These Lithuanian thingies sound nice I'll try them in honour of my grandparents who left Latvia in 1905. When I visited in 1998 there was not a single Gutmann (or Gutmannis) in any telephone directory but in the National Book of Remembrance there were pages...
It's confronting isn't it. It was a very similar experience for us. The history seemed to be wiped bar one plaque on a wall where a Synagogue had once stood, but according to what we can find online Marijampolé was majority Jewish for most of the 1800s
These Lithuanian thingies sound nice I'll try them in honour of my grandparents who left Latvia in 1905. When I visited in 1998 there was not a single Gutmann (or Gutmannis) in any telephone directory but in the National Book of Remembrance there were pages...
It's confronting isn't it. It was a very similar experience for us. The history seemed to be wiped bar one plaque on a wall where a Synagogue had once stood, but according to what we can find online Marijampolé was majority Jewish for most of the 1800s