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Many important historical dates, interesting facts, documents and quotes about Jews, who lived in Ukmerg\u0117, were placed in the book of almost 500 pages written in Lithuanian and English. According to the author, this new book is the second, revised and more solid edition of the book with the same title published in 2008.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am not a creator, but I am a collector of historical facts. I had been collecting accurately and storing various historical facts of Ukmerg\u0117 city and its region. One computer folder containing information about Jewish community of Ukmerg\u0117 became rapidly bigger and bigger. And it is absolutely natural, because Jews had been the biggest, it can be said, the dominant, ethnic community for several centuries in Ukmerg\u0117\u201d, said the author of this book Julius Zareckas.\u00a0The history of Ukmerg\u0117 Jewish community is also written in English. Numerous illustrations show us the real Ukmerg\u0117 as was seen by the Jewish community. Zareckas prepared the book \u201cA History of the Ukmerg\u0117 Jewish Community: Dates, Documents and Facts\u201d in three months presenting historical information, which was gathered from various archival documents, a little bit from the Internet, books, the press and coursework \u201cJewish Community of Ukmerg\u0117 during the Interwar Period (1918 \u2013 1940)\u201d written by the student Arkadijus Bliuminas of Vilnius University, Faculty of History in 2000. J. Zareckas set the chronological order of historical facts from the settlement of first Jewish Samuel in Ukmerg\u0117 in 1674 to the August and September of 1941, when almost 6 thousands of Jewish men, women and children living in the city and the region were fusilladed in Pivonija forest.<\/p>\n
\u201cJews of Ukmerg\u0117 were very active members of city community and were especially distinctive for the cleverness starting with the trade and crafts and ending with various thefts and smuggling. I had read lots of strange documents related to Jewish activity. It seems that Jews of Ukmerg\u0117 especially liked to complain. 70 percent of all complaints for various government institutions are signed by Jews. It is interesting that surnames of community members are indicated in documents abundantly. I think that it is related to the fact that the documents are signed by the elite of Jewish community of that time \u2013 persons, who were leaders and represented the community for various reasons, so naming each person was necessary\u201d \u2013 told J. Zareckas.<\/p>\n
Some interesting facts from the book \u201cA History of the Ukmerg\u0117 Jewish Community: Dates, Documents and Facts\u201d:<\/p>\n
\u2013 After France occupied Ukmerg\u0117 in 1812, census of city houses and population census of men under 18-50 years old was performed in order to distribute taxes properly. According to the census data, 164 of 239 city houses belonged to the Jews. Also, professions of owners were written, so now we know that the majority of Jews in Ukmerg\u0117 was traders \u2013 24, tailors \u2013 10, shoemakers \u2013 5, and drivers \u2013 5.
\n\u2013 According to the census data, 5096 inhabitants were in Ukmerg\u0117 in 1842, 3495 of them were the Jews. 507 (490 of them were the Jews) traders, 145 peasants, 21 priests and 135 noblemen were living the city.
\n\u2013 The biggest number of Jews living in Ukmerg\u0117 was stated in 1891. Almost 11\u00a0000 of more than 16\u00a0000 city inhabitants were the Jews.
\n\u2013 In 1935 in Ukmerg\u0117 the Jews possessed 6 hide-leather tanneries, 3 sawmills, 2 mills, 2 brickyards, fabrics of nails, beddings, bedspreads, and household items by twos, fabrics of leather, porcelain, furnace tiles, carton box, and drinks.<\/p>\n
\u2013 193 various objects were nationalized in 1940\u20131941. 95 of them belonged to the Jews.<\/p>\n
Price \u20ac17.00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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