Boris Feldblyum Collection - SEIRIJAI, Lithuania
(also Saray, Sarheya, Serai, Seree, Serehai, Serey, Serheya, Serijai, Seyriay, Sierijai)

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BFC-00665
SEIRIJAI (also Saray, Sarheya, Serai, Seree, Serehai, Serey, 
Serheya, Serijai, Seyriay, Sierijai), Lithuania. 
Wooden synagogue in the ancient Jewish community.  
Photo ca. 1937.

BFC-00666
SEIRIJAI (also Saray, Sarheya, Serai, Seree, Serehai, Serey, 
Serheya, Serijai, Seyriay, Sierijai), Lithuania. 
Torah study house.  Photo 1937.

BFC-00667
SEIRIJAI (also Saray, Sarheya, Serai, Seree, Serehai, Serey, 
Serheya, Serijai, Seyriay, Sierijai), Lithuania. 
Five seals of different Jewish institutions.  Ca. 1937.

BFC-00794
SEIRIJAI (also Saray, Sarheya, Serai, Seree, Serehai, Serey, 
Serheya, Serijai, Seyriay, Sierijai), Lithuania. 
M. Finkel's Hotel on 24, Langegasse (Long St.)  Big sign on the 
right reads: Dentist M.Finkelene, lives on Rynkos St. in the 
Eiman's house; small sign on the left is the advertisement of a 
Beer Store.  Photo 1930's. 

BFC-00795
SEIRIJAI (also Saray, Sarheya, Serai, Seree, Serehai, Serey, 
Serheya, Serijai, Seyriay, Sierijai), Lithuania. 
Ancient Jewish cemetery on the outskirts of the town.  
Frida Ruderman, whose family lived in Seirijai until World War II, 
pays her last visit to the cemetery before emigrating from the 
Soviet Union.  Photo ca. 1976.

BFC-00796
SEIRIJAI (also Saray, Sarheya, Serai, Seree, Serehai, Serey, 
Serheya, Serijai, Seyriay, Sierijai), Lithuania. 
A place near the town where 1900 Jews of Seirijai and local 
villages were slaughtered by the local Lithuanian police in 
September, 1941.  Photo ca. 1976.

BFC-00797
SEIRIJAI (also Saray, Sarheya, Serai, Seree, Serehai, Serey, 
Serheya, Serijai, Seyriay, Sierijai), Lithuania. 
Grave stone on the place near the town where 1900 Jews of 
Seirijai and local villages were slaughtered by the local 
Lithuanian police in September, 1941.
Photo ca. 1976.

BFC-00798
SEIRIJAI (also Saray, Sarheya, Serai, Seree, Serehai, Serey, 
Serheya, Serijai, Seyriay, Sierijai), Lithuania. 
A plaque from the grave stone on the place near the town where 
in September, 1941 1900 Jews of Seirijai and local villages 
were slaughtered by the local Lithuanian police.  Lithuanian 
inscription on the plaque reads: On this place in September, 1941 
Hitler's occupants and bourgeois nationalists killed 1900 
inhabitants of Seirijai and surroundings - men, women and children.  
Photo ca. 1976.


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