ראסיין — פלאץ פון בית החיים

Raseiniai — the site of the Jewish cemetery

Raseiniai · ראסיין

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How to get there

Site of the Jewish cemetery, in the yard of an apartment block, Raseiniai, Kaunas County, Lithuania

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The exact grave coordinates are not confirmed yet — go by the address and ask locally. We don't publish a coordinate we haven't checked.

1.IT IS THE YARD OF A BLOCK OF FLATS. The cemetery was destroyed during or after the war and a modern apartment building was put up over it. There are no stones and there is no gate.
2.WHAT MARKS IT IS A TABLET ON A WALL, saying in Yiddish and in Lithuanian that a Jewish cemetery was on this spot. That is the whole of it, and it is what you go to stand in front of.
3.Raseiniai was one of the large Litvishe kehillos, so the ground under that yard holds hundreds and probably thousands of kevorim. Nobody knows who or where.
4.Lithuania has something like two hundred abandoned Jewish cemeteries. Maceva has been photographing what stones survive across the country, transcribing the Hebrew and translating it — worth a look before travelling to any Lithuanian town on this site, since some grounds have been fully catalogued and some, like this one, have nothing left to catalogue.

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Closest airports

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Kaunas (KUN)Kaunas International· 76 km · 47 mi straight-line· regional
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Vilnius (VNO)Vilnius International· 161 km · 100 mi straight-line· regional
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Gdańsk (GDN)Gdańsk Lech Wałęsa· 317 km · 197 mi straight-line· regional
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Verification and source

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