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Also known as Varena (in Lithuanian)

Location: 35 km West South West (56 miles) distance from the district center Alytus

Background Information

Article on Aran (Varena) by Joseph Rosin

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

1. Preserving our Litvak Heritage
   

2. Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities. Lithuania
   

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
   

The original ShtetlLinks site compiled by the late Joseph Rosin z”l and webmaster Joel Alpert.

It was originally created on 25 July 2002 and last updated on 15 June 2009.