Location:
Latitude 54 deg 39', Longitude 23 deg 02'
•148 kilometers (91.2 miles) west of Vilnius (Vilna)
•37 miles (60 km) South west of Kaunas (Kovna)
Location:
Latitude 54 deg 39', Longitude 23 deg 02'
•148 kilometers (91.2 miles) west of Vilnius (Vilna)
•37 miles (60 km) South west of Kaunas (Kovna)
VILKOVISHK, Lithuania
Vilkovishk Search Engines at JewishGen.org
JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF) (click here)
JewishGen Lithuania Database and All Lithuania Database (ALD) (click here)
Vilkovishk Holocaust Information Resources
Yahzreit (memorial) dates (from http://lithnames.nux.co.uk/dates.php)
July 27-28, 1941; 3-4 Av
September 24, 1941: 3 Tishri
October 13, 1941: 22 Tishri
Search the Yad Vashem Database and Pages of Testimony (click here)
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum resources (click here)
Background Information
• VILKAVIŠKIS (in Lithuanian)
• VILKAVISHKIS
• WILKOWYSZKI
• WYLKOWYSZKI
Also known as:
Other Vilkovishk Resources at other websites
Web site documenting a visit to Vilkovishk and its “New” Jewish cemetery in August 2007 (click here)
YIVO Institute “People of 1000 Towns” photo archive (click here)
Pre-war Vilkovishk, showing old synagogue in background
(Photo courtesy of Yad Vashem)
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This page originally compiled by Joseph Rosin
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Page updated by Wayne Frankel June 30, 2007
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Link to comprehensive external website from Ralph Salinger, with historical info and his first-hand interviews recollecting a very special shtetl that once was