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Justin Gutmann's avatar

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...

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Thea Everett's avatar

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

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