ShtetLinks: Tavrig (Taurage), Lithuania

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Also known as:

• Taurage (in Lithuanian)

YAHRZHEIT (MEMORIAL) DATES OF LITHUANIAN JEWISH COMMUNITIES

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Location: Latitude 55 deg 15', Longitude 22 deg 17'

• 101 kilometers (64 miles) Southwest of Siauliai

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Background Information

Click for Article on Tavrig 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 Tauvrage. You can find other reserachers below by searching JFGG (see below).

Searchable Databases

• JewishGen connect with others researching Taurage? Click the button to search the JewishGen Family Finder database.
• United States Holocaust Research Institute Reading Room Information for Taurage
• SEARCH THE AWARD WINNING ALD (All Lithuania Data Base) and then

  1. Enter text...type in: Taurage

  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 "Taurage" 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 March 1, 2002

Updated by JA January 28, 2006

Copyright © 2002 - 2006 Joseph Rosin

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