Obj. ID: 48833
Jewish Funerary Art  Jewish cemetery in Sudargas, Lithuania - Photos of 2021

To the main object: Jewish Cemetery in Sudargas, Lithuania

According to ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, the Sudargas Jewish cemetery was established at the end of the 18th century on one of the five Sudargas mounds near the Nemen river. The cemetery existed until the destruction of the Sudargas Jewish community in summer 1941. In 1944, the hill’s landscape, where the cemetery was located, was changed and a farmhouse was built on the territory. The cemetery became surrounded by cultivated fields. In 1998, when the cemetery was registered into the Cultural Property Register of the Republic of Lithuania, only 20 gravestones or their fragments were found. 

There are 26 gravestones and about 10 fragments of graves without gravestones found by ESJF team. 

To reach the cemetery, drive north on Balnakalnio street in Sudargas, pass No.12 and continue to the end of the street and the cemetery will be in front of you.