Ziezmariai, Lithuania
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From Jesse Nasta: Ziezmariai photos from Yad Vashem's online collections:
http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/en-us/63908.html
http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/en-us/33905.html
http://www.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/database/index.asp?cid=484
The above Yad Vashem website contains the only pre-war photo of the Ziezmariai synagogue that I have seen.
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Žiežmariai, Lithuania
Žiežmariai [Lith], Zhezmir [Yid], Zhizhmory [Rus], Żyżmory [Pol], Zhyzhmor, Žižmariai, Žiežmarių, Zhiyezhmaryai, Zhezhmaryay, Žeižmariai, Žėižmarē, Zhezhmir, Zhezhmer, Zezmer, Shishmory
Russian: Жижморы / Жижморье / Жыжмор / Жежмаряй. Yiddish: זעזמער
23 miles ESE of Kaunas (Kovno), 22 miles WNW of Trakai (Troki), 5 miles S of Kaišiadorys (Koshedar).
Jewish Population: 1,628 (in 1897), 1,205 (in 1923)
1900:
Zhizhmory, Troki uyezd, Vilna gubernia, Russian Empire
1930:
Žiežmariai, Trakai apskritis, Lithuania
Jewish Community of Ziezmariai
Coordinates: 54°48' N, 24°27' E
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