ShtetLinks: VIRBALN, Lithuania

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Also known as:

• Verzhbelov
• Virbalis
• Verbal
• Verzhbelova
• Wirballen
• Wierzbolow

YAHRZHEIT (MEMORIAL) DATES OF LITHUANIAN JEWISH COMMUNITIES

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Location: Latitude 54' 38", Longitude 22' 50"

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• 90 kilometers (60 miles) Southwest of Kaunas (Kovno)
• 3 miles East of Kibart (Kybartai)

 

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Background Information

Click for Article on Virbaln by Joseph Rosin

English edited by Fania Hilelson-Jivotovsky

 

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Searchable Databases

• JewishGen connect with others researching VIRBALN? Click the button to search the JewishGen Family Finder database.
• United States Holocaust Research Institute Reading Room Information for Virbalis
• View the Pages of Testamony from Yad Vashem (First opened in November 2004) New December 4, 2004 

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• Check to see if there is a Yizkor book
• Check the Cemetery Database

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Please enter your family names and your name on the JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF) for Virbaln. You can find other reserachers below by searching JFGG.

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Saturday, November 27, 1999

Dear Mr. Rosin,

I have awaited your article on Virbaln, where my grandfather, may he rest in peace, was born in 1873, and I was amazed by erudition and detail you provided when the article became available on the Internet.

My grandfather, Gerson Guthman, was the son of Aaron Gutelevich (or Gitelevicz), and immigrated to the US at about 18 or 19. Aaron Gutelevich had a family by his first wife which included sons Nechemiah Mass, who moved to Berlin, and (I recently learned) Yitchak, known as Little Isaac the Pious, who remained in Virbaln. My grandfather was born of Mr. Gutelevich's second marriage. Based on my family tree, a young relative of mine recently found and interviewed Mrs. Mascha Benya Matz, the singer or Yiddish songs that you mention in your article!

Warmest regards,

Robert Lavine

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Click here to see interesting historical material supplied by Martin Miller. It includes post cards from 1921, 1927 and 1941, with a postmark after the Nazi invasion.

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Compiled by Joseph Rosin

Updated by JA January 28, 2006

Copyright © 1999 & 2004 Joseph Rosin

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