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13. The Lost Shtetl – the Jewish Museum in Šeduva

The museum “The Lost Shtetl” is being built next to the renovated old Jewish cemetery of the town
of Šeduva. Here, town life of once the largest Jewish diaspora in Europe will be restored. Based on the
example of real life stories of Jews who lived in the town of Šeduva, the museum will present life and
traditions of a typical Lithuanian Jewish
family, the significance of Litvaks’ science,
cultural, social, and political movements,
their developed businesses and activi-
ties. Visitors of the museum will also get
acquainted with the tragic part of the
history of Lithuania and Šeduva town,
when during World War II, the lives of the
people of the shtetl were interrupted in
three nearby places of the Holocaust. The
grandparents of the former Israeli Presi-
dent Chaim Herzog and the grandmother
of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Ne-
„ tanyahu also come from Šeduva.

DID YOU KNOW THAT?

The future museum of Jews of Šeduva “The Lost Shtetl” has already been included in the presti-
gious list of European memorial sites, which is filled in by the Holocaust Memorial Information
Centre in Berlin.

14. Places of Jewish massacres in the vicinities of Šeduva

There are tree identified places in Pakuteniai and Liaudiškės forests where Jews were killed in the
vicinities of Šeduva town. In August of 1941, the entire Jewish community of the town of Šeduva was
killed – almost 700 people. During 2014-2015, after a closed competition, the environment of three
sites of the mass killing of Jews of Šeduva
town was tidied up and new monuments of
the sculptor Romas Kvintas were erected:
Šviesos žvaigždės buveinė (The home of the
Star of Light), Durys (The Door), and Spindu-
lys Žvaigždė (The Beam Star).
Coordinates of the sites of the massacres:
Pakuteniai vlg., Šeduva town eldership,
Radviliškis dist. (55.692267, 23.780883),

Liaudiškiai forest, Gimbogala forestry
(146 sq.m.), Baisogala eldership,
Radviliškis dist. (55.695617, 23.653833),

Liaudiškiai forest, Gimbogala forestry
(140 sq. m.), Baisogala eldership,
Radviliškis dist. (55.692100, 23.660750)