Jurbarkas
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Jurbarkas
Subject: Re: Yurgenborg???From: Joel Alpert Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:56:58 -0400X-Message-Number: 1In reply to Meri-Jane Rochelson's email on Yurburg (Jurbarkas in Lithuanian and on maps), I would respectfully would like to correct her statement that "most of the gravestones are very old and impossible to make out." I visited the cemetery in May 2005 and also in May 2001, and can definitely state that there are over 300 headstones standing and many are quite readable. I refer you to http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Yurburg/APPENDIXx.html#cemetery for more information and photos of the cemetery and a list of identified headstones.I excerpt: In 1995, Donald Levinsohn of Maple Shade New Jersey commissioned a Lithuanian to photograph the headstones of the Old Jewish Cemetery of Yurburg. Donald then sent the photos to Joel Alpert who translated the legible inscriptions. Of the 325 photos, Joel could read the first names and the family names of about half of them, and first names on most of the remainder (see the "List of headstones" below, revised by Max Michelson of Natick, Massachusetts).The English translation of the Yizkor book for Yurburg is available from JewishGen Mall http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Yurburg/Yizkor_Announce.htmlThe shtetlinks page for the town is at http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Yurburg/yurburg.htmlI would like to add that this town and its Krelitz family Shoah victims are featured in the new Berlin "Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe" in the Family Fates Room in the Information Centre of the Memorial. The memorial opened on May 10, 2005.Joel Alpert, (editor of the Translation of Yurburg Yizkor Book) Woburn, MA----------------------------------------------------------------------
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Subject: Re: Yurgenborg???From: Joel Alpert Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:56:58 -0400X-Message-Number: 1In reply to Meri-Jane Rochelson's email on Yurburg (Jurbarkas in Lithuanian and on maps), I would respectfully would like to correct her statement that "most of the gravestones are very old and impossible to make out." I visited the cemetery in May 2005 and also in May 2001, and can definitely state that there are over 300 headstones standing and many are quite readable. I refer you to http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Yurburg/APPENDIXx.html#cemetery for more information and photos of the cemetery and a list of identified headstones.I excerpt: In 1995, Donald Levinsohn of Maple Shade New Jersey commissioned a Lithuanian to photograph the headstones of the Old Jewish Cemetery of Yurburg. Donald then sent the photos to Joel Alpert who translated the legible inscriptions. Of the 325 photos, Joel could read the first names and the family names of about half of them, and first names on most of the remainder (see the "List of headstones" below, revised by Max Michelson of Natick, Massachusetts).The English translation of the Yizkor book for Yurburg is available from JewishGen Mall http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Yurburg/Yizkor_Announce.htmlThe shtetlinks page for the town is at http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Yurburg/yurburg.htmlI would like to add that this town and its Krelitz family Shoah victims are featured in the new Berlin "Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe" in the Family Fates Room in the Information Centre of the Memorial. The memorial opened on May 10, 2005.Joel Alpert, (editor of the Translation of Yurburg Yizkor Book) Woburn, MA----------------------------------------------------------------------
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