Talk:Jurbarkas

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Well, is it an entry about a town or a holocaust history? Come on.
 * Sign your edits, please.--Lokyz (talk) 09:03, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

Jewish Diaspora
I did took a liberty to remove the part of text from the article, since it is vague relate to the city. If one wants to create article Jewish diaspora from Jurbarkas, feel free to do so. In this form it is barely relevant:

''Few of Yurburg’s Jewish citizens survived World War II. Of those that did, some remained in Vilnius or Kaunas after the War, while most emigrated to Palestine, the US, Canada, Mexico, South Africa, Germany, or other nations – in some cases joining family and friends who had left Lithuania before the War.

Former residents, their descendents, and scholars have chronicled Jewish life in Yurburg before, during, and after the War through memoirs, biographies, websites and a memorial. The Memorial Book of the Jewish Community of Yurburg, Lithiuania was published in Hebrew in 1991 (Josef Rosin, Editor), and was updated and translated into English in 2003 (Joel Alpert, Editor) and posted at []. The Jewish Genealogical Organization features a website on the Jewish community of Yurburg - []. In addition, the recently completed Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin commemorates the Krelitz Family of Yurburg in the ‘Family Fates’ room of the Memorial’s Information Center -http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/yurburg/Berlin.html and http://www.stiftung-denkmal.de/en.

The Jewish cemetery at Yurburg stands as a lone sentinel of its once-thriving and vibrant community, and one of the best preserved in a small town of Lithuania. Over 300 headstones, some dating as early the 1700s, are visible. In recent years, volunteers and government officials have made significant strides to repair, maintain and archive the headstones at the cemetery. Restoration and maintenance work at the cemetery is ongoing, and represents collaborative efforts by numerous volunteer and government organizations and individuals, including former Yurburg residents, their descendents around the world (via the US-based “Friends of the Yurburg Jewish Cemetery”), Jewish and non-Jewish individuals and groups from both inside and outside Lithuania (including the Kaunas Jewish Community Center) - as well as by dedicated local officials and residents from present-day Jurbarkas.

In 2007, significant restorative work was conducted at the site by volunteers from Dartmouth University, together with volunteer students from Yurburg High School (http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Yurburg/Dartmouth.html), and http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Eprojpreservation/yurburg/photos.html).  Jurbarkas resident and volunteer RiVa Vaiva has been painstakingly re-inscribing lettering on headstones at the Yurburg Jewish -  Cemetery http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/yurburg/Rita.html.  And the United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad has also designated the Jewish Cemetery of Yurburg as an official project - http://www.heritageabroad.gov/projects/lithuania.htm.

Inquiries or gestures of support to further work at the Yurburg Jewish Cemetery may be directed to the United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad.''

--Lokyz (talk) 09:08, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

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