The Holocaust in Telšiai (Yiddish: Telz) was carried out by the local Lithuanian leadership with occasional supervision by Nazi German units. The Jewish...
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Telšiai (pronunciation; Samogitian: Telšē; Polish: Telsze) is a city in Lithuania with about 21,499 inhabitants. It is the capital of Telšiai County and...
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Luokė (category Towns in Telšiai County)
the women and children from nearby towns: see, eg, The Holocaust in Telšiai. Rabbi Chaim Rabinowitz, who became head of the Telshe Yeshiva in Telšiai...
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Telshe Yeshiva (category Jews and Judaism in Telšiai)
opened Yeshivah Birchas Chaim in Lakewood, New Jersey. Telšiai Yeshiva art Telšiai Yeshiva building Holocaust in Telšiai "about 130" (2013). Ed Wittenberg...
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Žarėnai (category Towns in Telšiai County)
(Samogitian: Žarienā, Polish: Żorany) is a town in Telšiai County, Lithuania. According to the 2022 census, the town has a population of 900 people. During...
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Plungė massacre (category Holocaust massacres and pogroms in Lithuania)
most of the 1,800 killed Jews stands at the Kaušėnai Holocaust memorial. Jonas Noreika was executed for treason in 1947. Holocaust in Telšiai The United...
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Justinas Staugaitis (category Members of the Council of Lithuania)
July 1943, Telšiai) was a Lithuanian Roman Catholic bishop, politician, educator, and author. He was one of the twenty signatories to the Act of Independence...
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Azriel Rabinowitz (category Lithuanian Jews who died in the Holocaust)
rosh yeshiva at the Telshe yeshiva of Lithuania and one of the youngest pre-Holocaust rosh yeshivas. He was born in Telz, Lithuania, in 1905, into a Jewish...
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Avraham Yitzchak Bloch (category Jews and Judaism in Telšiai)
was the Rosh yeshiva of the Telz Yeshiva in Lithuania, and one of the greatest pre-Holocaust rabbinic figures. Avraham Yitzchak Bloch was born in 1891...
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Geruliai (category Villages in Telšiai County)
a village located in the Telšiai District Municipality, 10 kilometers from Telšiai, Lithuania. According to the census of 2001, the village has a population...
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Kuliai (category Towns in Telšiai County)
Kule) is a town in Telšiai County, Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the town has a population of 625 people. In June 1941, the local Lithuanian...
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Mažeikiai (category Cities in Telšiai County)
municipality in Telšiai County. It is the largest city that does not have its own county. Mažeikiai was first mentioned in written sources in 1335. A chronicler...
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Vincentas Borisevičius (category Roman Catholic bishops in the Soviet Union)
bishop of the newly created Diocese of Telšiai, invited Borisevičius to help him organize the diocese and the new priest seminary in Telšiai. The seminary...
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Lithuania (redirect from Science and technology in Lithuania)
Telšiai County Utena County Vilnius County Baltic Sea Latvia Belarus Poland Russia The current system of administrative division was established in 1994...
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Eliyahu Meir Bloch (category Rabbis from Telšiai)
in Rabbi Gordon's yeshiva, the Telshe Yeshiva in Telšiai. His father later took the positions of rabbi in Varniai and Shadova. He returned to Telšiai...
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Ponary massacre (category Holocaust massacres and pogroms in Lithuania)
Russians, by German SD and SS and the Lithuanian Ypatingasis būrys killing squads, during World War II and the Holocaust in the Generalbezirk Litauen of Reichskommissariat...
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Elchonon Wasserman (category The Holocaust in Lithuania)
In 1890, the family moved to Bauska (Boisk) in present-day Latvia, and Wasserman, then 15 years old, studied in the Telshe Yeshiva in Telšiai (Telz) under...
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controlled. Most of the ghettos were set up by the Third Reich in the course of World War II. In total, according to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum...
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Nevarėnai (category Towns in Telšiai County)
in Telšiai County, Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the town has a population of 552 people. During the Second World War, 150 Jews from the town...
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Jonas Noreika (category Holocaust perpetrators in Lithuania)
collaborator. In July 1941, he was the leader of the Lithuanian Activist Front in the Telšiai district. Noreika later served as governor of the Šiauliai district...
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Gargždai". Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania. Vilnius, Lithuania: Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum. 2010. "Execution of Jews in Gargždai". The Map of Holocaust by Bullets...
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Tverai (category Towns in Telšiai County)
norintiems geriau pažinti gimtąjį kraštą (in Lithuanian) (4th ed.). Vilnius: Algimantas. p. 510. ISBN 9986-509-90-4. "Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania". v t e...
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Tryškiai (category Towns in Telšiai County)
in Telšiai district municipality, Lithuania with a population of about 1,000. In late July 1941, 70 to 80 Jewish men were killed on the banks of the Virvyte...
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Plateliai (category Towns in Telšiai County)
lined up at the edge of the pit and shot. "Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania". "Yahad - in Unum". Settlements in Žemaitija National Park Awarded "EDEN - European...
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towns (shtetls) depopulated of Jews during the Holocaust. The liquidation actions were carried out mostly by the Nazi Einsatzgruppen and Order Police battalions...
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Seda, Lithuania (category Cities in Telšiai County)
Nepomuk which was consecrated in 1793. Before the Holocaust, the town also had a Jewish synagogue, first mentioned in 1657. The wooden building survived World...
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Plungė (category Cities in Telšiai County)
Lithuania prior to the Holocaust. Remembrance sites for the events of 1941 exist in and around the town. The Jewish holocaust survivor and sculptor Jacob...
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Michael Noyk (category Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United Kingdom)
Jewish couple in the Lithuanian city of Telšiai, Noyk moved to Dublin with his family when he was one year old. He was educated at Dublin's The High School...
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List of shtetls (category The Holocaust-related lists)
included here. List of villages and towns depopulated of Jews during the Holocaust Where Once We Walked "JewishGen KehilaLinks". kehilalinks.jewishgen...
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Rietavas (category Cities in Telšiai County)
Retrieved 2017-07-15. "Memorial book: the Ritavas Community (Pages 143-164)". Jewishgen.org. Retrieved 2017-07-15. "Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania". Holocaustatlas...
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