The cemetery’s address: Sinagogų g. 13, Klaipeda, Lithuania

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Text of speech by Prof. Ruth Leiserowitz, delivered on July 30, 2026, at the Klaipėda Jewish Community on the occasion of the “Voices That Have Faded Away” to mark the unveiling of new informational plaques and images at the Klaipėda Jewish Cemetery.

The past lives on as long as we remember it. The future begins when we carry it forward together.

Project initiator – Feliksas Puzemskis

Exhibition curator – prof. Ruth Leiserowitz

Design by curator Vladas Balsys

Event director – Nerijus Gedminas

Organized by Klaipėda Jewish Community

Project partners – the “Jews in East Prussia” Historical and Cultural Society, the Museum of Lithuania Minor, the Klaipėda Center for Ethnic Cultures, and the “Good Will Foundation.”

The project is funded by the Klaipėda City Municipality.