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The town of Krakes (Krok) is located:
62 km NNW of Kaunas; 55° 24'/23° 44'
GYLA (Guide to YIVO's Landsmannschaft Archive), HSL (Hebrew
Subscription Lists),
JGFF (JewishGen Family Finder), SF
(Shtetl Finder), YL (Yahudut Lita)
From Where Once We Walked. A Guide to the Destroyed Communities of the Holocaust by Gary Mokotoff and Sallyann Amdur Sack. Published by Avotaynu, Inc., Teaneck, New Jersey, 1991. Printed by kind permission from the publisher
Maps of Krakes Courtesy of MapQuest & Microsoft Expedia Maps
Karte des Westlichen Russlands, Sheet N-20, 1907, from Library of Congress
1:500,000 by Jāņa Sēta Map Publishers, Riga, Latvia
Shtetl Finder
By Chester G. Cohen, Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland, 1989
Pinkas HaKehillot Lita (Encyclopedia
of Lithuanian Jewish Communities)
By Dov Levin, Hebrew University, 1996. Translation
of Krakes chapter from the Hebrew.
Yidishe Shtet, shtetlekh un dorfishe yishuvim in Lite: biz 1918 (Jewish Cities,
Towns and Villages in Lithuania until 1918)
By Berl Kagan, Brooklyn, NY, 1991. Translation of Krakes chapter from the Yiddish.
Yahadut Lita
(Lithuanian Jewry), Volumes 3 and 4
The Association of The Lithuanian Jews in Israel, Tel Aviv,
1967 and 1984. Translation of Krakes chapter from the Hebrew.
Are you a Kroker? -- Surnames for Krok from 19th Century Lithuanian Archival Documents
Lithuanian
Archival Holdings
Types of records for Krakes that are
available in Lithuania
JewishGen Lithuania Database (for Krakes)
Krakes Fire Brigade circa 1930
Lithuanian
Telephone Directory - 1930
KRAKES (Jewish listings only)
Lithuanian
Telephone Directory - 1938
KRAKES (Jewish listings only)
Burials in
Kroker Benevolent Association plot, New York
Including tombstone pictures
Guide to the YIVO
Archives
Compiled and Edited by Fruma Mohrer and Marek Web,
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York. Published by M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, NY and
London, England, 1998
Thumbnail Picture
Library
30 pictures of Krakes, the town today and the mass
murder grave site
Harvey Kaplan's Visit to Krakes
Harvey Kaplan visited Krakes in September 2005 and
wrote up some brief notes
Rabbi Yehoshua
Yosef Preil
Rabbi in Krakes from 1884 to 1896. He was a very
interesting person and two of his books, including a volume of his collected essays were
just republished in one volume
Krokers in Ellis Island Database (EIDB)
Prenumerantn
lists (Hebrew subscription lists)
Names of subscribers to the 19th and early 20th c.
Hebrew and Yiddish books that are listed for Krok in Sefer haPrenumerantn by Berl
Kagan
Bear Family
Excerpts from Krok
A conversation with
Uncle Solly Marcus
Born in Krakes in 1907, Solly gives us an insight to his life and times
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