Joe Woolf's Pictures of Lithuania

These pictures were taken by Joe Woolf in the 1990's
and published on the JFRA web site with his permission.

Anyone can use a few of the pictures to illustrate their own web pages
or print pages with "Copyright Joe Woolf 1992-1996" written over or under them.

These pictures cannot be used without permission
for commercial purposes.

Please contact Micha Reisel at
micha@ genealogy.org.il for details.

A great thanks to Carol Hoffman and Linda Glazer
for their work in making this possible!

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Anyksiai - Babtiai & Vandziogala - Basagola - Joniskis - Kaunas - Keidan - Krekenava - Kurshan - Plunge - Ponar - Ramygala - Seta - Siauliai - Surviliskis - Telsiai - Ukmerge - Vitebsk - Zagare


Anyksiai- old shul - August 1992	Anyksiai - approach - August 1992	Anyksiai - probably old Jewish homes - August 1992	Anyksiai - old Jewish cemetery, legible tombstone - August 1992

Anyksiai - old Jewish cemetery, collapsed tombstones (1) - August 1992	Anyksiai - old Jewish cemetery, collapsed tombstones (2) - August 1992	Anyksiai - old Jewish cemetery, collapsed tombstones (3) - August 1992	Babtiai - mass grave memorial - 20 July 1996

Babtiai - mass graves - 20 July 1996	Borekas woods, near Vandziogala - mass graves - 20 July 1996	Basagola- another possible Woolf family origin - August 1996	Joniskis- massacre site of 495 Jews, new memorial stone - 26 July1996

Joniskis - remains of old Jewish cemetery, entrance and memorial stone - 26 July 1996	Joniskis (?) - but stone put up during Communist times - 26 July 1996	Joniskis - old Jewish cemetery surviving tombstones - 26 July 1996	Kaunas- 7th Fort (1), massacre site of 3000 Jews - July 1996

Kaunas - 7th Fort (2), massacre site of 3000 Jews - July 1996	Kaunas - 4th Fort (1), massacre site of 1941 - July 1996	Kaunas - 4th Fort (2), massacre site of 1941 - July 1996	Kaunas - 4th Fort (3) massacre site of 1941 - July 1996

Kaunas - old Jewish cemetery memorial stone - July 1996	Kaunas - old Jewish cemetery old tombstone - July 1996	Kaunas - new and current Jewish cemetery - July 1996	Kaunas - new and current Jewish cemetery memorial stone for bones of those bodies that were burned - July 1996

Kaunas scenes (1) - July 1996	Kaunas - old Jewish neighborhood (1) - July 1996	Kaunas - old Jewish neighborhood (2) - July 1996	Kaunas - synagogue inside. Memorial plaques to shtetls, places and towns - July 1996

Kaunas - synagogue reconstruction (1) - August 1992	Kaunas - synagogue reconstruction (2) - August 1992	Kaunas - approach to 9th Fort - 19 August 1992	Kaunas - 9th Fort museum entrance - August 1992

Kaunas - old city - August 1992	Kaunas - Regional Archives, entrance - July 1996	Keidan- old Jewish cemetery - No.8 of negative Yosef ben Chaim LUBINSKY, 1934 - July 1996	Keidan - Jewish home of institution, note Magen David, obviously area of prosperous Jews - 1992

Keidan - old Jewish cemetery, Yosef Gershon ben Yitshak Dov KROST, 9 May 1914 - August 1996	Keidan - old Jewish cemetery, Avigdor ben Izaak GOLDBERG, Shavuot 1915- August 1996	Krekenava- approach - August 1992	Krekenava - on left Beit Midrash now used as social and sports hall; on right former synagogue converted to apartments - August 1992

Krekenava - remains of Jewish cemetery site - August 1992	Krekenava - very likely former Jewish homes - August 1992	Krekenava - not far from former Beit Midrash & synagogue - August 1992	Krekenava - memorial old Jewish cemetery - August 1992

Krekenava - sign old Jewish cemetery - August 1992	Krekenava - market square (3) probably old Jewish homes - August 1992	Krekenava - possible former Jewish homes - August 1992	Krekenava - looking down the street at possible former Jewish homes - August 1992

Krekenava - Bet Midrash - August 1992	Krekenava - old Jewish cemetery, memorial stone - July 1996	Kurshan - obviously old Jewish home - 23 July 1996	Kurshan - old Jewish cemetery, plaque already vandalised, put up new and vandalised - 23 July 1996

Plunge- synagogue street - 25 July 1996	Plunge - mass grave of 1800 Jews murdered here 15-16 July 1941- 25 July 1996	Plunge - looks like old beit midrash- 25 July 1996	Plunge - street, obviously Jewish homes in old days - 25 July 1996

