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Seredžius is a town in Lithuania on the right bank of the Nemunas River near its confluence with the Dubysa River. According to the 2011 census, it had a population of 590.
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View of Seredžius with Palemon Hill (hillfort) in the background
Shtetl
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Shtetl or shtetel is a Yiddish term for small towns with substantial Ashkenazi Jewish populations which existed in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. The term is used in the context of pre-Second Wo
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…was replaced by a Neo-Renaissance church dedicated to John the Baptist in 1913. The town had a large Jewish population prior to World War II, was a shtetl. In 1900 (when part of the Russian Empire) the town's Jewish population numbered 1,174. The town's Jews were killed on September 4, 1941. On that day…
An 1893 painting by the artist Isaak Asknaziy of a Jewish wedding with a klezmer band in a shtetl
A reconstruction of a traditional Jewish shtetl in the South African Jewish Museum in Cape Town, as it would have appeared in Lithuania
Interior of a wooden dwelling in a traditional Lithuanian shtetl, reconstructed in the South African Jewish Museum, Cape Town