Troškūnai Links

• Locality page for Troškūnai (JewishGen)
• Resource Mapping for Troškūnai (JewishGen)
• "Troškūnai (Trashkun)" from Protecting Our Litvak Heritage by Josef Rosin.
    (Note: The monument shown in the article is not from Troskunai.)
• Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania: Troškūnai
• Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania: Panevėžys
• International Jewish Cemetery Project: Troškūnai
• International Jewish Cemetery Project: Panevėžys
• Old Jewish Cemetery in Smėlynė, outside of Troškūnai, Lithuanian Registry of Cultural Heritage (in Lithuanian)
• Lithuanian Philately, Troškūnai (also Traškūnai) 1919-1920, with brief historical context

History Links (back to top)

• Lithuania by Dov Levin, The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe.
• World War I:
• World War I by David Engel, YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, 2010.
• The Exile of the Lithuanian Jews in the Conflagration of the First World War (1914-1918) by Louis Stein, Lita (Vol. 1), ed. Mendel Sudarsky and Uriah Katzenelenbogen. New York: Jewish-Cultural Society, 1951.
• On the Front Line in Lithuania, 1915 by Anatolij Chayesh, in LitvakSIG Online Journal.
• The Expulsion of the Jews from Lithuania in the Spring of 1915 by Anatolij Chayesh, in LitvakSIG Online Journal.
• World War II:
• Documents Speak (PDF), a chapter from Joseph Levinson's book The Shoah (Holocaust) in Lithuania. The chapter includes English translation of leaflets and other materials of the Lithuanian Activist Front and their Provisional Government regarding the treatment of Jews. It also examines the treatment of Jews by the Lithuanian press and the Lithuanian Catholic Church. Published by the Vilna Gaon State Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania, 2006.
• The Jäger Report: A Chronicle of Mass Murder, presented by The Holocaust History Project. Includes an introduction and scans of the actual pages of the Jäger report, along with German transcription and English translation. This was commander Karl Jäger's daily log of executions by Einsatzkommando 3 (a killing unit of Einsatzgruppen A) between 2 July and 25 November 1941, including executions in Panevėžys.
• Mobile Killing Squads and Einsatzgruppen (Mobile Killing Units), two articles in the Holocaust Encyclopedia, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
• The Tragedy of Lithuania: 1941-1944. New documents on crimes of Lithuanian collaborators during the Second World War (PDF). Documents and eyewitness testimonies from the Russian archives, printed and published in Yaroslavl, Russia, 25 March 2008, by Aleksei Yakovlev. (Note: Table of contents is at end of the PDF, not the beginning.)

• Acknowledging the role of Lithuanians in the mass murder of Jews during World War II:
• The Burden of 1941 by Saulius Sužiedėlis, Lituanus, Lithuanian Quarterly Journal of Arts and Sciences, Volume 47, No. 4 - Winter 2001.
• The Hard Long Road toward the Truth: on the 60th anniversary of the Holocaust in Lithuania by Solomonas Atamukas, Lituanus, Lithuanian Quarterly Journal of Arts and Sciences, Volume 47, No. 4 - Winter 2001.
• Neglecting the Lithuanian Holocaust by Timothy Snyder, The New York Review of Books, 25 July 2011.
• Lithuania's Past and Present by Kenneth Bonert, My Jewish Learning.
• The Holocaust in Lithuania: One man's crusade to bring justice by Paul Frysh. Perspective and context regarding Lithuania's reluctance to come to terms with the role of ethnic Lithuanians in the Jewish genocide of 1941. CNN, 3 June 2010.
• Rewriting History, a documentary film by Danny Ben-Moshe about the rewriting of Holocaust history in Lithuania (2018).

Resources for Research (back to top)

• Lithuanian Special Interest Group (LitvakSIG) is the primary internet resource for Lithuanian-Jewish ("Litvak") genealogy research worldwide. Its mission is to preserve Litvak heritage by discovering, collecting, documenting, and disseminating information about the once vibrant Jewish community of Lithuania.
• Litvak SIG-Online Journal contains articles of broad interest to Litvak researchers. Its aim is to increase our understanding of the historical, political, economic, cultural, and intellectual forces that affected the lives of our ancestors, particularly during the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• Avotaynu, publisher of books meant to assist those researching Jewish genealogy, Jewish family trees or Jewish roots—from beginner guides to books about Jewish surnames.
• JewishGen talk on Jewish Given Names by genealogist Sallyann Amdur Sack, president and co-founder of Avotaynu [58:38].
• JewishGen Communities Database contains information on: 6,000 Jewish communities in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East; the name of each community in various languages; and political jurisdictions during different time periods. Enter "Troskunai" in the search form.
• Jewish Communities Database of the Beit Hatfutsot (The Museum of the Jewish People) is a collection of historical, geographic and demographic data from over 3,000 Jewish communities worldwide, past and present. The databases are accessible to the visiting public at the museum, and information is also accessible on-line for a fee.
• JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF) is a compilation of surnames and towns currently being researched by over 99,000 Jewish genealogists worldwide. It contains over 500,000 entries: 125,000 ancestral surnames and 17,000 town names, and is indexed and cross-referenced by both surname and town name. By using the JGFF, you can learn about and contact others who are seeking ancestors of the same surname or town of origin.
• JewishGen InfoFiles, information on a broad collection of topics relevant to Jewish genealogical research.
• Louis Kessler's Jewish Genealogy Links is a comprehensive and up-to-date list of useful resources for Jewish genealogy research.
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Resources for Academics and Research
• International Jewish Cemetery Project provides information about thousands of Jewish cemetery sites all over the world, along with information on the location of the cemetery and how to obtain more information. The cemetery project is under the auspices of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Socities (IAJGS), an independent umbrella organization coordinating the activities and annual conference of more than 70 national and local Jewish Genealogical Societies (JGS) around the world.
• Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania presents structured information on all the mass murder sites in Lithuania, with comprehensive information on each murder site. The project was initiated in 2010 by the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum and the Austrian Verein Gedenkdienst.
• Holocaust by Bullets, an interactive map showing execution sites of Jewish victims in Poland, Ukraine and Lithuania. Includes witness testimonies, photos, videos of witnesses. A project of Yahad In Unum.
• Yad Vashem Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names includes data regarding Jews who were victims of persecution during the Holocaust period: those who were murdered as well as many others.

Maps (back to top)

• Current maps of Troškūnai:  Open Street Map  •  Bing Map  •  Google Map
• Map of "Classic Litvak Territory" with Yiddish place names (by Dovid Katz)
• Mapster, an index of historical maps that include Troskunai
• Lithuanian Maps, an extensive collection of historical maps

Useful Tools (back to top)

• Place names in Lithuanian and Yiddish, with links to place-specific resources (by Dovid Katz)
• Geographical regions in Lithuania, pre-1918 and interwar (JewishGen)
• Reading Hebrew Tombstones (JewishGen)
• Calculator Tools including calendar conversion, distance calculation and more (JewishGen)
• Introduction to the Jewish Calendar (JewishGen)
• Hebrew Date Converter (HebCal)