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Krakes

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The town of Krakes (Krok) is located:

62 km NNW of Kaunas;  55° 24'/23° 44'
GYLA (Guide to YIVO's Landsmannschaft Archive), HSL (Hebrew Subscription Lists),
JGFF
(JewishGen Family Finder), SF (Shtetl Finder), YL (Yahudut Lita)

From Where Once We Walked. A Guide to the Destroyed Communities of the Holocaust by Gary Mokotoff and Sallyann Amdur Sack.  Published by Avotaynu, Inc., Teaneck, New Jersey, 1991. Printed by kind permission from the publisher

Maps of Krakes Courtesy of MapQuest & Microsoft Expedia Maps

Karte des Westlichen Russlands, Sheet N-20, 1907, from Library of Congress

1:500,000 by Jāņa Sēta Map Publishers, Riga, Latvia

Kroki on a Dunlop Strassenkarte, 1927 or 1928

Shtetl Finder
By Chester G. Cohen, Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland, 1989

Are you a Kroker? -- Surnames for Krok from 19th Century Lithuanian Archival Documents

Click here to learn more about the JGFF and its use
Do you have roots in Krakes? Would you like to connect with others researching the same community? Click the button to search the JewishGen Family Finder database

Pinkas HaKehillot Lita (Encyclopedia of Lithuanian Jewish Communities)
By Dov Levin, Hebrew University, 1996. Translation of Krakes chapter from the Hebrew.

Yidishe Shtet, shtetlekh un dorfishe yishuvim in Lite: biz 1918 (Jewish Cities, Towns and Villages in Lithuania until 1918)
By Berl Kagan, Brooklyn, NY, 1991. Translation of Krakes chapter from the Yiddish.

Yahadut Lita (Lithuanian Jewry), Volumes 3 and 4
The Association of The Lithuanian Jews in Israel, Tel Aviv, 1967 and 1984. Translation of Krakes chapter from the Hebrew.

Lithuanian Archival Holdings
Types of records for Krakes that are available in Lithuania

1905 Krakes Real Estate List

Krakes Fire Brigade circa 1930

Lithuanian Telephone Directory - 1930
KRAKES (Jewish listings only)

Lithuanian Telephone Directory - 1938
KRAKES (Jewish listings only)

Krakes Jewish Cemetery

Burials in Kroker Benevolent Association plot, New York
Including tombstone pictures

Guide to the YIVO Archives
Compiled and Edited by Fruma Mohrer and Marek Web, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York. Published by M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, NY and London, England, 1998

Thumbnail Picture Library
30 pictures of Krakes, the town today and the mass murder grave site

Harvey Kaplan's Visit to Krakes
Harvey Kaplan visited Krakes in September 2005 and wrote up some brief notes

Visit to Krakes
The Anstey family visited Krakes on August 9th, 1999 and recorded their stay through words & pictures [temporarily not available]

Rabbi Yehoshua Yosef Preil
Rabbi in Krakes from 1884 to 1896. He was a very interesting person and two of his books, including a volume of his collected essays were just republished in one volume

HaMagid Charity Donors Database (About the HaMagid Database)
Click the button to show Krakes donors to the Persian Famine victims of 1871--use the "Back" button on your browser to return to here
HaMelitz Lithuanian Charity Donors Database (About the HaMelitz Database)
Click the button to show Krakes names from the HaMelitz lists of donors to miscellaneous charities--use the "Back" button on your browser to return to here

Krokers in Ellis Island Database (EIDB)

Prenumerantn lists (Hebrew subscription lists)
Names of subscribers to the 19th and early 20th c. Hebrew and Yiddish books that are listed for Krok in Sefer haPrenumerantn by Berl Kagan

Bear Family Excerpts from Krok
Stories documented by Ruth Potash and described by Eva Goldberg, born in Krakes in 1898

A conversation with Uncle Solly Marcus
Born in Krakes in 1907, Solly gives us an insight to his life and times

Jäger Report
This was written by a commander of one of the "Einsatzgruppen" (special task forces) which was in charge of liquidating Jews, communist leaders, partisans and others in the Soviet Union, Lithuania and Latvia. Krakes is listed amongst the shtetls

The Jews of Krakes
For the 50th anniversary of their tragic fate. This data was collected by teachers from Krakes between 1982 and 1989

 



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Ada Green Last updated: 28 June 2008

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