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IntersectionLieuXVIIe–XXe siècle

וֶקְשְׁן

Region: Lituanie

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Viekšniai (Vekshn in Yiddish), a town in Samogitia (western Lithuania), was home to a documented Jewish presence since the seventeenth century. The community was annihilated in 1941.

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The days of this book

This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Viekšniai (Vekshn) give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.

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