סלאבאדקע — בית החיים

Slabodka — the Jewish cemetery

Slabodka (Vilijampolė) · סלאבאדקע

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Jewish cemetery, Kalnų street, north of the Lopšelio street junction, Vilijampolė, Kaunas, Lithuania

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1.PEOPLE COME HERE FOR THE YESHIVA AND THIS IS NOT THE YESHIVA. Slabodka is a district of Kovno across the river, and what this listing is about is its burial ground.
2.It is on Kalnų street, north of where Lopšelio meets it. There is a mesh fence on concrete posts and an information board at the entrance, put up by the city's cemetery service, with the site's rules on it — no cars, no dogs, no fires, no smoking.
3.THE OBVIOUS FIELD IS NOT WHERE THE STONES ARE. About twenty matzevos stand where you come in. Walk to the far northern end and there are many more, some of them hundreds of years old, on the hill in the trees. Anyone who stops at the near field will conclude the cemetery is empty and be wrong.
4.The ground was destroyed in 1963 and the clean-up work on it, together with the Seventh Fort, only began in 2016.
5.SLABODKA WAS THE KOVNO GHETTO. After the German invasion in 1941 this district was where the ghetto was made — nearly thirty thousand Jews in it at its height, and ninety who got out alive when it was destroyed in 1944. You are walking in that as well.

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Kaunas (KUN)Kaunas International· 13 km · 8 mi straight-line· regional
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Vilnius (VNO)Vilnius International· 94 km · 59 mi straight-line· regional
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Minsk (MSQ)Minsk National· 291 km · 181 mi straight-line· regional
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