Vilkovishk, Lithuania
Jewish Community of Vilkovishk
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Background Information
Click for Article on Vilkovishk by Joseph Rosin
English Edited by Sarah and Mordechai Kopfstein (Haifa, Israel)
A two year trek by Vilkovishker Lova Rabinovich by foot from Russia to Israel 1927-1929
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The original site created by Joseph Rosin in 1999
Copyright © 1999-2007 Joseph Rosin
Remainder of original page: Wayne Frankel Copyright © 2007-2008
Page updated by Wayne Frankel July 26, 2008
Coordinates: 54°39' N 23°02' E
Vilkaviškis, Lithuania
Vilkaviškis [Lith], Wyłkowyszki [Pol], Vilkovishk [Yid], Vilkovishki [Rus], Wilkowischken [Ger], Vilkavišķi [Latv], Wiłkowyszki, Vilkaviškio, Vilkavishkis, Vilkavisk, Vilkovisk, Volkovisk, Volkovyshki
Russian: Вилковишки.
In SW Lithuania, 38 miles WSW of Kaunas (Kovno), 38 miles N of Suwałki (Suvalk), 14 miles WNW of Marijampolė.
[Not to be confused with Volkovysk, Grodno gubernia, E of Białystok (now Vawkavysk, Belarus)].
Jewish Population: 3,480 (in 1897)
1900:
Wyłkowyszki, Wyłkowyszki uyezd, Suwałki gubernia, Russian Empire
1930:
Vilkaviškis, Vilkaviškis apskritis, Lithuania
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