Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania
Rosie getting records of her family from the National Archives
Sunset on the Baltic Sea
in Palanga
Click for astronomy in Lithuania
Street in Kaunas
Hotel breakfast
Cut-corner building:
Jewish merchants had their home and business on a corner,
with a diagonal entrance door, to attract customers from both streets.
Liepaja (Libau), Latvia
Looking for Jon's ancestors
Lithuanian Heritage tour group
Local transportation
The house where Rosie's grandmother was born in 1881
A building behind the house
Barn
Outhouse
Rosie with Puskelniai
Community Leader
and our Lithuanian shtetl guide
Potashinsky Place -- Inn and Tavern owned by Rosie's great-grandparents
Back of Inn
Entrance to the inn
The inn is about 135 years old
Current residents of the inn
Train station at Marijampole
Cousin's shtetl of Azuolu Buda, Lithuania
House of Rosie's mother's cousin, Yankel
Yankel's Tavern
Patches that all Jews had to wear on their clothes
Pits at Paneriai where 100,000 people, mostly Jews, were shot between 1941 and 1944
Path to killing field in Marijampole along the Sesupe River
Rosie brought stones from her garden at home to place in remembrance of her relatives who were killed here
Rosie in the field over the mass grave of her cousins
and great aunt
and 9000 others murdered by the Nazis in September of 1941