ShtetLinks: Vishey (Veisiejai), Lithuania

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Also known as:

• Veisiejai (in Lithuanian)

YAHRZHEIT (MEMORIAL) DATES OF LITHUANIAN JEWISH COMMUNITIES

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Veisiejai  Synagogue
Courtesy of Regina Kopilevich

Location: Latitude 54' deg 6', Longitude 23 deg 42'

• 94 kilometers (58 miles) South of Kaunas (Kovna)

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Background Information

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

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

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Please enter your family names and your name on the JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF) for Vishey. You can find other reserachers below by searching JFGG.

Searchable Databases

• JewishGen connect with others researching Vishey? Click the button to search the JewishGen Family Finder database.
• United States Holocaust Research Institute Reading Room Information for Vishey

 

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

  1. Enter text...type in: Veisiejai

2. Click TOWN-EXACT SPELLING

 

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

  You can search by name using the "Basic Search" button and use "Vishay" 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 August 1, 2000

Updated by JA June 15, 2015

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