Obj. ID: 27331
Jewish Funerary Art Jewish cemetery in Šeduva, Lithuania
According to ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, the Jewish Cemetery in Seduva was established in the first half of the 18th century when the local Chevra Kadisha society acquired a plot of land for burials on the edge of the city. After the extermination in 1941, the cemetery fell into disrepair and was neglected until the end of the Soviet Era. Therefore it is difficult to determine the fate of many of the disappeared tombstones from the cemetery. In 1995, the cemetery was included in the Cultural Property Register of the Republic of Lithuania. From 2013 to 2014 the old Jewish cemetery was cleaned up, a fence was erected and over 800 headstones were discovered and catalogued, of which 400 were identifiable, with the oldest burials dating from 1779 or 1780 and the most recent from 1932. Today inside the territory there is a memorial – a Star of David shaped from the fragments of former gravestones. The fence is masonry-concrete, 1.5 meters in height with metal gates.
The nearest house to the cemetery is located at No.12 Žvejų street. The cemetery is on the other side of the road, north from the house.
