The 3000 square meter museum complex is now the largest in all of the Baltic states. Until Nazi occupation in 1941, much of the country’s Jewish population lived in “shtetls”, small towns where they often resided side-by-side with other Lithuanians. One of these towns, Šeduva, was once home to 700 Jewish Lithuanians, all of whom were killed or had to escape during the Holocaust. The Šeduva shtetl was destroyed in August of 1941, when its residents were driven into the nearby Pakuteniai and Liaudiškiai forests and murdered. Only a handful, those who had escaped earlier and those who had been...
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