We posted recently on the EEA grant awarded toward the restoration of the long-derelict wooden synagogue in Pakruojis, Lithuania, which is to be rehabilitated and turned into a library.
Jewish Heritage Europe coordinator Ruth Ellen Gruber and several other people who participated in a conference on Jewish cemeteries held this past week in Vilnius visited Pakruojis following the conference (a report on this conference will be posted soon).
They also visited the Jewish cemetery outside town — finding its wooden fence in seriously deteriorated condition, and also finding that t he fencing enclosed only a portion of the cemetery: stones and fragments of stones could be found in the surrounding overgrown land on at least two sides outside the fence.
Here are updated photos of the sites.
2 comments on “Lithuania — updated pictures, Pakruojis”
Dears,
may be somebody have the list of names of Pakruojis jews lived here before WW II and
the names on matzevot?
Thank you for keeping us posted. Here I am starting to learn about our Jewish heritage in Texas. We are grateful for the roads paved by our ancestors.