Comments on: Rokiškis

By: Joseph Landman

Joseph Landman — Sun, 23 May 2010 11:38:11 +0000

i’m from israel and i’ve been to rokiskis to see the town where my grandmother was born run away from when the nazis and their collaboretors came. from what i manged to learn from the lithuanian guide we hired, on photo 5, one of the small houses near the mansion was used as a holding place for resisting jews and russian communists until all of the prisoners and jews were killed in one of the nearby woods.

By: Judy Kirson

Judy Kirson — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:31:06 +0000

I know there is a Jewish graveyard in Rokiskis, because someone in Israel sends money to a non-Jewish woman there to care for the place. Unless it has been erased over the last ten years or so (the last time I heard of this arrangement).

By: Ben Rabin

Ben Rabin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:47:50 +0000

I was depressed by this film as I could not see any signs that Jews had lived there. No Synagogues, not even a ruin. No sign of a grave yard.
Is it because the Jewish gravestones were used as paving stones by Lithuanians?