A walk through Jewish Pakruojis            overall map

Chapter 4

detail map 3:

 

From house 86 we reach the corner of the Dariaus Gireno Gatve and Pr S Usinsko gatve, it was the border of old and new Pakruojis before the war
 

Then we turn to the left and on our right we see:

 

house 51- 52, owned by  Frunia Kerkeliene  and Iršas Klovanskis
 

We turn to the left and on our left there were two houses: 89 and 87 where lived: Abromas Mendelštamas  and Šmuilis Joffe .

A bit futher on our right we see the remnants of the firehouse (F on the map)

 

Former firehouse. There was a pond next to the firehouse. In case of fire the bells were rung.
 

From the firehouse we continue to the Vytauto gatve and on our right we see

 

house 101 (the yellow house); Šurnienė Goldė

 

On our left we see house 85 where lived Volkas Giršas, before he moved to house 30. The house doesn't exist anymore.

At nr. 84, at the corner of Dariaus ir Gireno gatve and Vytauto gatve, lived a Jewish woman called Frida Aronovičienė . The house doesn’t exist anymore. 

From house 84, we cross the Vytauto gatve and we see house nr.74 on the map, but this house is gone. It is, nowadays, an empty spot. In 1935,  it belonged to Majus Jenkelis. 

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