MEMORIALS FOR LITHUANIAN SHTETLS

IN CHOLON, ISRAEL

Photographed by Judi Langer-Surnamer Caplan Judith27@aol.com

While walking through the Jewish Cemetery in Cholon, Israel, one can see memorial after memorial to the many Jewish shtetls that were flourishing all over Europe before the Shoah. Among the towns of “Litvakia” for which memorials were erected in Cholon is the shtetl of PLUNGIAN (PLUNGĖ), Lithuania.

In Memory of

The Holy Ones of the Community of

Plungian

Lita

To perpetuate the memories

Of the holy ones of Plungian

Who were slaughtered by the Nazis

and their murderous Lithuanian helpers

And in memory of the inhabitants of the town who fell in the war

against the Nazis

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http://museumoffamilyhistory.com/hme-lithuania.htm

PLUNGE, LITHUANIA

Jacob Josef Bunka's wood sculptures in the Koshan forest where the Plungyan Jews were shot and buried in 6 mass graves.

Memorial in the killing field.

Yakov Bunka, pictured here, is the creator of these many wooden memorials in Plunge.

These memorials were carved from trees in the woods.

http://museumoffamilyhistory.com/hme-lithuania.htm

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http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/plunge/plu008.html

Jewish Cemetery in Plunge.
Photo taken by Ted Margulis in August, 1994

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Jacob Josef Bunka and the memorial stone at Koshan which says: In this place July 1941, the Nazi assassins and their local collaborators gruesomely murdered 1800 Jews from Plunge, children, women and men.

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