Plunge - mass grave and memorial stone of 1800 Jews murdered here 15-16 July 1941. Jossel Bunke made 9 of the tree size sculptures; he is the only Jew in new Plunge- 25 July 1996	Ponar(Paniery Forest) - Memorial massacre site of 90,000 people(2) - July 1996	Ponar (Paniery Forest) - massacre (3) - 1 July 1996	Ponar (Paniery Forest) - massacre (4) - 1 July 1996

Ponar (Paniery Forest) - Memorial and mass graves of 6,000 Jewish victims(1) - August 1992	Ponar (Paniery Forest) - one of the massacre pits (5) - 1 July 1996	Ponar (Paniery Forest) - old Russian memorial (6) - 1 July 1996	Ramygala- probably old Jewish home - August 1992

Ramygala - second house probably old Jewish home - August 1992	Ramygala - looking down synagogue street at house probable old Jewish home - August 1992	Ramygala - sign on former synagogue in Yiddish and Lithuanian; former Beit Midrash now used as community center - August 1992	Ramygala - street of synagogue, factory of Jew ? Lipman (refer to video) - August 1992

Ramygala - obvious former Jewish home adjoing the Beit Midrash steet with synagogue - perhaps even of the rabbi - August 1992	Ramygala - some stones remaining in cemetery - August 1992	Ramygala - old Jewish cemetery remnants of tombstone (1) - August 1992	Ramygala - old Jewish cemetery remnants of tombstone (2) - August 1992

Setacentre - direction sign to Ukmerkge (Vilkomir) (6) - 19 July 1996	Seta - public building (includes police station and post office) across road from my Zeida's home (blown up by the Germans in 1944) and church, on Keidainiai Road - August 1992	Seta - market square & new shopping center and Panevezys Road; part of church on left - August 1992	Seta - another side street next to church Panesvzys roadway - August 1992

Seta - Panesvzyes Road, house on probable site of my parents' home rented from a friend, where I was born - August 1992	Seta - looking down Panesvzys Road toward church on what were once Jewish homes; I was born on this Panesvzyes road - August 1992	Seta - looking down Keidainiai Road towards village centre, showing wall of Christian cemetery - August 1992	Seta - looking down Keidainiai Road towards village centre - August 1992

Seta - another view looking backwards (south) toward Zeimelis - 20 August 1992	Seta - surrounding fields (1) - August 1992	Seta - surrounding fields (2). They learned from the Jews how to grow cucmbers successfully - August 1992	Seta - village sign coming from south, Zeimelis - 20 August 1992

Seta - church on corner of Panesvzys & Keidainiai Roads - August 1992	Seta - Panesvzys Road, part of church on right - August 1992	Seta - former home of Itzik der Shuster adjoining Beit Midrash - August 1992	Seta - synagogue - August 1992

Seta - synagogue (Text on back of photo) - August 1992	Siauliai- ghetto center, picture on wall	Siauliai - looking down from hotel - 27 July 1996	Surviliskis- street - 20 July 1996

Telsiai- second entrance - 25 July 1996	Telsiai - remains of old Jewish cemetery (2) - 25 July 1996	Telsiai - remains of old Jewish cemetery (3) - 25 July 1996	Telsiai - former Jewish girls school (?) (5) - 25 July 1996

Ukmerge- large synagogue - 1992	Ukmerge - large synagogue remains of inside - 18 August 1992	Ukmerge - large synagogue, remains of inside - 1992	Ukmerge - down the street from derelict synagogue, obviously old Jewish homes - 18 August 1992

Ukmerge - another former synagogue or Beit Midrash in center of town, business buildings opposite - 18 August 1992	Ukmerge - town centre - 18 August 1992	Ukmerge - shops, possible Jewish-owned once - 18 August 1992	Ukmerge - former Jewish homes near derelict synagogue - 18 August 1992

Ukmerge - former Jewish homes behind derelict synagogue - 18 August 1992	Ukmerge - possible home of rabbi next to derelict synagogue - 18 August 1992	Ukmerge - old shul converted to flats (1) - 18 August 1992	Ukmerge - old shul converted to flats (2) - 18 August 1992

Ukmerge - remains of Jewish graveyard - 18 August 1992	Ukmerge Pivonia Forest - memorial common graves 600 victims - 18 August 1992	Vitebsk- Chagall Museum (1) - 31 July 1996	Vitebsk - Chagall Museum (3) - 31 July 1996

Vitebsk - Chagall Museum (4) - 31 July 1996	Vitebsk (6) - 31 July 1996	Vitebsk - Jewish cemetery showing family plots (7) - 31 July 1996	Zagare- old synagogue next to gardens & square where Jews were machine-gunned - 2 Oct 1941(1) - 26 July 1996
			JFRA, the Jewish Family Research Association of Israel
Zagare - civic gardens & square (2) - 26 July 1996	Zagare - wall surrounding old Jewish cemetery (3) - 26 July 1996	Zagare - old Jewish cemetery (4) - 26 July 1996