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Telz (Telsiai)

Lithuania

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Also known as:

• Telsiai (in Lithuanian)

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Location: Latitude 54 deg 46', Longitude 22 deg 53'

• 150 miles (240 km.) Northwest of Vilnius (Vilna) telz

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Background Information

Click for Article on Telz by Joseph Rosin (Haifa, Israel)

English edited by Sarah and Mordechai Kopfstein

Article: Telshe - 120 Years Since the Founding of the Yeshiva

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Searchable Databases

• JewishGen connect with others researching Telz? Click the button to search the JewishGen Family Finder Database.
• If you or any of your family are from Telz, register your name in the JewishFen Family Finder Database

 

• SEARCH THE AWARD WINNING ALD (All Lithuania Data Base) and then

  1. Enter text...type in: Telsiai

2. Click TOWN-EXACT SPELLING

 

• View the Pages of Testimony from Yad Vashem (First opened in November 2004) New December 4, 2004 

  You can search by name using the "Basic Search" button and use "Telsiai" as the town name

   

• Check to see if there is a Yizkor book
• Check the Cemetery Database

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Compiled by Joseph Rosin

Created October 1, 2001

Updated by JA June 30, 2014

Copyright © 2001 - 2014 Joseph Rosin

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