קעידאן — בתי החיים

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Kėdainiai (Keidan) · קעידאן

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Jewish cemeteries, Lakštingalų and Kanapinskio streets, just outside Kėdainiai, Kaunas County, Lithuania

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1.TWO GROUNDS, JUST OUTSIDE THE TOWN, on Lakštingalų and Kanapinskio. They were one cemetery until they were divided — a map from 1933 still shows the single ground — and each now has its own boundary and its own protection.
2.The newer one is where the stones are: getting on for six hundred matzevos, the oldest inscription from the eighteen-sixties and probably older ground than that.
3.THE OLD GROUND IS ON A BLUFF ABOVE THE SMILGA, and the river is what destroyed it. More than half of it went to flooding and to vandalism. Sources disagree about what is left — one says nothing stands and there is only a monument in a fenced field, another says about a hundred stones are still up, in every condition from good to unreadable. Go expecting the monument and treat anything standing as a bonus.

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Kaunas (KUN)Kaunas International· 37 km · 23 mi straight-line· regional
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Vilnius (VNO)Vilnius International· 111 km · 69 mi straight-line· regional
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Minsk (MSQ)Minsk National· 304 km · 189 mi straight-line· regional
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