Jewish life Lithuania 1920

Jewish Life in Lithuania 1920

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Jewish Life in Lithuania 1920

[No Audio] - Lithuanian Jews ,in Yiddish Litvish, are Ashkenazi Jews who were historically associated with Lithuania.

Lithuanian Jews are almost all Ashkenazi Jews and many are Misnagdim who were opposed to the new inroads of Hasidism.
Lithuania was historically home to a large and influential Jewish community that was almost entirely eliminated during the Holocaust.
The Lithuanian Republic was occupied by Soviet Union in 1940, and soon afterwards captured by the Nazis. During World War II, the Nazis killed around 91% of Lithuanian Jews, almost all the Jews who had not managed to leave Lithuania and its environs. This was one of the highest casualty rates in the Holocaust.
The only European yeshiva to survive the Holocaust was the Mir yeshiva. With help of the Japanese consul in Kaunas Chiune Sugihara, its leaders and students managed to escape to the Shanghai ghetto. [Text as per Youtube uploader ]

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