of Holocaust in Utena Region (Courtesy of Martha Greene)
Lillian Adelman made a vow to find where her family of both sides lived and were buried. In 1994 she went to Lithuania with Sara Weiss-Slep. The pictures below are from her visit to Taraugnai, the shtetl of her grandfather Chaim-Leib Adelman. The connection between Sara Weiss and Lilian Adelman is described in the Dusiat Yizkor book.
All the pictures are courtesy of Sara Weiss-Slep, 1994.
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Entrance to the town of Tauragnai |
The road to the Jewish cemetery |
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The red lake of Jewish blood. |
The gate to the Old Jewish Cemetery |
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Gravestones |
Gravestones- Shapira and others |
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Gravestone of the Rabbi |
Gravestones- Our elderly mother and
others |
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Gravestone of Meshulam |
Lilian Adelman at an unidentified
gravestone |
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Lilian had no success in locating the
grave of her relatives, |
The information I have derived from the above sources indicate that the Jews of Tauragnai were probably massacred in the Forest of Rase, 2 km from Utena, on August 29, 1941 (6 Elul 5701).
Tauragnai was historically part of the Zarasai/Novo-Alexandrovsk Uyezd and the Kaunas Gubernya. It is currently part of the Utena District.
Dr.
Rosin
has compiled many of these shtetl histories into the book
"Preserving Our Litvak Heritage...A History of 31 Jewish
Communities in Lithuania", available from JewishGenMall.
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Compiled by David Izraelevitz
Updated by DI 12 November, 2017
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