Struck by lightning

Memo August 1851 “… the Jewish herring merchant Jochim Goersch from Wystiten was struck dead by lightning in the village of Karklienen on August 25,

Jewish retirement home in Vilkaviskis

New text finds on the opening of the old people’s home, now a hospital in Vistitis (now Lithuania), which shows the connection to the nearby town of Eydtkuhnen in Eastern Prussia.