Krakes – tangential travel

16 July 2023

Josvainiai Lithuania - Google Search

Josvainiai is a small town in Kėdainiai district, central Lithuania. It is located on the Šušvė River 10 km southwest from Kėdainiai.

With Laima Ardaviciene and Harry Gorfine

Kedainiai Jewish Cemetery - Google Search

CEMETERY: Kedainiai has two Jewish cemeteries, just outside town. The old one, founded in the 18th century, was destroyed, has no gravestones,…

Harry & Laima doing maintenance

Daukšiai

On Thursday August 28, 1941, a group of over 2,000 Jewish men, women and children from Kėdainiai and the nearby settlements of Šėta and Žeimiai were marched to the hamlet of Daukšiai approximately 5km north of the town centre and shot in small batches by 20 Lithuanian volunteers. The corpses we

Lost Shtetl

A world-class institution, the Lost Shtetl Museum, will open its doors in Šeduva in 2023. “Shtetl” is the Yiddish word for small town, and the name Lost Shtetl Museum was chosen to reflect the disappearance of Jewish communities that were destroyed during the Holocaust in Lithuania and throughout Ea…

Update on opening of Lost Shetl: now in Summer 2024

Seduva - Google Search

Šeduva is a town in the Radviliškis district municipality, Lithuania. It is located 18 km east of Radviliškis.
Šeduva was an agricultural town dealing in cereals, flax and linseed, pigs and geese and horses, at the site of a royal estate and beside a road from Kaunas to Riga. Wikipedia

Windmill Restaurant Seduva - Google Search

Jewish settlers in Lithuania - Seduva, Darbenai, Kedainiai, Ukmerge, ... The wooden mill has burned down, but the brick windmill built in its place,…

Krakes Lithuania - Google Search

Krake, Krakes, Krakiu, Krakių, Krakės, Kroki, Кракес · Populated place - a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work.

On the road to Krakes

Krakes Cemetery

Meeting with Robertas Dubinka – Education Director and Daiva Dubinkienė, teacher.

Discussing In My Pocket Project.

https://elirab.au/project-update/

Back in Josvainiai for dinner

One day last May, I visited two schools in Lithuania, one in Kedainiai, the other in nearby Krakes.

I was able to see the outstanding work two teachers have been doing in educating young Lithuanian students on the Jewish history of their towns.

I have previously written about my special morning in Kedainiai with the students of Atzalyno Gimnazija.

Click below for my report:

Later that day, Atzalyno’s English teacher, Laima Ardaviciene and I visited the small town of Krakes.

We met the history teacher, Robertas Dubinka at the Krakes Community Centre where he spoke about the Jews of Krakes and the school project he had led.

In 2002 Robertas and his students at the Mikalojaus Katkaus Gimnazija undertook a project in which they interviewed some Jewish residents of Krakes, who have since passed away. This project was translated into English and submitted to Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Centre in Jerusalem. Robertas went to Jerusalem to make the presentation.