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Kaunas - Vilijampole
Posted: Wed October 27, 2010 07:25 PM UTC
My maternal grandfather and his entire family primarily lived on Mesininku gatve in Slobodka (Vilijampole), and were butchers for at least three generations.

The Butchers Kloyz (Synagogue) was located on the corner of Ariogalos gatve and Linkuvos gatve, where the Kovno Ghetto Memorial is located. This building address is either Ariogalos 20/21 or Linkuvos 20/21, and a wooden house is still there. What is the distance and proximity between this memorial and this house address?

My great-great grandfather lived on Ariogalos gatve 74a, and his son lived nearby on Kokliu gatve 9. Other relatives also lived nearby on Ariogalos 97 and Veliuonos 19. Moreover, there was also a synagogue on Veliuonos gatve 29, and this building still exists.

What were the street addresses of the Old and New Beis-Medrash and the Old Great Synagogue in Slobodka/Vilijampole?

Lastly, behind Mesininku gatve, directly in the middle of this street, is Plateliu gatve (Sinagoga Gas). I was informed by a fellow researcher that this little street/alley had synagogues (kloyzn and shtiblech), prayer-houses and small yeshivos (not to be confused with the much larger and famous Slobodka Yeshiva on Paneriu gatve 9).

Can anyone provide historical information, as well as photographs and images, of these streets and addresses?
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Re: Kaunas - Vilijampole
Posted: Wed October 27, 2010 07:29 PM UTC
I don't know if this will be helpful but I have quite a lot of photos of Vilijampole on my Kaunas page in a travelogue, and of the Kovno ghetto memorial and other Vilijampole memorials in my Kaunas off-the-beaten-path tips:

http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/73696/6d84c/

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Re: Kaunas - Vilijampole
Posted: Thu October 28, 2010 04:00 AM UTC
Try typing the addresses into http://www.googlemaps.com and doing a street view. You should be able to see the houses if they've been mapped.

Good luck.

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Re: Kaunas - Vilijampole
Posted: Thu October 28, 2010 06:04 AM UTC
Vilijampole is mapped on googlemaps but not, I think, at streetview level (I couldn't get it to work anyway). Individual buildings are not shown.

Ariogalos Gatve is about 5/10 minutes walk from the ghetto memorial. Linkuvos Gatve is further away, perhaps 15/20 minutes.

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