Obj. ID: 48700
Jewish Funerary Art  Jewish cemetery in Pušalotas, Lithuania

According to ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, the Jewish cemetery is dated back to the mid 19th century. This cemetery is one of the best-preserved in Lithuania. The cemetery was still in use until the destruction of the Jewish community during the Holocaust. It is known that 10 Jews were shot there in July 1941. Nothing was built on the cemetery grounds in the Soviet time. This cemetery was digitized in 2007 by Howard Margol, and Yulik and Daniel Gurevich. In 1993 the cemetery was registered into the Cultural Property Register of the Republic of Lithuania. There is a memorial stone with an inscription in Yiddish, Hebrew, and Lithuanian: “The old Jewish cemetery. May their memory be eternal.” There is a 1.2m high wooden fence, it is rotten and crooked in many places and some sections are missing. There are about 200 gravestones.