Jewish Cemeteries

Jewish Cemeteries
A total of three Jewish cemeteries can be visited in and around the city centre, although sadly information about them remains as patchy as the vandalised cemeteries themselves. The Old Jewish Cemetery to the north of Ąžuolynas, now a popular place for local drunk youths, comes complete with swastikas painted on the walls and a forlorn selection of broken gravestones. The Old Jewish Cemetery in Vilijampolė was raped of most of its gravestones some time after WWII but if you walk to the far northern end of the field you’ll find many old gravestones, some hundreds of years old, on the hill surrounded by a wood. Kaunas’ only remaining active Jewish Cemetery in Aleksotas can be accessed through a gate at the back of the Naleksta factory on H ir O Minkovskių.

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