Obj. ID: 8939
Jewish Funerary Art Jewish cemetery in Raguva, Lithuania
According to ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, the Jewish cemetery was established in the 17th century. The Jews of Panevezys, who did not have their own cemetery at that time, used to bury their dead in Raguva. There are around 200 gravestones and their fragments in the cemetery. In 1948, a Soviet military cemetery was established in the southeastern part of the abandoned part of the Jewish cemetery, The remains of the Soviet soldiers who were killed in the battles of Raguva area were moved here. In 2015, the cemetery was registered into the Cultural Property Register of the Republic of Lithuania. There is a memorial stone with an inscription in Hebrew, Yiddish, and Lithuanian: “The old Jewish cemetery. May their memory be eternal”. There are three types of fence: a concrete fence, about 1-1.5m in height; a metal mesh which is about 1m in height and the remains of a stone fence about 0.3-0.5m tall.
